William Ivers

The coveted Eadburg Art Endowment is about to be awarded to one of three finalists who have three very different artistic visions. Prof. Adley Schwartz has traditional views, Z-Jones believes art is rebellion, while Joy wants her art to scream societal messages. All three find themselves in a museum waiting room while the board makes their final decision. Their divergent views escalate when they realize the lucrative grant will come with demands that may compromise their artistic and moral values.

It’s Spring of her senior year. Maddy Weare a promising young musician destined for Juilliard, is in the hospital having been in a car accident, escaping with only minor injuries. Her boyfriend, however, was not so lucky. As Maddy sleeps in her hospital bed, her divorced parents, Rick and Deb Weare, enter and immediately begin playing the blame game while bullying the young intern, Dr. Hughes, who is merely trying to care for Maddy the best way he knows how.
After Maddy wakes, Rick and Deb soon learn their daughter caused the accident while sending a text and crossing the middle line into an oncoming car. This creates turmoil in this already wounded family as they grapple with the idea of covering up Maddy’s life-altering mistake. This becomes especially true when they learn this mistake cost two lives.

An Unexamined Life involves a retiring philosophy professor who confronts his own existential crisis on the night of his retirement party. Distraught by his own sudden lack of purpose as well as dread over his failings as a father, he decides to mimic Socrates’ suicide. In the process of finally and truly examining his life, this professor encounters a student who is in the midst of her own existential malaise. Together they make an anti-suicide pact and in their respective ways decide to give life one more chance. Throughout the play, the professor converses with Socrates’ who breaks the fourth wall at points, giving the play a surrealistic quality.

The kingdom's High Court Magistrate finds himself in the middle of an uprising as the kingdom burns. He must quickly decide whose head should roll for committing this divesting crime, or it may be his own.

Two teenage girls fall through the ice as they were messing around in the woods one evening. Sadly, only one surfaces, leaving their mothers reeling through an unimaginable nightmare as they wait lakeside to learn which daughter is still submerged.

The Final Reel is a uniquely entertaining ghostly dark comic thriller set in a haunted mansion on the coast of Maine. A wonderfully inept and dysfunctional team of paranormal investigators for a staged present-day reality show entitled Ghost Encounters has come to the mansion for one final production that they hope will boost their flagging ratings. The group includes a pretentious director who idolizes the spirit of Orson Wells, a diva, a put-upon flunky, two bumbling tech nerds, a sleazy producer, a flaky psychic, and a burned out professor. At the mansion, they meet Judy Leman, a tragic figure from the days of old Hollywood. Judy managed her daughter Jackie’s stellar 1930’s film career as child star Dolly Dancer. Tensions mounted between mother and daughter as Dolly’s film career flagged. Dolly was set to make a comeback when she flung herself from the balcony of the mansion under mysterious circumstances. Judy has remained in the mansion for decades, haunted by guilt, claiming her daughter still walks within its walls. It is within this dark mansion, isolated from the outside world, where the film crew encounters something their show has never experienced before: an actual haunting. One by one, the cast begins to die in mysterious ways. Is it the vengeful spirit of Dolly Dancer or something more earthly and sinister at play? Old Hollywood meets modern television on the stage as the mystery of the death of Dolly Dancer unfolds in The Final Reel.

You Will Surely Die takes place moments before a widow is expected to take part in a ritual that involves throwing herself onto her husband’s funeral pyre in a final act of devotion. Her son begs her to ignore this ancient expectation and flee the village with him. This, however, becomes seemingly impossible when her patriarchal brother-in-law, enters the room ready to escort the widow to the flames. In these waning moments, she must decide whether to obey tradition or quickly think of a means of escape.

Due to the recent string of pandemics, a daughter is forced to hold her father's wake through Zoom. During the online calling hours, an unexpected visitor logs on: her estranged sister who is currently serving a prison sentence.

A man meets his mother on the day of her burial.

A failed R-rated hypnotist’s life is threatened after he causes a mobster’s girlfriend to go into trances that compel her to act like a canary...one that repeats far too much.