Gina Stevensen

At a struggling karate dojo in a small U.S. city, five adults meet each week to learn not only how to punch and kick but how to navigate the world. In charge is the stoic and powerful Martha, who struggles to keep the dojo, and her pupils, afloat. Romance blooms between Summer, a prickly but sensitive brown belt, and Charlie, a timid new student searching for her strength. Ideologies clash at the arrival of the blundering and accidentally toxic Joe, who pulls Sean – a dude reckoning with his capacity for violence – into a perpetual masculinity contest. As each character grapples with the hopes and fears that bring them to the mat, BREAKFALLS asks: how do we stay safe in an unsafe world?

Within the confines of an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, a new generation of women is pushing the boundaries. Esther grew up in a loving and religious household, but she is seventeen now and can feel a larger world outside her own. Will her questioning take her too far to come home?

When Gloria, a middle school health teacher, gets fired after teaching her students about masturbation, she doesn’t know what to do. Until she realizes that the adults around her are nearly as clueless as the kids: there’s Erin, the head of the PTA, newly recruited into the mysterious hulking throes of menopause; Maxine, a math teacher whose partner can’t keep up with her Hummer limo sex drive; and Sharon, a mom with a yoga obsession whose Down-There Parts are lately as dry as her favorite white wine. Understandably, they have questions. And honestly...don’t you?

In 1924 Virginia, a dirt-poor young woman named Carrie Buck is brought to a mysterious medical facility. No one will tell her why she’s here, or where her two-month-old daughter is. The Doctor in charge is a charming progressive, a student of the new science of heredity and genes. In Carrie, he finds the missing link his entire movement has been searching for, placing her at the center of a chain of events that will lead all the way to the Supreme Court. Based on a true story, THE COLONY asks: how does our society, past and present, regulate the bodies of women deemed "undesirable"?

A trophy wife, an ambitious real estate broker, an overseas domestic worker, a college student with Disney theme park aspirations, a wealthy young revolutionary. THE SAND CASTLE utilizes the framework of Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD to explore the 2008 housing and financial crisis, interrogating the deficits of the American Dream.

Dawn and Shelby are twins struggling with popularity and body image. They long to connect with their lonely father, but lately he is only interested in communicating through his food. When a mysterious new teacher comes into their lives, introducing them to a folktale about jealous sisters ending in bloody violence, reality and myth start to blur.