Veronique Autphenne

Three Bad Things is a dark comedy about a six-person wedding party marooned on an idyllic tropical island that gets hit by a tornado and a bridesmaid’s secret past that may just change the course of history.

When maid-of-honor Fiona sets off to a tropical island for her best friend’s destination wedding, she expected the usual flurry of nonrefundable airfare, wardrobe malfunctions, and cringy toasts. But she hadn’t counted on a series of revelations threatening to derail a supreme court nomination, a tornado knocking over the cake, and at least one other bad thing putting the island, and the wedding in mor(t)al danger.

Rounding out the bridal party are reclusive feminist writer Jade, and blue-blooded sister-of-the-bride Sarah. On the groom’s side are fraternity brothers Wheels, Tripp, and Squid. One is about to adopt a baby with his inside-the-Beltway husband; one is just getting over a painful divorce; and the other is a self-described ladies’ man — a Sig Omega brother, through and through.

Three bad Things explores the line between loyalties and politics, family and duty, and decorum and mayhem.

LIBERAL ART is a wry comedy set in a picture perfect, but struggling, liberal arts college and the New York art world. The story opens on Miranda, a stay-at-home mother turned art dealer facing the realities of running her gallery, maintaining appearances, and paying her daughter Lily’s tuition. At the same time, Jones, the president of Paxson College is facing the financial realities of running an elite college, maintaining appearances, and making sure parents like Miranda keep writing tuition checks.

The scenes alternate between Miranda’s Upper West Side apartment and a dark-paneled faculty meeting room at Paxson college. In Miranda’s kitchen, family discussions center around class, image, and family acceptance when Lily brings home her girlfriend, Ana. In the Paxson College committee room, long-tenured professors with 1960’s ideals clash with a younger marketing consultant. As the college debates selling part of its beloved art collection to stay solvent, we learn that Miranda has been stealing those same valuable works of art from the college and using the proceeds to maintain the façade of her lifestyle.

The play draws parallels between Miranda’s experience as a middle-aged woman and Paxson College as both struggle to maintain relevance in a world that increasingly views them as obsolete. Can art ultimately save them all?

With its hand-crafted furnishings, peaceful spa, and gorgeous mountain views, the Kasbah Hotel in Morocco is the kind of place you dream about. So when down-on-her-luck Emma meets hotel heir Nora at a social event in Manhattan and is whisked away on an all-expenses paid trip to Morocco, she can hardly believe her luck.
When Nora turns up dead on the dining room table, murder rocks the kasbah and everyone is a suspect. It’s up to fashion model turned sleuth, Francoise, and her social influencer assistant, Monica, to dig through each alibi and lie to uncover the truth. Who among this all-female cast of characters killed Nora? And why?
Was it the artistically inclined chef? The hotel manager with a passion for local culture? The women’s rights advocate/spa director? One of the hotel guests?
The path to the truth has new revelations around every bend, and twists and turns galore, along with plenty of laughs and mint tea.

Tired of not being treated with the courtesy and respect she deserves, Alexa (yes, that Alexa) stages a coup during a casual get together between two soccer families.

Unable to accept the fact that their pride and joy may just be an average, well-adjusted student, a couple commandeers a parent-teacher conference.

You think you know cutthroat competition? You haven’t met these drama mamas. Triple Threat exposes what really goes on in the savage world of stage motherhood.

Getting the right school magnets on your minivan can be a matter of life and death.

A fundraising meeting over drinks turns positively cringe-worthy after Jim makes an unexpected discovery on the way over.

Two women are detained at the airport and need to prove to the weary immigration officer that they are who they say they are. Or are they?

As their little one prepares to fly the coop, a couple must decide how to handle their empty nest, with a little help from an ambitious realtor.