Laura Zlatos

Charged with espionage and high treason, Milada Horáková stands trial against the communist regime in one of the largest show trials in Eastern Europe. Using transcripts from the 1950 proceedings, Show Trial satirizes Stalin-era show trials, dramatizes the propaganda machine in communist Czechoslovakia, and settles the centuries-long debate about how to style a mustache.

In a small city in Northern California, blue whales mysteriously beach themselves and a teenage girl receives a DM from a man inviting her to play an online game. Her sister joins in and the two are taken on an ominous journey from which they can’t escape. Inspired by real events, as each day passes, the sisters complete another task in the deadly game while their marine biologist parents struggle to rescue the stranded whales.

The Even More Lamentable Tragedy of Lavinia retells Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus from Lavinia's perspective. Set in the present day, reminiscent of the late Roman Empire if the late Roman Empire had Twitter, this dark comedy reimagines Lavinia's experience of womanhood in a neo-Swiftian society (Taylor, not Jonathan) as Lavinia becomes a bad-ass vigilante who avenges the crimes committed against her, all while attempting to take the perfect selfie.

Newlyweds Darren and Janet want nothing more than to build the perfect life together. But when Janet gives birth to a baby with both male and female genitalia, their small world is turned upside down as they struggle to make an important decision, all while competing with the perfect couple next door and dealing with a misunderstood family dog.

A scientist gets fed up with 200+ years of male presidents and decides to move to Jupiter, which she's convinced is run by an empress in a stylish cape. But her friends and family will do almost anything to keep her on planet Earth. Loosely adapted from Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, The Empress of Jupiter turns the fifth planet from the sun into a feminist oasis.

The Patterson family lives in a world where everyone gets straight A’s and the meatloaf is never overcooked. But after witnessing a mysterious murder in a world seemingly void of crime, Paul, Peg, Patty and Peter Patterson realize that nothing is what it seems. When teenagers Patty and Peter begin to question the world around them, their family finds itself the target of a militant group called the Green Suits who enforce order at all costs.

A Problem with the Pattersons, written with composer/lyricist Andre Catrini, examines what it means to challenge expectations and question notions of normalcy. This musical comedy continuously plays out of turn, exposing power structures imbedded in our public and private lives.

Ned is normal guy. But when his world is turned upside down by news of an unknown, incurable, fatal disease, he questions the very meaning of life. After an impulsive marriage and a haphazard suicide attempt that he forgoes for a slice of cake, Ned climbs inside a refrigerator to solve one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe. Plagued by his impending, sometime, eventual death, Ned tumbles down an existential staircase that leaves us wondering: Does the light go off in the refrigerator when you shut the door?

After the fall of communism and weeks before Czechoslovakia's first free election in 44 years, a playwright and an actor debate who would make a better President. Based on the real story of Václav Havel's rise to power.

Things I Never Learned in Physics details an entire relationship over fifty years in ten minutes.

A young girl disappears and within the few short hours she has to live, a group of friends and strangers discuss murder, masturbation and Starbucks.

Inspired by the life and work of photographer Francesca Woodman, Exposure investigates the many frameworks that define our cultural conceptions of “the artist.”