Paul Hufker

An emotionally broken writer in modern-day NYC desperately searches for his identity as his life falls apart. He is aided by his cats, who try to teach him the value of building an anxiety-free self. Craziness ensues in this cute-but-dramatic (and hopefully profound?) play with songs, where humans and cats learn to find themselves and each other.

Missouri, a suburb near Ferguson. Paul SR and Diane are a happy, white couple, living a happy white life. Suddenly, they decide to demolish their existing, modest, ranch-style home, and in the same plot, build their ultra-modern, eco-dream home. Ballsy, in this small town. But their 12 year-old son, Paul is extremely happy about this progressive leap into the future. The adults agree that, hey, it’s the right time – the economy is stronger and the neighborhood isn’t quite so…ethnic…as before. They wonder if they should hang around, stay close to home. Should they cancel their summer, all-Missouri vacation plans during the construction? Nah, nothing bad happens to white people, so off they go! But the rains keep coming. There’s a virus spreading. Protests are forming. The site is flooding. Not even the black or Mexican workers will continue to build. Protests are getting closer. So is the virus. Somebody’s dad is sick? The architect died? What will happen to Paul SR and Diane’s all-white dream home and their all-white future? What will happen to their only son?

Rocky is a Latina from the Bronx. She’s hella good at field hockey. Good enough to leave 8th grade in the Bronx and go to a fancy white people high school where presidents are made. She attends. But why was she asked? Her ethnicity? Her talent? (that great leveler) Her intelligence?
The white girls on the team seem dirty. Seem angry. Angrier with every goal she scores. They have it in for her. What will they do?
Meanwhile, two white, straight, male sports radio hosts have been following Rocky’s career this whole time. You know how schools get about their sports. Is the world these two white men envision for Rocky the one she wants to end up in?
One of these radio hosts is made sicker and sicker by the world. The other is made stronger and stronger. Until he creates his own little world. Where only white people can live.
How does Rocky fit in? Are the girls going to kill her?
Help.

A judge is on a date, but each time her date, the waiter, or anyone else interprets the Constitution in a way she doesn't agree with, she starts to get physically ill. When threats are made, the situation turns tense -- can Puke Woman save them all?

Two horses, Snowy and Hope, have pulled the same carriage through the same strip of Central Park, taking the same path for years. Along the way they have lamented and loved, but have only ever turned to the “right.” What if, for the first time in their lives, they turn “left?”

Edward Snowden is trapped in a small Russian airport. To stave off insanity, he invents a
Russian character and personae for a stapler he found in a desk drawer, and talks with and to it, as well
as his constant companion – his cat. But more than this, Snowden seems to be very interested in the
Holographic Principle. The principle – which essentially states that all the information about the
contents of (or volume of) a black hole can be determined by the matter infused into the edges of a
black hole – has Snowden’s synapses firing in a pleasing manner for the first time in this leak-turned-
escape ordeal.

While Snowden and his (then) current situation are at the forefront of the story, spacetime
becomes appropriately fluid as characters weave their way into and out of Snowden’s airport world. We
meet a version of his girlfriend, his father, his mother, Angela Merkel, CIA operatives, British Secret
Forces operatives, Snowden’s lawyer, a Buddhist Monk, and others as Snowden attempts to navigate his
world and decide where to proceed as the situation becomes increasingly dire. Beyond the eminent
encroaching of the United States government on Snowden, now the US’s most-wanted man, is the fact
that through the window of the small airport utility room, a black cloud (one that in fact resembles a
black hole) is beginning to swallow up the outside world. How does Snowden get out of this one?

The Holographic Principle is used in this piece not merely to affix a high-minded scientific
concept to a relevant international storyline, but instead is used (through the lens of the theatrical) to
delve into what it is we all owe one another, if the very fabric and nature of our existence is in question.
If there are in fact potentially an infinite number of multiple universes, layered on top of one another,
then our mere notions of “right” and “wrong” are to be challenged. Who better to challenge them than
one of America's most polarizing figures – the hero or the traitor, Edward Snowden

The edge of everything. Four western 20-somethings have come to this wild, unfettered place to “live life as it was meant to be lived.” They’d like to open a yoga studio for the women of the village. But there’s a chained elephant that desperately needs its own help, and are we sure the villagers are peaceful? Suddenly the earth is very dry, their money has run out, the baby is missing. They are forced to hunt. Things here have quickly become dark and desperate.

Can man outrun himself?

Paul and Anthony have been friends since birth. Paul said his first word in Anthony’s kitchen. But screw Missouri. Screw high school. Screw freshman year. They wanna live in this really cool patch of woods Paul found. Girls are coming! With f-ing beer! This is going to be a very good night. Paul is eager to touch the goodies. He’s seen a lot of stuff. Porn. Starting at age eight? Yikes. Where the hell are the girls? What’s keeping them? Anthony’s room is always clean. Paul’s tired of a filthy home. He’ll have Anthony use the rake and get the leaves up and keep the dirt in straight lines like Paul wants. Paul will hunt the food. Anthony is pretty f-ing nervous. What happens when the girls actually get here? Paul says, Anthony if we’re friends you’ll agree to do to the girls what they do in the Hustler I brought. It involves lots of things. Fingers. Fists. Anthony cries. He likes animals. He’d rather talk about the rabbit he keeps in his mom’s garden. Paul is having serious troubles with his digestive tract. There’s blood when he wipes. It won’t stop. Will their older friend Rob show? He’s great with girls. Will he bring his dad’s gun? Paul’s seen him shoot it.
Suddenly, the sounds of the woods are electronic. Suddenly they are older. They’re coming back here. What has life done to each of them? Rob has been wounded in Iraq. His wife took the kids. PTSD, they think. Works the night shift at the Mobil on Lindbergh. Anthony’s wife is having their second child. He’s an activist? Who would have thought? He was such a docile kid. Vegetarian? Yea, we saw that one coming. Paul? What of Paul? He says he’s got a nice set up somewhere with a friend, but. Does he? And. There’s still blood. Only much more this time.
“Anthony? Help. Please.”
Will he?