Previous Productions

When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster's Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender and obscenity in the age of social media. As office politics collide with ambition, morality, and lexicography, the future of the English language hangs in the balance. A play about vulgar words and the people who define them.

Themes/Talking Points: misogyny, workplace politics, social media, language, profanity, slurs, feminism, sexism, glass ceiling, gender

Man and Woman have been trapped/locked in an office space together 24/7 for years, but they are not allowed to do anything other than work. After thirty years of this, Man has lost hope and wonders if he will ever be allowed to leave. On the other hand, Woman has been in the environment for ten years, and she clings to the hope that there is more to life than survival. The two attempt to find a human connection, but doing anything other than work has consequences.

Themes/Talking Points: corporate greed, exploitations, loneliness, isolation, anger, loss, love, sex, hope.

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