Treefall
Beyond the end of the world, where trees are dying and sunlight must not be allowed to touch human skin, three teenaged boys survive by reinventing a culture they never really knew. They cling to the shreds of civility by playing Daddy, Mommy and Junior, but the game has worn quite thin. And just when it seems that things can’t get any worse, a stranger arrives with a terrible secret that changes everything.
Gas 4 Less
In the town of Wilmington, IL, Jodie and her daughter Abby tend to a struggling Mobil gas station, located on what used to be the busiest road in America. When an important opportunity presents itself for Abby, Jodie faces the reality that legacies have an expiration date. A play about inheritance, rural America, and the world we’re leaving our children, like it or not.
A workshop production.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
All Bernie talks about is sex. All Dan listens to is Bernie. When Dan falls in love with Deborah, she realizes how well Dan has been listening. A play about misogyny, male bonding, and why the people at last call are there in the first place.
Quinlyn Can Paint
On the occasion of her first solo museum exhibition, abstract painter Olive Hollyhox is having a documentary made about her life and career. In addition to the featured artist, her older sisters – Quinlyn and Gabby – are also being interviewed. Turns out, Quinlyn is also a painter. Not that anyone cared.
A workshop production.
Dry Land
Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land is a play about abortion, female friendship, and resiliency, and what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left.
Sunny Days
Sunny Days is a triptych play that follows a fictionalized version of Sesame Street called ABC City through three points in time. The first act takes place in Kosovo in 2004, where two ABC City representatives meet with Serbian and Albanian filmmakers to create a show together, despite centuries of resentment and the sound of gunfire outside the window. The second act brings us to Trump-era Texas, where ABC City visits the Hutto Immigrant Detention Center. Finally, the third act takes us a few miles inland from what was once Philadelphia, now underwater, where a young girl searches for the mythical ABC City in the post climate apocalypse.
Personal Library
Have you ever wanted to escape from the real world for a while by diving into a story? Megan does it all the time. In fact, she never leaves her house, living vicariously through books and speaking only to her best friend, Claire. When her concerned ex-boyfriend shows up at the door, he unearths a trauma that will force Megan to navigate that frightening place between reality and fantasy to find a way to survive in the real world.
The Depths
Rachel and Sam, a young couple, find themselves trapped in a cave with no way out. Forced to confront one another and themsleves as they fight for survival, the fate of their relationship and their very lives hangs in the balance.
Akrasia
When Jason and Amy meet in the waiting room of their therapists office, they begin to navigate a complicated and delicate relationship. When secrets are revealed about the past, how will they move forward?