The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced RX MACHINA as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We found this piece compelling as it reaches for the big, complicated questions of "who has access to survival and in what ways" as it interrogates the predatory nature of capitalism within big pharma. We also appreciated the theatricality expressed both through the writer setting up such clear rules of the world and then breaking them. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

I love when a play is not easily resolved and solutions don't come easy. This is an honest depiction of humans dealing with pain and addiction from multiple side. This play points no fingers and provides no neat, wrapped up conclusions. I loved Hannah's speech and the moments where she dropped it and spoke 'normally'. It's a very powerful, exciting way to show that not everything here is black and white. This is a play in real time, because it's all-too real and urgent.

This is an excellent, nuanced play about an issue that is often erroneously portrayed as black-and-white. These characters are complicated and conflicted -- an actor's dream -- and the story twists and turns in ways that lean into those conflicts. I would love to see it staged!