Dom Martello

There's a hurricane brewing in the Gulf, and Tampa Bay is under evacuation order, and everyone has left but two lonely souls. Guin, grieving and stubborn, refuses to abandon her dead brother's house. Parker, reeling from a disastrous breakup, chooses solitude over safety. They're neighbors who've never met... until now.

As the hurricane barrels toward the coast, winds howl, lights flicker, and walls begin to talk. With nothing but storm shutters and secrets between them, Guin and Parker are forced to confront the ghosts they've been avoiding. This supernatural rom-horror-comedy chronicles the navigation of grief, transness, rage, joy, and the shifting current of American politics.

Gem, a 20-something drummer on the precipice of stardom, returns to their rural hometown for one final gig at their local dive bar before moving out west. After the show turns sour, they escape into a back room where they discover Tim, a 40-something middle school science teacher, reading a novel all alone. The odd pairing seeks connection as they lick each other's wounds. The night becomes darker as each unpacks the power of the past. Ready for Workshop.

PPPKB is a sci-fi farce, reverse Russian Nesting Doll that captures the overconsumption of media that turns our empathy switch off. It's 40 years in the future, where a focus group is reviewing (allegedly AI-generated) reality TV pilots for a production company. The subjects deeply struggle to see eye to eye, almost as if they were selected specifically to create conflict. The shell expands, revealing this setup to be a rogue where not-Nancy-Pelosy is trying to collect data on which issues to run on for her next presidential bid. When Eco-terrorist-aliens storm the focus group and set up a live stream, they demand that the focus group vote on which of them is allowed to live. A third shell expands, revealing an alien-not-Nancy-Pelosy, trying to collect data on whether saving Earth from a climate catastrophe would be popular among her constituents. The play itself is both an experiment and an experience that culminates in a real-life audience QR scan vote <3, determining the characters' very fate. Or does it? Does voting do anything? Has democracy failed? Let’s find out together.

Seeking Development: During an unforgiving Alaskan winter night, a lonely woodsperson, Jack, brings a snowwoman, Freya, to life to keep them company. As Freya becomes surprisingly more human, Jack grapples with what it means to leave her behind once the sun returns to spring.

The stars have disappeared. Kith is, once again, covered in scabs. He goes to do his diagnostic ritual in the empty field - but Rex appears with the flicker of a lamppost, their body is burning for answers. When they ask Kith for help, he sinks into the earth. They then meet a group of strangers brought together by a shared strange sensation. Rhonda - a “lonely spinster” who talks too much, Dougie - a high school wrestler turned banker, and Kelly - Dougie's wife who asked for an open marriage. As they dig into the earth, the scabs on their bodies flare and they discover that the life in the field is dying. To save it, they must confront parts of their past that have bound their biology to this place. biome is a folk fable about found family, queerness in small towns, what it means to be of a place, and when the body knows something that the mind isn't ready to explore.

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It's the night of the apocalypse. Emerson is stuck late working as a receptionist at a beauty laser lab. The CEO stops by to toast his last loyal employee, the two realize they have more in common than either could have imagined. Through these revelations, they grapple with the costs of success and the sacrifices one makes to live authentically. As the final clients arrive, tears in the fabric of reality become so large they can no longer be ignored or stitched back together. Ready for workshop.