WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE THEATRE PRESENTS
WELCOME TO SEASON 23: Creature Feature
This season, adventure into the strange and mysterious with WET’s 23rd Season CREATURE FEATURE! Kicking off the season with the world premier of Anamaria Guerzon’s biting horror satire, BLOOD/SUCKER, get ready to be transported into the thrilling realm of the Aswang (aka Vampires: Filipino-style). Then in October, be the architect of your own freakdom at our avant garde monster ball extravaganza, Xquisite Corpse (Immersive Art Installation Conceived by Lilia Deering), and in the Spring, meet your fav anthropomorphic cat with b. dang’s H*llo K*tty Syndrome.
Don’t forget, you can do this all while supporting the incubation of a whole new batch of innovative literary delights with our continued playwright in residence program, WETworks. And enjoying fresh bespoke dance on our sets with reSET.
Nervous of all these things that go bump in the night? Don’t worry – Art is supposed to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I’m sure you will come out unscathed- mostly…
Subscribe today to witness the odd, the monstrous, and the bizarre with Washington Ensemble Theatre!
ON THE MAINSTAGE
Blood/Sucker
by Anamaria Guerzon
Directed by Sophia Franzella
Tackling the state of public education and youth of today through Filipino mythology, BLOOD/SUCKER is a bloody political satire/horror play about the public school system, and those it feeds off of.
Xquisite Corpse
Concevied by Lilia Deering
Presented by WET
You’ve got big plans for Halloween this year. Xquisite Corpse- a surreal immersive playground for monsters and freaks. We’re cooking up a feast of wonderfully odd events and we’re inviting you to come costumed, masked, in your drag or your drip to revel in an immersive space that’s somewhere between a fever dream and a nightmare.
H*llo K*tty Syndrome
by Brian Dang
Directed by Sasha Bailey
HK is a little lost. They just quit their job as a police officer, broke up with their cowboy-partner, and made a vendetta with their brother-in-law. In Brian Dang’s genre-bending comedy, they find themselves caught in the throes of a family drama, noir, and romance. And worst of all, nobody will stop commenting on the fact that they are wearing a Hello Kitty™ mascot costume.
SPECIAL EVENTS
WETworks
After a wonderful first year we are happy to announce the continuation of our new playwrights residency program. WETworks gives local playwrights the opportunity to workshop a script culminating in a public reading supported by WET.
reSET
23rd Annual Gala
FEB 28, 2027 | Reverie Ballroom
For our 23rd Gala, we’re trading our heels and ties for paws and scales
OUR SUBSCRIPTION MODEL
Join our fam of freaks and support local art by becoming a Cryptozoologist! This season we’ll be making monsters on stage and off, and we need you to keep the nightmares at bay. We have 3 tiers to choose from to accommodate every access level.
The Squonk
$7.50/month or $90 for the year
Everyone deserves to see ART! Even the famously homely SQUONK. Squelch on over, this subscription gets you one ticket to each Mainstage show.
Includes 1 ticket to:
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- BLOOD/SUCKER
- Xquisite Corpse
- H*llo K*tty Syndrome
The Mothman
$12.50/month or $150 for the year
Fly high in the night sky and land wherever the ART may find you. The Mothman subscription gets you 1 ticket to all mainstage shows + 1 ticket to all ancillary programming including WETworks readings. No walls can hold you, for you are THE NIGHT!
Includes 1 ticket to:
- BLOOD/SUCKER
- Xquisite Corpse
- H*llo K*tty Syndrome
- All WETworks readings
- reSET
- All other ancillary programs
The Sasquatch
$22.50/month or $270 for the year
We promise not to catch you on camera, but we will see you at the theatre! For $270 a year the Sasquatch Sub gets you TWO tickets to every mainstage and satellite show in Season 23.
Includes 2 tickets to:
- BLOOD/SUCKER
- Xquisite Corpse
- H*llo K*tty Syndrome
- All WETworks readings
- reSET
- All other ancillary programs