Lisi DeHaas

Bright Angel is a ten minute play about a sister and brother who hike into the Grand Canyon to disperse their late mother's ashes. The journey brings them close to losing each other forever, until a mysterious stranger helps them find their way back. The play asks: How do we handle a dead parent? How does shame derail communication and obstruct understanding? How does help appear when you least expect it? How does it feel to reach the other side of a seemingly impassable distance? How does it feel to be safe? How do we know when we’re free?

A mother and son are at a crossroads. She's finally ready to leave the family home. He's pushing fifty and just got engaged. When his fiancée hires a professional organizer to facilitate her future mother-in-law's move, more gets dismantled than just the furniture.

When change feels like the death of everything you’ve ever known, and the thing you know best is fear of change, is letting go even possible?

The Slow Dance is a thoughtful and funny look at family, identity, and the ties that can either bind or smother. A reminder that while life’s big changes can throw us off our rhythm we can learn the steps to a new dance at any age.

What do a failed soap opera star, her co-dependent teenage son, his neurotic twelve-stepping girlfriend, and the pot dealer across the hall have in common? They're each surviving members of families broken by loss. But in New York City, families aren't just broken, they're reconstituted, rebuilt and redefined.


LEAVE ME GREEN investigates the dream of creating our own worlds and families in a city of refugees. It also tests the strength of that dream when our mother or brother or father or lover who first imagined such a world with us is never coming back. When we lose a loved one, do we also lose the family we so richly imagined with them? Or do we remember them better by rebuilding a family from the broken pieces that remain?