Anna Tatelman

Life on the Moon is a socio-political family drama about Spencer, a young infantryman in the U.S. army, returning home for Christmas to visit his parents and Piper, his eighteen-year-old sister with autism. As Spencer and his parents struggle to celebrate the holiday, it’s Piper who notices what everyone else misses, but is unable to communicate her observations or frustrations.

Dive into a bold reimagining of Shakespeare's most controversial play, adapted as a musical for the first time.

Inspired by the Shakespearean play, Merchant of Venice: The Musical takes place in 16th-century Venice. It's about Antonio, a merchant, and his friend Bassanio, a man who wishes to woo an heiress named Portia. To help Bassanio impress Portia with a display of wealth, Antonio makes a deal with Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, despite his distrust of the Jewish population. When Antonio is unable to pay back his loan, Shylock decides that it's time to mistreat Antonio in the same way both he and his people have been mistreated for years.

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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has shocked, intrigued, and troubled audiences for over four centuries. This adaptation intends to re-examine the controversial content found in the play through a modern lens. That means Merchant of Venice: The Musical directly engages with racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia, and classism. By tackling this uncomfortable material with intention, we hope to illuminate the ways in which these challenging themes still haunt us today.

Attention Must Be Paid is inspired by the true history of dramatist Arthur Miller. This script is about the relationships between Miller, his wife and photojournalist Inge Morath, and their son Daniel. Daniel was born with Down Syndrome. His parents institutionalized him shortly after his birth and kept him a secret their entire lives. My non-narrative, experimental play exposes both the causes that led to this decision and its lasting reverberations.

"Parallel Ambitions" explores an alternate universe in which characters from two different Shakespearean texts collide. Separately, Lady Macbeth and Hamlet were foiled in their plans, but perhaps together, they can achieve a different end . . .

Three ghosts pay a visit to the housing developer who built on their cemetery.

A ten-minute play about a meeting of Villains Anonymous that does not go as planned.

The Big Bad Wolf gives a motivational speech at a convention of villains.

Bear Baiting is a ten-minute play about two childhood friends, Steve and Dylan, who are now in their mid-30s. Dylan semi-recently came out as gay to Steve and started subsequently not wanting to do most of the things they’d done together since they were teenagers, like going hunting. The play begins when Steve arrives on Dylan’s doorstep, ostensibly to say good-bye to Dylan before Dylan moves across the country with his boyfriend.

This one-act play is an experimental work about the friendship between Humpty Dumpty and Snowarora Bellerielle Rapunzella. It reinterprets classic fairy tales through the lenses of modern feminism, the supposed aesthetics of violence, and the beauty industry.

We Forget To Remember is an experimental, full-length play about three famous women from Greek mythology: Cassanda, Penelope, and Clytemnestra. They are stuck in purgatory together. Part of their punishment is to continually re-enact moments from their lives. The Toilet, who also embodies the various Greek gods, oversees them and ensures they live out their eternal punishment.

A monologue from the perspective of an irate Christmas tree.

A short "guess who's coming to dinner" play in which a mother sets up her adult daughter on a date without consulting her first.

Iphigenia Rules GreciPark is an immersive theatre piece that gives a modern, dystopian twist to Greek mythology. In the original mythology, Iphigenia is a girl who is sacrificed to the gods so that King Agamemnon, her father, can sail away with his army to go win the Trojan War. In this revisioning, Greece has become GreciPark, a nation that typically keeps its citizens peaceful through vicarious forms of violence. These citizens, however, have begun to thirst once more for real acts of cruelty and pain, namely in the form of murdering their leader's daughter.

A dark comedy in which a zombie has an existential crisis.

Two people who have connected via online dating meet in person for the first time.

A work of theatrical realism that begins with Eileen and Gabriel receiving prenatal test results that say their child will likely have Down Syndrome. Gabriel wants to keep the child. Eileen doesn’t. This disagreement gradually brings to light not only their personal differences, but what they perceive as their moral differences, too. They argue frequently with one another and their imaginary friends (Helen Keller, the renowned disability-rights advocate, and Rose Williams, the sister of Tennessee Williams, respectively).

A ten minute play about the waning goddess Styx, the artist keeping her alive, and Jesus Christ's Pyrrhic kindness.