Previous Productions

An estranged couple, Anna and Matthew, meet for the first time in four years. Their joint history is dredged to the surface in a way that threatens their futures as well as those of everyone around them. This psychological drama explores the options available to women and the ways in which we become our own worst enemies when we stray from the  acceptable paths available to us.

Merril has been spending more time with her sister Angie lately, but she’s not ready for anyone to know about it. At least, not until she’s ready to explain that Angie is an AI creation she developed to cope with her sister’s disappearance and death. When virtual Angie offers the possibility that real Angie might be still alive, Merril does everything she can to work with her creation to find her sister. But as the search continues, it becomes less and less clear whether an AI creation that Merril programmed to help her might have developed motives of its own.

Shaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater festival. Trouble is, Shaleeha G'ntamobi doesn't exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen, who creates the pseudonym to hide his race. He makes a deal with Emilie, an actor, to pretend to be Shaleeha. But as the lies pile up, everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily white face.

It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two “All-American” couples are forced to stare down the closet door.

I Dream Before I Take the Stand

by Arlene Hutton

The setting is suggested; it could be a courtroom. It’s clear SHE had been sexually assaulted, and HE appears to be an attorney, questioning her in a way that is victim-blaming and traumatizing.

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They Float Up

By Jacquelyn Reingold

It’s 2011 in still-recovering post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, where recluse Darnell, a young Black man, sits quietly in a bar until Joan, middle-aged, White, from upstate New York, decides he’s the key to her dreams.

Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

Themes/Talking Points: politics, women’s experience, immigration, abortion