The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts will present an invite-only staged reading of Jamie Wax‘s High Risk Ward June 10 and 11. Livy Scanlon will direct the Call Me Izzy playwright’s newest work.

Two-time Tony Award nominee Johanna Day (Sweat) will star in the play, which follows three expectant mothers in 1963 whose pregnancies are deemed “high risk,” and two overworked nurses in the maternity wing of a newly integrated Louisiana hospital. As the nation reels from John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the hospital’s orderlies unionize and strike, these five different women are thrown into an intimate pressure cooker.

LDK Productions will serve as general manager for the readings.

High Risk Ward has initially premiered with two readings at Hanover Theatre Repertory (THT Rep) this past March, the culmination of Wax serving as the inaugural Playwright-in-Residence at the company.

Wax recently made his Broadway debut as a playwright with Call Me Izzy, which ran at Studio 54 last summer. The solo play starred Jean Smart as a woman in rural Louisiana who possesses a secret that is both her greatest gift and her only way out.