Gutting

The perfect murder victim, according to 16-year-old serial killer expert Maxine, is skinny, sexy-but-not-slutty, and white.

Claudia fits the bill.

Alberta does not.

However… both women go missing on an isolated highway in British Columbia. As Maxine sets out to uncover the truth for her podcast (“Pray You Slay Me”), she stumbles into a world more dangerous and bizarre than she could ever imagine. Gutting makes a wild, bold collage of true stories and fiction to investigate the media’s sexualization of violence, feminist relationships to victimhood, and the simmering anger present in so many young men today.

Recommendation: Ages 13 and above. Adult content.

About the Playwright

Joanna Garner is a playwright and musician based in Santa Fe, NM, where she is the Director of Narrative for Meow Wolf. Her work has been developed nationally and internationally, including at the Banff Playwrights Colony, Tofte Lake Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, On the Boards, ZACH Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Great Plains Theatre Conference, groundswell playwrights conference, National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Annex Theatre, Live Girls! Theater, 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival, the NEWvember New Plays Festival, Theatricum Botanicum, with Austin’s acclaimed Rude Mechs, and at the New York and Hollywood fringe festivals. Her political drama about Iran, The Orange Garden, was a winner of the 2016 Keene Prize for Literature and included on the 2016 Kilroys List.

An accomplished songwriter and musician, Joanna’s original country musical, 100 Heartbreaks, was workshopped in Seattle Rep’s New Play Program, with the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, and was presented at the country’s largest arts and culture festival, Bumbershoot. It premiered at the Sahara Lounge in Austin where it was nominated for an Austin Critics’ Table Award for Outstanding Musical.

Last summer, her immersive exploration of food and sex, Please Open Your Mouth, premiered at Café Nordo in Seattle. In addition to being Chance Theater’s 2018 Resident Playwright, she is currently under commission by Seattle Repertory Theatre.

She has an MFA in Playwriting from The University of Texas at Austin.

OTR Season Producers

Steve Brown

Mary Kay Fyda-Mar

The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation