Lori Fischer

Greener Pastures is a Golden Girls meets The Odd Couple crowd-pleasing comedy. Maxine a wise-cracking, curmudgeonly senior citizen at Greener Pastures Retirement Center's life is upended when the administrator mistakenly allows Dorothy, a 48 year-old, to move in and become Maxine's roommate. Dorothy, who's been a singing sandwich on the children's show Lunchtime with Munchkins for thirty years is ready to throw in the towel and retire. Guaranteed laughs ensue in this battle of wills and wits.

The Sparkley Clean Funeral Singers” (by Lori Fischer and Don Chaffer) is a four-character musical comedy about a quirky country singing duo who lost their recording contract when the lead singing alcoholic sister crashed their tour bus into a pet store, sending many a goldfish to an early fish tank heaven. Now, the back-up singing sister, Junie, has gotten them a gig as funeral singers with the hope that this unexpected career move will jump start their musical come-back. The problem is, Lashley, the just out of rehab lead singer, does her best singing drunk. Set in small town Tennessee, it’s a comedy about two disparate sisters, who sing funeral songs that are tailor made for each dead person. The two sisters along with the compulsive gambling Pastor Phil and their aging father, who is still deeply in love with the mother who left them all long ago, sing blues, roots rock and quirky country tunes.

An anti-social cutter tries to get her agoraphobic mother to help her solve the mystery of her brother's murder. Now, as the 10th Anniversary of the devastating day Petie was murdered approaches, this dysfunctional duo will either find new faith in each other or destroy the little bit of community they have left.

Faced with financial woes, a struggling artist gives up his art to do public relations for an eco-friendly company. When he tries to make a good impression at his new B-CRU Prosperity job by offering a possible solution to some bad press, his dream job becomes a nightmare.

Set in a small town just outside of Nashville, this slice-of-life comedic play with music is a genuine look into the hearts of everyday people. As the proprietor, Barbara Jean, tries to figure out “When is it courageous and when is it just plain crazy to hang on to love,” her customers come in and take a load off by sharing their funny, heartbreaking humanity. There’s Miss Morris a nurse who’s planning a Pyramid prayer-time, Miss Tessie, a senior citizen who’s gonna make you laugh and steal your heart, a Tupperware brandishing, plate-dropping waitress named Jeanette, Lombardo—a country-singing hairdresser, Tommy Lee, who is recovering from a dog-bite and Melissa a mixed-up Mother of three. Throughout it all, the wacky DJ from WATR, the local radio station, breaks in with local news, commercials about baldness and whole slew of quirky, unforgettable toe-tapping songs.

As she deals with the death of her opioid addicted father, Cinema Chakra, a talent-free woman who is obsessed with becoming famous, applies to various reality tv shows. As she does so, her own life takes on a bigger than life comic twist when her relationship fails and her ex-con, compulsively lying mother moves in without her consent.

Inspired by survivors of the true story of Dr. Walter Freeman a man who performed over 3,500 trans-orbital lobotomies in the United States, The Memory of Damage tracks the journey of one patient, Pearl Wayne, as she searches to find out why she was given the procedure that has left her without any ability to feel. In a parallel story, the ghost of Dr. Freeman embarks on a cross-country mission to prove he was on the right side of history.