Daisy Jones & the Six meets Waiting for Guffman in this kaleidoscopic retrospective of an out-of-work mother of two who accidentally starts a cult. Jillian spends her days doing laundry, keeping her wily children from injuring each other, and cleaning a perpetually messy kitchen.

Once a respected and eloquent poetry professor, she is now at home full-time raising two children under 5 and her poetry collections are employed as booster seats. When Jillian’s toddler captures a video of her rage-screaming mantras during an at-home workout video and her media-savvy cousin, Neko, makes it into a mock promo video for a wellness retreat and posts to Insta as a joke, it takes off. Apparently everyone is a little angry.

Soon, other stay-at-home moms with careers-on-hold start moving onto Jillian’s property. Surprised by the strangers, but desperate for community, Jillian and Neko study up on running a cult, -er, - commune while pretending to be the gurus everyone thinks that they are. When an outsider threatens to expose Jillian for who she really is, will the grand experiment collapse, or will Jillian become the person she was always meant to be?

Woven from interviews of various commune members as well as Jillian and Neko, this entirely female tale unfolds in comedic snippets, multi-perspective shared memories, and recounts of the disconcertingly smart shenanigans of the commune’s precocious children. #notacult is an unexpectedly poignant portrait of a woman in crisis on a comedic journey to reinvent herself as well as a heartwarming tale of the bizarre lengths women will go to in order to save each other.

Seeking Development.

A TYA musical developed in collaboration with young artists on the things we lose and how to find them — where the lost boys are actually girls.

Lenora's only friend is her virtual personal assistant device Alyssa. But when Lenora gets locked inside her Chelsea apartment on Christmas Eve and technology glitches, Lenora realizes she is not alone. Alternating between her one-bedroom apartment and a TED Talk, LENORA puts a technological spin on the devices we use to connect and the real loneliness that comes from being disconnected. A modern Christmas Carol that can be performed by one actress or 10. Bah Humbug. Or Merry Christmas.

Currently seeking development.

In a small Midwestern town, a tornado touches down on prom night, leaving devastation in its wake. The prom-goers emerge from the school to discover a third of their town gone. Amidst the rubble, a stranger appears - an otherworldly character who identifies only as "8." 8 communicates through a unique gestural language and begins to acquire English by reading YA classics like "Catcher in the Rye," "Lord of the Flies" and "Grapes of Wrath." But when the students start to learn 8's unconventional language, they threaten to unearth the town's past, including a shameful secret that most of the town would rather keep buried. ALiEN8 is a new musical about past sins and future reconciliations - about the parts of ourselves that we alienate to get by and the other parts we risk for a chance to connect.

ALiEN8 is available for licensing through YouthPLAYS.

10 MINUTE: It's about 3AM and five professionals are on the 86th take for the Enabler commercial. Enabler is a drug that treats envy-induced depression. It's side effects include "the inability to determine right from wrong," "mania," and "spontaneous combustion." Oh yeah, and everyone is on it. A short dark comedy on the side effects of the quick fix prescription.

10-MINUTE: Girl meets boy. At a gym. As their thoughts manifest in IM conversations over their shoulders, their wavelengths scramble, and they accidentally say what they mean. A comedic and touching piece about risking vulnerability and the terror of making new friends after 30.