Claire Greising

Tess, a recent graduate from Sarah Lawrence College, needs to do two things at her new job as a museum security guard: Stand still and be quiet. As she is trained by her 60 year-old colleague Ned, it becomes clear that those are the two things she cannot do. In conversations that take place while guarding the priceless Ad Reinhardt painting behind them, the two realize that their seemingly disparate lives aren't as different as they seem.

An Amish teenager, a nonverbal speedrunner, a divorced agoraphobe, and a part-time cam model daylighting as an online therapist enter a chat room. A play about communication, connection, delusion, and destruction.

Allegra begins a new job at The Company, where she'll do anything to rise up through the corporate ladder. Meanwhile, a Sister and Brother grapple with their Father's decline at a memory care facility that practices therapeutic fibbing. A play about the meaning of doing labor and the labor of making meaning.

After dropping out of college, John finds himself working at the Stop 'n' Shop in his suburban hometown. Portraying dependency in its many forms, Addiction As A Verb dares to ask the questions: What keeps us from returning to the things that we are avoiding? How do you change when everything around you has stayed the same? And is it possible to drink an entire gallon of milk in one big gulp?

Abby, a recent graduate from SIU, has lived in Carbondale her entire life and is eager to escape the claustrophobic environment-- Specifically, the insular queer community. When she meets newcomer Dr. Kensington at a run-of-the-mill appointment, Abby realizes that the sense of home she's come to find in Carbondale isn't something to be taken for granted. The two quickly form a strong connection, but is it too late?

Marty is a musician. Eric is a music journalist. Marty just released a new album. Eric wrote a negative review about it. Marty decides to shoot and kill Eric. There's one major problem with this plan-- Marty has no idea how to use a gun. A play about honesty, violence, and boneheaded idiots.

A group of old friends gather by a quarry in Redgranite, WI to tell tall tales. But something more sinister is afoot-- Are these stories just urban legends, or do the monsters they describe really exist? A play about the power of repetition, the claustrophobia that comes with being adults stuck in childish friendship dynamics, and the American conception of the devil.

A cautionary tale. A satirical dramedy. This is the story of WeWork, mapped onto the myth of Icarus.