Weston Gaylord

Modern-day physicist Sophie travels back in time to 1666, meeting young Isaac Newton but upsetting the applecart of history in the process. An original comedy with a fresh, contemporary score, Gravity is a delightful tale of romance, feminism, and the art of science. Co-created with Joel Chapman, Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman & Ken Savage.

Fifty-Fifty is a 15-minute musical based on a declassified true story. One evening in 1983, at the height of Cold War tension, a Soviet officer in a military bunker makes the most important decision of his life. Weeks later he is interrogated by his superiors, who seek to understand: did Stanislav Petrov betray his country? Or is it possible he saved the world?

A site-specific immersive play about parenthood, circular time and the externalization of memory. Combines live actors with pre-recorded content in VR headsets.

In 2024, a novelist puts his mother’s life story into words. In 2114, his great-granddaughter and her son journey from a California farm to a Norwegian forest to uncover a secret that has waited a century to come to light. Examining the voices we choose to preserve and those that are lost forever, A Long Time Coming looks toward a future that holds both disaster and hope.

When Cass, a talented sleight-of-hand artist, approaches a group of magicians at a restaurant in hopes of becoming apprenticed to one of them, she receives an unexpected offer that challenges her feelings about her craft. The Palm of Her Hand examines the double-edged sword of personal mentorship, and the ethical choices that young sleight-of-hand practitioners face about how to use their skills of deception.

Leo has created an unlicensed restaurant inside his apartment, where handpicked groups of four are invited to dine on his meticulously concocted dishes. A possible ghost sighting at last week’s dinner has tonight’s quartet of strangers hoping for a repeat apparition. But what the group is in for, as the evening unfolds, might be more haunting than even the supernatural can provide.

Originally developed with the Geffen Writers’ Room.

Two marine biologists and a composer slowly lose their minds at the discovery that an octopus in their lab has composed the greatest symphony of all time.