Unlucky in Love
Unlucky in Love is an evening of short plays written by local playwrights and coproduced by Hugo House’s Outreach and Events Coordinator, Nat, and Hugo House instructor, Miriam BC Tobin.
February 13, 2026 (Friday the 13th)
Event Schedule:
6:00 PM: Doors Open grab a drink or socialize in the Salon!
7:00 PM Event Starts
9:00 PM: Event Ends
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Welcome to Unlucky in Love, a Mini Play Reading Festival on the Friday the 13th before Valentine’s Day. I mean, how else are you going to celebrate Valentine's Day this year? Why not listen to an evening of mini plays all about the trials and travails of falling in (and out) of love.
Info for audience:
- Come for an evening of mini plays! Laugh, cry, gasp, guffaw – it’s gonna be a full-on Friday the 13th experience.
- Tickets are $20
- Wear your least Valentines-iest clothes! What’s the unluckiest color you’ve got in your closet?
🎉 Celebrate with Us! SCRiB LAB Turns 5 🎉
Before the show, join Miriam BC Tobin and the SCRiB LAB community for a celebratory cocktail reception. Tickets include food, drinks, and prizes—and your Unlucky in Love ticket receipt qualifies you for a discount.
👉 Learn more here.
The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.Resmin Sengider
Jeremy Radick
Elizabeth Dilley
BJ Becker
BJ (He/Him) has had the great good fortune to have lived in five countries where he has worked as a farm labourer, sewer-pipe manufacturer, draughtsman, upholsterer’s helper, bar cashier, youth club janitor, singer-songwriter, hill farmer, shepherd’s assistant, pig-boy, building labourer, postman, actor, script writer, silversmith, potter, painter, illustrator, teacher, college professor, textile designer, and priest.
He is a second dan in Iaidobattojutsu, and a 7th dan banjo-player. He speaks Mid-Atlantic English, conversational German, useful Esperanto and a smattering of French and Welsh. He holds a BA in Ceramics and two MFA’s in Illustration and has performed on stages as varied as the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Historic Everett Theater in Everett, as well as the Public Bar in the Red Lion in Drefach-Felindre, Wales.
He has slept on the Streets of Paris, the battlements of the Königstein castle in Germany, derelict buildings in Switzerland, and on countless friends’ couches and many comfy beds. He has taught pottery, sculpture, jewelry, figure drawing, graphic design, 3-D design, color theory, Art History, composition, character design and communication theory to over two thousand art students, and a handful of six- through ten- year-olds. He has flown in the Zeppelin NT twice, and is looking forward to cruising in a rigid airship as soon as possible.Â
Alex Reed
Miriam Tobin
Miriam BC Tobin (she|her) is a Seattle-based playwright, theatre artist, and writing instructor. She has performed on stages across the US and Europe and has taught drama to youth in Seattle, NYC, Denver, and on a farm in the Czech Republic. She founded MBCT; Modern But Classical Theatre in NYC to de- and re-construct classic plays into highly physical adaptations. Her play The War of Women received a roundtable reading at The Lark and several of her plays premiered at Goddard College’s Ten-Minute Play festival. Honors & awards include a Hedgebrook residency, PEN Writing Scholarship, Newington-Cropsey Fellowship, the London Dramatic Academy Fellowship, and she was a Pipeline Theatre PlayLab semi-finalist. Miriam was the fall 2020 Editor-in-Chief of The Pitkin Review and is currently a dramatic writing editor with The Clockhouse. Her work appears in multiple issues of The Pitkin and Smith & Kraus. Miriam also runs SCRiB LAB, a writing organization aimed at creating community through experimentation.
Describe your teaching style.
I'm all about interaction, collaboration, and discussion. My teaching style is very open, and I welcome all ideas and questions in the classroom. Each class is a mixture of different learning styles, including presented lessons, reading and writing exercises, and open discussions.
