Leroy Hood

NITYA, a young Jain nun, has taken the vow of Sallekhana, renouncing all food and drink until her final breath. She is found dying on the streets of Chicago by WHITNEY, a nursing resident and enthusiastic astrologer. Whitney becomes convinced she is meant to save Nitya, but Nitya does not want to be saved. This conflict forces both of them to extremes they never thought possible, challenging the beliefs they hold most dear.

The whimsical MAY MAY and hard-working BARB are two sisters living in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1925, trying to hold onto their late parents' farmstead. However, May May is in poor health and Barb is at her wits' end financially. When a charming stranger comes to town claiming to be from a hundred years in the future, the two sisters find themselves at loggerheads over how to proceed, who to trust, and which stories are worth belieiving in.

An absurdist autobiographical comedy in the vein of Kafka and Beckett, I, Sick: An Unrequested Autobiography follows the ambiguously ill I and its (for I is no more than an it) experiences with the American medical system, holistic medicine, faith healing, and spiritualism.

Spare the Rod tells the epic story of the Church of Willems, a fictional Old Order Anabaptist settlement, and five teenagers who live there: the gifted twins Gideon and Miriam, the eccentric Amos, the compliant Dotty, and the enigmatic Arletta. In an isolated community that abjures modern technology and centers self-sacrifice and martyrdom, each teenager must decide how much of themselves they can bear to give away in the name of the communal greater good.

Torrie and Elliot’s relationship is at its breaking point. Starting from that moment of crisis, the couple relive their relationship backwards, looking for something to save them - or something worth saving. This sad, funny play explores the nature of memory, toxic cycles, bonding through fear, and what it means to truly know someone.

The elderly MABEL MCCABE lives a quiet life in her mountain cabin, far from the hubbub of the modern 19th century world. This life is interrupted, however, by the intrusion of LEVITICUS WILES, a high society dandy who's attempting to prove his manhood with a vaguely conceived conquering of the wild blue yonder. Unfortunately, Leviticus has suffered a poisonous snake bite and Mabel is the only one around for miles who can help him. She can save him, if she can just stay on task long enough.

The Shuddering Goat is an easy-to-miss dive bar with an unassuming atmosphere. Its only exceptional feature is its regular guest Norm who, for a mere five dollars and twenty-five cents, will tell other patrons exactly what they don't want to hear.

Aransas Pass, TX, 1999. The new millennium approaches and Vera Hauser is dying. She charges her eldest son Daniel with avenging her before she dies, and killing his father who he's never met. Daniel must parse what of his family history is true and false, then choose between the ethics of honor culture and modern individualism. But everywhere he looks seems like it might well be a road to hell.

Things can get pretty rough out there. In this play, JOB and GOD see a COUNSELOR to try and sort out their differences. With Job coming in hot fresh off the deaths of his children, will God see fit to throw him a cosmic bone? Will we found out the truth behind all things? Do we even want to know?

LAWRENCE, ZACK, and BROCK are college roommates. Word is, Zack may have slept with Brock's girlfriend. Zack enlists Lawrence to help him convince Brock that he didn't. Both Lawrence and Zack are adherants to the Bro Code, and bring their knowledge of it to bear on this issue. Will the Bro Code prove to be a sufficiently comprehensive moral system, or just a slapdash, vapid ruleset only used for personal gain? SPOILER: It's not the first one.

VIRGINIA, an uptight student tutor at a private college, is assigned to work with HARRIS, an academically lax baseball player. They seem perfectly suited to annoy each other, or challenge each other, or complete each other, or destroy each other.

CAL is popular and RILEY is hated. They run in the same circles at their college, but have never hung out one on one. Today, they're getting coffee. Over the course of their conversation, they reduce the problem of getting along to its component parts and leave us to pick up the pieces.

ADAM and SETH are patients in an insane asylum. Adam is manic; Seth, catatonic. Adam comes to believe that Seth is more high-functioning than he seems. Seth becomes a captive audience as Adam filibusters about his own sanity and perceived worth to mankind. Seth responds.