Full-Length: Five years after the election of an authoritarian president, a young queer woman, Mel, leaves New York City and returns to her hometown of Geneva, NY, to recover from a traumatic experience: her trans girlfriend has been forcibly committed to the anti-LGBT Institute for Safe Families. At home, Mel finds her mother rehearsing politically subversive plays with her community theater group in the barn. When the playwright and her mother are arrested for crossing the censors, Mel takes the helm of a dubiously legal theatrical production. In the process she finds herself in a desperate campaign to protect her friends and family and make authentic art. But can you truly escape complicity in a rotten system? (This is the full-length version of the ten-minute play, The Culture Board)