Poor Men Love The Outdoors

In this dark comedy set in a doomed Los Angeles, a depressed high schooler, her computer game-addicted mother, and a con artist with a pig navigate an unraveling, deadly world.

Poor Men Love The Outdoors received its first reading on March 29, 2025, at RevenueNYC's pop-up at Bechdel Project. It was further developed in April 2025 at The Dovecote, a free salon and reading series for new dramatic works in Astoria, Queens.

Playwright: Scarlett Grace McCarthy

Director: Julien Martin Hawthorne

Thank you to the following actors for their time and generosity: Abby Erff, Henry Lynch, Aram Martinez, Colleen Werthmann, and Sevans Martinez.