Lauren Davenport

At a time when Lou is in desperate need of support, she finds a local group of womxn which all are, at present and like her, trying to conceive. Lou expected eventual friendship, maybe some shared Ubers, or at the very least some additions to her sad social calendar, but she definitely didn’t expect any new self-discoveries. Via regular check-ins, they help each other navigate the absurdities, complexities, and deeper meaning behind conception, parenthood, and body autonomy.

Someone’s digging up dead bodies and leaving the valuables behind. In this small German town, the reward doubles every day the criminal isn’t caught. As a distraction and a snare, a purveyor of oddities introduces the newest of domestic luxuries to draw in the interests of his neighbors and to discover the identity of the body thief. Element is a play about the fear of and hunger for knowledge, community, and the unseen.

When the Great Atlantic hurricane of 1944 passed over Cape May, New Jersey, it took more than the roof of Julie’s home. Ruby, a war journalist recently fired from her job in Philadelphia, comes down to help an old… friend. And Frankie loses his emotional mooring when a chance meeting with Erik elicits something other than hate.

Maria is in love with a mysterious person she only knows through vintage chatrooms and her only friend is an AI whose only wish is to understand true intimacy. After eons spent apart, Lucy finally returns to her mother for either forgiveness or revenge. When both of their end-of-the-worlds intersect, Lucy and Maria discover that some of the secrets to this fucked up universe aren’t as far away as they seem – and some are actually within reach.

Theo receives an unannounced check addressed to her dead wife. Beau is in denial about the looming financial disaster of his family farm. And Meredyd just won the lottery. Whether you’re looking for passive income to pay your perpetually climbing bills, to extend your PTO from a burnt out somehow still functioning toxic workplace, or to just do the simple things – to breathe, to think, to dream – the dreamshare offers several pathways to mental and physical wellness. In a closer than you think future, where nanotechnology and AI are only beginning to be regulated, the dreamshare begs the question: how do we value the profound ingenuity and mess of the human mind, and the person attached to it?

Between the warring ghosts of her martyred namesake and dead grandmother, her spoiled brat of a daughter, and an orphan from the town she lost to the Borgias, Caterina Sforza would kill to die of pneumonia in peace. At the end of her days, literally her last hours, Cat’s legacy springs back to life with deadly intent. Because someone comes calling for a how-to guide on poison. And revenge.

A prisoner in her own vacation home, a young Mary Shelley treads the waters of inspiration and originality while among the summer company of her melancholic husband, demanding newborn, scandal-prone literary colleague, and the ever-haunting ghosts of her own jealousy, anger, and insecurities. The infamous contest of the ghost story is in full sway. And while Mary might resign herself to coming up short, her inner demons spark something that will either transcend or devour all in its wake.

Sea-sick and heart heavy with lingering grief, Janet Stewart – Lady Fleming, and governess to a young Mary, Queen of Scots – contemplates all the unladylike things that make a lady, and what awaits her in France. If they ever leave.

Charon, the ferryman of Hades, is in desperate need of a break. You just happen to be next in line for passage into the Afterlife. Your afterlife, to be exact. This is a solo performance piece that uses the lens of the Ancient Greeks to consider the hardships of essential work. How you choose to compensate Charon for your own passage will determine where you end up.

Mags comes home to her sick wife, Elise, after quitting another day job. Elise tries and fails to keep her online hobby a secret from Mags when she gets a surprise update years in the making. Mags reveals that Elise’s secret wasn’t so secret after all, and that she took advantage of Elise in one of the worst ways.

In the middle of the night, a murderer enters a church looking for forgiveness and ends up granting absolution to someone forgotten by his country. Two children of two different points in Irish history converge along separate paths of grief to better understand their respective desires for blood and acceptance.

Two friends meet at a coffee shop and exchange notes over drinks. They’re both aspiring writers with crazy schedules. And it’s been a while.

If you had the opportunity to meet the dueling forces behind your everyday decisions and actions, what would you say? More importantly, whose side would you choose if it were the last decision you ever had to make?

An interrupted rooftop smoke, some star-gazing, and a trampoline bring two Halloween party-goers together.