David Hilder

In NYC in the chill years of the early 21st century, Matt meets Alan and it feels like everything's going to work out. But there are things Matt is facing -- things like his mentally ill mother, Sarabeth; things like the eerie omens and portents he's seeing -- that feel impossible to shake. Will Matt make it? Will anyone?

A Rumpelstiltskin adaptation for the 21st century. And not for kids, like, AT ALL.

Pratt and Kitarsky are asking Smith a lot of question. A LOT of them. But what answers does -- or can -- Smith have? A short play about knowledge and identity.

Those Days Are Over concerns the five MacKillop sisters in the immediate wake of their mother's death. They're not exactly close, these five, and as they tussle with each other they're also tussling with the past. Alliances are formed and broken; detente is reached one moment, dissolved the next. Those Days Are Over is a vigorous collage, a deeply felt comedy, a joyous journey into grief.

Bonita jumped off a pier and never came up for air. Now she and her survivors have to figure out where they're going next.

16-year-old-ish Stef and Oyster are siblings with a problem: Their wealthy mother’s new boyfriend has just moved in, and he’s sure to come between them and their easy lifestyle. As they plot and scheme, they discover their agita may in fact be covering something else, far more disturbing. Stef ends up confronting the history of that disturbance years later in an effort to come to grips with the unfathomable.

As Jocasta and Antoine dine at their favorite mountaintop cafe, the world falls apart. Should they stop eating, though? Just because everything is in decay? A ten-minute play about privilege.

Francesca is a 30-something urbandweller who knows who's who and what's what, and will be more than happy to tell you exactly where who should put what. She has it all, from the job that's not too demanding, to the superintendent ex-boyfriend who still fixes her plumbing (to speak in euphemism), to the gay friend next door. Who needs ups and downs, she figures, when you can have contentment? Then she meets Anton, a mysterious stranger who keeps turning up, and the oddest things start happening. She gets fired from the cushy job. Her friendships actually start to deepen. And worst of all, she ends up dating Anton – a peculiar little man with an Eastern European accent. Ultimately, Francesca has to face what it means to be alive, and what it means to be human.

7 characters (3W, 4M). Two acts, one intermission.

Next year, but sideways:
In Lanna’s kitchen, in her childhood home behind its strong electrified fence, she works and writes and grows herbs in a drawer. But when Gwennie returns – after more than 20 years – two sisters have to get reacquainted. Stalwart Jerry is next door, Lanna’s faithful friend, but it is the magnetic, gorgeous James who draws both women to him like moths to a beacon of light. A play about the perils inherent in an increasingly fractured society, with laughter and woe.

In this loose and possibly impertinent adaptation of Kafka's THE TRIAL, Our Dude wakes up in a black and white world that is anything but sensible. Then he wakes up again. Then again. What do Our Dude's struggles show him about himself?

Viveka Granič is a perfect fit for the international conceptual art scene. But when an unexpected visitor invades her own home, will art and life collide, or crash and burn? Responsibility and accountability meet desire and dread in this caustic, funny look at the meaning and costs of individuality.

Wenceslas and his page, Jackie, relate what went down that age-old Feast of Stephen night.

There's no NYC subway line more crowded than the 6. When a young mixed-race woman and a middle-aged white man find themselves in closer proximity than either of them might like, the friction causes sparks, and minds are spoken, revealed to be fully themselves. Warts and all.

Margaret and her grandson, Stephen, are in the dark -- for who knows how long. What happened to them?