Heidi Kraay

Heidi Kraay

Heidi Kraay examines the link between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. Her work pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to discover connections across difference. Plays include Take Me Away, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, additional full-lengths, co-devised plays, one-acts, plays for young audiences and short plays. Their work has been presented where they live in Boise...
Heidi Kraay examines the link between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. Her work pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to discover connections across difference. Plays include Take Me Away, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, additional full-lengths, co-devised plays, one-acts, plays for young audiences and short plays. Their work has been presented where they live in Boise, Idaho, regionally, in NYC and internationally, recently through the Valdez Theatre Conference, Boise Contemporary Theater, Climate Change Theatre Action and Barnard College. Her play for young audiences Wolf/Girl will receive its university premiere production through Boise State University in February 2024. A three-time Seven Devils Playwrights Conference alum, Heidi has been a top finalist at the Women Playwrights’ Initiative, a finalist at City Theatre, Southwest Theatre Productions, Purple Crayon Players, the Local Theater and Creede Repertory Theatre’s Headwaters Festival, and a semi-finalist at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, PlayPenn, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Unicorn Theatre, UP Theater Company and B-Street Theatre. Heidi is one of two inaugural Boise City Writers-in-Residence for the 2023-2024 award year. Their work has been awarded additional grants from Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise City Department of Arts & History, The COVID Cultural Commissioning Fund, The Cabin, Alexa Rose Foundation and Boise Weekly. Recent dramatic publications can be found through Smith & Kraus and Applause Books. Heidi co-founded Migration Theory, a physical art company for which she served as an Associate Artist from 2015-2021 and through which she co-devised SuperSecretSiteSpecificSomething and small matters. Heidi holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, where she is currently pursuing a Certificate in Dramatic Writing through the Dramatists Guild Institute. www.heidikraay.com

Plays

  • Take Me Away: a trainwreck with monsters by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    2–12
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 4 more
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    Keyword: puppets, monsters + 6 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, verse
    Keyword: puppets, monsters, two-hander, charisma, brainwashing, homelessness, abusive relationships, domestic abuse
    Full-length Play: When He comes into her life with promises of the adventures She's always wanted, She willingly lets him take her along for the ride, despite warning signs, warnings from family and friends and disasters coming their way exponentially by the moment. But when push comes to shove at the bottom of everything, He unwittingly lights her pathway to befriend the inner monster She's pushed...
    Full-length Play: When He comes into her life with promises of the adventures She's always wanted, She willingly lets him take her along for the ride, despite warning signs, warnings from family and friends and disasters coming their way exponentially by the moment. But when push comes to shove at the bottom of everything, He unwittingly lights her pathway to befriend the inner monster She's pushed down her whole life, start fresh and meet herself for the first time -- though not without plenty of monstrous aftermath.
  • Unwind: Hindsight is 2020 by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 4 more
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    Keyword: stress, anxiety + 6 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fantasy, movement/physical, political, science fiction
    Keyword: stress, anxiety, Covid-19, pandemic, womxn, The Earth, the stars, future is female
    Full-Length Play: In the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, a research scientist races to uncover how stress impacts the human body in this moment and womxn’s bodies in particular, how that connects with the earth’s stress response throughout history and how all our anxiety is colliding while personal, national and global crises overpowers humanity’s consciousness. The scientist and her research participants...
    Full-Length Play: In the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, a research scientist races to uncover how stress impacts the human body in this moment and womxn’s bodies in particular, how that connects with the earth’s stress response throughout history and how all our anxiety is colliding while personal, national and global crises overpowers humanity’s consciousness. The scientist and her research participants connect across technology, dreamscape, starscape and future asking in light of all this, how we can stay strong, stay calm and heal in the face of disaster.

    Concept by Heidi Kraay and Kate Kraay, script by Heidi Kraay. Inspired by survey responses from 90+ individuals.
  • see in the dark: a new myth by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: climate change, Radiation + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: climate change, Radiation, polar shift, future, outsiders, newcomers
    Full-Length Play: When a young girl shows up in the desolate village that Juneau, Alaska has become, the surviving community embraces her as their new hope. That is, until a boy is found hunting her down with brutal accusations. Set in a future Juneau, Alaska, after all the glaciers have melted, the ice fields have vanished and nothing is recognizable, see in the dark is a mythic look at the value of compassion over suspicion.
  • small matters: a big project about little things by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    30–50
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: promenade theater, environment + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, movement/physical, verse
    Keyword: promenade theater, environment, site-responsive, co-devised, large cast, fractured love story
    An evening length devised theater experience co-created with Tracy Sunderland, Sarah Gardner, Lisa Lechner, Cameron Needham and the Migration Theory artists.

    a piece about being in between
    about caring for each other
    about the only love story ever told
    about west downtown boise
    about all the little things
    that change our lives in big ways
  • How to Hide Your Monster by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: family, secrets + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, science fiction
    Keyword: family, secrets, Alzheimer's Disease, monster, love, memory, mental illness
    Full-Length Play: Savannah answers a cry for help from her sister, who just met her grandfather and is taking care of him at his home, and travels to support her. When their mom joins them, Savannah discovers that the hidden secrets between all of them are growing a storm in this space between her, her sister and her mom that will blow up out of the monster she’s been pushing down inside herself. They have to...
    Full-Length Play: Savannah answers a cry for help from her sister, who just met her grandfather and is taking care of him at his home, and travels to support her. When their mom joins them, Savannah discovers that the hidden secrets between all of them are growing a storm in this space between her, her sister and her mom that will blow up out of the monster she’s been pushing down inside herself. They have to decide if the truth they uncover will connect or fracture them forever.
  • SuperSecretSiteSpecificSomething by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    25–35
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: site-responsive, promenade theater + 2 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: site-responsive, promenade theater, fractured love story, environment
    An evening length devised theater experience co-created with Tracy Sunderland and Sarah Gardner
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    Travel through downtown Boise's interior and exterior landscapes through five parts of a love story from meet to loss, in order to fall in love with this place to start over from here.
  • New Eden by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 1 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, political
    Full-Length Play: Lost in a blizzard, Brian stumbles upon Michael’s warm and welcoming cabin. Lost and longing to please God, Michael's chance for salvation stumbles in from the cold. One disciple is a good beginning...but Michael has his eye on disciple number two. With Brian's help, she’ll join them soon--the key to the New World, she can save us all.
  • DIRT by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    9–14
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: co-devised, eternal life + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, political, science fiction
    Keyword: co-devised, eternal life, death, corporate takeover, death industry
    Full-Length Play: Holistic Growth Team's long life serum can put Boise on the map and make the Treasure Valley a bubble of prosperity. But when a mother driven by loss and instinct uncovers the key to this corporation’s success, the consequences of perfect health may be unbearable.

    Script by Heidi Kraay; Story by Heidi Kraay, Chad Shohet, Sarah Gardner, Jennifer Stockwell, Jaime Nebeker.
  • Me and My Shadow by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 4 more
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    Keyword: mental illness, Schizophrenia + 3 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: mental illness, Schizophrenia, romance, Russian literature, art as healing
    Full-Length Play: When Marianne’s father dies, she finds comfort in childhood imaginary friends. Absorbed in an invented reality, she cuts herself off from daily life to a catatonic degree. Forced into hospitalization, she expresses her mind through art and ends up saving herself by her own terms.
  • Kilgore by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Texas, scandal + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Texas, scandal, suicide, pharmaceuticals, Campus sexual assault
    Full-Length Play: Greg was raised by his grandfather Tate. Or maybe it's the other way around. On the run from yet another one of Tate's disastrous relationship choices, the two find themselves in small-town Texas...that is until Greg falls for Katie, his dedication is pushed to its limit and all three are forced to face their past.
  • Ark by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    6–12
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 2 more
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    Keyword: Covid lockdown, dogs + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: Covid lockdown, dogs, tiny house, adapting to change, letting go
    Full-Length Play for Young Audiences: Arden’s year starts out terrible when her parents move the family into a tiny house, her best friend moves across the country and she has to let go of everything she loves about her life. When the pandemic hits, it’s all too much – until she finds renewed purpose by rescuing all the abandoned dogs in her neighborhood, squeezing the small space to its limits and pushing...
    Full-Length Play for Young Audiences: Arden’s year starts out terrible when her parents move the family into a tiny house, her best friend moves across the country and she has to let go of everything she loves about her life. When the pandemic hits, it’s all too much – until she finds renewed purpose by rescuing all the abandoned dogs in her neighborhood, squeezing the small space to its limits and pushing their home’s sanity to the brink. In this play about a young girl finding herself through difficult times based on the book by Elisabeth McKetta, Arden discovers what’s important in big and tiny ways.
  • Rajpurr: Tale of a Tiger by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: animals, India + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, movement/physical, young audiences
    Keyword: animals, India, grief, friendship, transformation
    Full-Length Play for Young Audiences: When a tiger cub's mom dies, she heads out with her bunny friend and a tag-a-long caterpillar to find her father so he can teach her how to hunt. When her dad's no help, she has to figure out how to survive on her own with her new family. This play about friendship, adventure and transformation asks how we talk to our children about grief.
  • Wolf/Girl by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: transformation, wolves + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, young audiences
    Keyword: transformation, wolves, werewolves, bullies, family, coming-of-age
    One-Act Play for Young Audiences: Tired of feeling like a misfit, Maddy runs away from her hometown bullies and joins up with a wolf pack. The longer she stays, the more she identifies with her new family, becoming a wolf at ease in her skin for the first time. But in order to find true peace, she must face her past, returning to her human body with wolf spirit inside. Whenever the moon is full, she rejoins her...
    One-Act Play for Young Audiences: Tired of feeling like a misfit, Maddy runs away from her hometown bullies and joins up with a wolf pack. The longer she stays, the more she identifies with her new family, becoming a wolf at ease in her skin for the first time. But in order to find true peace, she must face her past, returning to her human body with wolf spirit inside. Whenever the moon is full, she rejoins her chosen family, and meanwhile she belongs to herself. Wolf/Girl reconstructs the werewolf story and explores how we find ourselves through difficult times.
  • Slap! A Beaver Tale by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: environment, wetlands + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, political, young audiences
    Keyword: environment, wetlands, family, displacement, Beavers, animals
    One-Act Play for Young Audiences: When a construction company starts building on her family's pond, young beaver Thistle rallies her marshland friends to help her protest -- peacefully. But when everything gets out of paw and Thistle gets trapped, her family has to make waves together to find her and protect all the wetland creatures from disaster caused by progress.
  • Polar Opposites: An Impossible Tale by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: climate change, global warming + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, movement/physical, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: climate change, global warming, animals, children
    One-Act Play for Young Audiences: About ice. And melting. And drowning. And saving. A play featuring animals of the Arctic and Antarctic trying to save their homes and two children much closer to the equator who help them – who are brave enough to try. If we all work together, do we have a chance at making it through?
  • CloudMelt by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: grief, ghosts + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: grief, ghosts, suicide, transformation, dementia, love
    One-Act Play with Music: When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But out of a storm comes a teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This play about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference, across cosmos, across lifetimes and forgetting.
  • CloudMelt (radio play) by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: grief, ghosts + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy, radio drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: grief, ghosts, suicide, transformation, dementia, love
    Radio Play in Two Episodes: When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But then the storm and the cold and in comes this teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This story about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference...
    Radio Play in Two Episodes: When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But then the storm and the cold and in comes this teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This story about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference, across cosmos, across lifetimes and forgetting.
  • Hoarse by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    One-Act: When Janet loses her voice, it's the last straw that breaks her, but it's the first time she's listened in years.
  • The Toxic Edge and the Precipice of Memory by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 7 more
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    Keyword: Sisters, water + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Sisters, water, poison, landscape, monster, motherhood
    One-Act: A woman tries to get her memory back in order to get her life back but ends up losing all her memory in order to save her sister’s life.
  • The Good Life by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: puppets
    Genre: drama, fantasy, horror
    Keyword: puppets
    One-Act Puppet Horror: A loving family moves into the perfect house, but when the house demands a sacrifice, the cost of perfection is monstrous.
  • The Pond Out Back by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: fantasy, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: puppets
    Genre: fantasy, horror, young audiences
    Keyword: puppets
    One-Act Puppet Horror: New at school, Greta faces bullies, and unwittingly summons three monsters from her dreams. At first they terrify her, but they want to help. Their solution may be worse than the problem.
  • Cut Here by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: drama, horror
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    Keyword: teen angst, cat lovers + 3 more
    Genre: drama, horror
    Keyword: teen angst, cat lovers, cutting, haunted places, Survival
    One-Act Puppet Horror: Corey goes to the basement to retrieve her cat, stays for alone time, and gets ensnared by a voice in a little hole in the wall. Catching her attention, the house sucks her inside its structure. To get out, she has to lose something of herself.
  • Last Road Trip by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: abortion rights, abortion access + 3 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: abortion rights, abortion access, trust, secrets, abortion politics
    10-Minute: Talia meets her aunt Andrea in the park to ask a big favor that could get them both in trouble, but when a stranger shows up with a watchful eye, the trust between them starts to break, along with their close bond.
  • Pizza Date by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: coming out story, country mouse city mouse + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: coming out story, country mouse city mouse, aunt-nephew, family politics
    10-Minute: Bean tries to reconnect with her nephew despite his father trying to push them apart, so she takes him out for a pizza even though that’s against house rules—just like most of her core values—and tries to work through the walls he’s put up.
  • Terminal McCartney by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: christmas, holiday + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, holiday
    Keyword: christmas, holiday, abuse, Childlike Men, Paul McCartney, Airport
    10-Minute: A couple try to get away for a holiday, but their airport stay, much like their life, pulls them in like purgatory.
  • Hideaway Hotel by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: abuse, manipulation + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: abuse, manipulation, travelers, homelessness, hotel, motel, Sleepwalking, false accusations, secrets
    10-Minute: At a hotel getaway, Genna tries to confront Sammy about his behavior, but he turns it around and convinces her she’s to blame because of her sleepwalking. As their relationship unravels over the course of minutes, Genna finds herself approaching a freedom she didn’t know she needed.
  • lift by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2–10
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: birds, flight + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: birds, flight, cancer, death, accepting death
    10-Minute: A woman with terminal cancer takes a last balloon ride up to the troposphere and meets a young albatross who helps her die the way she wants, a gift that will help him earn a mate.
  • The Way Up by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: suicide, grief + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: suicide, grief, friendship, summer, gender identity, sexual identity
    10-Minute: Three high school friends cope with the loss of their friend by climbing to the top of the same construction site where she jumped to her death.
  • Ways Not To Drown by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: apocalypse
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: apocalypse
    10-Minute: Kern and Fan love each other more than life. But when the end of their lives (and the world as we know it) approach fast from the worst flood ever, parting might be their path to survival.
  • Somewhere on the Pacific by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, romantic comedy
    10-Minute: A strange, beautiful woman tries to save two honeymooners stranded at sea after a plane crash, but their mixed trust of her sincere kindness brings out her violent, ancient sea monster inside.
  • Late Night Snack by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    5–8
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: demons, children + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fantasy, horror
    Keyword: demons, children, Donald Trump, Taking over the world, puppets
    10-Minute Puppet Horror: When a demon turned Horrific Puppet Affair host is accused of no longer being scary, he tries to prove himself by eating all the children in the world, only to discover that the best plan taking over is to get Donald Trump elected President of the United States.
  • Tree People by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: climate change, deforestation + 4 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical
    Keyword: climate change, deforestation, old growth forests, transformation, stillness, silence
    Micro-Play: A woman about to lose everything turns into a tree.
  • DreamSong by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, fable/folktale + 3 more
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    Keyword: climate change, kids + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, fable/folktale, fantasy, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: climate change, kids, song, magic, sea monster, forest fires
    Micro-Play: To help them stop climate change, two kids on the California coast call a sea monster from the deep to bring them courage and luck.
  • Float On by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: Covid-19, isolation + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fantasy, movement/physical
    Keyword: Covid-19, isolation, spring
    Micro-Play: Cam and Zoe spiral out at home during the COVID-19 outbreak -- but spring is here.
  • Drastic Dragon Station by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 6 more
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    Keyword: mental illness, drowning + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, science fiction, young audiences
    Keyword: mental illness, drowning, the brain, writing as a way of healing
    Micro-Play: A monster kept as a prisoner of war in a woman's brain is tortured as her constant creating drowns him with ink, but this overworking ends up turning the tables.
  • Dog Gambit by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: dog domination, dogs
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, farce
    Keyword: dog domination, dogs
    Micro-Play: A couple hit a dog and try to revive it, only to discover that they are now under the dog's control.
  • Drown by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    4–7
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    Genre: experimental, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: transformation, ocean + 3 more
    Genre: experimental, fantasy, movement/physical
    Keyword: transformation, ocean, puppets, animals, drowning
    Micro-Puppet Play: Mesmerized with the ocean, a swimmer gets pulled down to the world below and drowns. Before she dies, underwater creatures transform her into a fish. She gets eaten and coughed out of a much larger animal, given another chance at life -- as a fish.
  • Keep Her Dancing by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: dance, infomercial + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, farce, movement/physical, parody/spoof, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: dance, infomercial, Club, thwarting male advances, Women's empowerment
    Micro-Play: A woman uses a toxic spray to keep men away from her at the club.
  • Carny Veil by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: monologue, Con Artists + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, experimental, movement/physical
    Keyword: monologue, Con Artists, abuse, carnival
    Short Monologue Play: After a year of romantic misadventures, disasters and loss with a ragtag carnival crew, coming close to death is the only thing that saves Amy. Now it's her turn to save her daughter's life by sharing this secret.
  • Survivors by Heidi Kraay
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: monologue, bugs + 1 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, experimental, horror, political, science fiction
    Keyword: monologue, bugs, Survival
    Short Monologue Play: Dani finds a shelter when the earth and all its animals, plants and elements fight back to regain balance lost when humans were in control. After reinforcing her safe location, her refuge becomes her cell as she waits out the destruction above ground.
  • Deer You by Heidi Kraay
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: winter, mountain + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: winter, mountain, deer, road trip gone wrong
    One-Minute: A woman tries to push a deer out from the middle of the road but is turned into roadkill in the process.