Addie Ulrey

what’s going to happen to me when you go to college?

I think… you’re going to meet a boy, and get pregnant, and get in trouble, and have a baby, and get married. and get a job. and have another baby, and get a dog, and get a better job, and realize you’re a boy, and start looking like a boy, and get another dog, and get a different job, and get a divorce, and have a breakdown.

you think so?

<delirious sleepover laughter>

no way.

THE ONLY SEASON is a play about childhood ghosts, things you thought you’d be free of by now, and holding each other through crisis, or failing to. Sid and Thea have been friends their whole lives. Now, as middle age comes into view, the traditional life Sid tried to build is crumbling around him, while Thea is stuck in a loop of striving with nothing to show for it. But whose story are they living in anyway? And now that they’re the grownups, how do they hold the story for Sid’s kids? From a dance of distance and phone calls to a nightmare tea party inside Sid’s mind to the harsh reality of a hospital room, THE ONLY SEASON is a queer midlife crisis play and an offering to the seasons we make it out of alive.

The hot one. The one who lies about her age. The man of faith. The career chick. The bisexual.

In the game of love, who are you? What has it taken to name your own desires inside the limited landscape of our cultural story about love? In the Game takes us inside a sinister Bachelor-esque reality tv show to examine the ways we’ve been taught that love = winning, and what happens when we try to get out.

You.
A companion.
Your living room.
A play that comes in the mail... about a box that comes in the mail.
A play about a color, or the absence of.
the absence of what?
There are no absences.
There are only the spaces inside you you have not yet named.

HOW TO FILL IT is a subscription play designed to be performed at home, one scene per week, over the course of six weeks. Beginning with an internet purchase gone wrong, the characters find themselves on an unexpected journey, one where they encounter their own questions, frustrations, differences and secretly held beliefs about what it means to be a “good” white person in America.

Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else? Circus Trick is the story of a clown who stages a rebellion against the commodification of entertainment in an on-demand world, and in doing so, explores some of the stranger possible benefits of live performance.

Fourteen-year-old Cami is deep into zero-waste blogs, solar-panel Kickstarters, and homemade laundry detergent. Cami’s parents, Heather and Beth, are activist-y types themselves and are proud of their daughter’s passion. But when they discover what she has been doing with all the trash she can’t recycle, the line between passion and compulsion starts to blur. Then her aunt Verve shows up, ambivalently pregnant and fleeing her own world that’s coming to an end.

When the Lights Go Out interrogates the variety of ways we are coping with—and not coping with—accelerating ecocide through the eyes of a 14 year old in crisis and the adults around her. Centering on an uncertain web of family ties, the play interrogates our loyalty to various lineages—blood family, queer family, good people/people who “change the world”—and asks: how much of our life’s meaning do we derive from believing that we are part of a lineage that continues?

The customer is always right. Except when they're not, which is most of the time. It starts out being about breakfast sausage, but pretty soon it's about changing the world.

Many years from now, when in-person gatherings are just a nostalgic memory, three academics debate the mysteries and merits of a long-dead practice called "theatre" in a Zoom panel discussion.

Go to dance class.
Do not skip dance class.
Occasionally you may need to skip dance class.
Accept that time is passing.
You may never feel ripe, but at some point you will feel past ripe.
You will wonder what ripe may have felt like.
You will recall moments when you thought, “this is the beginning.”
You will recall arrival, departure.
But the thing itself?
This life is not a fruit.
The body is a fruit, but this life is not a fruit.
There is no guarantee that you will bloom.

The American cowboy. Hero or villain? Casanova or colonizer? Either way, his myth rides on. And in this rural Montana town, everyone must reckon with his long, stooped shadow. A Different Long Stretch of Earth is a play about the American West, and how the mythologies and mindsets of our collective past shape our ability to envision the future.
*Originally developed with Amy Sass for Ragged Wing Ensemble.