Kenzie H. Knapp

Do I look gay enough? Pretty enough for her? Presentable for mom's distorted standards? Margot is discovering herself on the inside and out. Wrestling with late puberty and severe cystic acne is enough, but when she discovers her overbearing mother's journal, transporting her to 1986 to meet her mom at 17, she learns that more than just her acne might be inherited. (This is a work in progress!)

The Green family home has been lived in and loved for generations, and in rainy Ketchikan Alaska, they thought they were prepared to weather any storm. That is until cancer knocks on their door calling for Celeste and Clayton's father, Sterling. Lightening strikes and the kids, their mother, and grandmother grapple with grief in comically different ways: mom numbly dissasociates, Celeste discovers her dad's blog entries, and Clayton entertains his exotic pet mantis shrimp named Bug. As a hole in the ceiling begins to flood their multi-generational home one trickle at a time, secrets are spilled and the dam must break in order to mend the holes. (This is a work in progress!)

A stoner plant whisperer, a high strung med student, and a conspiracy theorist and their cat Cheddar Big Booty Cheeseburger are trapped in their NYC college apartment at the precipice of covid Lockdown. The not-so-white noise of concerning coughs, tik tok brainrot, and "unprecedented" news echoing off brick walls is turned up to eleven. (This is a work in progress!)

In a 2040 vision of the Pacific Northwest, the flow of nature is no longer marked by the seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall, but now the New Seasons of Smog, Acid Rain, Drought, and Fire. The landscapes have changed drastically so that the flora and fauna have adapted to integrate human manufactured infrastructure into their neo-ecosystems.

Because of the extreme scarcity of natural resources it is taboo, and ilegal, to have children, making young people scarce and the youngest person alive, our 12 year old Neo, an anomaly. Those who were already born have been abandoned to face the changing Seasons on their own, including our ragtag team of young teenagers living on the outskirts of New Seattle.

Due to the exponential increase in greenwashing, the New Seasons have been normalized to the point of being celebrated via commercialized holidays, with the most widely celebrated being “Overshoot Day”: when all the Pacific Northwest region’s resources for the year have already been exhausted faster than they can be replenished. This year, and for the first time ever for the Pacific Northwest, Overshoot Day is the first day of the year. Those who are particularly law-abiding by abstaining from having children and celebrating the New Season festivals, are granted access to the last clean and green place on Earth, New Normal City.

This musical is a work in progress.

A sapphic romantic, her radiant and painfully oblivious crush, a dude-bro philosophy major, and an enby bong-ripping super senior count down the new year together at a college party in reverse chronological order.

From the dingy fishtank of "The Stinkin' Crawfish" seafood restaurant in Florida, Midas and Cheddar watch the news of Diana Nyad arriving at Key West beach after her record-breaking long-distance swim from Cuba. They wonder if they will ever be able to escape the confines of their own transparent entanglement while a newborn blood-thirsty pirahna grows more hungry by the minute.

College juniors Bethany and Chandra surprise their best friend Yolanda by taking her to the new coffee shop in town. It's the grand opening of "Miranda's Cafe", the totally hip and nostalgically-ordinary small-town place to be. Or is it so ordinary? All three are in for a surprise when their friendship is put to the test as a mysterious gamemaker with nefarious intentions leads them to believe otherwise.