Characters
A: A man waking up in a dark room.
Z: A man already in the dark room, with the ability to stare at bright spots on
the wall.
Voice: A voice emanating from the wall.
Welcome to the study of pomegranates and peaches.
Lost Film and two others
Allison Whittenberg is an award winning novelist and playwright. Her poetry has appeared in Columbia Review, Feminist Studies,J Journal, and New Orleans Review. Whittenberg is a ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
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Rori Nogee is an actor, singer, playwright and composer/lyricist. She has performed on and off-Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, and in regional theaters around the country.
Read MoreMy Maxwell
In a world where Maxwell remains present but voiceless, Maeva and her family must reconcile their grief, memories, and the weight of what is left unsaid. Through shared silence and tender interactions, My Maxwell examines how absence can occupy space just as powerfully as presence. The play invites audiences to join us in a communal reflection on love that endures beyond loss, exploring how storytelling and performance can transform private mourning into collective understanding.
Read MoreDown There
Three frat bros break onto the boardwalk after dark – only one makes it back to campus alive. When college football star Kyle needs his lost necklace back from under the pier before tomorrow morning (don’t ask why) he enlists golden boy Bradley and team reject Ed to help him out. Tensions rise when Bradley swims down to fetch it and doesn’t come back up, then reach their boiling point when he does… with an oddly familiar girl he claims to be a mermaid. A genderbent horror comedy about fraternity culture, male socialization, and supernatural vengeance.
Read MoreA Strange Union
The one-act play is set on a NJ transit train and involves the meeting of three strangers—two of them find an unusual, performative connection, and the other is a nuisance. The play is a single scene and involves limited stage design. A Strange Union has not yet been produced.
Read MoreMEAT
Cypress Cai is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and current student at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television. A lover of all things off-kilter, Cypress aims to connect real people through heightened unreality. Their interests tread into the new and unknown as well as back through time-worn stories. They are currently Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Company at UCLA, the university’s premiere student-led classical theatre company, and Literary Manager at Untitled Theatre Company, an organization for student playwrights. They’re also occasionally a costume designer, illustrator, poet, and casual philosopher.
Read MoreThe René de Menus Institute
Night. A bedroom with double bed. Light from a small bedside table lamp throwing a yellow circle across the bed.
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