A FREE, 90-minute staged reading of the new horror/satire BLOOD/SUCKER by Anamaria Guerzon (Scratchpad Series Playwright, The Playwrights Realm), directed by Nicholas Polonio (Assistant Director, B’way: SLAVE PLAY) as part of WINTERFEST, Presented by Leviathan Lab, Second Generation Productions, TLAB SHARES, and Mixed Asian Media.

ABOUT BLOOD/SUCKER: Ryan, a high school social studies teacher, is tired. He’s been spending late nights grading homework, as well as fending off parental complaints about his Asian-American History class, who claim that he is using ‘Critical Race Theory’ to indoctrinate the students. Then Hillary, the Principal, begins to take an interest in his class. And the students are beginning to act very strange…BLOOD/SUCKER is a bloody political satire/horror play about the public school system, and those it feeds off of. Presented by Leviathan Lab.

WINTERFEST also includes a double-bill run of two new solo performances featuring Asian American theatre artists, including the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of FULL CONTACT, written and performed by Ariel Estrada (Off-B’way: DOUBLE FALSEHOOD, Letter of Marque; Fellow, The Orchard Project and BRIC Media Lab) and directed by Gaven D. Trinidad (Finalist, 2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Finalist, 2025 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference); and a developmental workshop of X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM by Đavid Lee Huỳnh (Off-B’way: BUS STOP; NAATCO/Transport Group/Classic Stage Company; Project YZ Fellow, Yangtze Repertory Theatre), directed by Nana Dakin (B’way: Associate Director, MARY JANE, Manhattan Theatre Club).