Twelve-year-old Bran has just lost his mother, and now he's losing his home. Everybody in his family is coping differently: His father is not talking about it, his sister Jay is yelling and playing with matches and Bran is changing -- he finds black feathers growing through his hair and hears a crow talking to him in his front yard. Colleen McCandless' Fledgling offers unusual insight into the tragic events that have shaken a family to its core. Her new play has been selected to be presented at the 2016 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Honolulu, and this staged reading at STAGEStheatre in Fullerton helps to raise funds for this promising playwright.