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Playwright Zoe Stanton-Savitz brings a queer drama about elderly roommates to Durango, CO.

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Playwright Zoe Stanton-Savitz will premiere their tender queer drama, Hazel & Bea in the In-Between, at the 8th Annual Durango PlayFest, June 23-28. In less than a decade, PlayFest has matured into a coveted incubator for well-known and emerging playwrights, actors, and directors to develop new works and present them to live audiences for feedback.

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In the play, two elderly women - Hazel, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent, and Bea, warm but forgetful - meet as roommates in a nursing home. They clash over space, noise, and personality. As they reminisce about the lives that they've lost, Hazel comes to believe Bea is the Beatrice she loved as a teenager.

Stanton-Savitz (she/they) is a third-year MFA Playwriting student at Columbia University and a freelance sound designer based in New York City. Productions include Selkie Woman (2025) and Rachel Berry Saved My Life (2024) at Columbia University, and Agatha at Sarah Lawrence College (2022). Readings include Agatha at Lakewood Playhouse New Voices Festival (2025), Pennies for Forgotten Words at La Mama Manifestation Reading Festival (2023), and Twice Gone at Sarah Lawrence College (2021). Other recognition includes semi-finalist for TNT Pops! Playwriting Competition (Agatha, 2025), long-listed for the 2026 Distillery New Works Festival (Hazel & Bea in the In-Between, 2025), semi-finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwright's Festival (Twice Gone), and winner of David Lindsay-Abaire award for excellence in playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College.

The 2026 PlayFest is excited to welcome the following cast:

Directing the play will be Nikki DiLoreto. As a director and associate director, DiLoreto has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, the West End, and on regional theater productions across North America, including the global hit SIX: The Musical, Soft Power, The Magnificent Seven, and the recent Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate. She has collaborated with Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre , Rattlestick Theatre , WP Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, IAMA Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, and Center Theatre Group among others.

The festival will also feature readings of The German by two-time Tony nominee, Lyle Kessler , A Deal Picked Just for You by award-winning Iranian-American writer and director John Farmanesh-Bocca , and the dark thriller The Henry Clyde Canning Murder House by Christian Missonak.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/denver/article/HAZEL-BEA-IN-THE-IN-BETWEEN-to-Make-World-Premiere-at-Durango-PlayFest-20260604)._