Sam Collier

During the summer of 1932, over 20,000 people hopped trains to Washington D.C. and camped out to demand fair pay for veterans of the World War. The legacy of the Bonus Army is written into our laws and culture, but the march has been largely forgotten. As America protests and forgets and protests and forgets, what is carried forward?

Developed through a commission from the 2017-2018 Goodman Playwrights Unit and the 2023 Dogteam Theatre Project Building Summer.

Lena is hiking to a glacier that she visited with her mother many years ago, when she meets a mysterious stranger in the woods. A play about grief, hope, and climate change.

Up in their attic, sisters Josephine and Henrietta create a new sister for their family; she's monstrous and violent and embodies everything they've dreamed of: the rage of children, the fury of girls.

Ruby, Jade, and Cove fall in and out of love with each other as their world crumbles. Plus Ruby and Cove can turn into birds. Plus there's a midnight conversation with an owl. Part myth, part apocalyptic fairy tale, part love story, this is a play about survival, transformation, and hope.

Lailah guides souls through her house to the world of the dead. Lou and Wiley meet up again after ten years. The coywolves run in the night. Silo Tree is a pause on the bridge, a collection of lives in liminal space, and a memory that rolls forward as its surface is blown backward by the wind.

A comedic monologue about doing whatever it takes to get into dentist school.

Stevie and May are time-machine mechanics, just trying to run a respectable shop. But when Bill shows up with a suspicious machine, they have some tough choices to make.

Summer. A Christmas tree farm. A runaway teen crosses paths with a grolar bear, who has just escaped from a zoo.

Four DC teenagers trespass onto the abandoned grounds of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. When Zadie tries to contact the ghost of her great-aunt, she accidentally summons a chorus of muses aching to be set free. Zadie, Max, Daniela, and Amina find themselves grappling not only with their own prejudices and suspicions, but with the complicated and unique history of their shared city.

Gretchen is measuring her wrinkles. Her husband, Josh, is all out of soup. Meanwhile, their ten year old daughter, Lucy, is dyeing. Just a regular day in the life of an ordinary American family.

For thousands of years, the Fates have spun, measured, and cut human lives. But now something is wrong: the golden sheep are sick, the scissors refuse to cut. The Fates come to Earth. Meanwhile, an expert frog biologist has gone missing in the desert, and her daughter sets out to find her.