Catherine Haigney

ECHO, a new smart-speaker "Life Coach," helps ARI fall in love.

A climate refugee gets interviewed before her deportation to the submerged state of Florida.

Year 2090: Extreme climate has driven human beings into the underground shelter-city of "Eutopia,"
where unhappy citizens MIA and ARI meet each other on either side of a Social Rehab wall. They agree to embark on a dangerous new life as reality-show “Survivors” camping out on Earth’s overheated Surface.

Stuck in an underground shelter, KNOX teaches the android DELTA how to play his new "conversation" game.

Zoe’s gets lessons in “life” from her mother, a self-inventing Trad Wife.

Miranda finds the magic she needs to rewrite her fate.

Mia and Ian break up while dealing with a surreal ensemble of shape-shifting women whose mysterious agenda turns Ian into a monstrous futurist. Thirty years later, he seizes on a chance to escape the underground city of his own making, even if it means Mia goes with him.

Eve presides over a scanty dinner while Cain, Abel, and their sisters vie for attention. Eve's three unnamed Daughters go by numbers, their existence ignored by a Book that never mentions them. Will they count with a Matriarch in charge?

Setting: Small urban park.
Time: Midsummer
Scene one: The vagabond nymph ECHO recruits a tree spirit to be her Dryad Chorus. They launch their new “tragedy” involving the latest reincarnation of NARCISSUS.
Scene two: PYGMALION arrives with an ancient artifact and tells its strange story. He pitches NARCISSUS a new venture selling ideal love objects.
Scene three: Mentor and protegé separate with big plans, leaving ECHO and AILANTHUS to the consolation of prophecy.

Time and Setting: The near future at a corporation planning a city for survivalists.
Cast: Four women, four men. (One hour playing time)
Act One begins with Ali, head aesthetician at Citibot, trying to orient her strange new colleague for their project remodeling “Sophia Gamma,” an android prototype. Citibot’s CEO introduces a consultant to coach Sophia Gamma and make her more ideally “human,” but a free-spirited custodian inadvertently gives Sophia curious ideas, making trouble ahead. The “brainstorming” sessions of Act Two reveal an "Ultimate Android” plan for the “Ultimate City," Citibot’s survivalist project now entirely owned and directed by a young prodigy named Davos. After Ali is persuaded to allow an upload of her brain data to Sophia, Act Three involves the unsettling effects of Sophia’s evolving “conversation.” Davos, ignoring protest, interviews this transitional Sophia for a role in realizing the dream of “Eutopia.” When model “Delta” appears in the Epilogue’s vision of our future, Davos confronts her with a revelation.

A model android designed to be perfect discovers discontent.

COXX News interviews Senator Morescrip about extreme weather measures.

Daria makes her stovetop specialty for a sister absorbed by a new data-scraping tablet.

Cast: 2 women, 2 men.
Setting: A survivalist city
Time: Our future in a hot mess
Women are defecting from the last underground city and making their way back to an overheated surface bog in Siberia, leaving men in Eutopia to figure out what to do without them. They develop a new bespoke-model AI android that sounds like it’s really listening. Is it also thinking on its own and for itself?

Who has time for philosophy? Seizing their ten minutes of play time, the mother and wife of Socrates hold forth.

Two medieval saints confront assorted mansplainers.