Nelle Tankus

FULL LENGTH. Formerly "ROCHEFORT girls". Animate and Brim have both survived massive loss. And now, they're in The Hole, literally and figuratively. Animate can no longer feel pain, Brim forgot what happened to them, and The Hole is newborn and has no idea how to even exist. Their old way of living is gone. Now that these three have been thrust together, they must remember who they are, what happened to them, and how to grieve a pain they've never felt before.

FULL LENGTH. Semmie, an elder trans woman, is pregnant, and she wasn’t yesterday. Demanding a natural birth or nothing, her children Pearl and Marge are forced to care for her for fear of her life. As the hospital begins to flood and the lives they've built and rebuilt are lost to sea, this strange kind of family must permanently redefine their relationships.

This play is a wreck! The director got in a car crash, the lighting designer was fired, and the cast and crew have been barricaded in the theater by the playwright as she tries to find an “authentic moment”. For their own reasons, the three femme leads start making their own play – it’s different, and better than the play they’re in now. Do they even need the playwright? The only course of action: mutiny. Partially generated by the actors and scored to experimental electronic music, Women & Femmes, or Females is a transfeminist play about overidentifying with one’s trauma, performing goodness, and agency.

FULL LENGTH. Four homos party hard for the high holy days on the anniversary of a traumatic event. But guilt hangs over them like a curse. It lives in the walls, in the food they eat, their every breath, and they’re all complicit in different ways. As the night wears on, they all must come together and begin the messy work of atonement, moving beyond blame towards uncertainty and repair.

FULL LENGTH. At the dawn of a new swine flu pandemic, Lemon Lymes is a retired pop star and aspiring fascist looking to collaborate on a secret project with an adoring fan. Meanwhile, three Queerdos are planning for their uncertain futures as artificial intelligence renders their jobs obsolete. When a parasocial Lymes fan takes things too far and billionaire industries begin to collapse, the queerdos have to outsmart the state and keep their loved ones cared for. Tenderness is an anticapitalist cyberpunk experience you can enjoy from the comfort of your home computer or the theatre. This is the second play in the Pig Lung Trilogy.

ONE ACT. Three queerdos attempt to navigate the plasma donation industry at the dawn of a new swine flu aka "pig lung" pandemic. Their doctors are out of touch, their friends are all sick, and even time and place have given up. The only thing keeping these folks steady is their need for community. This is the first play in the Pig Lung Trilogy.