"Calamity West is one of the best playwrights in Chicago. Or maybe the country. Or the universe." - Chicago Reader
FEAST! is the 2026 recipient of the prestigious
Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award,
a national prize that recognizes bold, socially relevant new work
and provides $150,000 in support of the play’s premiere production.
FEAST! was originally developed in the
Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group
at Primary Stages in New York.
Carol just got fired. Her husband Michael has already paid for the company’s $12,000 holiday dinner. Instead of cancelLing, they decide to go through with it - to host the meal no one asked for and prove they still belong at the table. But when no guests arrive, the night spirals into a brutal showdown over money, marriage, and the cost of holding on, where the only thing left to swallow is the truth. FEAST! is a darkly comic pressure cooker about privilege and power.
THE PLAYLIST THAT PREPARED
F E A S T !
1. Wave - by Antônio Carlos Jobim
2. A Little Priest - from "Sweeney Todd"
3. This Plum Is Too Ripe - from "The Fantasticks"
4. Relay - by Fiona Apple
5. Archipelago - by Andrew Bird
6. Savage Good Boy - by Japanese Breakfast
7. Ego - by A Tribe Called Quest
8. Effect and Cause - by The White Stripes
9. CATFISH - by Doechii
10. Bloodless - by Andrew Bird
11. Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
THE PLAYLIST THAT PREPARED F E A S T !
WORLD PREMIERE - UPCOMING
THE GOODMAN THEATRE
DIRECTED BY: SUSAN V. BOOTH
2026/27 Season
DEVELOPMENTS
THE GOODMAN THEATRE
DIRECTED BY: SUSAN V. BOOTH
January 2026
THE LORTEL
Alcove At The Lortel
Dramaturg: Elly Green
May 2023 - December 2023
PRIMARY STAGES
Dorothy Strelsin
New American Writers Group
Moderator: Erin Daley
October 2022 - March 2023
READING HISTORY
THE GOODMAN THEATRE
NEW STAGES FESTIVAL
DIRECTED BY: SUSAN V. BOOTH
January 2026
THE LORTEL
Directed by Elly Green
October 15th - October 31st, 2024
PRIMARY STAGES
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
April 2023
