Greg Romero

FULL-LENGTH: Workers are building a Tower of Babel for the present moment. The Foreman makes them forget by stealing language. A weeping willow carves into the skin of a quarry man, an electrician hears the ocean, an office worker sings a whale song, and the Wing Man—an angel—falls in love with the Bartender. Speaking through work sounds, replacement words, animal noises, broken gestures, and hundreds of floors of the tower, Babel’s workers try to remember why they are standing on their heads, what the scars mean, what are those clowns doing, and why they must break everything.

ONE-ACT: Gwen goes off-script so she can listen to you. Nina and Treplev show up lost. A volunteer comes onstage and is given a loaded gun. A Marty Robbins song, country line-dancing, can we get the lights down please?

ONE-ACT: Barbara gathers the community together to destroy them with luxury apartments. Elise brings the deviled eggs. The audience is included. And a wolf watches it all, closely.

TEN-MINUTE: Phyllis and Ramon are - all at once - both coyote and human. And they're about to perform a comedy show, making the world out of whatever the audience wishes, until Phyllis does something - right in front of everyone - her father told her never to do. Can the show get back on-track? What do we really see? What are the tiny, cared-about things being carried around by the wind, who are we, and how do we keep dancing?

TEN-MINUTE: Daphne stands on the ice, not knowing how she got there. An Inuk woman, Tatkret, calls from the other side of the polynya. A car radio, somehow, plays a trauma across the distance. And a polar bear, Nanuuk, roars through the landscape, splitting everything open.

Content Warning: Emotional violence caused by sexual assault.

FULL-LENGTH: Turtle carries the world on her back, leading us into the performance space, taken over by nature. The Red Fox stares back at us, her smile unveiling her sharp teeth. Silent, determined, the Great Blue Heron enters, searching. Otters Earle and Pearl raft together, joyfully drifting with the current of the Delaware River. The ground vibrates, the wolf’s howls grow closer, the moon’s reflection sings a lullaby, and the animals must survive the land and each other, weaving together the wampum belt of their lives.

FULL-LENGTH: A stand-up comedian might be dying of heart failure right in front of you. Is that a joke? Five female haz-mat workers measure radiation and expand the universe—losing a face, losing a stone, losing time— in the Nevada Proving Grounds of the Mojave Desert. And who keeps lowering the dumbwaiter to the teenagers locked in the basement? Knock knock. Annie hands you a plate full of cowboy cookies and you can’t tell if you’ve been poisoned. Where are all the songs coming from, who will win the staring contest, will the comedian last the night, what do we do with that giant knife, and what are the Siamang gibbons howling about?

TEN-MINUTE: Claire carries a suitcase holding memories of the life she doesn’t know she is leaving. Bruce, almost-remembered, enters, repeatedly, with a wedding cake. They walk together through the fragments to the top of the mountain while an elephant, illuminated from the lantern in Claire’s suitcase, transports things from one place to another.

FULL-LENGTH: The building you are sitting in right now is situated on top of a fault line. Did you know that? Audra, a young Cajun, fights through the catastrophes, breaking all the cycles, breaking everything. Lanette tells the story of Skywoman by candlelight. A Great Blue Heron pulls fish from the Atchafalaya while Hedgehog rips a branch from a dogwood tree. Barry works on his dancing thirty seconds at a time, trying to win. And Fox brings us all outside to plant actual seeds in the actual ground, where everything is moving.

TEN-MINUTE: They start with a dance then exhaust themselves further. They are led by a human who is also a fox named Beatrice. Aaron and Charlie drink water, do burpees, transform into wild animals, and unfold pieces of paper the fox keeps handing them, confronting the most difficult moment they can't bury.

TEN-MINUTE: I'm breaking up with you. We're on vacation! I've put you into a hotel nicer than this one, I think you'll like it. Jean, it will never happen again. The server is rockin' a totally bad ass wig and sprinkles fresh rosemary on top of the bisque. A deer grazes through a pine forest, listening for the owls. The elevator doors keep closing. Tectonic plates move underneath the ground, just a little, just enough.

FULL-LENGTH (70-80 minutes): You are now at the center of Hollow’s heart. Britta is the Dungeon Master and rolls to hit. John makes up songs about popcorn while breaking the rules. David sweats out a strip tease for his dream girl. And Jenny blasts the best music at The Snack Den. They are each trying to work through a devastating tragedy by playing weird games. Which of these characters are real? What is normal? What is play? And how brave are we–how vulnerable can we get–in revealing who we are and what we need?

TEN-MINUTE: Beverly shows up with a broken arm at Fonzy's Fantasies, looking for the last fantasy package - with the sunset ending - but Amanda tells her they don't do that anymore. Candace, equal parts professional-looking human female and wild gray wolf, gets a look at Beverly and brings in The Transporter. Beverly blows on the right straw, blows on the left straw, then blows on the right straw again. A dance is included.

FULL-LENGTH: Georgette is new in town. She might be running away. She might be hunting a Sasquatch. She might be responsible for losing the person most important to her. She gets a job at a library to find the secret passageway. The librarian, Violet, is timeless as she recites the Dewey Decimal system. Roger, also a library worker, practices dancing to keep away the nightmares inside the coffee. Everything shakes and quakes – in slow motion – every time Bigfoot takes a step closer.

FULL-LENGTH: This 80-minute adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream weaves together four young lovers who chase their messy passion through the forest, attempting to escape fate; a troupe of “mechanicals” sincerely stumbling through the staging of a lamentable comedy; the jealousies of the King and Queen of the fairies that disrupt the natural world out of balance; and the mischief of hobgoblin Robin Goodfellow that turns everything delightfully inside out. Faithful to Shakespeare’s language and tuned for contemporary, inclusive ensembles, this Dream pulls flowers from the ground, listens to heartbeats, and leans into love, magic, the more-than-human world, transformation, and healing—and asks what becomes possible when we finally see beyond what’s right in front of us, when we look not with the eyes but with the mind.

FULL-LENGTH: An alcoholic magician tries to win his family back through a disappearing act. Staked outside The Milky Way Cabaret, a pair of clown-costumed assassins reveal everything. And the grown-up version of the magician’s daughter travels back in time, through black holes, to try to save her father’s life.

Is humanity bigger than the universe? Is a heart bigger than a planet?

Set in a South Philly nightclub, The Milky Way Cabaret is a theatrical event inspired by the magical, time-travelin’, heart-exploding, meatloaf-making, hula-hooping, elephant-piss drinking people of the city of Philadelphia.

FULL-LENGTH: The Man and The Woman stand at the edge of the water. They take a blank piece of paper from their pocket. They imagine all of the things it could possibly be. They meet at a bar for the first time over and over and all at the same time. They fold the paper into a sailboat. They sit in their apartments and press their faces against the glass. They place the sailboat on the water and give it a gentle push. They journey through their broken pasts, broken futures, and broken skin, revealing everything to find the beautiful place together inside of the knives.

ONE-ACT: A plastic water bottle named Sam has lost her parents in The Gyres, a swirling ocean landfill twice the size of Texas. With help from a blue crab with a giant claw, a parrot who thinks she is a seagull, and The Oldest Sea Turtle That Ever Lived, Sam embarks on a family-friendly, music-filled, epic journey to save us all from the lonely, swirling vortex of thrown-away things and lost hope.

FULL-LENGTH (60 - 65 minutes): William Tell shows you how the world is just one giant hologram now that he has shot his son in the face. Lorna carries an extra pair of rubber boots, identifying all the trees, as she speaks through the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Abernathy, a science professor - and also a wolf - howls through the rings of Saturn in a 24-hour diner that is also a wilderness. What if someone was trying really hard to speak to you and you couldn't hear them?

TEN-MINUTE: Three versions (past, present, future) of a young couple stay up all night trying to break the record.

TEN-MINUTE: In the darkness we hear a large object hitting another large object. And then the sounds of the subway. An Australian sheepdog leads her owner across the ocean. Sir, can you hear me? I'm just going to check your pulse. His eyes are dilating. A love song, through a dog door, about the stars as they empty into the basin. Try to hold your eye-lids up.