Daryl Lisa Fazio

Carol Lowery is working the warehouse shift—and nearly always with a hangover—at her struggling small town’s Save-A-Lot grocery, when she befriends brand new employee, Shea Grimes. Shea’s origins are mysterious, and she seems to know her way around a butcher’s tools better than she does the world at large. But these new friends are drawn to something in one another—charismatic confidence crashes into quiet curiosity—and the result is healing and dangerous at the same time. When recently hired custodian, Ron Smote, brings his own gentle brand of troubled into the circle, they rely on humor, resilience, and each other to fight the demons—and minimum wage jobs—that threaten to swallow them whole.

Hollywood. 1978. TV writers Linda Karpasian and Linda Brandywine have created a hit and also an historic first: a buddy cop show starring two women. In this fast-paced comedy, Linda, the grizzled showbiz veteran, and Linda, the sincere relative newbie, are up against the clock—and the patriarchy—when their latest script for Moxie & Hart gets rejected by the top for having “too much lady stuff, not enough cop stuff." Given only five hours to write a new episode, the two Lindas wrestle with the Big Idea, the “game” of Hollywood, and even fictional New York City homicide detectives Moxie and Hart themselves, who at one point step right off the page and into Linda K’s shag-carpeted Burbank office. Will they find a way to tell the story they believe in and still land the script in time for sweeps week? Or will they be swept under the showbiz rug, with a vacuum in one hand and a pregnancy test in the other?

30 years ago, Pete Bowman vanished from his home without a trace. Today his granddaughter Brett, a disabled former cop, has bought his farmhouse—where she spent many an idyllic childhood summer—and is now hiding from the world, joined by her estranged cousin, Tess. During nights of wild meteor showers, the women try to reconnect, but mostly they collide with the realization that you can’t turn back time—until one energizing, awe-filled moment that calls into question their very grasp on reality. When an awkward young neighbor named Vera stumbles into their sphere, she brings even more questions and something new: the willingness to walk directly into the places that scare them.

Lori Ackerman is a resilient, resourceful spark plug of a mom and truck driver. She’s also got a chronic undiagnosed illness. She’s also been labeled by doctors as “hysterical,” and not the funny kind. When Lori encounters brilliant but struggling neurodiverse family physician Dr. Pamela Slusarski, the two embark on a fact-finding mission that uncovers not just Lori’s truth, but Pamela’s as well, in the process revealing a wonderfully peculiar connection. Turns out answers aren’t just about science; they’re about being able to see the human being right in front of you.

Dr. Tamra Berry’s career as an Atlanta shrink is not going the way she planned. Neither is her marriage. Neither is her yard, where a giant tree recently came down during spring storms. And tonight, she’s trying to unwind from all that, not to mention from simply existing as a Black woman, when a quirky, bright young person shows up at her fence gate. But it’s not just any young person. It’s Josephine Carlisle. Jo, who was just a kid when they last met. Jo, who was drowning in acute mental illness when they last met. Jo, who now appears better but will sometimes answer a question with dance rather than words. They’re both searching for something. Redemption? Revelation? A way forward?

Patsy Armstrong is a coal miner. Just like her daddy, Earl. And just like her mother, Wanda, who, at 60 years old, is still there. As of this week, Patsy’s back in her mother and daddy’s house, after a mining accident that left her with no ability to move or communicate. Her bright 18-year old daughter, Livvy, now lives there too. In a home that’s full of humor and generosity and rowdiness and grit. But a home—not to mention a whole dang planet—that’s under more pressure than maybe it’s ever been. When the family gets news about the settlement from Patsy’s accident, Livvy jumps into the fray. And Patsy, now forced to listen and observe more than she ever did as a healthy person, is plagued by nightmares and revelations she’s able to share only with us. In this story of resilience and redemption, it doesn’t take long for her to realize she has to learn a new way of being if she’s gonna save her entire world.

Chris Dove is the only female fire captain in an Alabama town at war with opioids, and she’s facing it head-on, heart-out and under scrutiny. Meanwhile, her arthritic spitfire-of-a-mother, Xenia, now living with Chris after a bad fall, worries for her child’s right mind and tries to conjure stability with a bundt cake and a Bible verse. When Chris’ childhood friend, Val—a recovering addict Chris brought back from an overdose just a year earlier—drifts into their lives, they find themselves at a tipping point between what’s safe and what saves.

The Mississippi Delta. 1969. The Supreme Court has put its foot down and in this last county, desegregation must dissolve. Poor, white sisters, Nola and Nell, one grounded by cynicism and the other by faith, live day-to-day. Until they discover a mixed-race, highly-educated sister they never knew they had. And in a place where separation begets isolation, difference turns out to be a saving grace.

In a remote surgical tent during a 25-year war, in a time later than now, and in a world where all healers are women, 60-year old Dr. Minnie Vega is going to snap. Until young Dr. Irene Wilde, green but gifted in mysterious ways, enters her solitary reality, along with the troops involved in a sudden offensive. And the two Medica butt heads and fix soldiers who, for some reason, all look the same. And radios breathe and defy space and time. And light comes out of fingers. And really, all these doctors want to know is: can it be possible to take care of yourself while you’re healing everyone else?

Book and Lyrics by Daryl Lisa Fazio • Music by Aaron McAllister.

In a spunky working-class Ohio town, 8-year old Ethan Hale falls through the ice and is miraculously saved. But no one sees the rescue. And no one steps forward as the hero. So when Ethan, who not long ago lost his dad in a freak accident, insists that it was a "birdman," his friends and family grapple with questions about faith and their desperation to connect as the truth unfolds.