It’s something like the 1950s and Donald Peterson’s perfect lawn is groomed to win a blue ribbon at the neighborhood parade -- but in the night it turns brown. This means war against his strange and foreign neighbor whose anti-American lawn is all dandelion and clover. And what’s worse, his baton-twirling daughter’s legs are getting far too long for her short-shorts, and she is much too interested in her fiancé’s elephant tusk. Can he make his daughter and restless wife stand by his side like good patriots? Or will their spirits roam from the safety of the suburbs into the dangers of their own hearts?

Character Breakdown: 4M, 3F

Set/Technical: An extraordinary lawn.
Running Time: 2 hours with intermission

The Authentic and Historical Account of the INFAMOUS CRIMES and ADVENTURES of Burke & Hare; Involving Vile Acts of GRAVE ROBBING, MURDER, and SEX; Including Detailed Scenes of the Insidious and Lecherous Teachings of the Scandalous Dr. Robert Knox and Helen McDougal; A Lyrical Tragi-Comic True-to-Life Drama in Verse With Spectacular Fights and Stunts! Performed by Skilled and Able Players in Five Exciting Acts

Character Breakdown: 5M, 1F

Set/Technical: The play begins and ends as an interactive kitsch side-show/haunted house -- so whatever the "Authentic Reproduction of an 1820s Edinburgh Inn" looks like is the set for the body of the play.
Running Time: 2 hours

After his wife leaves him, beloved high school biology teacher, Andrew Goodspeed, suffers a mild heart attack. In an effort to make sense of his disillusionment, Andrew devises a new course for his students: a study of the science of love. Sharon, Andrew’s best student, is convinced that she is incapable of love. She manipulates the experiment, her teachers, and her peers to prove this theory. But she and Andrew begin to wonder: can true love be proved by observable physiological data? Against his better judgment, Andrew allows Sharon to guide the experiment down a more intimate track, putting his job and his reputation in jeopardy.

WONDERLUST explores the mysteries of love, and our expectations of it, in contemporary American culture. Should it be dissected and studied? Should it be chalked up to faith? Or is it best left a thing of wonder?

Character Breakdown: 3M, 1F

Set/Technical: A school desk. A teacher's desk.
Running Time: 2 hours with intermission

Kerri is losing her best friend, Cynthia. And her boyfriend, and her job. Because the terrible things that aren’t happening to her, but are happening in Los Angeles, in the Country, in the World, in the Universe...are too much to take. Her biggest problem is, as Cynthia says, "When you ask people how they're doing, you really mean it."

Character Breakdown: 3M, 2F

Set/Technical: A miniature, idilic Los Angeles and mountains.
Running Time: 70 min., no intermission

Bingo Bingham has made a living spinning products and political candidates. But when his father dies and he inherits his Alzheimer’s-suffering mother, when his daughter, Miranda, leaves college to be with the dangerous conspiracy theorist, Todd, and when his disengaged wife, Annie, has lost faith in him, he begins to spin his own life. Using his polished arsenal of nostalgia, fear, and desire, Bingo tries to manufacture happiness for himself and those he loves. A shocking, terrifying, and funny story about psychological persuasion, manipulation, and loneliness in a world spun out of orbit.

Character Breakdown: 2M, 3F

Set/Technical: A house in the San Fernando valley.
Running Time: 90 minutes with intermission

A $ingle dollar-bill inadvertently connect$ 8 people through time and $pace: Teenagers invent games of love and $ex in a fallout shelter on the eve of the 1962 Cuban Mi$$ile cri$i$. A Ukrainian-American couple struggle through a day of work at their Napa health $pa the morning after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear di$a$ter. And three American turistas in 2004 Havana see themselves anew through the eye$ of Cuban$.

Character Breakdown: 3M, 5F

Set/Technical: An empty stage with pneumatic tubing. A video monitor.
Running Time: 2 hours with intermission

A man miraculously survives a skydive after his parachute fails. With a new lease on life, his newfound vim doesn't seem to penetrate the woman interviewing him. He begins to wonder if he's immortal -- or already dead.

Character Breakdown: 1M, 1F

Set/Technical: 2 chairs. Maybe a table.

A woman takes a cruise to mourn her drowned son. On this surreal journey, the people around her become the half-ghosts and imaginings of the moments when she couldn't save him.

Character Breakdown: 2M, 2F

Set/Technical: The deck of a ship in the middle of a dark, foggy sea.