Makena Metz

Chelsea (20s) is an anxious social media whiz with a chronic illness, P.O.T.S, who works as an intern for Yummy Food Magazine with her co-worker and friend Morgan. She’s literally haunted by her anxiety as anthropomorphic thoughts and wants everything in her life to be under control.

When their boss Erica offers them the opportunity to apply for a new job, they both decide to take the shot. To apply, they have to write a legacy review about the Waffle Haus reopening. Chelsea and Morgan are stunned to discover the restaurant has been transformed into a “Breakfast Theatre” show. However, when Chelsea learns that Erica wants their review to completely destroy the waffle haus chef’s reputation, she decides to throw down her moral compass to get the job.

After sneaking into the Waffle Haus, Chelsea bonds with the chef, Benny, who only wants his father’s legacy to continue on (he was the previous owner). Eventually, Chelsea and Morgan fight about the ethics of the assignment, and Chelsea battles her anxiety to do what’s right, instead of what’s easy.

Winding up in the hospital, Chelsea learns that she has to listen to her anxiety to actually manage it. With renewed purpose, she decides to work with Morgan to crowdfund $10,000 to save the Waffle Haus and preserve it as a community staple.

Rounding up her friends, family, and co-workers, Chelsea discovers that it takes a village to fight for what you want - and that growing pains may not be easy, but if you work together, you can do anything.

This musical has themes of work/life balance, medical trauma, unconscious ableism, recovering from illness, competition versus collaboration, and changing your dreams.

This musical has music stylings from modern musical theatre, pulling influences from rock, pop, and jazz.

Four friends on a double date at Disneyland are challenged when one of them unexpectedly dies. After a bathroom attendant discovers the body, the friends must figure out how to not get banned from the theme park forever.

Four quirky inmates attempt to escape a prison while juggling their relationships before their window of freedom runs out.

In a different reality in a different society in the future, two young adult roommates grapple with their relationship to working and leisure.

In this show inspired by A Christmas Carol, a family grapples with the grief of losing a beloved grandfather as the holidays begin. As Monica and David prepare their family for celebrating both Hanukkah and Christmas, siblings Veronica and Ben fight with them and cancel the holidays. After the tweens sneak out of the house, their grandfather Jim's ghost appears and kidnaps the kids for a time traveling reckoning - from the very first night of Hanukkah to their family's future celebrations. To get out of time and go home, the siblings must learn the true meaning of the holidays and traditions their family celebrates.

After Susan finds out that her final daughter to leave for college is moving all the way to London, she uses her empty nest nervous breakdown and midlife crisis to quit her job and enroll in culinary school. However, trial by literal fire isn’t what she expected, and Susan has to figure out who she wants to be – as a chef, spouse, and mother.

Ida, a Los Angeles-based burlesque performer, must choose between heart valve replacement surgery and advancement in the burlesque world — losing her partner, and potentially, her life in the process.

Book by Hannah C. Langley
Music and Lyrics by Angela Parrish and Makena Metz

Olivia, a struggling post grad composer who suffers from chronic panic attacks, clashes with a music producer to rewrite and revise her jingle for a cat food commercial.

By Makena Metz and Melissa Axel and Jeff Hoepner

Nearby a magical forest, Red Riding Hood fights with her younger sister Blue about selling muffins to wolves. After Red’s wolf related PTSD explodes, Blue storms off into the woods. Realizing her sister is in danger, Red conscripts her Grandma, and a passing through Witch, to go in search of Blue before she’s thrown to the wolves. However, not all is as it seems and Red’s prejudices are exposed as they journey deeper into the forest.

In this 15-minute musical, estranged siblings Elizabeth and Todd have to come together after their parent's deaths to find the portrait they left behind. However, not everything is as it seems, and the siblings have to reconcile their feelings about their parents, their spouses, and each other.

In this 10-minute play, young disease survivor AMY must decide whether dying is worth living, or if living is worth un-dying when a vampire named DRACULA appears to offer her a painless death or eternal life.

Three sisters go to Catalina Island for an sisterly getaway, not expecting it to be hosting a Pirate's Weekend event! After disguising herself as a man to get into a contest, Jessica tumbles through trials and tribulations to become Pirate King in this farcical comedy of errors.