IAMA Theatre Company, committed to cultivating new voices and creating new, boundary-pushing work, will host its seventh annual New Works Festival this December. Featuring eight new plays presented as staged readings, IAMA’s New Works Festival gives audiences an early look at future hits and allows playwrights to experience public reaction to their work for the first time. Thanks to a generous award from the National Endowment for the Arts, this season’s festival has been expanded to eight new plays, up from six in previous years.

The festival includes “Beautiful Blessed Child” by Daria Miyeko Marinelli and directed by Reena Dutt at 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 12; “Foursome” by Matthew Scott Montgomery and directed by Tom Detrinis at 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 13; “Care Less” by Chloé Hung and directed by Lily Tung Crystal at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 14; and “The Playground” by KJ Cuitiño Bjorge and directed by Margaux Susi at 8 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 15.

IAMA Theatre Company’s seventh annual New Works Festival will continue Dec. 12-15 at Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave. Tickets are $18 for each reading and available at iamatheatre.com.