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Jack is a small-town man who’s spent the last 30 years working as a bookmark string threader. But when his company sends him to the Big Apple to attend the annual textile conference, he realizes this might be his only chance to live out his hidden fantasy.

In A Warm Winter Solstice Arlene has invited her strait-laced conservative brother Brad to attend her annual Winter Solstice celebration. However the unfamiliar customs and years of estrangement and lingering sibling issues soon prove too much for Brad to handle. But when he accidentally sets a rug on fire and nearly burns down Arlene's apartment things really start to heat up in this comic holiday play about family, friends, and what's really important.

Magnolia and Pine unites former presidents John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln with rock icon John Lennon in a spiritual adventure that reveals the truth about all of their assassinations along the way. Tasked with asking another person to make the same selfish decision they did, the historical trio weights the measure of a life verse the needs of the many.

A group of Jack The Ripper enthusiasts have resurrected the fabled 1890s Chicago Society Club devoted to London's infamous serial killer. When Herman, Chicago’s deputy mayor, attempts to join the group, it’s revealed that his initiation duties include the murder of a famous actress. When the members bring the kidnapped star before him, Herman must decide if a seat in the secret society is worth the life of a star.

In Arthur Vs The Dragon join noble King Arthur, his powerful Queen Gwenevere, the legendary knight Sir. Lancelot, and the master of magic Merlin on their quest to kill the king of the dragons. But when the famous foursome are faced with a series of setbacks the masks fall off and their true personalities emerge in this comic send up of the mythical heroes of Camelot.

In the week before Christmas, five female teenage patients in a psychiatric ward in Nashville,
Tennessee are faced with a series of events that leaves them questioning the core of who they are and what they are capable of doing.

The Mayor of Anderson, South Carolina is in the political fight of his life when a sexual harassment scandal breaks in the middle of his reelection campaign. So why did the state Governor just offer to make him a US Senator?

Graceless is set in August of 2005 and explores relationships through a political lens. Aaron Berniger, the Mayor of Anderson, South Carolina is in the political fight of his life when a sexual harassment scandal breaks in the middle of his reelection campaign. So why did the Governor just offer to make him a US Senator? As Aaron's professional career falls apart, he turns to three powerful female characters from his personal life: his wife, his sister, and his first love, now the Governor. But will their combined efforts improve the situation or leave Aaron more fractured?

Farewell To Sanity And Other Irrational Constructs (Or I’m Not Crazy, But My Shrink Thinks I Am), is a dark dramatic comedy centered on Dr. Paul Henley’s psychiatric practice. Among his more noteworthy patients are Levi Jakobson, a compulsive and generally unhinged man who recently became a Tibetan Buddhist; Leslie Jade, a mute high school girl who only communicates via an iPad; Alan Taymor, a member of the real-life superhero movement; and Laurence Williams, a foul-mouthed clown who was referred to Henley by the court system. Throughout the course of the play, the burnt-out Dr. Henley manages to offend most of his patients, his overly supportive secretary, and his on-leave-from-the-Navy girlfriend. But it's not until Henley is confronted with the ghost of Tom Haskins, a whaling ship captain from the 1800s who claims Henley is his reincarnated spirit, that he starts to question his sanity. Tasked by Haskins to set the cosmic scales right for the mistakes he made in August of 1863, Henley embarks on an insane adventure that could cost him his license to practice, his sanity, and his life.

MY FATHER'S ASHES: THE SISTERS PLAY is a dramatic play that explores the issues of love, grief, and family. On the one-year anniversary of their father's death, three sisters return to their childhood home to scatter his ashes. But a brutal winter snow, their judgmental mother, and years of unresolved baggage threaten to derail the memorial before it even begins. As secrets and insecurities are exposed at every turn, can these three sisters overcome their sibling dynamic long enough to mourn their father? Or will the night leave their relationships so fractured that they can never go home again?

Killing Time is a dark comedy about life, death, and the afterlife.

A prostitute and a botanist are stuck in a room that they can't escape.

An aging cop and a Trekkie form an unlikely bond in the back of a bus. Bodies are piling up on Conner beach on Long Island, and there's a serial killer on the loose.

This is the story of how these threads converge to challenge the audience's beliefs and perceptions, in a way that engages them directly in the big questions about life and death.

William Shakespeare's most iconic characters as high school students and teachers... in 1987.

A Reality TV film crew sits down with Adam (a surfer), Eve (a baker), Cain (a convict doing time), and God (creator of the known universe and a natural showman) to learn the truth about what really happened in the Garden of Eden. As the four characters contradict, insult, and revel each other’s secrets, the audience is left to decide what’s fact and what’s fiction. This comic exploration of the Christian biblical story of creation is filled with humor, strong characters, and all the things you love to hate about Reality TV docudramas.

In Small Group we join the Asgardian gods Thor (Thunder) and Kvasir (Wisdom), Gwenevere (the burnt-out Queen of Camelot), and Eve (the lady who bit the apple), as they try to work through a plethora of personal issues in a group therapy session in the afterlife. Reflecting on the mistakes and regrets of their past lives gives them little comfort, but when the Facilitator leading the session offers them a chance at redemption will they take it or find the price too high?

A tongue and cheek ten-minute Christmas play. Playlist To Have A Crisis To opens with Alexis, a teenage girl home alone, standing over the bloody body of a burglar she just attacked. She’s distraught, feeling unsafe, and afraid she may have killed the man. And to make matters worse, the burglar may be Santa Claus. As Alexis, joined on the phone by her BFF Tanya, tries to work out the burglar’s true identity; they make a decision that will affect all mankind.

The criminal mastermind Dr. Mischief is using his dastardly Linguistic Reversal Ray to force the townspeople to speak French while he robs the banks! Sacre Bleu! What a predicament! Enter local superhero Captain Courage and his spunky sidekick, Devin, aka The Human Shield. They’re determined to save their town from Dr. Mischief’s nefarious evil plan and restore the English vernacular (at least the watered downed American version, not the proper British form). The only problem is: Captain Courage seems to have misplaced his bravery and his lucky blankie. Can Devin help him find them both in enough time to stop the great language transformation? Or will the townspeople be stuck saying oui oui for the rest of their lives? Join our heroes as they navigate the highs and lows of the superhero trade in this ten-minute family friendly comedy that braves to ask the difficult questions like: if Captain Courage has invulnerable skin, why does The Human Shield always go first?

A stock broker enraged that Pluto’s no longer a planet, a meathead body-builder and vapid student teacher on a date, a stuttering delivery man, a curmudgeonly senior citizen, and a space cadet dressed as Scooby Doo find themselves trapped together in an elevator. With no rescue in sight, tensions rise and personality quirks flair. Can they band together long enough to work out an escape plan or will infighting tear them apart?

What happens when you take the timeless Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night’s Dream and reinterpret it as a musical set in Athens, Georgia in the summer of 1970? In this updated version of the classic comedy, we find a teenage Susan Egeus running away from Athens with her boyfriend, Moses Lysander, in order to avoid marrying Donald Demetruis, the suitor her father has selected for her. But when Donald follows the happy couple into the woods, trailed by his obsessed ex-girlfriend, Deborah, things take an unexpected turn. Confusion and hilarity ensue as the four mortals stumble into the world of the fairies and find their feelings redirected by a magical love flower. Throw in a beatnik poet who gets transformed into a donkey, a group of hippie protestors plotting to crash the mayor’s wedding reception, a deceitful political advisor, and a toe-tapping rock-country-blues musical score, and you have the recipe for one fun night of theater.