by Steve Yockey
directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Dramaturged by Sonia Desai
Featuring Merle Dandridge
Venus is a dark comedy that recounts one relationship as it spirals from a meet-cute at a boring book club to a beautiful first date of stargazing and then onto a spectacularly horrifying game of cat-and-mouse. Tackling the bizarre confluence of fear and the “need to be right” in modern life, these women more than prove how difficult it is out there when you’re looking for love.
NEW PLAY READING FESTIVAL 2025
People power plays. Plays power progress.
Join us for staged readings of exciting new works that are in keeping with our mission to bring you risky, adventurous plays that you won’t find anywhere else in Southern California, as well as surrounding events that celebrate the artists making the work.
SAT, DEC 13 at 1PM – Venus by Steve Yockey
SAT, DEC 13 at 4:30PM – Beautiful Blessed Child by Daria Miyeko Marinelli
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles-based writer. His plays Pluto, Mercury, Bellwether, Afterlife, Octopus, Large Animal Games, Cartoon, Very Still & Hard to See, Blackberry Winter, The Thrush & The Woodpecker, The Fisherman’s Wife, Wolves, Disassembly, Niagara Falls, To Tokyo & the Moon, Reykjavík, Sleeping Giant, Subculture, and Curiosities are published and licensed by Concord Theatricals. He holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Steve was a Co-Executive Producer on the series Supernatural and is the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated creator/showrunner of HBO Max’s darkly comedic thriller The Flight Attendant. He is also the creator/showrunner of Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives, adapted from the cult Vertigo/DC comic.
