Brave New Works: I’M GONNA BE THE GOVERNOR by Ainsley Powers

Featured guests: Student Recital: Joey (Yizhou) Chen (Punk) and trumpet (Punk). Brave New Works , Theater Emory's biennial festival of new and evolving plays, provides theater professionals and students with the space and resources to conduct creative experimentation and to create new works for the stage. The 2026 festival will include works from four playwrights, including student work, Atlanta-based and national playwrights, and Emory’s 2025-2027 playwriting fellow. A post-reading discussion will follow each staged reading. Brave New Works readings are free and open to the public. Reservations are strongly suggested; seating is limited. I’M GONNA BE THE GOVERNOR by Ainsley Powers Directed by Caitlin Hargraves Staged Reading: Sat., April 18 at 5 pm. 7 girls from all over Texas gather to compete to be the next female youth governor of the great Bluebonnet state. Everybody’s here to learn; some are here to win. The play takes place over five days, as the girls meet, interview, deliver campaign speeches, and propose a mock court case, following their pursuit of futu

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