Join us for a staged reading of Colgate University’s Community Read for 2025: playwright and actor Eboni Booth’s 2024 Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Primary Trust.This is the first time a play has been chosen as Colgate’s Community Read – a uniting text all incoming first year students read and respond to. Primary Trust explores themes of friendship, stepping outside comfort zones, and new beginnings – perfect topics not only for first year students embarking on adulthood, but for everyone in today’s world.Directed by Timothy Douglas, recipient of the Lloyd Richards Director Award, the cast brings together notable talents: Drama Desk Awardee Joe Cassidy, Artists Forum honoree Katya Collazo, SALT Award recipient Daniel Morgan Shelley, and Helen Hayes Award-winner Justin Weaks.Staged Reading DatesThursday, September 18, 2025 - 6 p.m.Friday, September 19, 2025 - 6 p.m.Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 7 p.m.Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 2 p.m.This event is free and open to the public.Complimentary tickets may be reserved here*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.“Primary Trust” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.