Ali MacLean

THE POINT is a dark thriller that follows a love quadrangle between a college student, a townie drug pusher, his junkie ex-girlfriend, and the hapless friend in love with the co-ed. The tension mounts when one of them is found dead. The story, told out of sequence, follows the aftermath of the death, but on a macro level it examines the rise of economic inequity along with corresponding opioid deaths.

THE POINT is set behind the “Tofu Curtain”, an invisible county line that divides the quaint Ivy college town of North Hampton from the run-down factory town of Holyoke in Western Massachusetts. While North Hampton boasts Smith College, Holyoke had the highest rate of pregnancies and STDs, and the largest heroin and Fentanyl trade in the New England area in 2023.

When Rob meets Anna, he thinks she’s the one. When Anna meets Rob, she thinks maybe she can finally be happy. But there is a third party in the relationship that may destroy their union. Every night a shadowy monster called The Form comes out of the walls of Anna's apartment and tries to kill her. What starts out as a meet-cute slowly descends into confusion and horror. This play personifies depression and explores how it can devastate a person and the lives of those around them.

Meet Hugo. Millions of girls want him. He could have any of them. But he wants Gen.
Meet Gen. She’s not a people person. That is, until she meets a certain person. And she wants Hugo.
Hugo and Gen are perfect together, but can’t be together. Year after year they keep trying and it just might kill them.

A rocknroll tragedy by Ali MacLean
Featuring music and lyrics by Craig Finn from The Hold Steady.

FINAL RESTING PLACE is a composite of stories, told by very different types of women across the country whose lives are connected by the infamous serial killer, Willy Ray Watts.
Some are victims from beyond the grave, some are family members, cops, lawyers. Others have suffered and been discarded, yet remained nameless to society, while Willie has become famous.
A horror movie being made based on the killings, called Final Resting Place, is intertwined throughout the play and soon the audience isn’t able to tell fact from fiction.

Wolves At The Door, winner of the Julie Harris Award and finalist for the O'Neill Theatre Conference, is a story about a couple Grace and Gavin, who lost their daughter Lucy in a shooting where she was in the wrong place wrong time. The shooter, Marc, had returned to work to kill his co-worker in an ‘incel’ styled revenge plot. Lucy was at a dance class in the building next door and was collateral damage. While grieving, Grace is bombarded by a stream of visitors, all who seem to want to exploit her in some manner. A Pastor wants her to convert and be the face of the ministry. A psychic wants her to connect with her daughter and be advertisement for her popular practice. A cop who was at the shooting wants absolution. Her ex-husband Mitch wants custody of half of his daughter’s ashes. Meanwhile Grace and Gavin grapple with the harassment of ‘hoaxers’ who don’t believe that Lucy is dead, and their own relationship woes, as one of them wants to heal and one isn’t ready to move on.

The play flips back and forth in time from the past as we see what set Marc on his path and as he gears up to exact his plan, and the present with Grace trying to come to terms with the aftermath.

After her mother dies, Gen and her brother Kellan find home life with their abusive father unbearable. However, once she escapes is when the real hell begins. Flipping back and forth in time, Gen grows up in a house that is haunted with horrible secrets which she takes with her as a young adult battling life in the Big Apple. She begins to realize no matter how many times she changes her life, her childhood trauma is waiting for her until she conquers it.

Lindsey, a woman in her 20s-30s, makes a video to her Ex, apologizing for her past behaviors.

A Southern gothic tale about bullying, parenting, and racism in a small town in Georgia.

Ms. Hicks has called Justin’s mother and grandfather to her office to discuss Justin’s behavior. Now she has to deal with theirs.

Murph and Scanlan join lovebirds Teenie and Lugo for a debaucherous party deep in the Massachusetts woods. At first, they miss the underlying tension between the couple but then they realize the night is about to take a deadly turn.

The team behind the Beatles is dealing with a major PR snafu, but luckily they may have the perfect solution.

Paul's life fell apart when Molly left town, but now she's back with her fiance and Paul will do anything to win her over.

Turning the trope of the rom-com on its ear, and riding the line between funny and frightening, I'll Call You Mine follows Paul's downward spiral as he pursues Molly and won't take no for an answer. I’ll Call You Mine, is prompted by the Zombies song of the same name, as well as their song “Maybe After He’s Gone”. This comedic thriller falls somewhere between Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, Duncan MacMillan’s Monster, and Anthony Shaffer’s Murderer.

I'll Call You Mine is the third from MacLean's Zombies Plays Trilogy - plays based on songs by the 60’s rock group The Zombies. Each play (She’s Not There, This Will Be Our Year, and I’ll Call You Mine) examines relationships from a different toxic theme: depression and co-dependence, adultery and addiction, obsession and revenge. When love is the drug, relationships have the ability to make zombies of us all.