Joanna Garner

Hanna is so afraid of deep emotional connections that she makes a radical decision: she will go live off grid in her uncle’s trailer miles outside of Santa Fe, NM. She feels alive in the wild, but her solitude is short-lived when very pregnant, polyamorous Madeline and her new husband Gabe move their tiny house onto the land next to Hanna to start an intentional community.

As Hanna, Gabe, and Madeline navigate their new, unintentionally shared life together, they each grapple with the realities and expectations of their own families. Gabe—a seventh generation New Mexican with conservative, Spanish-speaking parents—has to explain his polyamorous lifestyle. Hanna’s penchant for risk activates a spark of adventure in her agoraphobic mother. And idealistic Madeline finds unexpected love and support when her own mother refuses to show up.

By the end, the characters have formed an unlikely new community, and the play celebrates the power of empathy and connection in a world that often feels deeply lonely and segregated. Hanna’s journey is one of learning to lean into the beautiful discomfort of desire: desire for vulnerability, caretaking, and love.

The play could be performed in a theater or site-specific on a piece of land. It also has a short immersive companion piece for an audience of 1-4 people in a trailer.

This is a play with original music played by a band of coyotes (can be played by humans).

A young Peace Corps volunteer lands in Iran in 1972 and is quickly swept up into a dangerous romance and the growing fire of revolution. A story about the complicated ways we fall in love with people and places, the play spirals together Rumi's poetry, 1960s rock music, whirling dervishes and the lyricism of the Persian language. The Orange Garden was developed at the Banff Playwrights Colony and was a finalist for the 2016 Keene Prize for Literature.

The perfect murder victim, according to 16-year-old serial killer expert Maxine, is skinny, sexy-but-not-slutty, and white. Claudia fits the bill. Alberta does not. However, both women go missing on an isolated highway in British Columbia. As Maxine sets out to uncover the truth for her podcast (“Pray You Slay Me”), she stumbles into a world more dangerous and bizarre than she could ever imagine. Gutting makes a wild, bold collage of true stories and fiction to investigate the media’s sexualization of violence, feminist relationships to victimhood, and the simmering anger present in so many young men today.

Abby lives in a small town in Idaho making her money as an online dominatrix. Cheryl teaches fifth-graders and has nice, simple sex with her husband, Dan. When Cheryl ends up in Idaho to take care of Dan's ailing mother, she is desperate for a way to fill her lonely summer break. Abby and Cheryl strike up a dangerous friendship - one with fuzzy boundaries, shifting power and tangles of secrets. A play about fear and desire, Knotted asks "what happens when you let go of control?"

A new, original honky-tonk musical about an aspiring singer on a mission to get her heart broken 100 times to be sad enough to write country music. Part theater, part musical, part barroom country show, 100 Heartbreaks is a whiskey-fueled comedy with a live band and lots of heart.

Only a lucky few guests gain entrance to this infamous supper club, a clandestine culinary orgy where members explore their wildest food taboos, fantasies and fetishes. Tonight, the charismatic Host and controlling Chef celebrate the anniversary of the club and their relationship with a series of particularly unexpected dinner courses. An immersive theatrical dining experience. Come hungry.

A man falls in love with a woman who is lightning, literally.

Two lonely travelers bond over sex and Xanax in a Tokyo cat cafe.

A dance theater piece about masculinity and the film noir detective. Sam Harper is a 28 year-old debt collector, obsessed with the film The Maltese Falcon. A suspicious tip on an outstanding debt and a visit from his ex-girlfriend spiral Sam into the seedy underbelly of a suburban world. Sam's romanticized notions of being a "real man" begin to overtake reality the farther he falls into the deepening mystery.