LOGLINE:
Two art lovers fall in love with a painting at a gallery and end up flirting with another patron and the gallery assistant. All doled out in meet cute rom com coincidence fashion, by the end we’re left with a precarious love quadrilateral.

SYNOPSIS:
Carlos and Tara are both indirectly involved with someone in a polyamorous relationship. They became fast friends and enjoy going out to see art together. Carlos takes Tara to a gallery where his friend is showing work. There Carlos has a love at first sight moment with Ti, the gallery assistant. Ti obliges while Tara meets a patron named Janelle who is there to pick up a painting she purchases that Tara is also interested in buying. They get to talking and Tara has her love at first sight moment with Janelle. As it turns out, Janelle is also at the gallery to pick up Ti to go on their first date and after they all talk about the crossfire of their relationships and their interest in the painting, an incident nearby involving a mass shooting brings them closer together.

In a monologue from "Sharon" - Bill tells the story of how clocks have been a vital part of his heritage courtesy of his grandfather.

Logline:
In the midst of a therapeutic breakthrough, a non-binary artist impulse buys a new pet and struggles with trying to find a name for it...

Synopsis:
Ti is asserting their identity as non-binary while dealing with the recent death of their mother. Their mother and Ti never talked openly about Ti’s identity due to different belief systems, and Ti is trying to move on from the lack of closure. After a shopping trip, Ti buys a new pet and begins to contemplate a name for it, bringing to light some underlying issues they’re still dealing with from their mother’s influence.

*Tim is another character from the play Nappy Rabbits

Inspired by the nursery rhyme "Rock-A-Bye Baby" this play tells the story of a mother dealing with the 5 stages of grief as she and her daughter travel to the Poconos to spread her son's ashes.

A Black secret agent of an underground tech organization tasked with preserving/protecting African American Art from further colonization struggles to choose between doing what’s best for love or doing what’s best for the culture.

Logline:
Artists from varying disciplines are kidnapped and trapped in an undisclosed location, their only way out is to create a masterpiece!

Synopsis:
A musician, a poet, a dancer, and a painter have been forced to be individually stuck in a room with only their artist materials. They are connected by a communication device that gives them all solace. We learn that in order to get out of this "game" they must create a masterpiece. And through artistic differences and serendipitous collaboration - they tend to finding new modes of their creative process in order to be released from this mysterious man-made purgatory.

Crystal and Lee are two supporting actors of color with speaking roles working on a film that is being made by a director who is notorious for centering his work around whiteness. They come from two different economic backgrounds, and are both happy to be making their way up the #RepresenationMatters ladder, though Lee is more passionate about the craft than Crystal is. When Crystal gets some good news about another role she booked, she has to find a way to break the news to Lee, who was also in the running.

Phillip, an actor of no color, enters during their lunch break carrying a Chick-fil-la bag and Crystal begins to reprimand him for contributing to a historically homophobic brand. Phillip notices that the other two actors are eating Popeye’s and doles out a hefty rebuttal about the general evil of capitalism and no matter where we spend our money, it will somehow end up in the hands of unsavory men.

They disagree to agree, and then commiserate on the bittersweet fact that chicken sandwiches are delicious. They get called back to set for another take – and Crystal takes a chance to explain to Lee that she got the role that Lee wanted. It does not end well, and the two part ways – leaving their friendship in jeopardy.

"Frankly" is the aftermath of the story about "Frank", a young queer black man, going through recovering from an incident of intimate partner violence.*

He and his bestie Erin, and her boyfriend, are acclimating themselves to therapy and returning to their regularly scheduled social proclivities – but with much more caution than was prevalent before Frank decided to report a rape incident despite the adversity involved with his gender and sexuality in regards to discrimination.

Told with hyper realistic aspects, the therapist is also a reflection of the assailant – and Frank must learn how to navigate the new world ahead of him.

*"Frank" is a two-act play regarding same sex intimate partner violence.

"My Ghost, The Influencer" is a story about connecting old life in the new world. Not a Pandemic Play, but relating to the burgeoning effects of how social media influences the post-covid dating pool - it's comedic horror theatre that takes place on the worst (or possibly best) night of an aspiring influencer's life. A Dance Teacher finds herself in a conundrum when her followers on TikTok notice a ghost inhabiting her old East Village apartment in one of her videos. With the help of a close friend and athlete who's camera shy, she tries to figure out if the entity is real, and at the same time ponders her own reality.

A Queer Black Boy describes his relationship with his deceased father.

Ironically, lockdown offers stay-at-home Rebecca an opportunity to break free of an abusive relationship, when she finds a new nest under the wing of her bestie, Irene, a sassy nurse on the front lines of the pandemic.

An exchange between a queer black actor and a Broadway green room.

Second part of a two-part series: this work was made for specifically for Site Specific - a Quarantine Play Festival presented by Exquisite Corpse Company via ZOOM.

Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" two stories of love in isolation come to light in the darkest of times.

With the constant threat of Japanese bombings in Melbourne in May of 1942, the town goes into brownout. Many of their soldiers are off fighting the war leaving listless American soldiers stationed there with not much to do but look for action.

A well built amicable G.I. with a troubled past by the name of Eddie Leonski has a penchant for drink and is obsessed with the sound of the female voice. Within the span of just over two weeks he murders three women in the attempt to steal their voices.
Being from a broken home of abuse, alcoholism and mental illness, the trauma Leonski
endured is the source of his evil. The ghosts of these women live in a version of purgatory with the mother of Leonski, a medium, coming to visit them - her enteral curse to take care of the three victims as penance for raising a killer.

The tale is told in a nonlinear format, with the town becoming more and more plagued by fear and restlessness with a killer on the loose. When Leonski is finally caught and the war between Australian law and court martial falls in favor of the former, Leonski is hanged and thus reunited with his mother.

The background of the women whose lives were taken away parallel the tales of the tensions between Americans and Australians during this time. A macabre opera transpires exploiting the grief of this wretched time.

A social media influencer starts a new live streaming contest amidst a global pandemic.

Part Three of "Psychic Apparatus"
*See Also: Nappy Rabbits

An actress finds the strength to break free from lockdown courtesy of a global pandemic.

Part One of "Psychic Apparatus"
*See Also: Nappy Rabbits

A pseudo ish autobiographical like memoir onic three act play written by a Black Queer mostly male identified American man.

Three separate but equal circumstances in regards to the casting couch situation.

John and Tim are a director/actor combo who work together a lot and are the muse of each other's work. When a role comes along that piques Tim's interest, John is stuck in a predicament. It turns out the role is designated for a cis woman and the producer of the show (and the theme of the play he's producing) tackles a binary issue of sexual misconduct.

Tim wants to take this opportunity to acknowledge his identity as non-binary and insert underrepresentation into the industry's narrative, but underlying issues involving misogyny fight against the cause.

The Annals of Sharon is a collection of episodic theatre works centered around the antihero, Sharon, a bicoastal, bisexual, fourty-something, polyamorous arts administrator navigating her way through a variety of ordeals involving a motley group of lovers.

In the third episode, “Chair”, Sharon is in the city of her other home, L.A., furniture shopping with her west coast, bisexual ex-husband Carlos (the man who first introduced her to the idea of polyamory). A shoulder to cry on, he is the wise old owl of all of her lovers, but no matter how well he knows his not entirely jilted wife, his love for her is always sparked by her never ending arsenal of surprises.

The Annals of Sharon is a collection of episodic theatre works centered around the antihero, Sharon, a bicoastal, bisexual, fourty-something, polyamorous arts administrator navigating her way through a variety of ordeals involving a motley group of lovers.

In the first episode, “Bed”, she is spending the night in a hotel in an undisclosed location with Bill, a man almost half her age that beseeches her to come to bed and stop working overtime. Throughout the thrill-of-the-hunt cat and mouse game, we learn about Bill’s true desire for Sharon, and that she isn’t the only one good at keeping secrets.

LOGLINE:
Two unsuspecting pawn pieces that are harboring a secret must find a way to escape a dangerous game they’ve been solicited to play by dueling NYC production companies.
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes
SYNOPSIS:
Inspired by the classic short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, this black comedy, satirical horror play tells the story of two powerful cooperate couples from the LGBT community vying for a most heinous albeit coveted prize.

Markus and Holger versus Susan and Marla. All members of a secret society of formidable gays, these two teams have a longstanding camaraderie and rivalry based on capitalistic greed. Constantly wagering their minions against each other (in the arena of the arts of all places), their covert attempts to win it all backfire in the end.

LOGLINE:
When the prized boy of an all-male gay brothel in Berlin disappears just after his going away party, a murder mystery ensueas the place turns into a paranormal rabbit hole.
RUNNING TIME:
120 Minutes
SYNOPSIS:
A modern rendition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Joie is a twisted horror play in two acts that questions the mortality of morality. Set in a timeless time in an all-male gay brothel in Berlin, Joie tells the tale of French Madam Alice who is rendered hysterical by the disappearance of her most prized boy, just hours before he is scheduled to leave Berlin. Part murder mystery and horror show, Joie delves into a bleak yet hilarious montage of metaphysical circumstance, with a disparate group of characters all contributing to unanswered questions regarding life and death.
DESCRIPTION:
Alice is a melodramatic French woman who owns an all-male gay brothel in Berlin along with her stoic German compatriot, Matthias. Together they pander five beautiful boys from various cultural backgrounds. While Alice handles all the aesthetic concerns, Matthias is the rock that controls the business end. At the start of the play, they are throwing a going away party for their prized boy, Robert, who for some reason is spoiled more than the other boys.
When Robert does not return home the next day after the party, the house is thrown into a frenzy and Alice turns the whole affair into a veritable who-done-it. It is quickly learned that other powers are at work regarding the mysterious disappearance of Robert, as another one of the boys follows suit and disappears as well.
The tale continues on with an exposition of the characters’ desires and concerns regarding the craft, and the strange occurrences in the brothel as their rabbit hole soon becomes a living (or dying) nightmare as the truth is exposed.

SCENE AND SETTING:
A Timeless Time, in a Brothel in the city of Berlin, Germany.

[CAN BE ADAPTED TO IMMERSIVE THEATRE]