Heidi Kraay

Full-length Play: When He comes into her life with promises of the adventures She's always wanted, She willingly lets him take her along for the ride, despite warning signs, warnings from family and friends and disasters coming their way exponentially by the moment. But when push comes to shove at the bottom of everything, He unwittingly lights her pathway to befriend the inner monster She's pushed down her whole life, start fresh and meet herself for the first time -- though not without plenty of monstrous aftermath.

Full-Length Play for Family Audiences: Arden’s year starts out terrible when her parents move the family into a tiny house, her best friend moves across the country and she has to let go of everything she loves about her life. When the pandemic hits, it’s all too much – until she finds renewed purpose by rescuing all the abandoned dogs in her neighborhood, squeezing the small space to its limits and pushing their home’s sanity to the brink. In this play about a young girl finding herself through difficult times based on the book by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, Arden discovers what’s important in big and tiny ways.

Full-Length Play: In the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, a research scientist races to uncover how stress impacts the human body in this moment and womxn’s bodies in particular, how that connects with the earth’s stress response throughout history and how all our anxiety is colliding while personal, national and global crises overpowers humanity’s consciousness. The scientist and her research participants connect across technology, dreamscape, starscape and future asking in light of all this, how we can stay strong, stay calm and heal in the face of disaster.

Concept by Heidi Kraay and Kate Kraay, script by Heidi Kraay. Inspired by survey responses from 90+ individuals.

Full-Length Play: When a young girl shows up in the desolate village that Juneau, Alaska has become, the surviving community embraces her as their new hope. That is, until a boy is found hunting her down with brutal accusations. Set in a future Juneau, Alaska, after all the glaciers have melted, the ice fields have vanished and nothing is recognizable, see in the dark is a mythic look at the value of compassion over suspicion.

An evening length devised theater experience co-created with Tracy Sunderland, Sarah Gardner, Lisa Lechner, Cameron Needham and the Migration Theory artists.

a piece about being in between
about caring for each other
about the only love story ever told
about west downtown boise
about all the little things
that change our lives in big ways

Full-Length Play: Savannah answers a cry for help from her sister, who just met her grandfather and is taking care of him at his home, and travels to support her. When their mom joins them, Savannah discovers that the hidden secrets between all of them are growing a storm in this space between her, her sister and her mom that will blow up out of the monster she’s been pushing down inside herself. They have to decide if the truth they uncover will connect or fracture them forever.

An evening length devised theater experience co-created with Tracy Sunderland and Sarah Gardner
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Travel through downtown Boise's interior and exterior landscapes through five parts of a love story from meet to loss, in order to fall in love with this place to start over from here.

Full-Length Play: Lost in a blizzard, Brian stumbles upon Michael’s warm and welcoming cabin. Lost and longing to please God, Michael's chance for salvation stumbles in from the cold. One disciple is a good beginning...but Michael has his eye on disciple number two. With Brian's help, she’ll join them soon--the key to the New World, she can save us all.

Full-Length Play: Holistic Growth Team's long life serum can put Boise on the map and make the Treasure Valley a bubble of prosperity. But when a mother driven by loss and instinct uncovers the key to this corporation’s success, the consequences of perfect health may be unbearable.

Full-Length Play: When Marianne’s father dies, she finds comfort in childhood imaginary friends. Absorbed in an invented reality, she cuts herself off from daily life to a catatonic degree. Forced into hospitalization, she expresses her mind through art and ends up saving herself by her own terms.

Full-Length Play: Greg was raised by his grandfather Tate. Or maybe it's the other way around. On the run from yet another one of Tate's disastrous relationship choices, the two find themselves in small-town Texas...that is until Greg falls for Katie, his dedication is pushed to its limit and all three are forced to face their past.

Full-Length Play for Young Audiences: When a tiger cub's mom dies, she heads out with her bunny friend and a tag-a-long caterpillar to find her father so he can teach her how to hunt. When her dad's no help, she has to figure out how to survive on her own with her new family. This play about friendship, adventure and transformation asks how we talk to our children about grief.

One-Act Play for Young Audiences: Wolf/Girl reconstructs the werewolf story, bridging connection across species through transformation. Tired of feeling like a misfit, teenage Maddy runs away from hometown bullies and joins a wolf pack. The longer she stays, the more she identifies with her new family, becoming a wolf at ease in her skin for the first time. But when hunters from home come after her pack, she must face her past, returning to human body with wolf spirit inside. To save her pack, Maddy must heal wounds between warring worlds—and find true belonging within.

One-Act Play for Young Audiences: When a construction company starts building on her family's pond, young beaver Thistle rallies her marshland friends to help her protest -- peacefully. But when everything gets out of paw and Thistle gets trapped, her family has to make waves together to find her and protect all the wetland creatures from disaster caused by progress.

One-Act Play for Young Audiences: About ice. And melting. And drowning. And saving. A play featuring animals of the Arctic and Antarctic trying to save their homes and two children much closer to the equator who help them – who are brave enough to try. If we all work together, do we have a chance at making it through?

One-Act Play with Music: When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But out of a storm comes a teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This play about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference, across cosmos, across lifetimes and forgetting.

Radio Play in Two Episodes: When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But then the storm and the cold and in comes this teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This story about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference, across cosmos, across lifetimes and forgetting.

One-Act: When Janet loses her voice, it's the last straw that breaks her, but it's the first time she's listened in years.

One-Act: A woman tries to get her memory back in order to get her life back but ends up losing all her memory in order to save her sister’s life.

One-Act Puppet Horror: A loving family moves into the perfect house, but when the house demands a sacrifice, the cost of perfection is monstrous.

One-Act Puppet Horror: New at school, Greta faces bullies, and unwittingly summons three monsters from her dreams. At first they terrify her, but they want to help. Their solution may be worse than the problem.

One-Act Puppet Horror: Corey goes to the basement to retrieve her cat, stays for alone time, and gets ensnared by a voice in a little hole in the wall. Catching her attention, the house sucks her inside its structure. To get out, she has to lose something of herself.

10-Minute: Kronos -- the god of measured time -- is trying to get to an important dinner that could get him back on Zeus' good side, but his escort Kairos -- god of felt time -- is taking way too long to get ready, risking both their reputations and seriously pushing the buttons of this titan with a violent track record in the meantime.

10-Minute: Chamomile tries to escape the chaos of her life by retreating to a mountaintop, while her partner Calamity tracks her down to bring that chaos to her.

10-Minute: Talia meets her aunt Andrea in the park to ask a big favor that could get them both in trouble, but when a stranger shows up with a watchful eye, the trust between them starts to break, along with their close bond.

10-Minute: Bean tries to reconnect with her nephew despite his father trying to push them apart, so she takes him out for a pizza even though that’s against house rules—just like most of her core values—and tries to work through the walls he’s put up.

10-Minute: A couple try to get away for a holiday, but their airport stay, much like their life, pulls them in like purgatory.

10-Minute: At a hotel getaway, Genna tries to confront Sammy about his behavior, but he turns it around and convinces her she’s to blame because of her sleepwalking. As their relationship unravels over the course of minutes, Genna finds herself approaching a freedom she didn’t know she needed.

10-Minute: A woman with terminal cancer takes a last balloon ride up to the troposphere and meets a young albatross who helps her die the way she wants, a gift that will help him earn a mate.

10-Minute: Three high school friends cope with the loss of their friend by climbing to the top of the same construction site where she jumped to her death.

10-Minute: Kern and Fan love each other more than life. But when the end of their lives (and the world as we know it) approach fast from the worst flood ever, parting might be their path to survival.

10-Minute: A strange, beautiful woman tries to save two honeymooners stranded at sea after a plane crash, but their mixed trust of her sincere kindness brings out her violent, ancient sea monster inside.

10-Minute Puppet Horror: When a demon turned Horrific Puppet Affair host is accused of no longer being scary, he tries to prove himself by eating all the children in the world, only to discover that the best plan taking over is to get Donald Trump elected President of the United States.

Micro-Play: A woman about to lose everything turns into a tree.

Micro-Play: To help them stop climate change, two kids on the California coast call a sea monster from the deep to bring them courage and luck.

Micro-Play: Cam and Zoe spiral out at home during the COVID-19 outbreak -- but spring is here.

Micro-Play: A monster kept as a prisoner of war in a woman's brain is tortured as her constant creating drowns him with ink, but this overworking ends up turning the tables.

Micro-Play: A couple hit a dog and try to revive it, only to discover that they are now under the dog's control.

Micro-Puppet Play: Mesmerized with the ocean, a swimmer gets pulled down to the world below and drowns. Before she dies, underwater creatures transform her into a fish. She gets eaten and coughed out of a much larger animal, given another chance at life -- as a fish.

Micro-Play: A woman uses a toxic spray to keep men away from her at the club.

Short Monologue Play: After a year of romantic misadventures, disasters and loss with a ragtag carnival crew, coming close to death is the only thing that saves Amy. Now it's her turn to save her daughter's life by sharing this secret.

Short Monologue Play: Dani finds a shelter when the earth and all its animals, plants and elements fight back to regain balance lost when humans were in control. After reinforcing her safe location, her refuge becomes her cell as she waits out the destruction above ground.

One-Minute: A woman tries to push a deer out from the middle of the road but is turned into roadkill in the process.