Dylan Malloy

Devon, a young woman working a minimum-wage job at a luxury floatation therapy retreat in the Southern California desert, is stealing from her employer. Jules, an exorbitantly wealthy, chronically ill retreat guest, is keeping her secret. When Connor, a fellow retreat guest and wellness influencer, catches wind of Devon’s struggle, he recruits her into a financial scheme with the potential to change her life. To escape poverty, Devon will have to recruit--and ruin--Jules, the closest thing she has to a friend. As all three characters conspire around each other, love will be found, lives will be wrecked, and money will be made. The Big One examines late-stage capitalism and the lines we will cross to free ourselves of suffering.

Two women who work as professional party mermaids in Orange County, CA reflect upon the difficulty of their job and the possibility of a brighter future.

As billionaires take off into space to colonize Mars, Will and June, two impoverished teenagers from a drought-stricken town, watch the rocket launch and reflect upon their lifelong friendship. June is devastated when she learns that Will is obsessed with the impossible hope of leaving Earth behind forever–and her along with it. Felicity is the second installment of a five-play cycle examining human connection and the climate crisis.

Two friends arrive at an emergency shelter in a church basement as a wildfire destroys their Coloradan small town. James, a disaster prepper and climate change activist, clashes with Robin, a nature painter who chooses to ignore the fact that the climate is changing. The pair debates the issue of fear versus faith, finding that neither one is truly “right”—but an unexpected confession of love draws them together once again. A prequel to The Groundwater.

After a futuristic water shortage decimates the American West, three strangers hide out in a cabin located in the Colorado wilderness. A middle-aged conspiracy theorist, a young pregnant woman, and a teenage golden boy care for each other even as their water supply dwindles. Their makeshift family splinters when the boy’s dehydration results in unsettling hallucinations about the natural world, which he insists are visions of the future. All the while, the woman senses a strange presence haunting her every move. The Groundwater explores faith, fear, and the hope of human connection at the end of the world.

In a small Colorado town, a disaster prepper readies himself for an apocalyptic storm. A young woman falls in love with a man she meets in an online chat forum and spirals when she realizes it isn’t mutual. The ghost of a teenage golden boy recounts the swimming stunt that cost him his life while immortalizing him as a legend.

As these characters’ lives collide, the line blurs between the digital and physical worlds, revealing the strangeness of loneliness and legend-telling in the American West.

Years in the future, a billionaire tech developer tries to defend his newest invention before Congress. His bestselling VR headset allows people to see an alternate version of Earth: one that hasn't been devastated by climate change. The technology is perfect... and dangerously addictive.