Joshua Taylor Piper

Two siblings sit next to a fire pit outside of their childhood home. They've spent their whole life here as they try to figure out whether or not a house can hold anger or if God loves them through the fireflies in their backyard. Tobias and Emma, Toby and Em to each other, try to keep themselves warm and keep the fire going so they can answer one question: what happens to a boy made of wheat and a girl made of flowers when winter tries to separate them?

A young screenwriter and actor has moved to Paris after the premature death of his husband as he tries to write his first feature film. A barista has moved to Paris following her husband. Their lives intertwine as they sort through grief one journal entry at a time. "Cafe Americano" is a play that examines how grief throws us through the wringer as we try to find our way to the surface and how sometimes our biggest life preserver can be a stranger we meet.

Hayes and Collin work at “The Last Sonic On Earth”. Well, not the “last” Sonic on Earth, just the last one where they roller skate to your car. After a roller skating incident and a classmate, Ava, begins working with them, the three of them are thrown in the face of toxic masculinity. “The Last Sonic On Earth” is a coming of age tale about carcinogenic soda, primary color castles, and all the ways boyhood is wielded against us all.

Bertha is a plant child, half human, half plant. She needs a tank of purified C02 in order to breathe as well as a handful of meds to survive. Her mom, Catherine, just found out these meds are no longer covered after the recent presidential election. Bertha, in confronting her mom about who she voted for, uncovers a secret about her father, a mangrove tree in Louisiana.

Bill makes a living off of shooting hogs on his front porch in Kerr County, Texas. His son, Billy Jr, has never shot a hog, meaning he still hasn't entered manhood. "F*ckin' Satan Pig" is about the generational passing down of toxic masculinity that is inherent to living in the South and how no matter what one does it feels like something that can never be escaped.

Weller's a bartender in a college town, except he has a secret, he's been reanimating Benji in the kitchen every night. Why? Cause Benji is letting Weller kill him over and over again every night in every way possible. It's so he can make amends with Weller, but are amends ever enough?

What You Found In My Closet follows siblings Mina and Noah as they search through the bedroom and handmade clothes of their younger brother Danny, who had begun going by Pluto before his death, trying to decide what he should wear for his funeral. What begins as a simple task unravels into an excavation of family expectations, and buried secrets surface, the closet and its contents begin to haunt the space.

Have you ever decided to beat that one gross asshole who traumatized your sister at Top Golf? This play is kinda like that.

ONE ACT - Four students film videos for the SCAD Forever Fund scholarship. Through the power of the legendary mother, Chaka Khan, basic French, comic book socialism, and a lot of paint we see these high schoolers hit the wall all modern artists do at one point. Is art a competition?

10 Minute - Declan's trying to sell you a boat at Bass Pro Shop. Petey is trying to find love on said boat. A dark comedy about the dangerous situations queer people will put themselves in to connect.

Lucas just created ClassifAIed, a new facial AI search engine that can identify any face in a crowd with one picture. Things take a turn we he encounters a figure on the subway who can't be recognized using ClassifAIed. Pushing away everyone who loves him to figure out who this person is, he uncovers family secrets all pointing to the question: should he pull the plug on his creation?

10 minute - Originally called "Too Early To Be An Antique In Round Top", this play is about a young couple dealing with unfortunate news outside a bar in the antique capital of Texas, a small town called Round Top.

It's the death of Bohemia in Paris. Antoine believes we can glow, Georges is leaving Paris, and Rosalie is getting married and hasn't told her best friend. Antoine, hopelessly in love with Georges, can't find it in himself to tell Georges before he leaves Paris, so he decides he'll paint all the love he has for Georges into one last painting. Georges promises he'll stay if he loves the painting, but after Rosalie breaks the news about her getting married everything starts to fall apart and fall into place. Antoine wonders if he'll ever be able to paint the art of marrying Georges. Maybe in another life.

ONE ACT - Caleb wants to fly, and by fly he means get drunk. His father passed away recently, and Caleb has been drunk driving tonight. His girlfriend, Abigail has just found him. What follows is Abigail's attempt to keep Caleb from flying again. When it's all over we're left wondering if Caleb is flying over Houston's Beltway 8.

Apollo and Hyacinthus work at the same coffeeshop on their college campus. They're total opposites, but through a set of events they find themselves wrapped up in a colligate scandal when Apollo's baseball coach kicks him off the team due to his dating Hyacinthus. Apparently, the student. athlete handbook, follows "Biblical standards". Through the retelling of two Greek myths, "In The Beginning" is about the power we give to private institutions and the queer people searching for a place in Christianity in a world where people's prejudices have seeped into not just our day to day life, but into the Bible as well. However, at the end of the day the love we pour onto others and the love we find will always reign victorious.

A young King rules over a paper castle. A monster threatens his kingdom and those he loves. Missy, royal friend of King Will, tells his story in a book reading. It's the story of King Will, his mother, Melody, and his fight with the Chimera. As Missy tells this fairy tale of King Will it becomes understood that underneath the guise of "once upon a time" there is a boy who is scared of what might happen to him. However, it's the love that bonds us all that can give us the strength of thousands. It's a tale of paper flowers, bells ringing, stars, swords of fire, blue jello, a ceiling made of book pages, and a young man fighting for those he loves.

10 minute - Sand is trickling into Ambrose's house. He is going to suffocate in it. He writes a poem about it, he tries to, at least.

Orion, a young astronaut on the international space station, is on a video call with his sister Ashton, who has news she is attempting to withhold from him. Orion and Ashton discover what's beyond a blackhole.

Can be done on zoom, as a radio play, or on stage.

An accountant lived a very mundane life until one day things change. A loose adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's short story "The Train Has Whistled".

An adaptation of the myth of Calypso and Odysseus, we watch a couple live out their daily routine in the East Village of New York, until they can't continue anymore.