Can you Keep a Dirty Little Secret…
The Dirty Ladiez of P&P
Program for New York Winterfest, 01/2026
Cast and Crew
READ ABOUT OUR AWESOME, SEXY, HOT, HARDWORKING PROCESS…
Beginning in February 2025, Laini started writing this weird little play. Over the course of the following months, the script grew from a single monologue, to 22 pages, to 145, and back now a clean 100. Through the process, Laini alongside her wonderful director, collaborator and fellow artist, Cristina Neely, invited groups of friends and actors to participate in table readings. These “Friend Workshops” involved gathering at Laini’s East Village apartment, reading that night’s draft aloud, and holding an hour of feedback for the actors and any listeners to offer moments of excitement, confusion, and ideas for how The Dirty Ladiez might be able to grow — and eventually explode!
Laini and Cristina held four amazing workshop readings, inviting new actors each night. Between every workshop, Laini would take notes from that night and create a new draft to be read at the next meeting. The goal was to see what was at the heart of this play: which elements of scenes and characters translated from actor to actor? how did these relationships come across from draft to draft? how freaky can we make this?
Delancey (Keira Botjer), Maggie (Bella Cvengros), Luellen (Sofia Goorno), Elizabeth (Grace Javins), Will (Chris Richards)
The Friend Workshops eventually culminated in Draft 5. Cristina and Laini cast a group of actors for their following stage: a Friend Reading. In the first week of June, 2025, The Dirty Ladiez of P&P celebrated its debut Friend Reading in a Bushwick Backyard. After only one night of rehearsal and lots of nervous but excited energy, Laini’s first original full length play was read amongst friends, peers and loved ones.
Since then, Laini and Cristina have continued their collab and, with a cast of incredible actors and a wonderful production team, The Dirty Ladiez of P&P has performed at The Tank, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and most recently, New York Winterfest at Teatro LATEA. Now in draft 13, TDLOP&P is still as exciting, freaky and heartfelt as ever. Laini and Cristina are incredibly proud of the work they have done, and the beautiful time energy and performances of their cast. Cristina and Laini can’t wait to see what is next for this freaky little play ;)
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New York Winterfest, 2026
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Darcy Poster, Night 2 NYWF
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New York Winterfest, 2026
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New York Winterfest, 2026
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Rehearsal, Jan. 2026
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Tech, Jan. 2026
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Cast of The Tank, Aug. 2025
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August, 2025
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Rehearsal, Jan. 2026
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