Maggie Kearnan

Willa is moving into an empty room in Lucy and Nell’s Boston apartment. Lucy is watching a horror movie on repeat to write an article about conquering fear, Nell is reeling from the news of her ex’s death, and Willa is apprenticing a sea witch who keeps the ocean from warming. With Willa’s arrival the walls of the apartment and Lucy and Nell’s friendship come tumbling down to make room for nature, revealing the ghosts inside. When Willa learns that it's her time to take over in the battle against climate change, Lucy and Nell are forced to put their tensions aside to join her and expel some ghosts in the process.

The second play in The Paint Cycle.
Emily is the paint charge. Jess is her quietly spiraling, recently unemployed bestie, and Liv is a student who needed a summer job. They are painting the set for a regional theater. They haven't read the play, but there's an unsettling Sculpture set piece looming over them as they work, gossip, debate the realities of womanhood, and try to ignore the heightening protest for wealthy equity right outside. To quiet the chaos, Emily turns to work, Liv turns to revolution, and Jess turns to her newfound fascination with the artistic process and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Will they get the job done by the time the week is up, and does any of it really matter if the world is ending?

At the Talkeetna Ranger Station in Alaska, avid hiker Marla is preparing to climb Denali. But as she collects her "poop bucket" and heads towards the shuttle to base camp, her mother arrives to put a stop the dangerous adventure.

A throne of red Solo cups, a pile of teeth, the ghost of Pete Seeger, and a little something for dinner. It’s a parallel now, and it’s illegal to be a billionaire. Jeffrey Bezos has agreed to give an interview in exchange for information on the federal case against him. But there’s something off about journalist Cherry Beaumont, a crowd is forming outside, and the onstage Fact Checker has a few important clarifications to make. The fall of capitalism is about to get very messy.

Hollow and Percy Newbury’s mother has kidnapped them to celebrate The Plume, the annual arrival of a traveling mile-long noxious cloud of consolidated pollutants. The Newbury’s hermetically sealed Boston brownstone is the safest place on Earth to wait out the deadly man-made weather system and celebrate the morbid holiday traditions around it. This year, The Plume is no longer a threat, but if Virginia Newbury knew that, she would undoubtedly interfere with her children's lives outside. Hollow and Percy agree to keep the truth from their sheltered mother, but the ghosts in their home really think it's time the members of this family started being honest with each other.

When a mysterious new midwife comes to town, a group of women think she might have solutions for more than just childbirth. She might also have something to solve an epidemic of cruel men. Like Flies is a witchy thriller with movement, sound, murder, secrets, and an ensemble of women claiming the freedom they are due.

Loosely inspired by the true events of the Angelmakers of Nagyrev.

A nightly meeting
a crawl space
a pig with no name
rusty hedge trimmers
and a landline in the kitchen.

Six young people tell the story of their shared experience at a secluded house where they set out on a social experiment. Maybe they’ll make the world a better place. Maybe they’ll find themselves along the way. Maybe if they tell the story right, they won’t have to tell it again.

The first play in The Paint Cycle.
Sydney is returning to work as a professional scenic artist after giving birth to her first child and battling with postpartum depressive disorder. She’s painting the set for an adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. When Sydney reveals to lead actress Alexandra the racist nature of Gilman’s other essays, she throws the fate of the production into the air. Gilman’s words ring in their ears, as Sydney struggles to complete the project through anxiety attacks, and Alexandra grapples with the ethics of celebrating a problematic writer.

Idawalley Lewis could finally be named the keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse, or she could lose the post forever. Famed in Newport, Rhode Island for her numerous rescues, Ida maintains the light and her composure. She and her siblings face grief, ghosts from their past, what the changing times mean for their future, and what sacrifices must be made to get the work done and keep the family together.

Cat is a bad mom and a bad friend. So bad, her teenage daughter Sophie, recently diagnosed with autism, has been placed in foster care with Cat's best friend Ari. Alexa the Amazon Assistant throws in her two cents, and Sophie faces difficult social situations at school head-on. As Cat and Ari unpack their baggage, they debate Sophie's future and their own relationships to motherhood.

It is Meghan’s monthly visit to her mother in prison. Meghan reveals her concerns about a creepy driving instructor and the two grapple with how Stacy can help her daughter despite being locked up.

The wealthy and mysterious M arrives at her spacious and secluded lake house with her young assistant Joseline in tow, and two offstage "watchers" staying in the guest house. Neither knows how long they will be there, and as Joseline vies for answers a power-play unfolds. It becomes less and less clear whether the two women are friends or foes, how, when, or if they will ever leave the house, and who will have the final say.

Co-Written with Taylor Buehler

After graduate school, Sam’s life is both settling down and also very busy. He and his partner Lori have just moved in together in a new apartment. Lori is in the middle of nursing school, while Sam begins his first year as the drama teacher at his high school, following in the footsteps of his friend and mentor, Patti. Working with a small group of students on a devised piece of theater, Sam’s understanding of student/teacher boundaries is soon tested when teenage Kate comes to him for advice on their gender journey. As Sam grapples with his responsibilities as an educator, personal tragedy brings his world to a halt. When Lori is killed in an accident, Sam must recover and reassess with help from his mentors as well as his students.

A nightly meeting
a crawl space
a pig with no name
rusty hedge trimmers
and a landline in the kitchen.

Six young people tell the story of their shared experience at a secluded house where they set out on a social experiment. Maybe they’ll make the world a better place. Maybe they’ll find themselves along the way. Maybe if they tell the story right, they won’t have to tell it again.

Mary's work in her garden is interrupted by a visit from a stranger who reminds her of her late husband.

Carrie, a 20-something, offers a proposition to her office crush with a flash drive containing a collection of digital files representing her.

Fearing that she may one day die suddenly, Abbie shares and explains a box of her personal writing with her mother, just in case.

August and Zeph are alone in a windowless room, walking on treadmills all day every day generating auxiliary power to the 1,000 foot windmill that powers the city. They are criminals and that is their sentence. They've been there so long they are losing vocabulary. But what would happen if they stopped?