The Whale

Courtesy Denver Center for the Performing Arts/Jamie Kraus Playwright Sandy Rustin, center, looks on during a reading of her play, "The Suffragette's Murder" at ...

“I love to write comedy, and I like to write physical comedy,” Rustin said. It is set in a 19th-century boarding house that is secretly an underground women's rights activity hotspot, and itself unfolds like a whodunit. I've just been rewriting and rewriting and rewriting this play,” she said. I think especially [since] we're all just counting our blessings through this crazy time where we've been so polarized from the space that we hold together — this ancient art form where we're trying to create something new within it,” Pumariega said. She says being part of the Summit was a valuable experience for her as an artist. It's a recovery play and it borrows a lot from my story and looking at the audience and seeing my whole family there. “It's definitely, probably the most professional reading of a play I've done, if that makes sense,” said Brasch, who is the brother of CPR News reporter Sam Brasch. And so it's always kind of a mixed bag afterwards.” [Denver School of the Arts](https://dsa.dpsk12.org/) graduate [Jake Brasch’s](https://www.jakebrasch.com/) [The Reservoir](https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/five-fast-facts-about-the-reservoir-by-jake-brasch/), is also set in Denver — his hometown. “It's surreal, and it's terrifying,” Brasch said. [Colorado New Play Summit](https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/colorado-new-play-summit/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk7ugBhDIARIsAGuvgPZoLHNri6gEgJyk8Zp-5S-M-DFmiJcfEggD3bt1xzJ7D14JWGyRrFEaAjUuEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) is a working lab for playwrights to develop new work. Hunter](https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/02/the-whale-samuel-d-hunter-denver-2022-film-festival/) was featured at the summit in 2011 and had a world premiere in 2012 before [winning two Oscars](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023) on Sunday.