T.D. Mitchell

A proud father takes the audience through the planning of his daughter's wedding.

In development 2018

Virtual reality and the bending realities of virtue --before, during and after war.
The final of the Veterans Trilogy, VRTU-L concerns simulation environments and the history of the Department of Defense with the video gaming industry and psychologist contractors: the "Militainment Industry" with a bit of absurdism, the ridiculous and sublime.
Work-in-progress.

A woman sketches in a museum gallery, near a new exhibit. The new work and its artist are revealed. It is the body of the artist's ex-lover, which he is not allowed to leave, as he has not let her go emotionally. A museum guard enforces the rules, as the stink of the corpse and regrets interrupt the artist's stab at connecting with someone new: the woman who sketches. An odd little relationship comedy.

Madame Ching Shih, the fiercest pirate in the Chinese seas (and arguably the most successful pirate in history) opts to accept the Emperor's offer of amnesty for her Red Flag Fleet, but needs to negotiate her best terms. This early 19th century diplomacy is dropped into the ubiquitous courtroom of the Law & Order series franchise, where an absurd trial of gender power dynamics, history and feminism plays out.

Three beings among a large crowd of others float on their plane in the universe waiting to be chosen.

Three ambitious academics mix, manipulate, battle and try to seduce each other in their university's fMRI Brain Imaging Lab as their ideas about biochemistry, neurology, ethics, university politics, evolutionary biology, sexuality and psychology collide.

A look at a couple's relationship over its seven year life, and their relationship with their dog as their "child".

2007
A young, newly minted Officer in the Marine Corps brings a young enlisted woman home to her grandmother's for Liberty. A family boasting five generations of female Marines, this time away from barracks and back from a duty tour in Iraq at first appears an "Ooo-rah" celebration of little known women's history and grit. But time reveals their visit to be a flight from danger within the violent, hard core, male-entrenched culture they so desperately fought to be part of.

Late summer, 2005.
The war in Iraq dominating the news, Michael is plagued by nightmares, headaches and flashbacks of his own combat service in Vietnam. A highly driven and successful entrepreneur, newly sober and hoping to make amends, he invites five of the men who served under his command for a R&R guy’s weekend reunion at his cabin in the Cascade Mountains. The reunion begins as a fun, playful celebration of the veterans’ bond of military brotherhood and shared history. But old, unresolved tensions within this army family flare up, and each man's post-war choices and present day circumstances prove to color their past traumas very differently. An uninvited guest from Michael’s service arrives, too, further threatening his hard fought-for peace. By the time one of Michael’s guys gets a call that his soldier daughter may be MIA in Iraq, the men’s loyalty to country, to family, to each other, and to their own memories are painfully tested.
-A play about the long-term impacts of war on the people who fight them.