Chris Weikel (He/Him/His)

JT is a 16-year old comic book nerd with something huge to hide, and that something flies, wears spandex and battles evil. A teenager must deal with the constant humiliation of the school bully, his changing ideas of who he is sexually and creatively, all the while trying to balance his relationship with his real-world best friend and the increasingly intrusive fictional characters he’s created to help him through the day. When adolescent fantasies come in heroic proportions it's hard to keep them under wraps.

Chris Weikel’s Off-Broadway hit PENNY PENNIWORTH is a labyrinthine romp through 19th century English literature as presented by a severely short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company pretensions, who decide to produce a “lost” Dickens epic. The eponymous Penny, a down-on-her-luck Dickensian waif, deprived of her fortune and her country estate by the untimely death of her hapless father (Her father’s name is actually Hapless, as it happens), must go off to London and navigate her way among unscrupulous suitors, incorrigible urchins and anonymous benefactors. After throwing herself on the mercy of the family solicitor, Mr. Bunting (of the firm Bunting Bunting and Swagg, naturally) Penny and her mother are sent to live with the slightly deranged Miss Havasnort to cater to her every whim. Penny soon becomes prey of the roguish Rupert Stryfe, Heir to the House of Stryfe. What is an innocent young girl to do? The play is a tour-de-force for four actors who portray a cavalcade of comic characters in a gender-bending tale of true love thwarted, wealth, deception, abduction and true love regained. As Neil Genzlinger of the New York Times wrote: “Chris Weikel, the playwright, knows that Dickens is practically his own parody; his story about a young maid who loses love and then, through a preposterously circuitous journey, finds it again is exaggerated only ever so slightly from what Dickens might have written.” Genzlinger went on to declare that PENNY PENNIWOTH “deserves to become a staple.” Frank Scheck of the New York Post wrote that PENNY PENNIWORTH “is sharp, fast and funny, especially for those who've suffered from one Dickens adaptation too many.” And Fern Siegel of The Huffington Post called it “clever” & “witty” and went on to say “Playwright Chris Weikel lampoons British accents and famous literary characters with expertise”

Jane and Jeremy are unexpectedly visited in their suburban Ohio home by old friend from their days serving as missionaries in Africa. The visit brings them face to face with a troubling connection between their religious work, their estranged son Paul, and Uganda’s restrictive anti-gay policies. The couple must confront the far-reaching unintended consequences of their past actions in a deeply personal way.

When commitment-phobic Brian digs up a magical sea-chest which transports him back in time to meet Captain Kidd, he is confronted with terrifying choice between a bloodthirsty pirate crew and a wedding ring.

Johnny & Dave have been dating casually until one night Dave turns into a pig—literally -- tail, snout, the whole nine yards. Does this mean it’s over? What happens when the morning after suddenly threatens to become ‘happily ever after’? Can passion survive?

Tom, a.k.a. Nelly, is a youth of considerable talents. Unfortunately, the ability to drop an elegant curtsey will get a lad only so far in London at the turn of the 18th century. Or will it? Tom might be merely an errand boy with hopelessly romantic notions, but Nelly is a lady with prospects. She may yet claw her way out of the demi-monde and forever leave behind the world of pick-pockets, mollies, soldiers, boy-whores and (heaven forfend) actors. But first she must answer the question: “Tell me, gentle hob'dehoy! Art thou Girl, or art thou Boy?”

Two men garbed in traditional uniforms of masculinity are clinging to each other for solace. Through a series of flashbacks we find out how these relative strangers, Brad a financial executive and Billy, a United States Marine find themselves in this moment.