Aimee Dastin

Set entirely within the claustrophobic locker room of an elite volleyball summer intensive, this high-energy dark comedy investigates the relentless pressures of competitive girlhood. The team operates under the absolute doctrine of alignment enforced by their uncompromising captain, Mackenzie, where image and a manicured social footprint dictate survival while D1 scouts lurk behind every corner.

But when a new player arrives and begins digging into the history of an enigmatic former MVP ghost in the trophy case, a perfectly hidden past begins to fracture the team's polished facade. The play serves as a fast-paced exploration of female friendship, examining what we are willing to sacrifice to sustain the curated versions of ourselves that live purely in our heads.

Spanning from the vibrant, underground nightlife of 1920s Harlem to the modern day, this sweeping dramatic work explores the profound costs of visibility, nonconformity, and queer survival. The play follows Gene, a queer performer of color who adopts a tuxedo persona to claim her space at the piano, and G, a youth in a parallel timeline struggling against the walls of societal expectation.

When an intense, liberating romance challenges the boundaries of an oppressive society, the narrative erupts into a searing excavation of public judgment, tragedy, and the compromises made to survive. Seamlessly weaving historical memory with a modern lens, the piece acts as a powerful anthem for anyone fighting to break out of the shadows and leave a legacy.

This biting backstage satire follows Megan, an exhausted, fiercely defensive playwright whose gritty drama about the opioid crisis is hijacked by corporate interests. Facing immediate eviction and armed with only fourteen dollars, her theater's leadership accepts a massive pharmaceutical endowment. Soon, a ruthless Creative Brand Architect steps in to "optimize" the production, using sentiment-analysis AI to replace visceral themes of human suffering with high-energy wellness jargon and mandatory team-bonding retreats.

As the performatively Marxist acting ensemble swaps systemic rage for bamboo robes and organic sourdough, artistic boundaries erode under a post-sincere corporate vision. The play serves as a sharp, high-stakes comedy about the modern theater industry, exploring the ridiculous tightrope walk between creative survival and corporate compliance in a world where even genuine artistic breakdown can be rebranded as marketing.

Set within a skeletal Upper West Side apartment overflowing with the monumental archive of a late 20th-century Jewish activist, this compelling intellectual drama follows a professional estate liquidator and her hyper-analytical new hire. Racing against a four-hour deadline before university couriers arrive, the pragmatic Rachel approaches the space as a spreadsheet task of pricing literal value, while her fresh-out-of-college assistant, Maya, treats the belongings with deep historical and spiritual reverence.

The routine liquidation erupts into a high-stakes ethical battle when Maya cracks open a locked, lead-lined drawer to reveal an unlisted file of secret letters, an annotated New Testament, and a 50-year-long double life that completely threatens to dismantle the public icon's legacy. When the deceased's impeccably poised daughter returns demanding her mother's most sacred relics, the two women are forced to decide whether they are biographers itemizing a fraud or accomplices protecting a fragile history, investigating the heavy weight of an inheritance and the cages we build from the inside.