Jacob Juntunen

Okay, so, Kathryn has left New York City and returned to her childhood home in St. Louis to take care of her parents during the pandemic. Not the pandemic you’re thinking of. This is 2041. But her dad just wants to eat sandwiches and play puppets with Kathryn like she’s a kid. Her mom is pissed that the smart city won’t let them out of the house. And Kathryn’s boss wants her back in New York to sell high school group tickets to a century-old snoozefest of a play. And Kathryn? What does she want? Well, she doesn’t want to explode her carefully built theatre career as Education Director at the longest-running off-Broadway theatre, that’s for sure. But her parents took care of her in 2020 during that first pandemic, so she’s got to do right by them, doesn’t she? Besides, Kathryn’s doing fine at home, right? This whole mess isn’t bringing up any unresolved feelings, is it? Nothing worth mourning, anyway. Right?

After the president's contested re-election, Emma has to leave her home in St. Louis in a desperate bid to escape the USA.

Her trial is over; her fate is sealed. Joan of Arc will be burned as a relapsed heretic at dawn. But should she listen to the priest who says she can save her soul by repudiating her Voices? To the nun who wants her to accept her fate as a final trial from God? To the guards who blame her for their suffering on the battlefield? Or should she continue to assert her Voices were from God despite their silence? From its historical inspiration, Joan’s Laughter explores the abandonment we all feel in our darkest moments.

Dorothea is a young Evangelical whose faith and steadfast love for her best friend and new husband is put to the test by her child-to-be. This feminist retelling of the biblical Book of Job set in the modern-day Midwest is hauntingly spare and richly poetic.

After her return from Iraq, Rashida skips out on her own homecoming party. Her brother, Jon, wants to help her reintegrate into society, but she is convinced that no one will understand after her time with Saddam’s lions.

It turns out life after the apocalypse isn’t so bad, not with mosquito margaritas at hand! If only
the robot butler didn’t have that humor chip installed. A ten-minute climate change comedy.

A couple looks back on their lives and the first yes that sent them on their journey. A ten-minute play.

Two sarcastic old people and an idealistic young actress are sheltering in a theatre during a war. The Statler and Waldorf style banter is keeping the young woman, and perhaps the rest of us, from being able to rest.

A parent has a puppet onstage, which is their child, and which is going to sing. But a puppet can't sing, can it? Definitely not. But can it?

Didi O’Connor must escape South Boston where her Dad scoffs, “How did you get so fat on your Ma’s shitty cooking?” She seizes her chance when she gets “a free ride” to a prestigious college in Upstate New York. But when her advisor forces Didi to change her name, accent, clothes—even her religion—will success destroy her more than her dead-end home-life ever would? In the Shadow of His Language explores the costs of class-jumping and the imperialism we call “education.”

Three women remember their first times with the same man.

A woman haunted by her parents and her future learns that there's more than one way not to die alone.