Anita Parrott

A contraband mule and the spirit of her triple great grandmother must smuggle a pair of kidneys across (formerly-known-as) North America in a world where it’s forbidden to perform organ transplants. High John 5.17 is a sci-fi play set in the 2200s, full of magic, retold folktales, and the weight of bargains made by a few for the benefit of the many.

In a Texas coastal marsh, a group of humanity-hopefuls band together to prove that utopia is possible. They aim to live off their land for 90 days with no access to the outside world, inspiring greater change across the country. But when a looming threat arrives, along with a reluctant newcomer, The People of this marsh mesocosm must find a way to make it to the final day with their community still intact.

Harlem Hanover, a retired Olympic volleyball player, adopts three kids to teach them her life’s philosophy: winning. strays is a gritty maelstrom of betrayal and uncertainty, exploring competition, privilege, attention as care, and what one passes on to their children in pursuit of success.

Fraternal twins, Lorelei and Morrigan have a sinister way of passing the free time they have afforded by their trust-fund lifestyle. A one-act thrill ride made up of fun, murder, and betrayal, dizygotic explores just how much love can make up for.

Sentient layers of skin on a human body barter for more than 30 days to exist.

Cordyceps and Candida are immortal fungi in love who have been chasing each other for millennia. Spew and Baby are human, strangers, and have weak immune systems. Everyone is new to Martha’s Vineyard, where getting to know your neighbors might just mean getting very, very deep under their skin… A dark, queer love story told through the tangling of bodies, classes, and species, Spew’s Little Baby is a play about desire and its capacity to spark life, unleash decay… or both.

Ombudsman is a play set in the early 2100s that follows Amity and Seph, who were sentenced to life in captivity under a new prison structure called the Gemini Program. The United States Government has commandeered a section of land for criminals to live among each other as a form of prison reform. Under this new order, prisoners are paired off with prisoners born on the same day as them to live out the rest of their sentences.

While grappling with the concept of romantic love, Hunter must untangle the webs of her life through the lens of a revolving door.

In a bleak near future, artists must grapple with whether or not to renounce the very thing that makes their lives worth living while under the threat of death in an unrelenting violent political system.

The planets of the Milky Way are a dysfunctional family, and Pluto doesn't fit the binary.

Florence and Leah's trip to Trader Joe's is interrupted by the tension between them.

And the rapture.

Two people stuck in an elevator confront their mortality while awaiting their fate.

Neveah is being cross-examined. In purgatory?