Leap & The Net Will Appear
In Leap & The Net Will Appear, we contain secret selves and animals inside us. In an instant, 20 years can pass. We travel the world while standing perfectly still. What happens when Margie (raised to be a good girl; wants to be a lion) leaves home: twenty years whiz by like a moving train, logic and time escape their usual confines, steaks are eaten, tuxes are worn, the world expands, people transform, there is a rule that is breaking. In a world that is close to ours but is not ours, lions run with limitless grace, we all eat cake, have some champagne.
Photos by Marina McClure & Anthony Rathbun.
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First Suburb
In First Suburb five preteens teeter on the brink of adolescence when a shocking and violent act interrupts their insular world of personal struggles and triumphs. Chana Porter takes us back to the early '90s in a suburban planned community, the first of its kind in America, for a subversive, mischievous, and oh-so-familiar (or is it?) look at childhood.
Phantasmagoria, or Let Us Seek Death!
In Phantasmagoria... A rainy night in a Genevan castle. Debauched poetry and too much wine. A 17 year old girl writes a spooky story. Centuries later, the creature still ambles through our culture. Mary Shelley unleashed her creation on the world: the first modern monster; an assemblage of the recent dead. On the 200th anniversary of Mary’s creation, we return to Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus to discover whether the dead ever truly leave us.
Beshert
In Beshert, our energetic intentions have consequences as a religious family man is confronted by a ghost from his past. Or maybe a con man. Or a demon. Or perhaps, an angel.
In Development
We Are Radios
We Are Radios, a new play by Chana Porter, is a poetic family drama with 9 original songs by 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne.
Lying in bed one night with his beautiful wife Gail, Frank Senior has a stroke. He’s suddenly seized with the knowledge of how he’s unintentionally harmed his family: his disabled son, his adopted daughter, his resentful wife. Now radiant with a new understanding of how to be a better father and husband, Frank Senior has lost the power of speech. His transformation conjures The God Dog—the family’s long dead beloved pet. The God Dog sings the inner emotional lives of the family as the estranged son travels home to confront his dying father.
We Are Radios was developed at Playwrights Horizons, co-produced by Clubbed Thumb, with Adam Greenfield directing. It was an honorable mention of the Relentless Prize in 2018.
Lying in bed one night with his beautiful wife Gail, Frank Senior has a stroke. He’s suddenly seized with the knowledge of how he’s unintentionally harmed his family: his disabled son, his adopted daughter, his resentful wife. Now radiant with a new understanding of how to be a better father and husband, Frank Senior has lost the power of speech. His transformation conjures The God Dog—the family’s long dead beloved pet. The God Dog sings the inner emotional lives of the family as the estranged son travels home to confront his dying father.
We Are Radios was developed at Playwrights Horizons, co-produced by Clubbed Thumb, with Adam Greenfield directing. It was an honorable mention of the Relentless Prize in 2018.
Speak!Speak! is a lush multi-media play about intimacy and communication in the digital age. A full length one act for three people. Finalist for the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2015, workshopped at 3LD, with direction by Meghan Finn. |
The Lucky DarkIn The Lucky Dark Marie-Laure is living fully. Lucas is problem solving. Edith’s work is her life (and life is her art.) Marvin is being present. Patrice is hiding in plain sight. And Francesca is lying. Two couples expand what it means to be in relation to each other. A dark comedy about sex, death, commitment, and identity.
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Dearly BelovedDearly Beloved is in development with New Georges, with music by Deepali Gupta, direction by Sarah Hughes, produced by Bailey Williams. Past workshops include: Dixon Place's Little Theater, and Cloud City. |