Staged Readings

When PARKER, a young and outré performance artist living in NYC, returns to her childhood home in Cincinnati in the wake of her adoptive mother’s death, she is literally at the end of her rope; you see, she and PAN, her alcoholic performance-partner (and erstwhile boyfriend), are several months into an “endurance performance” in which they are bound together by a ten-foot rope, and can neither detach nor have any direct physical contact for one year.

Over a fraught weekend, PARKER must thread her way through a minefield of old family secrets and conflicts with her toxic step-father and his loopy new amour, her flinty gun-toting “aunt,” her haunted obsessive ex, and the ghost of her dead artist mother. (Not to mention PAN, who is losing his marbles on the end of that rope.)

CINCINNATUS is a darkly comedic Red State/Blue State collision, and a twisty interrogation of families of origin vs families of choice, art and money, performance and identity, and, as one character puts it, the “Poetics and Politics of Personal Space.”  Written by Michael Laurence.

Steph is a recovering depressive, Jamie is bipolar, suffering from manic episodes. When these young people meet in their psychiatrist’s office, they can’t deny their chemistry. But can they survive it? A tender, insightful comedy about being crazy in love. Written by Jacob Marx Rice.

Without a doubt, Albert Einstein is recognized as one of the great scientific minds of the 20^th Century. But little did we know that his wife Mileva may have been smarter. Written by Kathleen Cahill and directed by David Shookhof.