C. Denby Swanson

At a Sabbath pot luck, four women argue about free will, faith, and sisterhood. Do we have free will? Do we want it? Do we want it for each other?

A strong, bitter comedy about women scorned in Minnesota and the really, really nice gangsters—Norwegian hit men—they hire to whack their ex-boyfriends. Olive is a transplant from Texas and Betty is a transplant from Kentucky, but neither of them was prepared for the Norwegian men they would fall in love with there: the practical, warm, thoughtful, destructive, evil, jilting kind. If you're a hit man in Minnesota, 83% of your clients want to take out their ex (oofda!). Betty has referred Olive to Gus and Tor, a partnership in the whacking business. What Tor doesn't know is that Gus has been sleeping with the clients. What Olive doesn't know is that Gus is Betty's own ex, and she has already put out a hit on him with a Swiss firm. Can Betty call off the job in time to let Gus do his? Should she?

One by one members of the family of succumbed to a mysterious disease. Now the twins are quarantined and Mother’s only hope for Father’s life lies in the hands of the modest family doctor. But is the doctor the devil? No animals are injured in the course of the play, but we make no promises about the health of a family of cat-shaped sock puppets.

Inspired by the article “Climbing the Redwoods,” by Richard Preston. The New Yorker, Feb 14 & 21, 2005, THE REDWOOD BOMB is a meet-cute between redwood poacher Jake and tree researcher Magnolia.

Gail wants a divorce. She thinks her husband has been unfaithful a pig they keep on their farm - is she now turning into one of them?

A walking theatrical meditation for zoom, about traveling, isolation, expectation, and parenting.

This is a little bit like the Scottish Play, if Macbeth had offered feedback on a Bic pen.

In fact, it was imagined out of and adapted from customer reviews at the following link:

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A gun will go off by the end of the play. But it's not what you think.

Floyd loves pie and he loves Tildy. Tildy loves Juba, but he broke her heart when he ran off with Lala. Now Lala and Tildy are up against each other in the pie competition at the county fair. Who will win?

Dennis has been found dead at his home. He wants to know if you see him. He is shaped like a cat.
Based on a real story.

In the middle of an epidemic that is wiping out family farmers, Bea and Harry, await their inspection by their neighbor Harry, who also used to be a farmer. What will he find?

BAD SCIENCE is a fast-paced dramedy about big emotions, big decisions, romantic relationships, vaccines, the internet, the high school dance, and Arthur Miller's classic play The Crucible.

Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of forensic science" and creator of the miniatures called The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, hijacks a seminar on homicide investigation, in Baltimore, in order to investigate a crime. But which crime? Who gets justice?

Red and her classmates walk in, dreading the final exam on The Canterbury Tales, only to find a Substitute instead of their beloved English teacher, Mrs. C. They decide to play a prank and make up new Canterbury Tales - will the Sub notice? Will they pass? Will Red get the grade she needs so that she can attend her poetry workshop? More importantly, where is Mrs. C?

Loosely adapted from a 9th grade biology textbook, Everything So Far is a whimsical interweaving of several impossible stories -- a Dinosaur looking for her lost egg, a Biologist with dark intentions, a Fly with 24 hours to live, the three Fates, the All Chimp Runaway Lab Monkey Band, and a narrator, Peter, who has recently died but finds his way back in time to the moment of his most perfect peace.

When Alberta, the daughter of a mathematician, struggles to comprehend her parents' impending divorce, she invokes her father's hero and her own namesake: Albert Einstein. The unlikely pair visits the past to study the early strains of her parents' marriage via an incident involving an ambiguous traffic light, a cantankerous judge, and a few amiable Texas Rangers. By examining the incident step by step, Einstein helps Alberta accept the uncertainty that lies in all things, whether it be time and space, or the bond between a husband and wife.

In this modern Russian fairy tale, a young man must decide whether or not to sell his wild forest mushrooms to a beautiful young woman in the Moscow marketplace. Only five things stand in the way: One, his mushrooms are radioactive. Two, three, four, and five are his twin brothers, who were born on the fingers of his right hand, a result of the accident at Chernobyl. And then there are the market's inspectors, who are hot on his trail and closing in fast...

In this modern adaptation of the Greek classic Antigone, a rebellious high school student named Alice must respond to the sudden and shattering death of her older brother, the class valedictorian -- who was shot while robbing a convenience store. Up against an unyielding principal and accompanied by a bookish Geek Chorus, Alice must find her own way through personal and classical tragedy. In honoring her brother, she'll probably break some rules. Which is more important?

A family drama set in the Piney Woods of East Texas. A fiesty elderly woman, Dottie, has ended her own life, but returns to help her daughter come to terms with her decision. She forms a magical connection with her young granddaughter and with the neighbor, whom the granddaughter calls Mrs. Alzheimer's

A dark, bitter, and redemptive one-man show (with additional voices) about theater, love, family, cater-waiters, Hanukkah, and the last Christmas tree on the lot. Written with David Marantz and Stephen Bittrich.