IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

THE TOWN HALL THEATRE

Directed by Richard Perez

July 3rd at 7:00pm and

July 5th at 2:00pm

at the Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette map it…

$30 TICKETS HERE

Check out the Town Hall happy hour one hour prior to showtime, and enjoy a $1 off all beer, wine, and cocktails! There will be no intermission.

Playwright and past Artist in Residence Lee Osorio reprises his play Prisontown, which was featured at our Festival 2025.

When the Writer is compelled by an unshakeable force to return to his hometown of Lumpkin, Georgia, he unknowingly begins a journey of faith that will cause him to question the foundations he’s built his life on. A once-thriving community, Lumpkin is today kept alive by one of the nation’s largest and most notorious federal immigration detention centers. As he digs deeper, he is forced to reckon with his own past as a queer, Latine son of an immigrant, and the costs of extraction. In this 90-minute, one-actor performance, the Writer tells his origin story with powerful simplicity, using wit, nuance, humor, and compassion to reflect on the people trapped in this prison town, the past lives he could have lived, and the heartbreaking reality of the America we all live in today.

There will be a post-show discussion following both performances.

Lee Osorio is an acclaimed actor, director, educator, playwright, and audiobook narrator based in Atlanta and New York. As an actor, he is a seven-time Suzi Bass Award Nominee and won for Best Male Lead Actor in 2018 for Richard II. Lee is the recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House Carey Perloff Fellowship which is awarded to an established theatre artist who desires to transition into a writer. Lee holds an MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity Rep. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Richard Perez is a director, actor, educator, and playwright. He recently relocated to the Bay Area from Michigan where he has been a theatre professor for the last ten years. During that time, he was also active in the Chicago theatre and television industry. He has served as the Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, and Managing Director of the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Chicago Dramatists, and Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, respectively. His directing credits include The Mercy Swing (New York Fringe Festival) and Nocturnal (Kennedy Center). Stage roles include Gabe in Dinner with Friends and Evan in Sweat. Television appearances include Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Electric Dreams, and the recurring role of Councilman Ortiz, on the second season of Boss.