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On the day of the 2024 solar eclipse, Arizona reinstates a dormant 1864 law criminalizing life-saving fetal care upending Dr. Bette Singer’s world. Torn between her oath to heal and the law she must uphold, Bette conjures a surreal quilting circle of ancestral women whose defiance once cost them everything. As the threads of past and present intertwine, the sterile walls of the hospital collide with her longing to reconcile faith, family, and duty.
Caught between work and her yearning for a home where mercy can coexist with order, Bette is forced to confront the limits of faith, duty, and the American Dream—the belief that perfection, whether moral or maternal, can still save us.
With wit and poignancy, 'A Meditation on Hope' exposes how systems of power continue to re-script control over women’s bodies and beliefs across centuries, as women struggle to claim autonomy, compassion, and the right to choose meaning for themselves—begging the question: can hope endure when faith and freedom no longer speak the same language?

FULL LENGTH: Called home for a family portrait, a mother and her daughters reunite after years of estrangement, stepping into a fragile moment thick with old wounds and unspoken truths. What begins as an uneasy gathering becomes an unflinching confrontation with the past. The weight of their shared history, especially the memory of the last portrait, turns a journey of reconciliation to gradually become a reckoning. Broken Thread weaves a story of fractured bonds, difficult choices, and the haunting realization that home is as fragile as the ties that bind it. At its heart, this is a poignant tale of resilience and reconciliation, asking: when the threads of family unravel, can they ever be mended?

FULL LENGTH: Set against the glittering and brutal machinery of Hollywood, COMPLICITY reimagines the ancient tragedy of Antigone for the age of #MeToo. The play follows Tig Kennedy, a former teenage star who returns to Los Angeles after years in exile to reclaim her agency and confront the system that once exploited her. When Tig and her sister Sima, now her manager, enter the industry’s upper ranks, they discover that the same men who built their careers—figures like studio executive Nigel Kent and producer Lilia Gordon—are the architects of its corruption.

Spanning 2008 to 2022, the play moves through studios, red carpets, and boardrooms as Tig begins filming a documentary that exposes a network of abuse, complicity, and cover-ups. Her investigation forces her to face her own silence and the cost of speaking out. In the tradition of Antigone, Tig defies the unspoken “laws” of her world—the NDAs, the gaslighting, the culture of obedience—to honor the buried stories of women who were silenced. Her act of truth-telling becomes both rebellion and ritual: an unburial of what the industry refuses to see.
By the time Tig’s film wins a Golden Globe, the play has transformed the stage into a media chorus of paparazzi, projections, and televised applause. In her acceptance speech, she declares, “Silence is complicity,” turning the glamour of the awards stage into a moral tribunal. But the final projection—“Weinstein conviction overturned”—reminds us that justice, like in Sophocles’ tragedy, comes too late.
At once mythic and contemporary, COMPLICITY asks: what does resistance look like inside a system that survives on silence? And how does a woman’s act of defiance—like Antigone’s burial—become both her undoing and her legacy?

[CW// strobe lights, a gunshot, and discussion of r*pe/sexual assault and impacts]

ONE ACT: In a dimly lit tattoo parlor, a woman seeks more than the removal of a tattoo—she longs to erase the branding of a painful past. The specialist, skilled at erasing marks but no stranger to the layers of meaning they hold, guides her through the physical and emotional unearthing. As ink fades, the hidden scars surface, revealing a journey of release, resilience, and rediscovery. “Erasing Time” is a powerful exploration of the marks we bear and the courage it takes to reclaim ourselves.

ONE ACT:
Vivian, who has always controlled her mother Sophie's affairs, has agreed to let her estranged sister Perry become the Power of Attorney. As they prepare to meet with the lawyers, Vivian changes her mind. "What's What" is a story about two sisters struggling to find a meaningful role in their mother's life, and facing what it means to be a family.

ONE ACT: EARLE a 30 something playwright and LOURDES, an emerging woman playwright over fifty , meet up for a night of theatre. What happened that night, changed the course of their relationship. Night Becomes Morning is a story about friendship, expectations and love.

SHORT: After the death of their mother, two sisters plant a memorial tree, reuniting and finding some hope for a future supporting one another.

SHORT: A rivalry over work, ego and love sets two computer technicians against one another, while their female colleague plays to gain her quest for love.
A silent 10 minute play or mime play.