Charlotte Rahn-Lee

Full-Length: Five years after the election of an authoritarian president, a young queer woman, Mel, leaves New York City and returns to her hometown of Geneva, NY, to recover from a traumatic experience: her trans girlfriend has been forcibly committed to the anti-LGBT Institute for Safe Families. At home, Mel finds her mother rehearsing politically subversive plays with her community theater group in the barn. When the playwright and her mother are arrested for crossing the censors, Mel takes the helm of a dubiously legal theatrical production. In the process she finds herself in a desperate campaign to protect her friends and family and make authentic art. But can you truly escape complicity in a rotten system? (This is the full-length version of the ten-minute play, The Culture Board)

10 minute: Tamika and Matt are each fighting the law the way they know how: Tamika, a black PhD student, is preparing for a civil disobedience arrest in a protest following the police killing of a black man. Her boyfriend, Matt, a white law student, is preparing for a long-awaited meeting with a senator to lobby for restrictions on police violence. This play examines what it takes to support each other in the face of injustice.

10 minutes: Five years after the election of an authoritarian president, a young queer woman, Mel, leaves New York City and returns to her hometown of Geneva, NY, to recover from a traumatic experience. She finds her mother rehearsing politically subversive plays with her community theater group in the barn. To her dismay she finds that the playwright, Chad, is in love with her mother! But more urgently, can Chad fairly represent gay people on stage? And can his play pass the censors at the Culture Board? (This is the 10-minute version of the full-length play, Complicit)

Full-Length: Gretchen, a graduate student in philosophy, accompanies her willfully deaf biologist father to the Galapagos Islands and discovers to her horror that in the name of conservation an entire population of invasive, feral goats is about to be killed. In her efforts to save the Galapagos goats, Gretchen attracts the romantic attentions of an Ecuadorian biology student, clashes with the New Zealander goat eradication expert and enlists the questionable support of two unexpectedly powerful fishermen. On this island chain enshrined in scientific lore, Gretchen finds herself in a crucible where questions of morality, ecology, sustainability, and colonialism are all at odds.

Full-Length: Following a mysterious, freak microcentrifuge accident William, a 24-year-old lab technician, finds himself dead in a waiting room to the afterlife where time has no more meaning, apples fall upwards when dropped, and there is a full dessert buffet. He is waiting for God to arrive and judge the worth of his life, and his companions are Sir Isaac Newton, Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, Francis Crick, Charles Darwin and a silent man who prays and responds to the name Mendel. William tries to deal with his feelings of inadequacy in this illustrious group, but everything is turned on its head when God shows up and She is not what anyone expected.