Brynne Frauenhoffer

Magic is Jordan’s world—but it’s a lonely one, especially as one of the few women in the field of professional magic. Brynne Frauenhoffer’s new play asks what is worth sacrificing in pursuit of your dreams… and what dreams are worth sacrificing in pursuit of your life. From Gospel Illusionists to wannabe Criss Angels, kid’s birthday parties to corporate sponsorships, high-school magic camp to the contemporary Chicago close-up magic scene, Disillusioned is a heart-warming story of ambition, pursuit of passion, and (dare we say it?) the magic of friendship.

Disillusioned was developed through Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Residency2023-2024

Veteran cam girls and curious newcomers alike sign with Model Magic XXX to get their start in Miami’s professional-amateur porn scene. They come from all over the country to share an agent *and* a house, navigating their new careers online and IRL as colleagues and roommates. Most of them won’t last longer than three months, but rising star Chloe Kendall is determined to be the exception—and the arrival of ambitious trans performer Nastasia shakes up how everyone in the house goes to work.

In 1990, newlyweds Paul and Chelsea check into the Amway Grand Hotel to attend a convention for their multi-level marketing business. It’s not a pyramid scheme–it’s perfectly legal! And they’re fired up to find financial freedom, counseled by their sponsors Heather and Jeff and their upline Diamonds Tim and Tammy. But between all the motivational speeches, Paul and Chelsea start receiving messages from another time that force everyone to reconsider what separates dreams from delusions.

When Mar gets hired at the church she grew up in, she’s reunited with her onetime youth group besties Faith, who is now head of People Operations, and Julie, who now serves as an outspoken (and openly bisexual) volunteer with progressive goals. Though the three once bonded over Relient K songs and scripture, they now have to reconcile their very different faith journeys in the intervening years. Old wounds and new points of view disrupt ministry efforts as queerness and the non-denominational movement collide.

A horror play.

CloudChaserz is your one-stop vape shop: Molly finds your ideal mod, Teague recommends the sickest e-juices, and Trace...well, they’re just always around, adding to the dope vibes. But when the nation’s Juul-crazed teens start coming down with mysterious lung diseases, the trio worries that Big Tobacco and the Feds will kill their small town’s sole vapor oasis turned makeshift queer haven.

As a teenager, Pizza Hut was the only place that felt like home to Dakota. When the Hut hires Zoe, a straight-A suburban Christian virgin with Ivy League dreams, Dakota doesn’t think she'll like the bougie newbie much. But after a few shifts, Zoe proves her worth and endears herself to Dakota, who falls for her. Too bad her fellow cook Nick feels the same way.

Amidst the romantic shenanigans, the crew wonders: will General Manager Liz ever leave the back office and, um, do her job? Is Assistant Manager Jaylynn ever going to acknowledge her obvious baby bump? Will driver Billy finally end his infinite engagement, marry his fiance, and move out of her parents’ garage?

Pizza Hut Heartbreaker is the story of co-workers, who become friends, who function a lot like family, exploring along the way how we end up in the lives we may or may not have chosen--and who gets to decide how much those lives mean.

Michelle and Josh didn't mean to get pregnant. Five months along, they return to Josh's rural hometown to visit his fiercely loving yet overworked mother, ailing stepfather, and outspoken teenage sibling. Upon their arrival in Pacific, Missouri, a fateful fender-bender brings new and old truths into the light and forces each of them to evaluate their beliefs about parenthood, in God, and in the plans that they've made for their lives.

On a dangerous rural highway, two teenage girls wreck their cars exactly two years apart. Sarah was driving sober in broad daylight, Mal was driving drunk at 3 a.m.—but it’s only Mal who survives. When Mal encounters Sarah’s ghost at the crash site, she’s forced to consider why she’s still alive and looks for ways to help her new ghost friend. Meanwhile, Mal’s mom, feeling guilty at the injustice of her daughter’s survival, befriends Sarah’s grieving mother. Through these unusual, fraught friendships, the four women search for purpose behind their unfair fates.

Spring Semester, 2018: the progressive professors at a college theatre program marooned in a Red State assemble to select a Relevant, Thought-Provoking season in the wake of #MeToo. They each feel compelled to speak to the Moment, to start the Conversation, to confront their conservative audiences with Truth--until the college newspaper publishes an expose guaranteed to bring the hashtags home.

Based on this article about a real start-up aiming to pave the way for mind-uploading:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-…

At a shitty little diner in rural Missouri, three female employees react--in their own ways--to the incoming results of the 2016 presidential election.

In an interrogation room, in the near future, a scientist confronts her former test subject, who has since gone rogue. A slightly sci-fi retelling of a Greek myth.