Serena Berman

Sadie and Will are thrilled and relieved that after a summer away, their experiment with an open relationship has been a success. But soon, a stranger comes to Sadie with a disturbing alternate version of events, forcing her to choose between her identity as a woman and her desire to trust her partner. "The Experiment" asks painful but urgent questions about sexual assault in a contemporary climate: What do we do with men who rape when they’re the people closest to us? What is our responsibility to them? To their victims? And what does it look like to reshape our definition of “rapist” in the face of seismically shifting ideas about assault and consent?

Wake up! You’re in Italy! You’re pretty hung over -- but whatever, you’re only 20 and you bounce back quick. The sun is shining, the espresso is steaming, and you have a full 24 hours before classes start. Except the power’s gone out. And you can’t find your pants. And there’s screaming outside your window and you lost the phone number for the embassy and there’s blood in your tap water and why doesn’t anybody speak English here???

"Yankees" is a feral comedy-thriller about what it means to be an American in the middle of a world that’s on fire.

Vicky is unhappy with her sex life. The acquaintance from college she finally booty called can’t bring himself to choke her in bed, and, even worse, seems to be after a deeper emotional connection. When Vicky discovers a website dedicated to rape fantasy, she takes refuges in new friendships with likeminded women, learning terms like CNC (“consensual non-consent”), and PRICK (“personal risk informed consensual kink”). But as she delves deeper into both this in-person relationship and her new community online, unresolved trauma from her past starts to blur the line between fantasy and reality.

When Linda’s wealthy brother dies unexpectedly, his family is left conspicuously out of the will. Now Linda, her emotionally estranged sister, and her angsty adult daughter find themselves navigating the mourning process with the 26-year-old former stripper who inherited the estate at a funeral afterparty in a luxury hotel room in Marin County, CA. "All Remaining Assets" is a play about money, family, sex, and the forces that tether us to one another.

Miriam is living in New York City and writing feminist essays online when she finally comes to terms with a dark childhood memory. Returning to her small East Texas town, she realizes her own trauma may be nothing compared to the experiences of the childhood best friend she left behind. Can she help? Should she help? Or does the isolation of trauma and the loves we sacrifice to heal create a barrier too thick to cross?

There’s a new dating app on the market. A blind ‘group date’ experience, where three men and three women meet at a secret location to form new friendships and find romance. Enter Natalie, a queer woman in her 30’s just out of a nine year relationship, wondering why the f she signed up for this. As her evening at a Virtual Reality center gets stranger and stranger, one thing becomes clear: there’s a looming abyss of loneliness threatening to swallow them all, and Natalie will do anything to avoid it.

A 13-year-old girl has an encounter with a 13-year-old boy that changes the entire trajectory of her identity, as a patchwork quilt of girls piece together the intimate moments that make up a female coming of age. Études is a play about the practice, repetition, and indoctrination of young womanhood.

A group of friends tries to take their relationship(s) to the next level.

"Well it's like, super haunted down here so, you know. Watch out."

It’s prom night at Sacred Heart, and Danielle is shocked to find her boyfriend Sam with a mouth full of novocaine and short a few wisdom teeth. Sabotaged by his overbearing mother? Maybe. Can Danielle survive limos, pre-games, home school kids, and missing shoes without her partner in crime? And is she ready to face what comes after?

Truth, Art, God, and a stomach ache that doesn't go away. What happens on the other side of Agnes’ cave? A semi-devised companion piece to Matt Minnicino’s adaptation of A Dream Play by August Strindberg. Created with director Jake Beckhard and the Artilliers' Gym Group.