Aaron Lockman

Have you ever wished there was a mathematical scale on which you could chart love? Have you ever yearned for a TED talk about roommate-specific sexual fantasies? The Gallery of Obsessive Crushes is a solo performance piece, written and performed by Aaron Lockman, in which the names are fake but the drama is real. Watch your favorite confused bisexual Jew lay bare the spicy details of his love life (all in an extremely well-organized Powerpoint) to answer the question -- is "puttering" the sexiest word in the English language?

A deadly alien threat is fast approaching Valencia, a remote human colony on a distant planet. When young bureaucrat Jensen Hole arrives from Earth with the promise of help, civic leader Jennifer Kohl has reason to be suspicious — can he be trusted? Why does he talk so weird? And can they put aside their vast political differences in time to save the colony?

In this sci-fi noir buddy tragedy, questions of politics, power, and privilege converge. Is it possible to be friends with somebody on the opposite end of the political spectrum? How do you acknowledge your own privilege when it's often invisible to you? And, like. . . what are space aliens up to these days? What's their deal?

Two young women must redefine their long-distance friendship when secrets from the past resurface. Meanwhile, Virginia is obsessed with a mysterious blinking blue light out by the Adler Planetarium. In this hourlong not-musical, our protagonists must wrestle with questions of empathy, honesty, trauma, and friendship.

What do you do when helping people doesn't make you feel any better? From a fairytale castle in France to a dreary industrial neighborhood on Pluto, heroes big and small must grapple with the messy emotional business of helping others in this series of seven vignettes.

In suburban Maine, a young woman reckons with her past as she tells the story of the apparition who walks down her street every night, and the ghost-hunting TV host who ruined it all.