MASON, a veteran actor who still hasn’t gotten his big break, has finally landed on Broadway,having just been cast in a newly-discovered, never-before-seen play by the world-class absurdist LaSalle Montclare. Montclare is adored by critics everywhere, and the play is poised to be a monster hit. But the play must be performed exactly as written. And Montclare, who worked on a typewriter when there was no Spell Check, was a lousy typist. Which is why the play opens with Mason threatening his costar by saying, “I’ve got a bun. Come out or I’ll hoot.”Can Mason do this? Can he afford to turn it down?

Cary Pepper, a member of Mill Valley Playwrights Lab, has had work presented throughout the United States and internationally. Among his full-length plays, How It Works won the 2012 Ashland New Plays Festival and Cufflinked was a semifinalist for the 2014 festival. Among his one-act plays, The Walrus Said won the Religious Arts Guild Playwriting Competition; Small Things won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 2006 One Act Play Contest; Party Favors won the 2016 Goshen Peace Play Contest. Most recently, From the Hoot won the Playwrights First Award; Death Does Larry became his second production by Drip Action Theatre Trail in their Arundel Festival (UK) presentation; What Do They Want? marked Cary’s third appearance in the Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays (Canada) and made him the first (and to date only) playwright to be included in The St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s LaBute New Theater Festival three times.

Cary is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and a four-time contributor to Applause Books’ Best American Short Plays series (Small Things; House of the Holy Moment; Come Again, Another Day; Irish Stew).

In collaboration with the Playwrights Lab