BCS PRESENTS: LAB 410

As part of Baltimore Center Stage’s dedication to making art and cultivating artists in our beautiful city, we are proud to welcome back our playwright’s residency, Lab410, for its second year! Every production we do starts with an idea, perhaps expressed in words, mostly in the form of scripts, and Lab410 gives us the chance to cultivate some of the world’s best works of theater right here at Baltimore Center Stage. We believe the diversity, terrain, and depth of Baltimore’s culture deserves the best platforms, and this season-long playwriting residency is just one of the ways we plan to put Baltimore on the world stage. After the success of this season’s 410Fest, we are excited to welcome a new cohort of writers.

Meet the 2025/26 Cohort

Ty’Ree Hope Davis – RIOT: The Beat of Freddie Gray

A recent BFA Acting graduate of Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, Davis is an actor, poet, and artistic activist from West Baltimore. His one-man play, RIOT: The Beat of Freddie Gray, explores rhythm, grief, and resilience in the wake of social unrest. The piece has been performed at Howard University, Young Playwrights Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and will appear at Everyman Theatre in 2026.

Madeline “Mo” Oslejsek – A Beautiful and Interesting Disease

A queer multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London), Oslejsek’s work interrogates identity, queerness, and the multiplicity of human experience. Her writing blends poetic imagination with theatrical experimentation, reflecting an evolving journey toward authenticity and artistic freedom.

Jalice Ortiz-Corral – Who’s Been Giving out Plan-B at the Library?

A writer, director, and stand-up comic from Baltimore, Ortiz-Corral is a two-time graduate of London’s Royal Holloway University and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She currently serves as Marketing Coordinator at Everyman Theatre and has directed at Strand Theatre and the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. Her sharp, irreverent writing explores modern womanhood, reproductive politics, and humor as survival.

ABOUT Lab410: Baltimore Playwriting Residency

Calling all artists with an interest in playwriting! Baltimore Center Stage presents: Lab410, a playwriting workshop for new, emerging, and established playwrights in Baltimore! Three playwrights will be chosen to spend our 2025/26 season writing and developing an original piece of theater.

**WRITERS MUST LIVE IN BALTIMORE OR SURROUNDING COUNTIES**