Gab Reisman

Simon is in love with Mandi. Mandi is in love with Connie. Connie is in love with Nina. Nina is involved with Barry who is married to Irene who is also adored by Ike who is married to Polly who is having an affair with Dr. Yvette Dorn. Also there’s Pete, Irene’s older brother, who’s partner is dead, I think? Or maybe they split up but are still friends? Anyway, everyone wants something they aren’t getting. Or everyone’s gotten something they didn’t want. Sometimes it’s fame and sometimes it’s pizza. But the longer we live the harder it is to separate one from the next.

In a cottage surrounded by endless siege, at the dawn of Modern Capitalism, a motley group of women tell tales, pick nits, and stretch out the last bits of sustenance til the Market reopens. A dark and funny fable about what it means to be trapped indoors and how we figure out what to do next.

From the cacophony of telephone party lines, to CB radios on lonely highways, to the glory days of online chat rooms, technology has revolutionized the way we communicate with each other. But is it always for the better? A collection of short plays on the high-tech evolution of our social interactions, originally commissioned for Actors Theatre Louisville's Professional Training Company as part of the 2020 Humana Festival.

The waters are rising around Jeune Terre, Louisiana, and the land is slipping away. As scientists and state administrators bargain over the town's future, a theatre troupe arrives to tell an old story in a new way, just in time for a quickly approaching storm. This inventive new play with songs explores what it means to live on the edge of invisibility in a time of atmospheric change

In Johnstown, PA in 1889, The Great Flood has destroyed a bustling steel town, and left a motley crew of survivors and surveyors to clean up and rebuild. Meanwhile, at a bar in Johnstown a century later, newly-unemployed steel workers wax metaphoric about past lives and future ambitions. A dark-hopeful comedy about American disasters, entrepreneurship, and how we wait for what’s next.

When champion bounce MC, Benefit, dies unexpectedly, 6th graders Cleo and Justice set out to make a dance video so that their mentor’s memory can live on. But when Benefit’s ghost begins haunting the halls of their charter school, the girls must push back against their teacher’s expectations and find a story they can claim as their own.

While cleaning out their father's house, three estranged sisters perform a fast and loose reenactment of KING LEAR: part eulogy, part drinking game, part child's game of pretend.

Two would-be lovers try to figure out a better way to carry out their affair. Two wanna-be gutter punks travel to a far southern city in search of a fabled community. A train-shaped story on desire, transportation, and escape routes.

Ceramic figurines from her childhood are tempting Quinn Crowder with promises of escape from her life on an Iowa hog farm. Ten years later, the figurines have returned and her now-grown children must weigh the search for their vanished mother against selling the family business from under their father's nose.