Melissa Toomey

Aliena, a brilliant street musician, arrives in Ashland, Oregon in search of her mentally ill and homeless estranged father who has a gift for music/magic, and a Shakespeare obsession. Disguised for protection, her efforts to find him—and a home for herself—are complicated by the growing police crackdown on homelessness, and the volatile spirits she has inherited.

A play about street musicians, Shakespeare, "the homeless problem," and what it means to look for home in all the wrong people.

After fleeing an abusive religious cult, a mysterious young woman teams up with a mandolin-playing drifter who believes himself to be the devil, as they seek to navigate the underworld of the American Mother Road in search of a place to call home. The lines of belief, delusion, and religion are blurred—as are the definitions of good and evil—as a new, disturbing power emerges in this young vagrant woman who has nowhere to call home and nothing to lose.

at a run down strip club in the American West, a freight-train-hopping Maiden joins with the lost soul of a missing indigenous woman to seek vengeance against her stalker, their enemy: a vagabond known as Death. in a surreal acid-Western ghost story spanning through time, we are questioned : How lost do we have to become to finally be free? And are we born to die?

A set of estranged twin sisters are called back as adults to the make believe world they had created as children, in order to fulfill their destiny, save the world, and save each other from the past. The play explores questions of what it means to reclaim identity after shared trauma, and what it is to believe, make believe, or play pretend, in both our imaginations as children and in real life as adults.

As the sun sets, beneath a tree covered in cicada shells, Lara and Ryan reckon with their friendship and the mental illness that threatens to destroy it.

In a mysterious future (or maybe present), human beings wear masks to conceal and control their identities in the outside world. A couple struggles with the consequences of stepping out the front door. A dystopian allegory inspired by autistic reality.

a solstice ritual

Out with the old, in with the new...Astoria actresses that is. The search for a new roommate with a twist.