Tyler Hayes McMahon

In 1957, Soviet space dog Laika orbited the Earth, being the first living being to do so. And also the first dying one. There is some debate about which animal was the "first" in space, but if you ask her, she'd tell you she was the first.

In present day, Meg, reeling from a recent breakup, misses Mother's Day brunch. Possibly on purpose. And she's found herself the new owner of a dog. With the comforts she has previously known suddenly missing, she tries to find ways to improve herself and fix those around her. Or whatever that means to her.

How can two lives, so very far away, save each other?

It’s not quite October yet in a beautiful Vermont suburb. A teen who's new to the area looks just like that tool that recently passed away - and that’s only one in an unsettling line of coincidences. A small world filled with teens, loose dogs, and rare birds intricately turns as a web of speculation threatens to entirely uproot their status quo. In this unromantic romantic comedy, every high school senior is looking for a date for the looming Harvest Moon Festival. But it’s not really that kind of thing, right?

Thirteen teenagers weave through each other in a tight assortment of short scenes tracking one long night at a house party. Gender roles and expectations come to the forefront, as everyone comes in looking for something.

Cascadia is a short three part enviro-drama anthology focusing on the action of traversing large stretches of space. Part one: two mountain goats negotiate space in the wake of urban development. Part two: a reindeer travels from the tip of Alaska to Yellowstone National Park. Part three: two planets negotiate the challenge of time spent separated in orbit. Poignant and quick, this series of images shows a panorama of a shifting environment. The play's three parts can be performed as short plays separate from each other.

It's about staying afloat. On a small rowboat in the middle of a vast ocean, in the time of the landline telephone, two unlikely nobodies are adrift without any help. The pair reflects about what's waiting (or what's not) back ashore, as they meet a line of sea monsters and yearn for land.
This play was born out of my fascination with the ancient tradition of naumachia.

A ten-minute comprised of two short scenes. Or acts. Or plays.
The first is a boy that is haunted by the fish he killed in his youth. The second is a young fisherman is approached by a mermaid he has waited for (to marry).
It's about love and romance and fish. Is this the same set of characters in a different place?

At the corner of customer service and the apocalypse you'll find: Just-Yer-Chickn. Careening disjointedly backwards and forwards through time, settings, and sets of characters, this play ponders: Is it already too late for us? Why are those cows on the advertisements so violent? Why does Grimes have a laser cannon for an arm? And why, why are those chicken sandwiches so tasty?!

In this hot and quick adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, no one is afraid to say what they mean or share what they want.