Ellen Margolis

Ginny and Arun are falling from a great height.

Max has no sense of direction. Without Jeanie to draw him little maps, he'd be . . . right where he ends up today: at the corner of Fog and Nothing.

Doug and Kathleen. Friends. Artsy, attractive people starting to take hold of their lives. What comes up on the day Doug's divorce is finalized comes form an old, deep place.

The prince and princess of neighboring kingdoms are destined for each other through an arranged marriage. On the eve of their planned wedding, however, they decide to run away and forge their own separate futures. Escaping to a nearby valley, they cross paths with disoriented lovers, hot-headed party animals, desperate draft-dodgers, and a number-obsessed hermit. Identities are investigated, resources stretched, and every kind of love put to the test in this verse comedy.

A play about the desperation and occasional cruelty of well-meaning people who can't quite hack all that’s expected of them. A play about how we look.

3m, 4f; unit set. A mid-size U.S. city. The present.

Mitra, a hard-working designer and mother of two, finds herself spread far too thin. Her husband, Dr. Rob, tries to keep up with the demands of a young family, but doesn't really get it. As a kind of hail-Mary pass, Mitra kicks Rob out of the house, thinking it will make life simpler, only to find that he will do anything to keep his family together. After a late-night show-down with a passive-aggressive, weirdly omniscient check-out clerk, Mitra lights upon a preposterous plan for checking herself out for a while.

Shana, a young woman badly scarred from a fire in her childhood, volunteers at the same hospital where Rob works and Mitra recuperates. Shana finds herself the unexpected object of attention from drop-dead-gorgeous cafeteria worker Derek. Although she knows he is out of her league and suspects he just wants to convince himself he's a decent guy by spending time with her, Shana begins to fall for Derek. When she asks him to kiss her, their most volatile insecurities drive them apart.

Rob, lonely and baffled at Mitra's abandonment, finds himself taking advice over the intercom from Mitra's unseen secretary. His cynical colleague Casey, who's got her hands full with kids, a job, and the complications of keeping Mitra's secrets, finds herself taking hefty doses of stimulants just to keep up--at least until she finds herself a low-stress job waiting tables in the afterlife.

As the threads converge, everyone tries not to scream, not to scare each other, not to stare--always weighing the benefits of the struggle against the possibility of surrender.

Hoboken, New Jersey. Little League coach Rusty's got a lot on his plate, including a parent on the sidelines who couldn't care less about baseball.

After a momentous election, a mother turns to activism, a father to the trees.

Inspired by a sensational love-triangle that captivated the American public in the 1820s, Calumnies tells the story of a desperate woman struggling to survive on the Kentucky frontier, a story of race, sex, and politics that occurs at the intersection of public and private life.

Now, I think this is a good time to tell you that the Cartwright interests have just begun building a new bank in Grover’s Corners—had to go to Vermont for the marble, sorry to say. And they’ve asked a friend of mine what they should put in the cornerstone for people to dig up a thousand years from now.
--Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Harry, a young British knockabout, reenacts a memorable evening in his travels and shares some insights into the nature of the afterlife.

Lucy is having electrical problems. Her mother has changed, and it seems to have something to do with electricity. As Lucy grows, her relationships are hampered by her obsessive need to understand the link between her own loss and the mysterious force that moves through everything from household appliances to thunderstorms.