Some of Nashville’s boldest emerging voices serve up 10 minutes each from five new works-in-progress, offering audiences a first taste of the plays that could define tomorrow’s stages. The New Play Platter is your chance to sample a spoonful of what’s cooking in Nashville’s evolving theater community, offering a smorgasbord of perspectives and exciting plots. Featured works on the Platter include:

• An audacious family story of a Filipino-American teenager reconnecting with her estranged father, who is now an Elvis impersonator, by Josh Inocalla 

• An epic, futuristic tale of Black refugees aboard an unsanctioned Nigerian space craft by Maya Antoinette Riley

• A romantic exploration of first loves and climate change set on a fictionalized sinking island by Shea Stripling & Kyle Sahadeo 

• A fever dream imagined dialogue between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky by Mike Lacy

• A movement-theater piece about outcasts working to overthrow an evil overlord by Saúl Rodriguez