For adults only*
​After a year of development, FADlab's 2nd annual FADlab Fest 2025 hits the Windmill Arts stage with new work by Mykal Alder June, Laura King, and Femmaeve MacQueen!
Content Warning: sexual situations, violence, death, self harm,
substance use, exposing transphobia
STILL LIFE written and performed
by Femmaeve MacQueen (she/they)
Femmaeve is an Atlanta-based actress and writer dedicated to audacious transgender visibility on stage and screen. Her playwriting credits include a series of one-act farces at Cornelia Street Cafe (NYC) and the full-length verse drama The Resurrection of Clay (2014 O’Neill Semi-finalist) at Under St. Marks (NYC). She holds advanced degrees in queer performance studies and American studies, focusing on interruptive theater, structural oppression, and collective emancipation. Her short plays, Like Vines and A Man of Her Times received staged readings at Working Title Playwrights’ 2025 Fornés Conference and Ghostlight Lab, respectively. Femm is a 2025 writing fellow at FADlab, Atlanta. She would like to thank Jennifer Skura Boutell for their amazing support throughout this process, and June Alder, Laura King, and Anna Newberry for their insightful feedback for this piece.
LAST ONE OUT written and performed
by Mykal Alder June (she/her)
Mykal Alder June is a writer, producer, and musician in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent twenty years in public radio and podcasting and her work earned awards from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and the Associated Press. She is co-host of Write Club Atlanta, a live literary series which kicks the ass of most any poetry reading you’d care to name. She records and composes music as meaning of everything.
THE BLACK-AND-WHITE WIDOW
written and performed by Laura King (she/her)
Laura King is a playwright, dramaturg, and now solo performer! She holds an MFA in playwriting from the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University and a master’s in English from Northwestern University. Her play Merritt Anne and the Mighty Oak is a 2025 American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award winner. Her play The Cayuga Canal Girls was a 2020 American Association of Community Theatre NewPlayFest winner. Her play Independence Day at Happy Meadows was the winner of the 2016 SETC/Stage Rights Ready to Publish Award. Her work has been published by Dramatic Publishing, Stage Rights/Broadway Licensing, Pioneer Drama Service, YouthPLAYS, Applause Books, and Smith & Kraus. For more information, see laurakingplaywright.com. Laura would like to thank Jennifer Skura Boutell and Holly Stevenson for making her FadLab experience one of the best of her career!
FADlab Fest 2025 Team
Jennifer Skura Boutell (she/they) - FADlab Founder
Jennifer is a mom, a queer American artist, theatremaker, and writer whose work has been presented in the USA and Europe and described as "vibrant, vital, and hilarious" as well as "absurd and brutal." Their plays are published by Next Stage Press. Jennifer holds a BFA in theatre, an MFA in creative writing, and a 2026 candidacy for an MA in mental health counseling. It is Jennifer's passion to help enhance the lives of others by sharing education through effective collaboration in telling impactful stories. AEA/SAG-AFTRA/DG/HRC linktr.ee/jenskubou
Chandler Anderson (he/him/they) - Technical Design, Construction, and Innovator
With over a decade of experience across the Salesforce ecosystem,
Chandler is trusted by customers, SIs, and ISVs alike as a software engineer, platform owner, and consulting partner. He is passionate about software architecture, data, DevOps, and human-friendly technology processes.
Juniper/Lee Fowler (they/them) - Stage Manager and Board Operator
Juniper is a technician and non-equity stage manager in the local Atlanta area. When not tucked away in a tech booth, you can find them daydreaming about what their next show will be. Juniper is very grateful to be a part of FadLab this year, and hopes you enjoy the show!
Holly Stevenson (she/her) - Director: THE BLACK-AND-WHITE WIDOW
Holly continues to be an enthusiastic participant in the Atlanta theatre community as an performer, teacher and director and has appeared in several one-woman shows for both adults and children. She is a company member with Burning Bones Physical Theatre. Collaborating with Laura on her story has resonated, not only because we
share the experience of widowhood, but we in our own way, continue tojourney through it’s many many-hued layers.
Anna Newbury (she/her) - FADlab Writer, educator, and dear friend.
Anna, always up for an adventure, is a theatre and film trained actor, creator, maker, and mermaid. She is ferociously curious and has a thirst for deep and joyous living. A highlight of her time at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory was portraying the role of Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries. Other favorite roles have included, Marianne in Constellations, Catherine in Proof, and Desdemona in Othello. Ms. Newbury is a specialist in Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints and is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the society of American Fight Directors. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, kayaking, ballroom dancing and getting caught in the rain.
Special Thanks
Exceptional gratitude to Liz and Sam Ross and the Windmill Arts management team, Lindsey Sharpless, the FADlab educators, the family and friends of the makers who support our insatiable need to create stories in front of an audience, and, of course, the audience. Here's to the storytellers, the bearers of the world's most important commodity: influence.