Cherries, Cherries, Cherries!

(5 minutes - 5 actors) Checkov’s Orchard gets destroyed over and over again. Jack Haberstam’s “Queer Art of Failure” gives us a lens to appreciate the queerness of all those lost Cherries.

Exorcism of the DEI Practitioner

(15 minutes - 9 actors) Mark and Rose have a dinner party. Mark talks about his tribulations with his company’s most recent DEI initiatives. We are all trapped as we succumb to the machines trying to educate the Marks of the world for their corporate reputation. DEI Newbie and Rose find a way out.

Introduce Yourself

(10-minute virtual performance - 1 actor) A high school student returns from summer break to the first day of hybrid 11th Grade. They’re in the comfort of their home and take this opportunity to truly introduce themselves.

Lucille By Ella

(10 minutes - 2 actors) Lucille is in self-imposed exile after making a mistake she can never forgive herself for. Ella finds her in her hiding place. She brings Lucille out as the subject of a painting. Ella asks if art can heal. Lucille responds.

The Women Who Dance and Their Boy Who Became a Man

(15 minutes - 4w1m) Miles, a gay man, takes his daughter shopping for a Prom dress. It’s not going as he planned. It is late in the season, Sky is suddenly resistant to even the concept of prom, and the women who raised him are voices bursting out of the racks of dresses. Sometimes a green dress can communicate across the distance created by generations of gendered trauma, producing the possibility for healing and resilience.