Kyle Smith

St. Catherine's Water Polo team is ready to win a championship. They have all the pieces, the talent, everything they need. But when Titus, one of the players, discovers they have feelings for another player, and that they may be trans, Titus has to choose between what's most important to them, winning a championship as part of the team, or being true to themself. Man Up is about how sometimes when we become most ourselves, we lose people and things we thought we loved.

FULL LENGTH: In The Part of Me, Diana, a pansexual bipolar woman, breaks up with her girlfriend, embarking on a search for a new partner, a search made more difficult by her budding mental illness. This expressionist tale is a comic exploration of mental illness and sexuality through the lens of a woman who, while looking for the perfect partner, finds herself.

Full Length: Joy's coping with their break up about as poorly as one can. They locked themself in their room and are trying to get over their depression with bed rest. But when days turn to weeks, reality into nightmares, and they repeatedly wake up to sleep paralysis, Joy must face their depression head-on or lose their grip on the real world forever.

FULL LENGTH: Dunk is satisfied with his life in the Democratic Democracy of Libertaria. He prepares bodies to be dumped in mass graves, has a beautiful government-issued second wife, and two lovely children who love contraband media. When Dunk’s father is killed for treason, Dunk needs to convince his government sentinel, Crom, that his family is just an average law-abiding family. His dysfunctional family has other plans.

FULL LENGTH: Caryl is bringing her fiancee Anne home to meet her conservative, homophobic parents and tell them they're getting married. When she arrives, she discovers that her parents have been replaced by robots sent from the future to kill her firstborn son. Caryl must find her real parents, escape the robots, and, maybe, if all goes well, find some acceptance along the way.

FULL LENGTH Billy has become unstuck in time. He travels through his own timeline, endlessly searching for a way to save his wife from an early death. But every step forward is met with a mysterious figure, Mneme, who resists Billy's attempts to change the past. In Time is a play about grief, loss, and the what-ifs that plague us after we've lost someone we love.

Gird your loins! In this parody of The Crucible, John seeks redemption from his wife Liz for sleeping with a teenager, Anna. It's too bad that the whole town is engrossed in a witch hunt to root out their own "witch hunt" perpetrated by teachers preaching woke principles. John must navigate a shed-hungry priest, the American judicial system, and a way overworked understudy to get the forgiveness that, quite frankly, he doesn't deserve.

Agnes is an autistic time traveler looking to travel to obscure American historical events for her doctoral thesis. William E. Riker's announcement of running for office, Timothy Dexter's "funeral", and Giles Corey's execution. Really though, she's mostly interested in connecting with her women ancestors. As her ancestor's situations get more dire, Agnes is forced to choose between standing up for the women of the past or preserving her future. Agnes in American History is about the obscure men who history remembers, and all of the "Elizabeths" who history has forgotten.

FULL LENGTH: In this adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Rex is detaining Hormazd for a perceived crime. As Rex digs into Hormazd's past, he faces the consequences of his own actions, and attempts to flee the organization he's acting under. When he gets to Columbus his past catches up with him as he asks the question we all wonder: is forgiveness even possible? Blinded is about the harsh realities we must face if we ever wish to move forward as a country.

FULL LENGTH: Based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, Whiteout is a mistaken identity play set in a white rural North Dakota community, in which the people being mistaken are two black men who look nothing alike. These two men, both named Kevin, and one of their wives, Taylor, must navigate through pepper spray and collapsible plungers, through fifty shades of racism, through "Shmirnoff Ice" and overfriendly BNB workers, to find order in a town that breathes chaos.

Revolution follows Klay, a young autistic man spending most of his time at Blessed Tavern in an afterlife reserved for people who have committed suicide. Like everyone here, he wants out. As unrest brews outside the tavern, Klay learns to appreciate what he has with the help of a new friend, as others go to extraordinary lengths to escape their afterlives.

Derek's got promise. He's at a good school, engineering technical marvels, and getting excellent grades. He's going to change the world if... if he can keep his mental illness in check. Inherit the Earth is about all those mentally ill minds that have to overcome themselves to deliver on the potential that is inherent in every one of them.

FULL LENGTH: A collection of ten-minute plays written around femme presenting actors. These plays deal with mental health, neurodivergence, LBGT women, slut shaming, body shaming, murder, Qanon, and acceptance. Bring tissues, and get ready to laugh.

ONE ACT: A woman falls in love with the TSA agent who frisks her. As her love turns to obsession, we are left wondering: what will we give up for a sense of security?

ONE ACT: Agnes is having a bad time. She's studying American History, up close and personal, with her traveler's license, visiting obscure, famous men in America's past. The through-line? They're all abusive and belligerent to the women in their lives. This comes to a head when Agnes visits Giles Corey, of Salem Witch Trials Fame, on the third day of him being pressed to death, as Agnes considers what is worth changing the future over.

One Act: In this adaptation of the O. Henry short story, Soapy is unhoused on Christmas Eve in New York City, and all he wants is to spend winter on "Blackwell's Island", the local penitentiary. Unfortunately Soapy is less adept at getting himself arrested than he hopes. Soapy will put in the work, but will he get to do the time?

10- Minute: Mild-mannered Peter is a typical neurotypical, but when danger strikes that requires a specialized knowledge of niche subjects, he drinks his Tylenol and vaccine brew to become... THE AUTISTIC WONDER. And it's great that the Autistic Wonder can help fix things, but they should really leave and bring Peter back.

SHORT: Annie confronts her old psychiatrist about a missed diagnosis that has led to a lot of pain.

SHORT: A woman takes a man out to a remote part of the woods to burn his flesh off with acid for a past misdeed. The man, who happens to be awful, tries to figure out the misdeed, and convince her not to kill him.

ONE ACT: Miss Orientation follows Frederica as she tries to shed some serious weight for a school dance. With her closest confidants pushing her in some unhealthy directions, she finds solace, and acceptance, in a new friend, who blossoms into something more.

SHORT: Mr. Joe wants you to practice safe sex. His abstinence-only education video is sure to show you the dangers of premarital sex, as long as the women involved behave themselves…

SHORT: A man who's been laid off thanks to the Covid-19 crisis breaks into a church looking for supplies. It's up to Jesus, the church's janitor, to get him out and on his way.

ONE MINUTE PLAY: Denise wants to ride the subway in peace. Her intrusive thoughts don't like this plan.

SHORT: Don reflects on the choices he made to get where he is, as Keith struggles to get Don out of the rain.

SHORT: Two women actors have decided to kill their old producer turned sexual assaulter. One of the women, Heather, is having second thoughts, and it's up to Alice to get Heather's head in the game.

SHORT: Miss Direction is a play about trying to save the ones you love. Louise wants to take her sister Carrie home and out of a bad situation, but Carrie is resisting the change.

SHORT: Kate and Meredith have conflicting needs. Meredith needs to come up with the perfect response
to the libtard cuck who keeps commenting on her posts, and Kate needs to pack up their home to
get ready for the mass climate migration. This play is all about the things that get us riled up and
the things that should.

SHORT: Lisa's getting married to the love of her life, Kay! But when an unwanted family member crashes Lisa's wedding, Lisa must decide how to proceed with the situation, without ruining her big day.

SHORT: Ginny has it all, a great relationship, her dream job, acceptance from her mom. So when she asks Doctor Kay to assist her suicide, Kay has a little bit of difficulty processing the request.