The Veils
Cast: 5
Genre: docudrama/historic, drama
A female Marine returns home from deployment in Afghanistan to begin planning her wedding. While being tormented by her controlling sister and mother, she fights against the ghosts she's returned with from her experience overseas.
Pacific
Cast: 5
Genre: docudrama/historic, drama
In the spring of 2011, an 8.6 earthquake rattled the coastline of Northern Japan. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that managed to span the Pacific Ocean, soaking the coastal towns of Hawaii and pulling on the moorings of boats in California, and damaged the Fukushima Power Plant in Japan. The owners of the power plant issued a plea to their employees to come to work if they were willing – an attempt to...read more
In the spring of 2011, an 8.6 earthquake rattled the coastline of Northern Japan. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that managed to span the Pacific Ocean, soaking the coastal towns of Hawaii and pulling on the moorings of boats in California, and damaged the Fukushima Power Plant in Japan. The owners of the power plant issued a plea to their employees to come to work if they were willing – an attempt to keep this potential disaster at bay – and expose themselves to radiation in the process. In each of the three locations, characters follow the news report about the events in Japan, as well as do their best to keep contact with one another. In turn, they call, text and video-conference with each other, with technologies reflected onstage via projections and live video feeds. Through their various interactions in the aftermath of the tsunami, each character confronts questions of responsibility to country and humanity, self-identity, and how we define home. In the end, each tries in their own way to contribute something that makes their post-tsunami world a little bit better. Will achieves this most directly in his animation project, which goes “viral”, spreading hope for the future of Japan, and indeed the world.
Renovations
Cast: 3
Genre: comedy, dark comedy
A pair of hermit crabs live at the seashore with a sea anemone. As is typical, one of the hermit crabs has a few things stuck to his shell, but the other has an obscene amount. The tide is rising and the first crab and the anemone must convince the second crab to give up those hoarded objects to save them from the quickly rising seas.
The Head That Wears the Crown
Cast: 5
Genre: dark comedy, drama
Told in a fast-moving, non-traditional narrative, the world of a trio of high school girls is upset by the arrival of a likable new girl. They keep their new enemy close until they can exact their revenge, the consequences of which follow all of them into adulthood. It turns out, the perpetrators are the ones who will never recover. (In early drafts)
Booker T. Washington Project
Cast: 1
Genre: biography, docudrama/historic
A one-man play following the life and tribulations of Booker T. Washington.
Merica (1 Min Play)
Cast: 3–7
Genre: drama, movement/physical
An average American works hard, but is held down by the system... until they have only one thing to grasp onto.
Youth (1 Min Play)
Cast: 3–10
Genre: drama, movement/physical
Two children on the playground stand together against the judgement of the world.
Elephant Walk (10 Min Play)
Cast: 4
Genre: comedy, drama
Two mothers from different economic backgrounds encounter each other as the circus walks their elephants into town, as their children act like children.
Earth Mother (working title)
Cast: 7–11
Genre: drama, experimental
An American woman on an escape from reality in Bangkok befriends a novice Buddhist monk. As they work through their wounds together, their lost loved ones journey on in the spirit world, all trying to achieve some level of peace and maybe even enlightenment.