Garrett Zuercher

A young gay man named Tip, finding himself at rock bottom, knows he has no other choice but to go rehab for his alcohol addiction. However, he quickly learns that being the only Deaf man in a facility designed for hearing people means he needs to fight for a lot more than just getting sober. Although his boyfriend, Jose, is stuck on the outside, Tip is able to connect with another patient on the inside, but nobody is able to foresee the tragedy that is to come.

A modern, highly-topical adaptation of Euripides' ALCESTIS that takes a look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a modern family from rural Georgia and the deeply-buried secrets that are finally brought to the surface. Recognized with the 2021 Zarkower Award from Hunter College's Theatre Department for exemplary achievement by a first-year MFA student, this play had a workshop under the direction of Mike Donahue and was performed by a cast that included Rodney Hicks (original cast of RENT) and Christopher Hanke (TV's The Resident) as a mixed-race gay couple raising their adopted son, around whom the world - both public and personal - implodes.

There are no Deaf characters or themes in this play.

A brand new play currently in development about three very different people living with hearing loss and how they discover themselves though each other, PRIVILEGE is - at its essence - an exploration of varying forms of privilege within the Deaf community. Through its comparison and contrast of the three Deaf characters, this play shows how identity is wildly intersectional and heavily based on both luck and the choices made by one's family. The plot itself follows a Hispanic Deaf child from a hearing immigrant family who has very little language but is now accused of attempted manslaughter, his lawyer with a cochlear implant and clear speaking voice who does his best to pass as hearing, and the Deaf man from a multigenerational Deaf family who ends up being hired to interpret between the two, who find themselves unable to communicate both literally and figuratively. Over the duration of the play, each of these three men are forced to analyze their own Deaf identity and place in the world.

What happens to you when you manage to become a star on Broadway with one specific show, but aren't able to follow up on that promise because you don't fit the mainstream or how we think of conventional casting? How do you avoid becoming just another ghost? This play also takes a look at what responsibilities we have to each other as artists. Once a show has closed, what does that mean for the connections we have built?

A modern retelling of Euripides' classic MEDEA, this time told through the eyes of a profoundly Deaf actor named Malachi who, after years of helping Jason, his hearing playwright boyfriend, write a new work heavily inspired by his own life, finds himself dumped - both personally and professionally - for another Deaf actor. Not only does this new actor, named Kit, speak a lot clearer than Malachi can, making him far more accessible to mainstream hearing audiences, he also has a father who happens to be a leading Broadway producer. After the play within the play and Kit ultimately both become the toasts of the Great White Way and rake in a few Tony Awards, Malachi decides it's high time to take his murderous revenge on them all.

Newly rewritten in a classic verse style that weaves together both spoken English and American Sign Language, this adaptation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy incorporates many topical themes ripped straight out of modern disability politics. In addition to providing a commentary on the harm done by language and cultural appropriation of a marginalized group of people, PHILOCTETES also takes a profound look at the precarious balance of minority identity and the ethics of passing. The story follows the Greek soldier Neoptolemos as he, ordered to do so by Odysseus, pretends to be Deaf in order to covertly convince Philoctetes, who really is Deaf, to rejoin Odysseus' army and help them win the battle of Troy with his divinely endowed bow. When the truth finally comes out that Neoptolemos is not just pretending to be Deaf, but doing so for Odysseus, who has spent his entire life hiding his own Deafness to rise in the ranks of the Greek army, this double betrayal turns Philoctetes against them all even more than ever. Ultimately, it requires a deus ex machina by the Deaf Herakles and the dispensing of her divine wisdom for everyone to start healing again.

Hearing college student Lindsay informs fellow student and Deaf man Lucas that, as a result of their drunken one-night-stand, she is now pregnant. However, she wants to give the baby up for adoption, which Lucas vehemently refuses to allow on the slim chance that the baby could also be Deaf. Through a magical twist of fate, everything changes and gives them each far more insight into their own identities than they could ever have imagined possible.

The entire play is performed in American Sign Language. Simultaneous voice actors can be provided.

What happens when Caroline is in desperate need of a beach vacation, but can't afford to take the time off from work? She gets creative and takes a bag of sand to Applebee's. A short, one-act comedy piece.

This play has no Deaf characters or themes.