Grace McLeod

It’s Game Night on the Upper West Side! A close-knit group of wealthy, white, liberal parents gathers for their monthly night of friendly competition on the same day that the NYC Department of Education assigns their 5th grade children their lottery numbers for middle school admissions. What was intended to be a relaxing kid-free night turns tense as these "nice white parents" play mind games and board games that prompt them to wrestle with their privilege and principles. Would you work towards the collective good if you felt that the collective good would not benefit you? What is the difference between having privilege and hoarding privilege? TABOO! is an incisive dark comedy about the fear that being a good parent is at odds with being a good progressive.

Furious at the state of the world (and at her venture capitalist dad), 15-year-old Sasha takes her history class project to the extreme by pitching a tent in her family's backyard and inviting her shy classmate Tommy to join her protest and start the Communist Revolution with her. Daughter vs. dad, tent vs. house, communism vs. capitalism: the ultimate showdown ensues in this dark comedy about privilege, power, and how the apple never falls far from the tree.

After graduating from high school, Natalie gets a summer internship working for Jean, a recently-divorced woman in her 70s who has no plans to move into a typical retirement home. Natalie helps Jean and her two best friends design an alternative: a DIY utopia where they can live out the next chapter of their lives. They plot the future together inside Jean’s garage, where relics of Jean’s ex-husband (and his locally famous Bruce Springsteen cover band) still linger. HERLAND is a play about women growing up, growing old, and rocking out to the beat of their own drums.

It’s February 2007 and Lucy’s world is falling apart around her. Her mom Eileen has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, high school isn't what she expected, she can’t ignore her growing feelings for her best friend Alison, and her idol -- a certain world-famous, blonde pop star -- is newly bald and undergoing a very public breakdown. 2007 is a queer coming-of-age comedy about mothers and daughters, what it really means to be a "good" role model, and the crippling pressure to maintain our public selves in times of private crisis.

Annabelle and Max hate each other. But for the next hour, they have to create a video presentation on "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" for their final project of high school. It's May 2020, and the thin line between meaninglessness and meaning, living and surviving, and Zoom and real life is growing thinner by the second. Also, they have a Zoom Prom later. Ew. Tacky.

When Alex gets hired at a Halloween pop-up store in Chicago, she's thrilled to start her gap year with her first real job. As she and her older, jaded co-workers scramble to meet their sales goal and push superhero capes and fake blood on strangers, they each struggle to distinguish the masks they wear from the masks they sell. SCARE ME is a dark comedy about the fear of being yourself, the desire to be somebody else, and the danger of getting attached to something that was always meant to be temporary.

Kat and Sam are sisters. Sometimes best friends. Sometimes enemies. Sometimes acquaintances. Always sisters. “you, too” follows them from early childhood in the 70s through adulthood in the present, chronicling the specific frustrations and joys of sisterhood, aging, and navigating the relationship between our younger selves, older selves, and all the selves in the middle.

Alone in her bedroom, a horny queer teenager journeys deep into her own personal dreamscape in search of satisfaction. A ten-minute play about having your First Orgasm.