Kait Hickey

At the sidelines of a 3-year-old’s soccer game In Scottsdale, two sets of parents and an uncle conduct a far more competitive sport. As the kids chase a ball with blissful incompetence, the adults circle uglier ideas: that safety and success are stories told to keep terror at bay (and nobody here is winning).

In this tragic-comic grief play, type A daughter Shannon’s preparations for her mother Michelle’s medically assisted suicide rub salt in type B daughter Kat’s mental health wounds as the family’s conflicting perceptions of the validity of choices around death force them to confront long avoided traumas.

How To Hot-Wire A Lamppost is a darkly comic meta-satire set in an audition room for a Broadway play. As professional power games collide with personal history, the lines being read begin to uncannily mirror reality, the boundary between performance and reality collapses. By turns hilarious and unnerving, part acid trip and part showdown, the play skewers the American Theatre machine.

Rich and Tammy are a micro-influencer power couple whose identity depends on appearing effortlessly aspirational—including caring for their son, who’s rapidly evolving into a pint-sized domestic terrorist. When a long-simmering family showdown is accidentally live-streamed, their followers get a front-row seat to the collapse of their brand, and the school demands an emergency parent-teacher conference to discuss “behavioral concerns.” A dark comedy about curated personas, parental delusion, and the horrifying moment everyone realizes the algorithm has better instincts than they do.

1910—Montmartre, where genius and narcissism share a loft. Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Jacques Villon, three artists so inseparable they can’t stand each other, spend their days drinking bad wine, declaring themselves revolutionaries, and engaging in the kind of petty creative brinkmanship that leaves everyone convinced they’ve changed the world. In a petty act of competitive creative one-up-manship, they invent cubism. This docu-drama explores the artistic process of challenging the monolith of taste all while getting shouted down in the process. It’s an autopsy of artistic genius, male ego, and innovation.

A reimagining of the movie starring Molly Shannon as socially awkward orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher- a delusional, horny, Catholic schoolgirl who has a dream: to be kissed. She decides she can realize this dream if she wins her school’s talent contest. With help from her fellow special-ed classmates, her grandma, and Jesus she embraces her uniqueness and pursues her dream against the odds. With all original music inspired by 90’s pop/synth/r&b, this reimagining honors Molly Shannon’s body of work as Mary Katherine Gallagher in both the SNL sketches and the film.

In a dystopian future of extreme scarcity, the 1% have become the .0001%, hoarding even the chance at fresh vegetables. The ultra-elite gather at The Turnips. Rahm wins his third Turnip for a four-hour ASMR skincare “film.” In a culture numbed by looping, tranquil content, his oblivious narcissism passes for genius. His wife Anita, a haze of good intentions and curated innocence, decides to “help” the suffering masses below their floating luxury complex. She enlists their maid, Betsey, to craft an inspirational video that requires nothing of Anita herself. But when it goes public, Anita’s hollow benevolence rings false, and Betsey’s authenticity steals the spotlight. As the Manks’ status begins to crumble, the play skewers elite charity and asks: when the powerful claim to save the powerless, who’s really being served?

A musical about addiction.

When the Catholic Diocese of Paterson, NJ needs to appoint a new bishop, the cloistered nuns of the Joy Spring Monastery are once again ignored. As the men barricade themselves in the chapel and treat it like a papal conclave (complete with a ramshackle stove-pipe), the nuns smoke contraband Pall Malls and scratch the itch of cosmic irritation. A dark comedy about faith, obedience and what happens when silent caretakers reach their limit.

It’s summer of 2005 at the Soul-Teen Church Camp, where Youth Pastors weild their alleged proximity to the divine like a multitool for discipline, self-importance, and the occasional moral loophole. That is until, one camper poses a simple, inconvenient question. Rock Out With Your Cross Out uses jet-black comedy to pick apart the machinery of obedience and shame, exposing how when ordinary young men are given the power to dictate how young people feel about themselves, they often use their “closeness to God” along with church teaching as a way to normalize abuse through obedience and control.

On a broken-down bus outside of Victorville California, a disgruntled bus driver and his ragtag group of passengers—each clinging to some flimsy personal narrative— attempt to entertain themselves as they wait for a replacement in the heat of the desert. What begins as small talk meant to stave off heatstroke mutates into a series of pointed cross-interrogations, accidental confessions, and petty ideological turf wars. As each traveler justifies their “urgent” need to get to Los Angeles, the group collectively peels back its own layers of entitlement, delusion, and low-grade moral rot—turning a simple delay into a slow-boil social autopsy.