Previous Productions

Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

Themes/Talking Points: adolescence/coming of age, female sexuality, female empowerment, competition

Five readings of new scripts from local playwrights.

• "April, May, & June" by Gary Goldstein

• "The Wedding Gift" by Anjali Kapoor-Davis

• "The End" by Brenna Jared

• "Thursday's Child" by Leigh Ratliff

• "The Butterfly" by Benjamin David Geddert

You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun and why.

Themes/Talking Points: gun ownership/the 2nd amendment, feminism, Trumpism/liberalism

At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.

Themes/Talking Points: racism, cultural appropriation, white saviorism, white supremacy

A group of women go on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and are baptized with '80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion, and the mystery of intrinsic divinity.

Themes/Talking Points: female empowerment, spirituality/mysticism, female sexuality

When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.

Themes/Talking Points: Various perspectives within the Latinx experience, female playwright, Mexican-American privilege, Latinx media representation, code-switching, microaggressions