Tyler Rivenbark

Nearing the end of his prison sentence, Owen reckons with what it means to return to a hometown he wants to escape and a legacy he can’t outrun. (7th play of 7-play cycle)

Years removed from a fundamentalist Christian group, LuElla still searches for belonging. When strange robocalls from an Apocalyptic pastor coincide with a recurring dream of Jesus, her daughter worries she's falling back into her old ways.

A woman mourns her wife’s death through bird watching while her brother helps hold things together.

In El Campo, Texas, Leon – a former bull riding star who saw his career ended early due to a traumatic brain injury – struggles with his legacy in the face of his son’s burgeoning bull riding career and the return of his childhood friend who became a world champion.

At the start of the Iraq War, an Iraqi family who spends their days watching “Star Academy”, debating Shakespeare, and falling in love sees their world turned upside down when the eldest son is killed by a US Marine. (6th play of cycle.)

Decades after a tragic event divides four high school friends, they are mysteriously summoned to the childhood home of Norma Jean. During a strange weekend of reconnection, confrontation, and drugs, the four old friends reckon with the guilt of their adolescent actions and the residual effects on their lives.

In the summer of 1985 Tyler is born. Less than a year later in the Spring of 1986, his grandfather commits suicide while Tyler waits in the kitchen. In the Spring of 2016 Tyler starts a meta-exploration into the thirty silent years in between.

An allegorical coming-of-age story about a poor teenager named Witness who tries to break out of the generational trauma left behind for him and his misfit group of friends in a rural southern town. Struggling with sex, drugs, and the inevitable truth that they may never make it out, the friends are pushed to the brink over the course of a year.

After the suicide of her ex, Michelle notices the arrival of fireflies at her home. As she reconciles her ex's death, and the raising of their child, Michelle becomes consumed by the fireflies and the potential warning they may bring. (5th play of cycle.)

Navigating broken lawnmowers, a trip to Dollywood and How-to-Grieve pamphlets, Mom and Dad struggle to move forward after their Veteran son’s suicide. A story about coming together, coming apart and finding your way home again. (4th play of cycle.)

Stephen Ajax has awakened in a netherworld inhabited by Gods, Goddesses, puppets, and American Folk music, after committing suicide in his childhood home. Confronted by the Hydra, Ajax is forced to face the consequences of his suicide and determine whether he will do what it takes to return to his former life or embrace who he has now become. (3rd play of cycle.)

Private First-Class Stephen Ajax has recently returned home from Iraq a hero, though he doesn't see it that way. Isolated in the comfort of his childhood home, and growing increasingly more detached from reality, he struggles with the consequences of war. (2nd play of cycle.)

Stephen Ajax has newly enlisted in the Marines on the eve of finding out that his girlfriend, Michelle, is pregnant. After having freshly arrived in Iraq, Ajax receives news that his son has been born. He celebrates the news with his new brothers – all fears momentarily vanquished. But after a harrowing encounter sends him into a fugue state he is forced to redefine who he is. (1st play of cycle.)

Fleeing political persecution, Lamumba arrives at JFK International Airport and is immediately detained. While held at the Wackenhut Detention Center in Queens, Lamumba is thrust into a world of violence he thought he had escaped.

In the 1950s, Louis Armstrong is one of the most famous musicians in the world. But at home in Corona, Queens, he struggles with his legacy and civil rights as a secret threatens his marriage. Horn is a complicated and human portrayal of a beloved, but tumultuous man.

A drifter haunted by his religious upbringing searches for redemption throughout impoverished towns. When he meets a mother moonlighting as a prostitute, they both believe there’s a chance they might be saved. But darkness lurks beneath the Magnolia trees and Spanish moss in this Southern Gothic.