Tim J. Lord

After being held hostage in a Moscow theater by terrorists demanding an end to Russia’s war in Chechnya, a Ukrainian-Russian playwright is still haunted by the relationships he made during the crisis and unable to move past the tragic events that surrounded the siege’s conclusion. In a desperate attempt to understand where he and his country have come to he attempts to sneak into Chechnya only to be captured by Russian agents and suspected of being a terrorist himself. All alone in an interrogation room on the Russian frontier he is forced to confront just what happened during those fifty-seven hours in 2002.

The twin sons of Oedipus have come of age and are fighting each other for the control of Thebes. The exiled Polynices has returned home with 7 armies to back his claim, while Eteocles would rather see the city destroyed than hand over power. The twins' mother, Jocasta, and sister, Antigone, seek to intervene, forcing a parley, while their uncle, Creon, works behind the scenes to avert disaster--but only if that work won't cost him personally. Thrust into the heart of this tinderbox is a group of Phoenecian women. Fleeing war and upheaval in their home country, they have come to Thebes seeking refuge among their distant relatives only to find themselves caught between the brother's indomitable wills and subsequently forced to choose a side. After only just repelling a first wave of attack on the city, the brothers agree to face each other in single combat. Jocasta tries one more time to force them to a peace, but she comes too late; the brothers kill each other and in her grief, Jocasta takes her own life. The Phoenecian women make one more appeal to Creon to be allowed to stay in Thebes, but Creon, his attention on repairing and rebuilding his own city, turns a deaf ear to their pleas and casts them out.

The Southern Illinois towns of New Athens and Sparta share a lot of history. When New Athens native Tom returns after years of running away from his past and gets involved with Rachel, a Sparta girl with quite a past of her own, history shows just how unrelenting it can be. (4 men, 3 women)

The town of Thebes was once the jewel of Southern Illinois, but the river has turned poisonous, the crops are failing, and pregnant women and their unborn babies are dying mysterious deaths, all while the town's leader has locked himself away, leaving the residents to cast about for answers. Suspicion falls on Mellie, a young woman born with a serious disability. Despised from birth by the gods and barely tolerated by the rest of town, it falls on her and the other women of Thebes to wrest power from the man who has led them to catastrophe in this radical reimagining of the Oedipus myth.

Life for the kids of Thebes, Illinois, is a predetermined sort of thing: short with a bloody end, so when a new kid shows up in town with no regard for curses and gods he threatens to turn the old order on its head. But just what brought him to town and the destruction that follows could overthrow a lot more. (5 women, 3 men)

Kansas City to San Francisco and all the land in between. All the mountains, all the space, all the people, and all the faces. Can you cross the desert, or do you carry it with you? What does it take to cross that expanse? What does it take to make it? (5 men, 3 women)

Faced with a "nothing future in a dead end North Dakota town," Joe Erekson enlisted in the Army. He got to see the world, met a beautiful girl from a foreign country, started a family—and all on Uncle Sam's dime. It was only supposed to cost him a few easy years, but then George H. W. Bush declared war on Saddam Hussein and his "easy years" turned into a career and two wars in Iraq—a life his eldest daughter would follow him into in a post 9/11 world. The Hard Price is an exploration of the lives of people on the frontlines of the wars the Bush Family gave us and an exploration of how they pick up the pieces in a radical reimagining of The Oresteia.

In the middle of an ambush at the height of the "surge" in Afghanistan, a female Marine kills the sister of an Afghani translator just trying to flee the Taliban and get a visa to live in the States, Shattered, isolated, and unable to cope with life in peacetime, they wrestle with themselves and each other, trying find their feet on ground that is always shifting.

Dateline: 1956, The Big City! Special Assistant Deputy Director Ray Norman and his crackerjack agents are on the trail of a mad, dress-wearing bomber who’s blowing up ladies’ clothing stores. Led by no less than J. Edgar himself, our heroes brave a world full of liberals and commies and foreigners-Oh my! They banter, they quip, they defy time & space and rewrite history. They are…G-Men!

Brenda knows that if she can just grow the perfect plant she will find favor with God, her hubby, and (most important of all) the Subdivision Committee. But as her backyard project begins to take on a life of its own she begins to wonder if it’s a gift from Above? or a swift tumble into the fiery Below?

After being turned into a tree, Daphne awakes in Apollo's private garden and plots her escape. Unfortunately, her only ally is a bumbling botanist who's more interested (and more capable) in expanding the scientific record than mounting a rescue. A contemporary riff on the Daphne & Apollo myth.

The parallel stories of a too-brief romance and a search for missing government property

It’s just another typical morning before school at Jimmy and Jilly’s house-That is, if you consider Mom cooking up potions and Dad fighting demons from the Ninth Circle of Hell “normal.”

A 3-part, 10-minute series of monologues tracking the disappearance of a prisoner's corpse in a Texas prison

Two spies, an illicit romance, one vicious act that needs correcting.

Agent Mark Rollins has kept the Department of the Interior running through good times and bad, lean times and fat, school days and federal holidays. But now he faces his greatest challenge ever, a nosy president and an American public who’s never even heard of his department. (a cast of thousands, assuming you have a giant audience)

The Mad Scientist Rex and his lab assistant Harold try to save the world from greed and a set of sizable, splenetic sea slugs!

Two guys meet on the road en route to new jobs and new lives, only their epic road trip ends up being a bit more epic than either of them expected.