Joanna Castle-Miller

As a young playwright (Joanna Castle Miller) balances the childhood expectations of religion and theatre, she comes to realize the mentors she adores aren't who they appear to be, and neither are the scripts they've passed down to her. INFERNA is a funny, dark, but ultimately hopeful play that explores hell, abuse, complicity, and the absurd comedy of being a child.

Young Joanna knows all the Jewish prayers... and how they’re really about Jesus. That’s because her mother, who was once studying to become a rabbi, converted to evangelicalism through Jews for Jesus many years ago. With her mother's help, Joanna learns all the tricks of Christian missions, eventually becoming a missionary herself. But then something ancient draws her away, to traditions she never learned and dark histories she never studied. And to a tiny village where, centuries ago, her father’s father’s father made a very different choice.

CONVERSA is a hopeful, epic solo show about identity, migration, and change, and how the worst parts of religion keep us from the best parts – the parts that help all of us survive persecution and find our way home.

When aspiring writer Tabatha Meier tweets a racially-charged joke, she faces fallout both personal and professional. Her boyfriend dumps her, she loses her job, and her devoutly religious mother feels embarrassed and betrayed. Little does Tabatha know that's only the beginning, as her public shaming reveals a dark secret and forces her whole family to face the past in a new way. SH@MED is a multimedia dramedy exploring online activism, the dimensions of shame, and how the digital world affects our personal narratives.

Attempting to become the first fugitive enslaved woman to publish her story by her own hand, Harriet Jacobs approaches the world-famous Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe for her help, and the result alters both of their lives and legacies forever. This play explores the structural forces that prevent people from telling their own stories and what is required of writers who create from a place of privilege.

Kimberly creates a fake man to save her business and, for better or worse, sparks a movement that could overturn the world order. A full-length dark satire that explores gender, historical memory, and the way people use the power of time to keep oppressive hierarchies in place.

Nancy has served faithfully as the world's tooth fairy since before the Black Plague. Now it's time to hand over her title. A modern fairy tale about retirement and youth.

The prestigious Being Heard Academy has taught a select few to speak up for thousands of years; but when new students arrive, their voices threaten the school's most celebrated professor and the views he has perpetuated for a millennia.

Lazy Frank lives in a run-down Brooklyn apartment, where he wakes up one morning to find a crass bedbug named #742 - or Jim - has moved in with the entire bedbug clan. With his blood on the line and seemingly no escape, Frank must decide between the dwindling comfort of his passive existence and the terrifying unknown of *doing something.*