The Butterfly Anchor by Darrin Friedman

A former Olympic swimmer, who once basked in glory, is diagnosed with ALS. Overwhelmed by the frightening prospect of losing his independence, he hesitantly hires an unconventional, spirited young woman to be his full-time caregiver. As their unexpected bond deepens, they realize that both have endured traumatic experiences at the hands of family members and others, preventing them from moving on.

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The House of Flightless Birds by Baylee Shlichtman

When undiagnosed autistic Manuel tosses a wish to a satellite to make him feel less alone, an injured sparrow crashes from the heavens into his apartment patio. Manuel takes the bird inside to nurse it back to health in secret from his family, but all does not go according to plan. A play about masculinity and care.

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Are You Sure? Experiences of a Gay Foster Youth by Zachary Clein

Are You Sure? Experiences of a Gay Foster Youth is about a young man searching for meaning through the memories of his time in foster care as his life has taken another difficult turn. By reliving the pain and love he discovered through this turbulent time he hopes to finally find a sense of peace with it all.

 

Fly, Blackbird Fly/Voices We Can’t Unhear by Latrice P. Young

This choreopoem is a summation of 10 years of spoken word poems, questions, conversations, imaginations and reimaginations. They are based on true accounts from girls and women of varying ages, choosing to grapple with and celebrate what it means to be a black woman in the world today.

 

Path of Least Regret by Brian Gene White

Path of Least Regret follows two scientists in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Where it can take hours or even days to send one signal to a spacecraft and receive something back. When the possibility of an office romance is in the air, funding is always in question, and lives are at the crossroads, the time between signals can feel like a lifetime. This play is about a few of those lifetimes.

 

Gallows Tales by Steve Callahan 

Gallows Tales, in keeping with its title, has a gallows at the center of the story. But over the course of three tales in three times, it becomes a symbol not only of punishment, but duty, solace, and even hope. Asking hard questions about thought-sin, the role of conscience, and communal grieving, Gallows Tales is as hard-hitting as it is startlingly magical.

 

Special Hospital by Matt Hoffman

Dad is gravely ill. In desperation, his hard-charging entrepreneurial daughter Sarah has had him transferred to an obscure, innovative hospital. There, Dr. James Danforth Hobson (who might be a visionary, a grifter, or both) initiates an aggressive plan of care, assisted by his no-nonsense nurse Jana. Sarah and her brother Robbie, who have been estranged for six years, grapple with each other and their troubled childhood as they seek healing for their father under increasingly absurd circumstances.

 

Nephesh by Asher de Forest 

After crash landing in the Pacific Ocean, Madison finds himself an eager extraterrestrial without a clear path home. Soon, he's keeping conflicting secrets from his new human crush—Elijah, a recent rabbinical school dropout—and his native planet’s flamboyant queen, who intends to conquer the Earth.. 

 

Witch’s Tit by James Lewis Huss

Witch's Tit is a dark comedy set in Puritan New England. Bessie Bloodsmyth, is accused of witchcraft by the obsessive town minister, though it is her wife who is caught by the constable. When her Sarah is hanged, Bloodsmyth plots revenge against the minister who did it and the mayor who encouraged it. This play is not a crucible of women, but of men.

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Overlap by Erin Proctor

Being 25 years old and moving to NYC and becoming a person and the crumbling infrastructure of the MTA. It's a play about people who make plays, but it's also a love story. And it's a ghost story. And it's a tragedy. And it's a comedy. It's overlapping with different genres.

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The Couple on the Couch by Anne Valentino

Dylan and Radha are a married couple who’ve hit a bit of a rough patch. What’s the solution for saving their marriage? A couples therapy-based reality TV show of course! After being chosen to appear on “Couples on the Couch: The LGBTQ Edition,” the women quickly realize that reality television is anything but “real.”

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Second Book Syndrome by Sam Heyman

Robert Schiftan, a successful debut novelist dealing with writer’s block, is behind on producing pages for his follow up when he is visited by a young black woman who turns out to be Calliope “Callie” Thornwind, the protagonist of his novel.

 

Alisha Firewind by Ryan Elliot Wilson

The Parson family is coping, like everyone else who isn’t a fascist—pardon, a "Patriot"—with the end free society in their home state. Lost jobs, healthcare, surveilled by neighbors—it’s tough all over. But unlike everyone else, the Parsons have Alisha Firewind, a therapeutic, taxidermy mule head hanging in their living room who helps them sing their struggles.

Mother by Fig Lefevre

Mama is nearing death and she has finally decided what she wants her daughters to do with her body when she passes: eat it. What unfolds is a story of womanhood, motherhood, and connection to ancestors, told in dreamscapes and dough, bread and song.

 

Color Blind by Oren Safdie

A reimagining of the architecture jury tasked with selecting a building for the Smithsonian African American Museum of History & Culture in Washington DC.

 

The Abundance by Chelsea Sutton

After moving to a new corner of suburbia, a broke young mom is lured into a multi-level marketing scheme by her new neighbors and a slick-talking bottle of tonic, and must either claw her way to the top of the pyramid, or lose everything by leaving.

 

Petrichor by Chris Woodworth

What happens to those left behind in the wake of an on-campus suicide? Madeleine (a professor) and Julie (a student) try to make sense of this seemingly senseless act. As the women navigate their respective grief (and guilt) journeys, they grapple with the challenges of recovering a research protocol. In these moments of acute stress, unlikely friendships are forged, and others are fractured.

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Touch the Moon by Arianna Rose 

Miranda is a high school student leaving for Spring Break on an unnamed island. That is the last time she is ever seen alive. Through vignettes that connect past and present, we meet Miranda, her mother Becca, her best friend Emily, Stefan, and his father Dirk. A play about how humans need to know, and sometimes need to tell, TOUCH THE MOON draws a line between truth and lies and how they intersect. At its heart it is a story of motherly love and determination in the face of the unthinkable.

1999 by Stacey Isom Campbell

1999 depicts the intersection of three women’s lives. When her student makes a complaint about the choice of films shown in class, the protagonist, Emma – a film criticism professor and film producer – interrogates her own guilt for something she did in 1999, and asks what she should do with the films she loves from the 90s in light of the recent sexual assault allegations about Hollywood at the time.

 

The Last Days of the Contract Player by Andy Reynolds

When his troubled, pot-smoking nineteen-year-old nephew vanishes into the wilderness, classic movie-obsessed Eddie returns to his childhood home to help his estranged, religious sister and his opinionated, rebellious niece in the search, while simultaneously juggling his on-again, off-again relationship with a film studies professor. The Last Days of the Contract Player is a funny and touching exploration of love, of stargazing while living in the real world, and of the possibility of connection in the vast expanse of space we create around ourselves.

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Estbay iendsfray by Emmy Kuperschmid 

Hannah is terrified of change. Iris wants things to be better. They’re estbay iendsfray oreverfray–they have been since they sat next to each other in circle at preschool, and nothing is ever going to change that. Nobody will ever understand them like they understand each other. Things are changing now that they’re going into high school, but nothing has to change between THEM, right? Sometimes friendships make you better. Sometimes love makes you feel like you’re drowning.

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The Creator by J.S. Puller

Sara and Zabrina swore that they would be friends forever. It comes as quite a shock, when Sara returns from school and announces that she no longer wants to see Zabrina. Afraid, Zabrina (an imaginary friend) asks what will become of her, but Sara doesn’t answer. Suddenly, Zabrina finds herself in a limbo, being processed. Under the direction of Thalia, the muse of playfulness, Zabrina navigates the five stages of grief, represented by five other imaginary friends who have all met their undoing at the hands of “ungrateful children.”