After Warren proposes to Josie, she decides she must make one last attempt to find her long-lost father before she walks down the aisle. What she finds instead is a dangerous, seductive world of secrets and magic from which she may not want to escape. Once Upon a Bride There Was a Forest is a lyrical, haunting, and surprisingly funny fairy tale about children and parents, forgetting and remembering, and the power of a good story to capture us or set us free.

"Playwright Kristen Palmer crafts a contemporary fairytale that feels timeless. She gives us a classic hero’s journey and a variation on princess tales while subtly subverting and exploring classic tropes of the genre. Evil queens, magic spells, true love quests: Palmer touches on all these without patting herself on the back or spelling things out for the audience. She gives Once Upon A Bride... a dream-like feeling that weaves its own lyrical spell." Amanda LaPergola, Theatre is Easy

In the year 2000, in New York City, Suze and Charlie answer phones at the TimeLife Books office. They fill orders for CD sets, Groovy Sounds of the 70s, Moody by Moonlight and other compilations. They process requests for books of general knowledge, including Folklore in America, The Sciences, History. They are being phased out, these easy to read summaries of the world’s information, and a new digital age is on the horizon.

All the rules have changed and yet, the cute white guy always ends up winning.

A comedy about privilege in a world before smart phones.

D’lady returns home after years of wandering and expects everyone to greet her with open arms, instead her arrival is met with closed doors and accusations and she must figure out where she fits in the new landscape.

"Hometown is a metaphor for the relationships that have made us who we are. Palmer's exploration of her characters' reasons for clinging to one another is like a treasure map, giving up one clue at a time and concealing the reward till near the end. This map is well worth following, for it illuminates the mysteries of ordinary life and our hopes for happiness." Kat Chamberlain, ITN Review

Persephone leans into a cave and is kidnapped by Hades. Maybe though she was seduced, she may have been ready to grow up, to run off with a lover. Demeter was so miserable that she stopped nourishing the earth, crops failed and people starved. Demeter pleads for the return of her daughter, Zeus agrees, but she’s already eaten food from the underworld. Zeus decrees her time will be spent. Six months above, six months below, and the Earth finds a balance of the seasons.

Demeter, not satisfied with a mere half a year, pursues Hades. She instigates her followers to mine the earth of its riches, its minerals and its fuel. The more they release, the more her power grows, the longer she can keep Persephone with her - and the longer summer reigns. Persephone, after centuries, was happy with her life, half the year with her doting husband, half with her mother. She pleads with her mother to relax - to let her go, she has a family down there with Hades. Demeter refuses. She spurs on developments to extract whatever can be extracted from the depths of the earth to wring the life from the rival for her daughter’s love. She succeeds. Oil, gas, fracking, her efforts destroy Hades and return Persephone to her mother. Demeter will keep the earth warm all year round - she will defy the gods and she will have her daughter with her forever.

A new myth for a hotter world.

Meg's yoga studio is barely getting by, though she's committed to the local neighborhood and to the community she's gathered at her studio. Her partner, Frida wants to add Spin and maybe some of that car-pulling or whatever they do at the garage down the road. Meg creates a position for Amira, a young Syrian refugee, at the studio.

The convergence of worlds; the attempt to create a safe space; the dream of community and fulfilling lives and the limits of good intentions.

A visual artist grieves her deceased mother by drinking with her family, but the life she’s avoiding follows her home.

Mai, a talented grad student, drops out of school suddenly after her mother’s death. She leaves behind a fellowship, all her paintings and her long-term boyfriend, Fischer. Fischer seeks her out at her family’s home to find them drinking their sorrows away and Mai avoiding him and everything else from her former life.

The play develops through his visit, the family is fraying at the seams. Stressed by the loss of their mother who kept everyone in line and the financial pressures of her medical bills that Bill, Mai’s father, is refusing to pay on principle. This is putting their home at risk and driving a wedge between Mai and her sister Shelly, long jealous of her artist sisters status as the talented one. Bill’s drinking increases and Mai matches him as Fischer tries to move ahead with his life and Shelly fails to replace her mother as the voice of reason.

Bill’s drinking leads to a tragic accident which causes him to lose his home and forces a re-orientation of everyone in the family.

Set in rural Iowa, Sacrifice is a play about the broken heart of the mid-west. About a young girl named Emmie who is looking at the state of things and figuring out what must be done. About a corporate mentor with other motives. About how to get a mother back. About what needs to be sacrificed.