It’s 1983, the evening before Dr. Sally Ride’s historic space flight. Hundreds of miles from the launch, a group of women with passionate opinions and no opportunities sit on a sweltering St. Louis rooftop watching life pass them by. Their uncharted desires bump up against American norms of sex and power in this intimate snapshot of queer anti-heroines.

Nineteen-year-old physicists and engineers party in the desert as they build the world's first atomic bomb. (Los Alamos, 1945.)

Ellen is a crisis negotiator. When she takes her work back to her childhood home, conflicts with her injured mother bend and blur with an international hostage situation. In this stark-strange space, what begins as manageable grows to superhuman scope; who controls whom in this house, in this town, in this ocean, on this earth?

A professor on his way from shanghai to San Diego on a Junk Ship in 1939, a jazz musician at the Kentucky Narcotics farm in 1970, a nineteen-year-old heiress and her much-older lover in 2008 Harlem. A sinking-ship, triple-generation haunt-comedy about addiction and identity. Nominated for the Kilroys List of works by women. First Alternate for the Jerome Fellowship. Finalist for the JAW Festival.