Laurence Klavan

Set in a conservative suburb from the late eighties to the turn of the 21st century, "The Girl Next Door" is a comic, surreal, and erotic epic of how an outrageous new female neighbor changes forever the couple next door and the community at large. Content Warning: Explicit Material.

SIMPROV is a serious and surreal comedy about technology, entertainment, and identity.
Two couples are on contrasting journeys: Barbara and Alan, in middle age, are being pulled apart by her ever-increasing involvement in video and internet experiences; Actor and Actress, early twenties, are suddenly fired from their TV series and thrown into a world of new technologies and plastic surgery. Their paths will cross in “Simprov,” a new live version of such video games as “The Sims,” using real and discardable people. They will meet again when they are unrecognizable even to themselves, before returning to completely altered lives.

A man wishes to belong, despite the noxiousness of his views.

Lynn is a privileged woman who has been cheating on her husband. A younger, working-class woman, Lia, claims to be her lover’s girlfriend and blackmails Lynn. This forces Lynn to take extreme actions to keep the affair secret. Lynn eventually learns that Lia is Ally, an actress hired by her husband to entrap her. This forces Lynn to take other extreme actions. The play is a dark comedy about class and identity with a trick structure that, halfway through, makes you change your understanding of the story.

"What Comes Next" is a dark comedy set in the after-life, an endless white space inhabited (in a manner of speaking) by lonely, wandering dead people totally miserable about their situation. Only the cynical Guy accepts his circumstances. Soon whoever runs the place tries to improve conditions by assigning everyone families, and Guy's death is changed forever.

As children, Philip, white, and Shanda, African-American, made up stories and played characters together when her grandmother was his nanny. Now, reunited as adults, their imaginations come in handy again when they are faced with his mother’s alcoholism and her grandmother’s dementia.

"Turnabout" is a loose adaptation of the notorious comic novel by Thorne Smith, who wrote "Topper" and other classic Jazz Age fantasies. Set in the early thirties in the U.S., it is the original body-switch farce, in which a wealthy young husband and wife exchange bodies. In its own way, it addresses issues of gender and human mutability. Never before adapted for the stage, it features four actors, two doubling and tripling.