Tess Rowan

Gravediggers is an original dark comedy play following six inhabitants of a run-down historic estate in rural Montana and the secrets they bury down deep in the ground.

On one side of the Boothe Estate lies a graveyard, garden, gift shop, and mansion, home to aging property owner, Boothe, and lonely gravedigger employee, Pete. On the other side stands a small church and clergy house, now a part-time chapel, run by Reverend Margot, and a funeral home, run by her sister-in-law, Audrey, and Audrey’s teenage niece, Joyce.

When new groundskeeper Nellie arrives at the Boothe Estate, people and plants suddenly die, invasive insects take over, and a new romance rewrites tombstones, leaving secrets sprawled out across the overgrown lawn. The Boothe Estate’s odd occupants and even odder staff members must learn to let their skeletons out of the closet in a story of love, destruction, and obsessions with death.

Static is an original morse code musical about a teen trying to find her dad who's lost in the woods. The McAfees have lived in the Pennsylvania forest ever since their father went missing on the Appalachian Trail. Daughter Maine teams up with local teen Charlie on a detective mission to find Maine’s father. Yet, the truth may silence waves of sound. An original adventure musical with a radio blend of musical theater, rock, folk, and immersive morse code clues.

Static is the first musical to utilize morse code as a method of dramatic storytelling, including cryptic morse mode clues for audiences to solve and messages embedded in drum rhythms and grooving musical lines, ultimately allowing for an immersive mystery listening experience.

You can learn more about Static at @staticmusical or www.tessrowan.com/staticmusical

Your Carving Footprint is an immersive one-act conservationist comedy about acting out against the inevitable. Teenage couple, Bobbi and Simon, have one hour left at their hideout until Bobbi’s parent’s construction company tears down Zone B of the South Valley Parkland Forest. Distracted by signing petitions, stabbing trees, and tossing paper airplane projectiles, Bobbi and Simon confront their own natural disasters. Before sunrise, Bobbi and Simon must decide to accept fate or fight the uncontrollable.

Break My Bones is a cathartic journey through worlds, exploring how youth makes hurting so hard to heal. Lily fights to craft the perfect eulogy to fix broken relationships and stitch the wounds of her high school friends. In this ten-minute drama, Patrick, Andrew, and Lily must reconnect to change their story and bring life back.

Newly single Leah and her confidant, Maggie imagine whimsical ideals and fatal destinies that could ensue with the unidentifiable teenage enigma, Mr. Stranger. An odd day in the park may lead to young love or a strange family Friday game night in this upbeat ten-minute comedy.

Published and available for licensing by Smith & Kraus Publishers' Dramafest collection.

Teenage twins, Penelope and Sawyer Patterson, struggle with saying "sorry," so they must give an apology in the only way they know how: with pie. It's all up to cat-caregiver and cooking connoisseur, Mrs. Margery to decide whether or not these Patterson twins can be redeemed for their fatal mistake. Eccentric characters, rolling dialogue, diverging alliances, and a kitchen-equipped bloodbath are baked into this off-beat one-act comedy.

Published and available for licensing by Smith & Kraus Publishers' Dramafest collection.

Break My Bones is a cathartic journey through worlds, exploring how youth makes hurting so hard to heal. Lily fights to craft the perfect eulogy to fix broken relationships and stitch the wounds of her high school friends. In this ten-minute drama, Patrick, Andrew, and Lily must reconnect to change their story and bring life back.