Eliza Bent

Set inside a magic shop in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall in 2002, THE REGULARS examines the stories we tell ourselves (and the more complicated realities) about what it has meant to be an "average American" throughout our nation's history, from its founding through today. There's also magic, ennui, whoopie cushions and Steven Tyler.
Chicago Reader wrote "Bent’s lovely little slice-of-life neatly captures the way we come to rely upon people we work with as our own touchstones or “regulars,” even (or especially) in the most ridiculous workplaces."

Ancient ideals and modern musings rub up against each other in Blue Wizard / Black Wizard, a philosophical musical fantasia. Two referees adjudicate the proceedings as the Black and Blue Wizards battle to save themselves and humanity from the Great Mediocrity. Warping the conventions of musical theatre and classical art song to intersect with the sensibilities of electronic music, Blue Wizard / Black Wizard is a pop culture smash-up of fantasy language and contemporary parlance. What unfolds is a ritualistic sporting event, the likes of which audiences have never seen.

a (comedic) religious service for those with digestive ailments which morphs into a meditation on transcendence and grace.

A solo piece that uses a home movie as a jumping off point to talk about various forms of privilege.

BONNIE’S LAST FLIGHT is a three-part play set on an airplane. Our audience makes the trip as passengers: sitting on the tarmac before takeoff, floating above the clouds at cruising altitude, and buckling down for the rocky descent back to land.

It’s Jan’s retirement flight. Everyone knows, except for Greig, Jan’s best friend and coworker of many years. As Greig waxes nostalgic, Jan worries about life post-retirement. LeeAnne, a klutzy newbie flight attendant with a dark past, must avoid her ex on the plane while Captain, a waggish pilot with a weakness for Bloody Marys, is caught in a love triangle. Erik, the co-pilot with a heart of gold, can’t get a word in edgewise. Presiding over the flight is the OG of travel: Mark Twain.

In a comedy set on everyone’s least favorite mode of transit, we must reckon with our crew’s dreams and regrets and ask ourselves: What does it take to really start living?

Set in the basement office of an undergraduate art and literature magazine and unfolding over the course of the 2001/2002 academic year, INDEED, FRIEND! examines the intersections of identity, aesthetics, and taste.

A two hander about love and self-hood within a relationship