Sloka Krishnan

The bodies keep piling up, and the old tricks of turning to BDSM, mysticism, and/or parenthood don't seem to be an adequate fix anymore. Not in the dungeon, where the Master's power escapes him; not in the shrine, where the Deity no longer resides; and not in the nursery, where the baby remains resolutely silent. Plus there's this *fog* everywhere. Is it even possible for something different to be on the other side? Sanctum Sanctorum is a meditation on power, stasis, interconnectedness, and the effect of looking away in a context of inescapable violence. (Approx. 80-minute run time.)

Genevieve Ingleside, disgraced future Baroness of Savannah, has escaped her family’s stifling country estate and found a life for herself in the city, navigating newfound intimacies in a time of plague and surveillance. Her grandmother, meanwhile, remains at home. When both find themselves in the crossfire of a public health and/or -relations crisis, they are forced to reconsider the strength of their family ties ... and of their facility with a pair of gardening shears. (Approx. 90-minute run time.)

In a fragmenting world, four politicians jockey for power and grapple with desire; three hapless do-gooders parrot rhetoric they've been fed and clamor for change they can’t envision; and a trio of outcasts retreat to the woods for a peace that they too find unsustainable. Moving with the lightning speed of the 24-hour news cycle, rich with music and movement, filthy with sex and boiling with rage, Maybe Politics Are Over is an unsparing look at the fury, destructiveness, and exhaustion of our times. (Approx. 70-minute run time.)

The Grand Transsexual Draweth Nigh is a darkly comedic magical trans Halloween revenge mystery; a plea for ritual and transcendence; and an exploration of identity, authenticity, assimilation, and the ways in which we are consumed and alienated by our own desires, specifically in the contexts of queer/trans subcultures and racialized and gendered hierarchies of desirability. It follows a young gay trans man of color and three of his friends on the night when they once and for all become the devourers, not the devoured. (Approx. 50-minute run time.)

In a pristine library that has been emptied of books, three agitated stakeholders fight over the future of the institution and the future of knowledge. Babble is a campy and surreal parable about the dangers of decorum. (30-minute one-act.)

Trickle-Down is a sweet coming-of-age lesbian revenge rom-com in the form of a gay romp across Ronald Reagan’s grave. (10-minute musical.)