Lisa Huberman

A year after their mother’s death, two American Jewish siblings return to their childhood home and are faced with revelations that challenge the very core of their cultural and religious identities as they wrestle with Zionism, Orthodoxy, and white privilege.

In Sex and Charitable Giving, Ankit and Natasha awkwardly embark on a BDSM journey together. Their secret, sexual fantasy world collides with their ethical values when they decide to sponsor a girl in Nepal, and as they sink deeper into the physical and emotional rabbit hole of their role play, third world problems disrupt their first world lives. This forces them to confront how race, gender, globalization, colonialism, and other oppressive structures in our world intersect, revealing the dark underbelly of our seemingly good intentions and posing the question: how well do we really know the people closest to us?

A riff on the ancient Persephone story, PERSEPHONE IN RETROGRADE
turns the mythological nymph into a contemporary teenager wresting
free of the patchouli-scented pull of her organic farming and astrology-
obsessed mother, Demeter. After her mother’s codependent meddling
crosses a line, Peresephone takes refuge in a steakhouse run by the
sleek Hades. Hades, however has tangled family drama of with his niece
and gatekeeper, on whom he extends a powerful hold. Though at first
Charon sneers at Persephone’s crunchy granola style and grating
sincerity, the two young women eventually help each other overcome
their emotional bondage and claim agency over their destinies.

Egyptology is a drama that tells the story of Cate, an ancient history scholar struggling to maintain a relationship with her young daughter Maddy after her former partner enters into a straight relationship and adopts an increasingly religious worldview.