Stephen Fruchtman

It's the summer of 2020 in Manhattan and people are still celebrating medical workers with screaming and cleaning, but just barely. Mort is dying of leukemia and having meetings with their death doula Dylan. Dylan is renting an office, much to the chagrin of the IT / maintenance woman. All of their paths intersect with Val, who is working for all of the delivery apps in the area. They try to build relationships and community and just get by in these terrible times. Who is essential to who?

In the very near future, the world is very nearly out of trees. There is a secret American military operation to go back in time and retrieve more wood, but they'll have to sacrifice their very last tree to do it. Can they achieve their mission without repeatedly doing horrible damage to the timeline and revealing international military secrets?

A non-binary Rabbi is holding pandemic open office hours on Zoom when a young Jewish person wanders in with a prayer they want to say but cannot find the words for. They try to find the words together, along with the true meaning behind the Yiddish theater turned folk ballad "Dona, Dona, Dona."

In the early winter of 2022, Azriel "Azzie" Barber, a Jewish enby who is devoutly studious of their religious texts, molds a golem from the snow in Union Square park in the hopes that they can bring it to life in anticipation of the rise in antisemitism and transphobia that will be brought on by the release of Hogwarts Legacy. But will they be successful and can they and the golem do anything about anything, or is there too much in the way, including Azzie's own personal issues?

Evan, an enby socialist political activist, discovers that their estranged father is a vlogger and qanoner and goes to him to minimize the damage he might do in the future, as well as come to terms with their shared past.

In 2014, Mom & Pop are preparing to open their Mom & Pop shop in Park Slope, but as they start to unpack their locally-sourced emu oil, tensions start to flare, and they confront their roles in their business partnership, in their relationship, and in the white supremacy inherent to capitalism.

Cindy is a Black Trans woman who runs her own art gallery in Manhattan in May of 2021, at the start of the Delta Covid wave. When cryptobro Maximo comes into the gallery, takes a photo of one of her pieces and turns it into an NFT right in front of her, things descend into chaos that neither they, nor Cindy's best friend William can fully control. A riff on the white cishet male christian supremacist coopting of marginalized art using Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" as a springboard.

Three former friends come back into contact at their very midwestern and very Christian high school reunion, where they must come to terms with what they did to each other and themselves back then, and how it has shaped them into who they are now.

Based off of workshops and improvisations with Blake Brundy, Parker Jenkins and Natalie Marsan;
As directed by Zakk Ottmers

This 10 minute play follows a Jewish mother and son through three times in their lives.

When Jesus is cast down to hell for good, he and Satan hash our their daddy issues, explore how they got to where they are (again, hell), and figure out what to do from here,

A prisoner on death row wants to be executed by firing squad, but he must get the permission of a Mormon Elder to do so, and the police force need to find volunteers for the task at hand.

Three nerds use the science of the Back to the Future trilogy to build and test a time machine with adverse effects on the timeline in this examination of toxicity and self-loathing in geek culture, but at least they can hopefully get the BTTF the reception - and Oscars - that it deserved.

A Rom-Com wedding interruption scene is interrupted by the best man, who leaves the story. The story decides to follow him instead, leaving all the other characters stumbling for meaning to find, or even anything to do.

A group of gaming friends, who have only ever interacted with each other online, deal with - and subject each other to -racism, sexism and homophobia while trying desperately to be the best at what they do, or at least to eke out the occasional win.

A couple from Dongola in Sudan decide to visit Dongola, Illinois, when their car breaks down.

Not-Deadpool tells the story of the downward spiral of Not-Spider-man

Samuel Beckett and Andre "The Giant" are trapped together in a car by the compelling power of a legend that Becket drove Andre to school when he was young. As they sort out their situation, they also try to figure out their age, the time, their relation to each other, and, of course, a way out.

Having gone through almost every conversation she can imagine, a middle-aged Jewish woman decides to send her senile mother to a retirement home in the morning, but not before sharing one last thing: her eulogy.

A baby - played by an adult actress - has her first existential crisis in the middle of a photo shoot, much to her parents' dismay.

A couple come for a night of theater only to find that they are being put on trial, but for what?

Two nerds find themselves on a game show, finally a chance to show the world how much they know about the things that matter to them! But the host isn't just asking about nerdy things, and somehow has access to some of their most deeply personal information.

A child returns early to their parents' home from college following a haunting mental-health crisis, only to find that they are in the middle of their own crisis, and that the ghosts have followed them home.

Two people find themselves trapped in a purgatory that compels them to say and do the same things over and over again. Maybe they can figure their way out if they can figure out anything about where they are.

Written in the wake of 9/11, Fake Boy is about a family and personal crisis on that fateful day.

In the post-apocalypse, a carnival Barker must make money any way he can, but their Client may not be as easy a mark as anticipated.

William Peter Blatty, the writer of the Exorcist, tried to get his friend Groucho Marx to visit the set to film some joke takes. In this play, Blatty imagines what might have happened if Marx had done that.