Elizabeth Irwin

In an effort to become more than a benign neighbor to the deteriorating post-industrial city down the road, a prestigious liberal arts college in western Massachusetts begins a “Regional Scholars” program to pluck the most promising students from its environs. Patrick Tivnan is one of the lucky, the chosen to enter the precious world of rolling green hills and plentiful narcotics, gleaning all sorts of wisdom from his upper crust classmates and classes alike but it turns out the college’s generous educational gift perhaps should have come with more explicit instructions.

Plates in, plates out, glasses in, glasses out, we need ice, table four needs bread, your tuna tartare is up: this is the life of the back of house at a restaurant. It’s not a bad way to spend the days, make your living, build your dreams, hang on to the dreams you have. Until management starts to get stingy and things get tighter and everyone gets nervous but you can count on your co-workers, we’re all in this together, right? Right? Right?

KC is the facilitator of a domestic violence support group who really wants to help with her empty resume and dearth of personal experience with intimate partner violence: it’s only a matter of time before someone in the group asks “is this really all we deserve?”
Support follows the eight week journey of a group of survivors who all want to heal but are conflicted about how to make that happen with KC at the helm and what healing really looks like anyway. They wrestle with the question of what survivors owe themselves and each other and if there really is a way to make ripples beyond their crappy donated conference room and good-hearted, inept facilitator.

In a small town in central Massachusetts, Dawn and her makeshift family figure out a way to get to the good life with things like heat and electric and dinner at Chili’s but you can’t hold a stash if you’ve got a snitch. A play about trust and torture. Inspired by a true story.

Perla and Shalico are students at the high needs Collegiate High School in Brooklyn whose principal has decided to try to recruit some of the more privileged upper middle class students from the nearby neighborhood to help build the cultural capital of her students and increase their chances of success at college. Samish and John, two of the students being recruited, want to go on the school tour even though their parents are wary of how "safe" Collegiate really is. On this afternoon, though, its all in the kids hands, on both sides, to see if different worlds can work together.