City Lights Theater Company

Dingo, a regular ol’ guy from Oroville, gets accepted to UC Santa Cruz, where he becomes a Women’s Studies major so he can practice his hobby of chasing women around. To fund his womanizing, he gets a job at the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot.

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe that we sometimes refer to as "heaven," God,who has been struggling with severe depression,is missing. Sylvia Plath, who has some first-hand experience with depression, is commanded by the mayor of heaven to search for God and beckon him to return to his rightful home. But, unbeknownst to Sylvia, the heavenly mayor has a sinister plan. Likewise, Sylvia develops plans of her own.

Back at the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot, where nothing is as it seems, Dingo has befriended an odd customer who really likes Dingo’s tours. The guy babbles complete nonsense and seems kind of depressed. Dingo soon finds himself caught in the middle of an epic battle with consequences stretching across the universe

About the Author
Putting his degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley to good use, Steve Lyons writes plays as well as unproduced movie scripts and is a homemaker for his wife Bree and son Riley. Mr. Lyons is the founder of Playwrights Cafe (www.PlayCafe.org), a theatre writing group in Berkeley, California. His plays have won multiple awards and have been produced in London, Edinburgh, New York City, Boulder, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.

About the New Play Readers Series
City Lights has a strong commitment to developing new, offbeat theater pieces. The New Play Readers Series gives promising new plays by local playwrights a workshop play-reading production, followed by an audience TalkBack session in which audiences can let the artists know what they think of the show. Potential plays are reviewed by our New Play Readers' Committee and are selected on a competitive basis. City Lights secures the actors and director for the piece, and the playwright is closely involved with casting decisions and rehearsals. The public play readings are one-night-only performances that occur on selected nights throughout City Lights' season. Read more about previous installments in the New Play Readers Series.

Become a part of the New Play Reader's Series!

Please note that only plays written by residents of California's Greater Bay Area are eligible for consideration in the New Play Readers Series. There is no residency restriction for new plays submitted for consideration in City Lights' regular season.

If you are interested in submitting a previously unproduced play to be considered for the New Play Readers Series, or if you have a new or developed script to submit for the regular season, please email the following materials to cltcnewplays@sbcglobal.net.

1 - New Play Application Form
2 - Electronic copy of your script
3 - Electronic copy of resume or other pertinent information

We highly recommend electronic submissions, but if you are unable to send us materials via email, please send above materials, with the script printed double-sided to save paper, to the address below. Please note that script submissions that do not include a completed application form or are not printed double-sided will be discarded. Mail the application package to: City Lights Theater Company
Attn: New Plays
529 South Second Street
San Jose , CA 95112

Thank you and good luck!