Jeremy Llorence

Chantel Chrysanthemum is a lifestyle influencer who is branching into the production of wellness products, an opportunity she is graciously sharing with five of her fans through an exclusive retreat. The fans arrive at a Cleveland strip mall, their agreed upon rendezvous point, only to find that Chantel is not present and the experience isn’t quite what she promised. As Chantel begins to make legally dubious requests through direct messages, her fans who must decide what they're willing to risk for their chance at money, internet fame, and the approval of their favorite social media superstar.

This play was originally commissioned by the Theatre Department at Otterbein University, TJ Gerckens, Chair

Set twenty years in the future, the recent advent of Net Lenses as the primary means of internet access has allowed the internet into virtually every facet of society. This shift in technology brings great benefit and detriment, when anyone with an online presence can appear directly in your field of vision. To further complicate the issue, a newly imposed federal regulation allows law enforcement agencies to disable an entire community’s access to the internet based on how much of a threat they seem to pose.
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In this net-driven and highly political world, Sgt. Donna Lloyd leads a small federal task force dedicated to solving and preventing net crimes. Recently, her team has been aided by a net vigilante known only as Daria. But when a digital death threat toward a US Senator implicates Daria, Lloyd must determine Daria’s true motives before the violence spreads to the real world.

An adaptation of the book of poems by Todd Kaneko, The Dead Wrestler follows Kal Harmon and his father, Gene: two men whose love of pro wrestling is only eclipsed by a growing mutual resentment that began when Kal's mother, Gene's wife, walked out on them almost twenty years ago. Since her disappearance, the two have been searching unsuccessfully for news of her whereabouts, and are on the verge of giving up. But when Kal comes home for Gene's birthday and announces his engagement to a woman Gene has never met, the two are forced to battle their years of built up frustration and their unresolved abandonment issues, all through the lens of their interactions with famous dead wrestlers.

After receiving news of his estranged Uncle Ottie's death, Emile - a Chicago college dropout - must venture down to his family’s home of Natchitoches, Louisiana where he has been placed in charge of carrying out his uncle’s last wishes. Harboring plenty of leftover resentment, Emile is initially hesitant to honor this request, but when he finds himself back in a town he'd much rather forget, Emile is thrown on a journey through the past and present to find out exactly who Ottie was. Will Emile learn to move forward, or suffer the same sad fate as his uncle? Cane River King is an odd comedy that blurs time and reality in search of life and meaning in smalltown Louisiana.

Set in the suburbs of Detroit, Shiawase (幸せ) follows Keith and Cujo, two high school students belonging to a gang of juvenile delinquents known as the Shiawassee Posse. Keith, the Posse's current leader has grown distant from his gang, even going as far as to question its importance and validity while Cujo's pride threatens to lead him down a dark path of violence and cultural misappropriation. But when a seemingly harmless midnight cruise turns deadly, the former best friends must fight to discover what in their small, surburban lives is really worth living for.