Blake Hackler

This inventive adaptation reimagines Agatha Christie's groundbreaking mystery as a fast-moving theatrical puzzle. Employing a nimble ensemble, role-doubling, and expressionistic staging, the production transforms a classic whodunit into a suspenseful game of memory, perception, and misdirection—culminating in one of the most celebrated twists in mystery fiction.

After the death of her husband, Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year mourning period on her five daughters, sealing them inside a household ruled by rigid discipline, repression, and fear of scandal.

As desire, jealousy, and dreams of escape begin to fracture the family's carefully maintained order, the daughters are drawn into an escalating struggle for love and freedom.

This expansive adaptation reimagines García Lorca's classic by bringing previously unseen characters to the stage, including the elusive Pepe el Romano, and adding new scenes that broaden the world beyond Bernarda's walls. The result remains faithful to Lorca's poetry and passions while offering a fresh perspective on one of theatre's most enduring tragedies.

Healed follows Gail Torres, a chronically ill former professor who spends her life savings to attend an exclusive healing retreat in rural Texas after conventional medicine fails her. Drawn into a community built on ritual, radical belief, and the promise of recovery, Gail must confront difficult questions about illness, identity, and hope while navigating an increasingly strained relationship with her daughter. A deeply human exploration of chronic illness and the longing to be made whole.

Set in 1890s Memphis, The Gentle Art of Correspondence chronicles the doomed romance between Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, two young women who dream of escaping the confines of Southern society for a life together in Chicago. As family expectations and social convention drive them apart, Alice's devotion becomes obsession, leading to one of America's earliest and most sensationalized queer love tragedies. Inspired by true events, the play explores desire, gender performance, repression, and the cost of a society that renders queer love unthinkable.

Set in East Texas over a span of 20 years, What We Were traces the lives of three sisters, Nell, Tessa, and Carlin, whose adult lives have all been impacted by a childhood of abuse.

After disappearing 17 years ago, Tessa, the youngest sister, resurfaces. It seems she has spent her adult life on the run, moving from state to state and foster family to foster family, pretending to be a teenage girl. When Nell gets word that Tessa, now 35, has finally been found out, Nell must decide how much of her past she’s willing to face in order to save her sister.

Weaving scenes from the past and present, What We Were is a meditation on responsibility, on what we do to cope, and on the very difficult work of healing.

In a small East Texas town, a Baptist minister offers shelter to a wandering young man named John. What begins as an act of Christian hospitality gradually transforms the lives of the minister, his wife, and his teenage son, forcing each to confront desires, disappointments, and questions of faith they can no longer ignore. By turns funny, tender, and unsettling, Bright Boys is a meditation on grace, longing, and the strangers who change us forever.

A bride, a groom, and the man she cannot forget. On the morning of a country wedding, old desires and older grievances awaken, pulling two lovers toward a fate written long before they were born.

Created for a small ensemble, this adaptation transforms Lorca's poetic tragedy into a visceral chamber piece where actors, music, and movement conjure an entire world. Expansive in imagination yet intimate in scale, it embraces both the earthy realism and haunting surrealism of the original, culminating in one of the theatre's most devastating finales.

Hedda Gabler returns from her honeymoon already restless and trapped by the respectable life she has chosen with the scholar Tesman.

When her former admirer Ejlert Løvborg reappears, Hedda begins manipulating those around her in a dangerous attempt to exert power and escape boredom.

This chamber adaptation tightens Ibsen's masterpiece into an intimate pressure cooker, streamlining the action, removing the servant Berta, and placing Hedda's psychological games at the center of an increasingly volatile household that hurtles toward scandal, destruction, and her own shocking end.

A young writer, Konstantin, stages an experimental play and longs for the love of Nina, who instead becomes fascinated by the celebrated novelist Trigorin.

As ambitions, artistic ideals, and romantic desires collide, the characters struggle with disappointment, jealousy, and the gap between dreams and reality.

Years later, failed hopes and unrequited love culminate in a quiet tragedy, while life goes on largely unchanged for everyone else.

A modern, loose adaptation of Ibsen's Enemy of the People set in West Texas. Tom, an intrepid urban planner, suspects that a new city-sponsored hot springs project may be more dangerous than the local government is willing to admit. But when Tom speaks out against the project, he is met with resistance from several unexpected sources. The divide between right and wrong proves to be anything but black and white, and Tom finds himself risking everything for a town that doesn’t seem to want his help.

"It screams. It provokes. It maddens. It antagonizes." TheatreJones

"Enemies/People is the perfect pinch of sizzle needed to amp up your already hot summer." Selig Film News

The Necessities, set in East Texas, explores the universal and sometimes devastating search for connection. Debbie, a woman desperate to escape her past and make a new start, meets Peter, a former minister looking to do the same. They strike up a friendship that quickly grows into something more. But Debbie also meets Carly, a single mom and Reiki therapist. And Peter meets Ward, Carly’s 17 year-old son, who thinks there’s a wormhole on the edge of the town that can transport him to another time and place. As Debbie and Carly become closer, so do Peter and Ward. But the center can’t hold, at least not in a town like this, and soon everyone will decide how much they are willing to give to get what they need.

Esther's quiet Brighton Beach existence is upended when a mysterious woman arrives at her door. It seems Esther's sister, Laila, has been kidnapped by a dybbuk, who's taking people's stories. Soon Esther is on her way to Japan to do battle with the dybbuk and her past. And she's going to bring Laila home, no matter the cost.

Based loosely on an actual event, This Sweet Affliction tells the story of Anna, a 17 year old girl stuck in a tiny town in Texas. With a mother that works 80 hours a week and a best friend who has defected to the "popular girls, " Anna longs for a way to be seen - to be noticed. When her one chance at getting out and moving on is dashed, , Anna decides to fake a mysterious illness, a choice that brings her much wanted attention at first, but soon spins dangerously out of control. As her friends, family, and her own body turn against her, Anna is forced to ask how far she is willing to go to be seen.

Using video, dance, and cheerleading (yes, that's right, cheerleading) This Sweet Affliction creates a face-paced mediated world that investigates our need to be noticed, at any cost.

Workshop, Primary Stages, NYC - DRILLS Festival
Finalist, ATHE Playwriting Award
Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2016

Raised from a young age to believe she is a servant of God, Laura now lives in seclusion with her mother in the middle of nowhere. When Aaron, a journalist who's writing a book about faith healers, arrives to interview Laura, he finds his ideas about faith and belief challenged in ways he never expected.

Lustrous is a 10-minute play about the surprising intimacy that can emerge between strangers. Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, it follows an isolated American whose routine calls to a technical support representative in India evolve into a friendship that quietly reshapes both their understanding of connection. Tender, funny, and deeply humane, the play explores loneliness, technology, and the unexpected ways grace can arrive in ordinary encounters.