Amy Bernstein

Lorna Hull is an aspiring revolutionary who rejects her adopted family’s peaceful activism and turns toward violence as a means of saving the world. Her burgeoning radicalism is framed by the history of her biological mother, Bernadette, who died protesting the Iraq War, and her biological grandmother, Alice, a member of the radical, violence-prone Weatherman in the 1970s. Lorna’s commitment is tested when a bomb she sets with her collaborator Clay accidentally kills Sophie Hull, the mother who raised her. Ostracized and alone, Lorna must choose which path to follow.

A statue of Tommy Tremain stands in the town square. Who is Tommy? It depends on who you are and what century you’re living in. Hero, savior, villain, or oppressor? Does anyone know the real story behind the legend? And what happens to the truth over time? Over the course of three centuries, the story of this statute unfolds as a tangled web of lies, myths, buried truths, and unexplained visions. At the center of it all is a black woman re-shaping history, and the future, in her own image.

She could be your friend, your neighbor, your relative: And she's struggling to cope with a monster in her midst. What's the right thing to do? Is there a right thing? Guest-starring Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Goddess of Dada expression.

Eliza’s dairy farm is under siege: by Caroline, the documentary film-making, grudge-holding heifer she allows into her house to bear witness, for a fee; by Harriet, her inheritance-deprived sister; and by the bacteria lurking in the raw milk lying in wait for son/daughter Jamie. Woe descends on Red Robin Farm.

Betty believes that by running her bakery like a fortress constantly under siege, she will stave off what she fears most and understands least: change. And so Betty insists that a thieving customer is sweet as pie; that the builder she has known his whole life still dotes on her confections; and that her young apprentice, Lulu, will be loyal forever. But change is a hungry beast, knocking at the door, and not even the fortress can withstand the pounding. Betty is utterly undone by the changes forced upon her—especially, and most deeply, the discovery that Lulu has shifted her loyalty, and affection, to a mysterious and mystical young woman, Blossom.

A lively and wholly imaginary encounter in December, 1970 between famed Nuyorican poet Miguel Algarín and political philosopher Hannah Arendt Blücher, who meet cute and explore the connections between art and civil disobedience at the home of a (fictional) mutual acquaintance, Linda Klein, who lives at Houston St. and Avenue A. Linda is in the process of breaking up with her stuffy uptown boyfriend, Brig Delancey, as she begins to free herself from conventional gender-role expectations. Her choice of neighborhood—the Lower East Side—plays an important role in her dissent toward liberation.

A performance prose poem exploring six different emotional connections involving things in a box.

A huge warehouse with an outsized personality runs the lives of two workers who long to break free.

Three test subjects, willingly cut off from the world in a locked room from which there is no exit,
are on a quest to discover just how long ‘forever’ really is, and what this really means to each of
them, and to the very meaning of life itself.

A disgraced American university professor and the student who triggered her downfall deliver self-serving lectures years apart, when suddenly, they must come face-to-face in front of a live audience.

When a crew of highly educated, independent-minded workers all show up for the first day of their new job, they don’t quite know what to expect—from their co-workers, from the seemingly menial job itself, and least of all from their high-strung boss and her weird sidekick. But little by little, this motley bunch begins working as a team, capable of taking charge and taking back their dignity.

Two friendly aliens arrive on Earth with a mission to wipe out student debt and help millions of college graduates lead better lives. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

Rosie, Roseann, Rosina: Three women, across three generations, up against the same painful, intractable problem: an unwanted pregnancy. What’s to be done when nature takes you by surprise, the law takes you in its grip, and you seem to be left without options? There will be blood. There will be deceit. There will be fear, suffering and a woman bound in chains. And through it all, there is Anita, child-less yet child-longing, whose life is forever haunted by her best friend Rosie’s dire decision and her husband’s delayed and brutal revelation.

Jesse is like all of us—trying to get by in a world that’s constantly changing. When Jesse is recruited to prevent blockchain technology from taking over the world at midnight, life gets even more stressful and confusing, and Jesse finds it hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys.