2025 Programming
Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work 3
"HALF-BAKED x BECKETT"
Troy Foundry Theatre returns with the third annual Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work, running September 18-28, 2025 at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. in Troy, NY).
This festival celebrates the unfinished, the audacious, and the revolutionary in theatre-making. We believe some of the most exciting theatrical discoveries happen in development—when work is still breathing, evolving, and finding its voice. This year, our two-week theatrical experience dives headfirst into the chaos of our contemporary condition, anchored by the fractured brilliance of Samuel Beckett.
Programming will include a rotating blend of new plays, devised work-in-progress, and non-traditional projects that span the classic and the contemporary (and the completely cracked open), all orbiting the absurdity of American life in 2025.
TICKETS:
Individual “pay-what-you-can” ticket levels will be available for every performance! You can purchase ahead online or pay at the door. We only accept cash, check, or PayPal at the door.
ALL ACCESS passes are now on sale for $175 (plus online fees) and include access to ALL FESTIVAL EVENTS.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Thursday, September 18
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
90s KRAPP
Created by Die-Cast
Starring Colleen CorcoranThis short one-person show, inspired by Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, explores the humor and melancholy that can be unboxed when we start comparing our past to our present. What can we hope for moving forward in these absurd times? Laugh along with us as we try to figure it out.
WOMB
by Madison Fargo
Directed by Lukas Woodyard
Performed by Wesley Cappiello & Nicholas ImperatoWhen estranged twins reunite to clean out their late mothers apartment, their relationship and the space itself begins to unravel and transform. This claustrophobic dark comedy by Madison Fargo inhabits a heightened, absurd world that merges sitcom-esque banter with ritual, psychological horror, and mythic rebirth.
Friday, September 19
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
A Half-Baked Special Event
Die-Cast presents: Catastrophe: A Beckettian Cabaret
Directed by Brenna Geffers
Featuring Ross Beschler, Keith Conallen, Anthony Crosby, Kishia Nixon, and Steven Wright.
Lead Musician: Chris Sannino
Join Die-Cast for a darkly funny night of original music and classic shorts by Samuel Beckett performed by some of Philly’s finest actors. We have Beckett's What Where, Cascando, Ohio Impromptu, and of course, Catastrophe, ready to make you laugh and weep at the absurdity of it all. Our band, featuring concertina, toy piano, ukulele bass, and a bunch of music boxes, is ready to serenade you with some strange and beautiful melodies.
Expect the dynamic text work and evocative staging we have brought to our previous sold-out Fringe shows. We have two years of Fringie Awards under our belts. Our past Fringe shows have been hailed as "Weird and Wonderful" (Philadelphia Gay News) "Everything I wanted a Fringe show to be" and "Thrilling and Immediate" (Broad Street Review), and "One of my favorite Fringe shows to date" (NoProcenium).
Saturday, September 20
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
A Half-Baked Special Event
Die-Cast presents: Catastrophe: A Beckettian Cabaret
Directed by Brenna Geffers
Featuring Ross Beschler, Keith Conallen, Anthony Crosby, Kishia Nixon, and Steven Wright.
Lead Musician: Chris Sannino
Join Die-Cast for a darkly funny night of original music and classic shorts by Samuel Beckett performed by some of Philly’s finest actors. We have Beckett's What Where, Cascando, Ohio Impromptu, and of course, Catastrophe, ready to make you laugh and weep at the absurdity of it all. Our band, featuring concertina, toy piano, ukulele bass, and a bunch of music boxes, is ready to serenade you with some strange and beautiful melodies.
Expect the dynamic text work and evocative staging we have brought to our previous sold-out Fringe shows. We have two years of Fringie Awards under our belts. Our past Fringe shows have been hailed as "Weird and Wonderful" (Philadelphia Gay News) "Everything I wanted a Fringe show to be" and "Thrilling and Immediate" (Broad Street Review), and "One of my favorite Fringe shows to date" (NoProcenium).
Sunday, September 21
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
90s KRAPP
Created by Die-Cast
Starring Colleen CorcoranThis short one-person show, inspired by Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, explores the humor and melancholy that can be unboxed when we start comparing our past to our present. What can we hope for moving forward in these absurd times? Laugh along with us as we try to figure it out.
A PAINTER, A DANCER, AND A DEAD FISH
by Ivan TaubAs two struggling actors rehearse a play about a whacky painter, a quirky dancer, and a dead fish, they channel Galileo and grapple with the meaning of art, love, and life.
Thursday, September 25
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
EVE
By Nathan ChristopherThe beginning is the end and the end is the beginning! EVE: A Palindrome Play is a clever and provocative short play that turns the biblical story of temptation on its head through an extraordinary structural innovation, weaving together ancient myth and modern morality in a palindrome.
THE BARDO STATE
by Susan CinomanThe Bardo State is a metaphysical two-hander set in the liminal space between death and rebirth. A young man, Ben, has died and must choose who his parents will be in his next life. His adoptive parents, Sib and Cal, desperately want him to return to them, but so do his biological parents. The play unfolds in a surreal hotel room—shifting into memories, animal encounters, and dreamlike landscapes—where the past is revisited and truths are revealed.
Friday, September 26
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
A Half-Baked Special Event
Confessions for the Algorithm: Play, Not I & Embers
Directed by David Girard
Performers and Collaborators include Raya Malcolm, Jake Blouche, Sophia Barrett, Shannon Rafferty, and John Romeo
Confessions for the Algorithm is a haunting triptych of Beckett’s most intimate transmissions—Not I, Play, and Embers—rendered in raw voice, fractured memory, and disintegrating form. In a world driven by surveillance, noise, and compulsive self-narration, these works erupt like glitches in the feed—lonely, recursive, and eerily relevant.
Saturday, September 27
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
A Half-Baked Special Event
Confessions for the Algorithm: Play, Not I & Embers
Directed by David Girard
Performers and Collaborators include Raya Malcolm, Jake Blouche, Sophia Barrett, Shannon Rafferty, and John Romeo
Confessions for the Algorithm is a haunting triptych of Beckett’s most intimate transmissions—Not I, Play, and Embers—rendered in raw voice, fractured memory, and disintegrating form. In a world driven by surveillance, noise, and compulsive self-narration, these works erupt like glitches in the feed—lonely, recursive, and eerily relevant.
Sunday, September 28
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)
POWER PLAY (A Play Without Words)
by Toby InoueDirected by Laura Teeter
Power Play is a short-form experimental play with no words, only facial expressions, body language, and sounds, that dramatizes gendered power dynamics during a corporate meeting of a company that prides itself on empowering women.
JÄRNÄGGLUNGA
By Nate Hollander
Directed by David GirardJÄRNÄGGLUNGA is an absurdist dark comedy set in a quasi-apocalyptic world. It’s the end of the world (probably) and the giant egg-shaped hibernation device (a.k.a.:“JÄRNÄGGLUNGA”) is missing a dowel and isn’t going to fix itself.
