Parker Jenkins

With the end of the world just moments away, Freddy and Alex reflect on their past relationship on a Manhattan rooftop over a bottle of Scotch. Everyone will die at the end, but the end hasn't come yet. Well, it has -- just one ending. Reminiscing, whiskey, and imminent doom... what could bring two people closer together?

Sifrus and Jayde gather to perform a ritual – to exit from their current Plane of existence into the one that they are called to exist in. The will of the Wind calls them forth into the light of the candle, yet the Warden treads just beyond the bounds of their sacred space. But when this folktale begins to falter, the true nature of their gathering emerges. By Candle’s Light is a story about why we hide behind fantasy, when we’re forced to emerge, and how the candle’s light illuminates the dire need to start anew.

Alan stumbles into Asphalt Meadows, a bar that feels a bit like a liminal space, seeking refuge from the rain. Jimmy tends the bar and serves him gin. But when Alan is faced with a choice – which chalice to drink from – everything clicks. What is Asphalt Meadows, and what is Alan doing there?

In a workshop beneath a funeral home, Peter works to finish final preparations for the service happening in just around an hour. But Charlie, his assistant, has no idea who the funeral is for, and Peter is more secretive than usual. When the details of the service get revealed, it’s clear this funeral will be like no other – and for Charlie and Peter, one of their last. The Left Leg Effect is a story about legacies, what we leave behind, and how much of ourselves we carve away at the expense of being remembered.

Nathan and Nate gather for a late night conversation. It’s been a while, and there’s a lot to catch up on. Nate’s got a party to go to, and it could very possibly be the most important party of his life. Nathan knows why, but why he knows why, well, Nate’s got to figure that why out himself. A Few Of Your Own is a story about hindsight, reflection, and those conversations that so often happen in the mirror (and how badly we wish they were real).

Swallowing razor blades. Carving out your heart. Eating your own flesh. A series of short plays based on the eleven major systems of the human body, "An Anatomist’s Guide to Self Destruction" is an abstract look into the mental health struggle, the disparities of "invisible illness" treatments compared to physical ones, and how maybe things would make a bit more sense if medicine could explain just why we self-destruct the way that we do.

god is dead, or he isn’t. if he is, then sunflowers are also dead. if he isn’t, then they are alive and flourishing. but maybe god isn’t really god here? maybe, god is really just a sunflower. only the ones on the lover’s windowsill know the truth. the lover needs to decide who he gets to tell – or if he tells anyone at all. "if God is dead then so are sunflowers" is an abstract, messy, and disjointed journey through healing, love, loss, lust, and the desire to be remembered by the world... or just someone.

In the middle of an apocalyptic, forgotten desert, Allyson and Bill take on the knowns--and unknowns--of futuristic survival.

What We Choose to Breathe centers three young souls, smoking on a Manhattan rooftop, attempting to find an escape from the unrelenting weight of the mechanics of our society.

Davie is happy with his life. He lives with Danny and Deja; they play card games and eat pizza every night. He visits his therapist and psychiatrist, Dr. Caddel; they prescribes Davie’s medication. He meets Demi, the girl who recently moved in; they’re starting to fall in love. Everything seems like it’s okay, until suddenly it isn't. THE HARDEST PILLS TO SWALLOW is a play about change, and the parts of ourselves that embrace it and the parts of ourselves that fear it.

It’s Jonathan’s birthday, twenty-five, the hump day of the twenties. It would be a good day, except his favorite professor, Dr. Havenstein, doesn’t show up for class. Turns out he’s been reported missing, exactly one month after the disappearance of another middle aged white man, which is also exactly two months after the disappearance of another middle aged white man, and three months after the disappearance of another middle aged white man, and three years after yet another disappearance of (you guessed it) a middle aged white man. When Jonathan accidentally teams up with Lillian, a true-crime movie buff on a quest to find these five middle aged white men, they uncover a web of lies, delusions, and murder that involves a mortician, donuts, and… bears.

“Any form of love with conditions isn’t actually love, it’s just fear disguised as love.”
Cooper is the son of an evangelical pastor. Alex is the son of a choir director. When a runaway kiss happens over a glass of iced green tea, Cooper’s entire understanding of life, religion, and the life-long teachings of his father are thrown into question. A BAND-AIDED HEART AND ICED GREEN TEA is a queer love story about identity, religion, and the minute differences between relationships based on love and those based on fear.

Abigail was a hopeless romantic from age fifteen. When she meets Clyde, everything changes. Then her best friend, Este, meets Peter. Their mutual friend and Este’s sister, Jess, also wants love, but finds it in the wrong place. Soon, this trio of girls finds out is that boys really only want love if it’s torture. Even sooner, something smells like infidelity, and it’s up to them to call them out… but things quickly take a turn for the worst. Now, Abigail takes her fate–and her friends’ fates–into her own hands. THE CASTLES WE DESTROY is a story about the fickle nature of love, the lies we tell ourselves to hold onto a moment of comfort, and ultimately, how nearly every love story goes: what starts with love soon turns to lust, and ultimately, murder.

Kat, freshly moved to New York, hopes to make it big in the world of theatrical fame. As a young actor, she needs a side-gig, and stumbles across what seems like the perfect opportunity–WeAreClownz.com, seeking children’s entertainers, with a promise of $500 a weekend minimum. Kat quickly applies, unknowingly signing her soul away to one of the most crooked clowning agencies in all of New York, possibly even in all of the United States, or even the entire world. As she finds herself in the middle of a wasteland of abandoned dreams and stale cotton candy, Kat grapples with the question that every young starving artist must answer: what is the price of survival, and what is the price of her dreams? The Clowns, Or A Horrific Glance into the Inner Workings of the Children’s Clown Entertainment Industry is a story about the exploitation and toxicity that permeates the entertainment industry, and how everyone–clown or no clown–deserves to be treated as human.

An intertwined dialogue between YOU and ME, THE PAPER IS BLUE is an expressionist look into the chaos of major depressive disorder, the mind, and trying to heal.

Jeremy and Roger began to play a special game when they were seven. They would run away in the dark, close the curtains, flip out all the lights, and listen. Listen for them, for The Others. And it was just a game... until it wasn't.
THE OTHERS is a horror story about the monstrous ways that grief takes over our lives, and the way in which it makes the darkness feel much more comforting than the light.

On the twelve-year anniversary of their brother Keith's death, Joseph, Alondra, and Richard venture deep into the woods to find his favorite tree--a sanctuary outside space and time. As they work through their personal grief, Keith's sudden appearance throws their entire outlook on life into question.
WHO WE ARE IN THE WOODS is a story about life, death, family, and quantum physics.

An ode to the campiness of bad '80s horror, MURDER AT CAMP RED PINE is a story about a seemingly normal sleep-away camp deep in the woods, where campers gather around a campfire for Halloween night ghost stories--about the infamous Red Pine Killer. Split between reality and fiction, both characters inside this campfire story and the campers listening on are in for the fright of their lives.

The time has come for change. We are hungry for acceptance, for love, for hope, for life; but we will not starve. In this experimental one-act, WE HUNGER AND THIRST follows a group of high-school drama students who experience the past, the present, and the hope of a future--all from the fearful confines of a locked-down drama classroom.

THE JOLYNE MONOLOGUES follows the family and friends of Jolyne, a seemingly normal high-school student who commits suicide. As her loved ones are interviewed in an attempt to uncover her motivations, we realize that each of then knew a different version of Jolyne that lives within their memories, which begs the question: who was the real Jolyne?