Zoe Senese-Grossberg

What happened to the boys who played Shakespeare's women? In the summer of 1606, six boy players warm up, run lines, gossip, and fall in and out of love all in between rehearsals for the premieres of Antony and Cleopatra and Twelfth Night. As the plague and rising religious conservatism threaten their way of life, they are all forced to reconsider their futures on the stage.

LATE 18TH CENTURY FRANCE: Anne has been Louise-Clothilde’s lady’s maid her whole life. Every morning she dresses her, all day she hears of her woes and fancies, and at night she sleeps beside her for comfort. Whatever Louise-Clothilde needs- a friend, a punching bag, a nurse, a mother, a husband- Anne becomes. Yet, as the Revolution approaches the power in their relationship is turned on its head.

Mary, a young trans woman, is staying with her childhood best friend, Olivia, and Olivia’s boyfriend Dean for the weekend. Dean and Olivia -both recent Catholic converts- consistently antagonize her. However, as Mary is demonstrating odd symptoms -fatigue, nausea in the mornings, vivid dreams- something strange, supernatural, or even divine seems to be at play...

Krakow, February, 1945: Maja, Reina, Henryk, Isaak, and Gittel have just survived the Holocaust and are all each other has left in the entire world but each can’t stop worrying that the others were maybe hanging out without them in Auschwitz. A play about how life always finds a way- but finds a way to do what?

after a fight with her best friend lisa begins turning into a bird. only britpop star liam gallagher can set things right.

A wealthy Jewish family in Regency England attempts to pass the days through an endless season of balls and social pleasantries. When they build an automaton who ends up being the perfect woman; she seems to be a solution to all their problems. However, they soon realize she is far from under their control. A play with music that is part horror-comedy and part Austenian romance.

Victor Frankenstein is on the run from himself. Tormented by desires for his fiancé and best friend and terrified of the weakness of his vessel, he resolves to build a new body: something that will surely be better, stronger, and purer than humanity. This tight, erotically charged story theater adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel is to be performed by 4 actors and scored by live electric guitar.

In 1938, after publishing an expose on American Nazism and facing a shocking act of anti-semitic violence, Julia and Edward move from Boston to New York City to stay with his cousin, Freyda. Over the course of two evenings and four years, the three are pulled apart and drawn together as they are forced to question identities, allegiances, and what it might mean to truly live at the end of the world.

As Anna and Ollie prepare for her to take the abortion pill, a difficult discussion around his famous father causes both to question the power in their relationship.

A loose adaptation and deconstruction of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard recasts the Gayevs as a declining prominent Jewish German family who have lost their railroad empire to Aryanization. Set in the summer of 1935, the Gartenberg family enjoys the summer heat and lively debates while only the new money factory owner, Kurt Lange, sees the writing on the wall.

Two fourteen year old girls meet after temple and are drawn to one another instantly, bonding over the imagined cultivation of a tree as the days of the ghetto begin to run out. Interspersed with dream sequences of monologues and traditional Hebrew prayers, Etz Hayim is about first love, Jewish faith, and the power of these two forces to overcome any possible obstacles.

Kit, a college dropout, has fallen off the grid for about 2 years as a result of his sister's death. He reemerges after publishing a poetry book, crashing at his friend Brian's home in Brooklyn. In the house, Brian's housekeeper, Margaret, lives with her two daughters, the bright and promising Olive and the more directionless Frankie. Kit begins to form intense relationships with both daughters through his poetry, which leads to conflict and confusion in the household. Inspired by the life and poetry of John Keats, Negative Capability explores the powers of art, the nature of success, and the way we need one another.

Five friends wake up hungover, sweaty, and disoriented after a party almost none of them can fully remember. With plans to leave the country over the next few days to escape an incoming regime, a sinking feeling sets in as their flights begin to be canceled. Tensions run high, betrayals are exposed, and friendships are tested as all five begin to grapple with the reality of the nightmare they have entered. A play about youth, fascism, and what to do when the party is finally over.

Waltham House is the perfect refuge found only in children's literature where six children are sent to weather the Second World War, looked after by the distant but loving “Uncle.” Set over the course of 3 decades, the six grow up, together, and apart as England evolves from its pre to post war identity. Through an exploration of genre across British literature, Other Eden tracks the six as they grapple with their place in the world and the nature of childhood, innocence, sexuality, and their love for one another.