Hannah Hartmann McClaskey

This is Eastern Kentucky, coal country. The miner in his coal vein can’t stand up straight; a young man in his black vein is charged up in might. In 1950 a mining family is kicking off coal dust; business is good, and Della is the first of her family to leave for college. In 2017 the coal dust’s scrubbed clean, but Della’s still here, housing a family she didn’t expect. NIGHTJAR is a test of grace under pressure, from the interior and the exterior.

Marb has a glass eye, and Marb has heard she can’t do much. Living and working in her uncle’s half-baked drive-by diner, Marb is nearing the end of hope. But on her eighteenth birthday when she wishes for full sight, the sight she receives is nothing asked for. “Marblehead” will battle death itself to see beyond self-perception.

Year 2525: Humanity is dead, and the programmers are gone. Mars, Trinket, Apple, and Toad are four AI’s bumbling about in the birthing unit, freely conceiving who they choose to be. But today, an abstract encounter with the [archaic] She does not go so easily. Life in the Clean Slate is a sparky absurdist comedy that posits not even AI can be free of our past.

It is the end of summer at the Native American Institute's Camp for Kids and the counselors are restless. Driver the mixed, Liz the fractional, Levi the self-proclaimed, and Alana the outsider work under the care of Mary, an elder. But it's camp after all, pee in a bush, make a pinch-pot; it's all fun and games until someone is outed as a faker. NATIVE is a coming of age story in an age of personal culture claiming.

Set in New England, present day.

Centerstage in 1553, a dethroned Lady Jane Grey stands condemned to die. It’ll be a seven-month waiting game in the Tower for the sixteen year old ex-sovereign. But she'll sooner practice her beheading than recant her God to live. In present-day nyc, five women study the book of Romans in a fearless yet bizarre Bible study, as one of their own must learn to die. A play about believing women who go before us, running faith’s living-and-dying path through the seeming impossible.

Somewhere in Hell’s kitchen, tacky jingles ring, a tabby cat sings, and a modern day Herod dreams of despicable things. From the view of his mildew-ridden sidewalk table of discount books, Valter tells a Christmas story he (almost) certainly hates. Welcome to the Christmas Crib, a year-round xmas store. Miguel and Joy hire a “Johnny Bingo” off Craig’s list. And Tabitha the local Jesus lady commissions a neighborhood celebration. But all cheer shall die (and die quickly) if the bookseller on 49th & Nowhere has anything to do with it.

In the near future, a once quaint coastal town evacuates in the wake of an apocalyptic storm, but six people choose to stay: a deli caretaker, a carousel popcorn lady, a doomsday prepper, a fading physicist with a tin choral top, a mother who’s fighting to keep what’s left, and a daughter seeking chaos itself. It’s a timeless place at the end of time where allegory and reality are the present, but what force is feeling and what force is fact?