Name: A Mile in the Dark by Emily Schwend
Start: 2027-03-13
End: 2027-03-13

We are an economic generator through sports tourism for Greater Grand Rapids and Kent County in the West Michigan area.

We own and operate an award winning baseball/softball complex; the Meijer Sports Complex [www.MeijerSportsComplex.com](https://www.MeijerSportsComplex.com) featuring eight fields, including a championship field that seats 1,000.

Our signature event, the Meijer State Games of Michigan (Olympic-style sporting event), draws 10,000 athletes through 60+ sports in its Winter and Summer Games.  We work with many of our local sports clubs and organizations to host various regional and national tournaments.

Why Grand Rapids? We have:
•	12,000 + hotel rooms (2,500 downtown)
•	234,000 square foot downtown convention center (fits 40 volleyball courts)
•	12,000 seat Van Andel Arena
•	5 facilities that feature 4+ courts and multiple grass or turf fields
•	Grant program for new events
•	and more!

West Michigan Sports Commission

What happens when a single unanswered question turns a loved one into a stranger?  
Jess' stepmother Carol was cheerful, generous, and seemingly at peace — until her unexpected death leaves behind questions no one seems ready, or able, to answer. As Jess tries to understand what happened, the ground beneath her begins to shift. Memory becomes unreliable. Familiar relationships turn strange. Every detail feels charged with meaning, and every answer seems to open into another uncertainty.  
Emily Schwend’s A Mile in the Dark is an eerie, intimate drama about grief, suspicion, and the altered state we can enter when loss collides with fear. As Jess begins to question the people around her, the play widens into something even more unsettling: a portrait of how relationships shape us and how the truth can threaten the stories we build in order to feel safe.  
\*Michigan Premiere\*

A Mile in the Dark by Emily Schwend

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