Malena Pennycook

Terry and Kati live in Denver. It was love from the moment they met at Very Gay Beans Cafe. The trouble is
Five years have passed
Now ten
Now fifteen
and time just keeps moving faster and faster.
When a tragedy takes place several miles from their home, Terry and Kati are finally forced to slow down to ask each other, how should a conversation be? That is, how can we establish a profound connection, which feels distinctly available after an act of violence, in our day to day?

At the top of the 10 meter diving board, 17 year old Annie sees the face of a man ripple across the water and, subsequently, in everything she does. Joanna thinks its God. Tiernan's too busy trying to win states to pay attention. An athletic new play about the terror of young womanhood & the ways we cope with the thing in the shadows.

Am I Busy Yet? is a solo immersive show that follows follows Gus, the unmoored younger sister of athleisure icon Ty Haney, as she crosses things off a gargantuan to-do list with the audience's help. Beginning with a guided meditation and ending with a full tilt birthday bash, Gus and the audience confront the pressures of modern industry head on to reconsider their sense of pleasure.

Las Malvinas, Argentina 1982. Two brothers, Mac and Ike, are trapped between two wars. The island's cannon fire is making Mac explode from the inside out and Ike doesn't want them to be the next Argentino's to disappear. At least there are penguins. Loosely inspired by Oedipus Rex, Two Apprentices is a dark fairy tale about brotherhood, imperialism and the slipperiness of hope.

After losing her home to a California wildfire, Anara joins her cousin for a shocking marine expedition. A surrealist short that interrogates the sense we'll make, if any, of the end.

Four friends convene for Clytemnestra’s Bachelorette party in NOLA. When Jerzy, a local entertainer, offers a one thousand dollar reward to anyone who can beat Cassandra in a fight, the women find themselves undressing for an underground wrestling match. In the ring, Cly rages against the idea of heterosexual commitment within patriarchy. And Jerzy may be losing his marbles. With a surrealist approach to language, Weaver Under takes a high-octane, embodied look at the legacies women wrestle with in the face of marriage.

It's 16th century France and everything is horrible! There's bubonic plague, major agricultural collapse and the leadership is corrupt as all hell. When a dancing plague breaks out, a group of potato farmers cue the strobe lights and reach towards hope. These are the choreomaniacs. This is their (mostly) true story.