Drew Paryzer

In an abandoned classroom, a Teacher and Pupil meet once a week to practice a disappearing skill: interacting with another person. A psychological drama about a world saturated with optimized AI relationships, and what happens when two people dare to be inconvenient to each other.

After a long absence, Loverboy finally returns: to his childhood home, and his Mom. As they work to maintain an unexpected new business enterprise, the stampeding strangeness of Loverboy’s internal life threatens to irrevocably separate them. Loverboy is an ode to the bond between parent and child, an examination of belonging in the sharing-economy era, and a two-hander for approximately fifty-two performers.

A “playable play” that uses audience-interactive VR to help tell the coming-of-age story of a grandchild of Holocaust survivors.

Reed and Amber are teetering on the verge of financial solvency, sanity, and marriage. As the big day approaches, their stressors are compounded when Reed loses something important: Amber’s name. Engagement Play is a surreal love story about fractured Millennial aspirations, runaway coping mechanisms, and secondhand goods.

Debbie is ten. Debbie needs her father Leslie, and Leslie needs to drink. Debbie opens a book – Alice in Wonderland – and what she hears in her head is someone reading the tragedy of her own life back to her. Can Debbie become her own author? A phantasmagorical drama set in 1960s Washington State, Swallow The Reader explores what it means to hold tight to the love you’re given – over the cracks of custody battles, across borders, and down the rabbit hole of a runaway imagination.

Early hominids and late capitalists misunderstand each other, 500 billion chicken souls possess a series of tech-bros, dog breeders battle disappointment, patterns are misinterpreted, and an ancient fishing hook catches a high-minded tweeter. Spiral is a maelstrom of vignettes that tosses the dirty debris of our Holocene fixations every which way.

Hey. Let me buy you a drink. I liked your profile. I think I’m into you. Wait – what era of human history are you from? Did we meet before in different eras? How many layers of yourself are you wearing? Do I actually wanna know what’s underneath all of that?

A short play about the exhausting act of falling in love.

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