Rosemary Parrillo

Julie, a former family physician suffering from advanced MS, has been forced to move into an adaptive housing complex in Philadelphia where she struggles to maintain her independence. While all her lifelines begin to fray at the worst possible time, the one person who comes to her rescue suddenly needs rescue herself from the grip of the country’s masked cruelty.

Set in the waning days of the first Trump administration, "Spaghetti Western" is a dark comedy that explores family legacy and the fading promise of the American Dream. When Olivia Forte learns she has inherited a plot of land in El Paso, Texas, following her father's death, her eccentric mother insists she bury dad's ashes there to fulfill his lifelong desire to "Go West." While mom continues to slow-walk the sale of the family's decrepit Philadelphia pizzeria, Olivia discovers that her father's land is far from the idyllic retirement haven he envisioned. As Olivia confronts the abomination that is the Texas-Mexico border, she wrestles with what it means to honor the past and bravely embrace an uncertain future.

The proprietor of a bookstore that specializes in poetry has been priced out of the neighborhood and must now close her doors. As a handyman fumbles his way through a final maintenance task, a young customer arrives, offering the store owner an unforeseen opportunity to make peace with her misfortune while sharing the redemptive power of poetry.

Three first cousins gather at the home of a recently deceased great aunt to comb through her possessions, hoping to find cash and other family treasures. What they discover, however, challenges their assumptions and shakes the underpinnings of their cultural beliefs.

“The New Normal Trilogy” takes place in a Hoboken, New Jersey, dining spot that has three different proprietors over the course of 15 years following the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
This fast-paced 90 minute play takes place in real time as the neighborhood transitions, with new owners and new customers. Through it all, one constant remains: fear of “the other.”

Inspired by true events, Shelter, set in 1980s Camden, New Jersey, explores how a despondent single mother of three living illegally and precariously in public housing with her unsympathetic mother, comes to commit an unspeakable act. The action is set against the backdrop of Camden's ABSCAM years, when the mayor and other complicit state politicians were jailed on federal corruption charges resulting from an FBI sting. It turned out, the guilty were not the only ones sent up the river.

Abby agrees to take a new congregant to the DMV to get her New Jersey driver's license. But when the well-off, straight-laced Jersey Shore resident shows up at Sheila's Atlantic City motel room, she quickly realizes the former exotic dancer needs much more than a driver's license to set her on a better road.

Two women -- one young with an early-stage cancer, the other old with a late-stage cancer -- navigate fear and uncertainty in their own way while waiting for radiation treatments in an oncology center.

Set in a new hipster coffee shop in Hoboken, N.J., in 2016, Dexter is excited about the venture and is especially jazzed by his state-of-the-art brewing equipment. But just as he flings wide the door to prosperity, Adira arrives with a proposition that threatens to profoundly alter the character of the neighborhood, Dexter's fortunes, and his progressive sensibilities.

A dark comedy about a burned-out doctor who unravels during a routine appointment, only to be steadied by his patient and a magically talkative medical skull that help him rediscover the lost humanity in modern medicine.

Dexter, who has just opened a new hipster coffee shop, is excited about the new venture and is especially jazzed by his state-of-the-art brewing equipment. But at the moment Dexter flings wide the door to prosperity, Adira arrives with a proposition that threatens to profoundly alter the character of the neighborhood, Dexter's fortunes, and his progressive sensibilities.

An American teacher living in India with her U.S. Foreign Service fiancé never expected it to be so difficult to renew her work visa. Is the bureaucratic gauntlet the result of anti-American sentiment or simply systemic inefficiency? The answer lies in the Elephant Pit.

An Assisted Living Center is preparing to celebrate the 100th birthday of a beloved resident. Local press is covering the event, but the reporter assigned is not having a good day. Neither is the centenarian birthday girl, who would much rather listen to her favorite opera, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. There will be spectacle, but not the kind the center expects.

Gabby, a travel writer, takes her sister Fran on an expensive vacation at an exclusive island resort. The compound has everything you could want at a Caribbean geteaway. There's only on problem. Fran has insisted they bring along their senile and infirm mother.

A middle-aged family still stuck sitting at the "kids' table" on Thanksgiving contemplate a rebellion against their octogenarian elders blithely enjoying the holiday at the "adult table" in the adjacent dining room

While a young playwright calmly accepts the rejection of not advancing in a local playwriting contest, his stubborn uncle insists on avenging the loss and his Old World grandmother suspects he may have been cursed.

When a grandfather accompanies his granddaughter to a protest against an ICE detention center the outing soon turns into a very cold war.

Entitlement and greed cut across class lines as two friends faceoff following a swindle that threatens their financial survival.

Maureen and Maxim, married trapeze artists, attempt to reach a detente as Maureen forcefully questions the true intent of her husband’s potentially fatal misstep during a routine.

An American adjunct professor in China applies for a job through a Chinese employment agency and find out that things aren't always quite what they seem.

Andy decides she will no longer wear the inivibility cloak of old age.

Valerie takes her mother Lena to the hospital to get checked out for chest pain. But everyone’s blood pressure soon rises as the doctor attempts to assess the situation.

Judith is at the salon of her longtime hairdresser Bernard who is styling her hair for a wedding that Judith never in a milion years supected would happen.

A mother and son, who settle into a dysfunctional routine in their attempt to cope with a traumatic death, eventually realize the true path to recovery is just steps away.

In this 10-minute monologue, an American soldier finds himself in no man's land, trying to understand what has shaped his journey to oblivion.