Full Length Plays 

BANSHEE: a play with irish stepdancing 

​2W/2M/1 fiddle player 

​As Ria and Shannon, 17-year-old rival Irish dancers, prepare for their final competitive year at the Irish Dance World Championships, the legacies of not only their own dance careers, but also those of their ancestors are on the line. They navigate the expectations of their community, the edicts of their god(s), and their burgeoning feelings for one another, all the while contending with a culture that fights to keep “outsiders” out just as forcefully as it fights to keep its insides in living memory. Both a celebration and critique of Irish-American tradition, Banshee weaves together Celtic folklore, live music, and dance, to wrestle with the monumental question of growing up: who are you going to be, and what are you willing to lose to get there?
WHEN SHE WENT TO MANTUA

​2W/2M/optional ensemble
​Lady and Lord’s daughter, Jules, is dead, and someone must pay.
Except, in Mantua, Jules is alive. (Probably. Sometimes she’s not sure.)
Her husband Ro, haunted by kills, isn’t sure he deserves to be alive.
Also the earth is heating up and we’re all gonna fucking die anyways so is love enough when you aren’t sure that love exists?
​A Romeo & Juliet adaptation-of-sorts, Natalie Welber’s biting psychodrama WHEN SHE WENT TO MANTUA tackles the ways we grapple with the ghosts of our past -- before time runs out.
THE ASH SONATA

​4W/5M

​In a musical fantasia, rediscover the life of Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia: Baroque composer, prolific musician, librarian, and long-forgotten sister of famed King Frederick the Great. From her early years learning music in secret from her cruel father, to her adult life struggling against the unpredictable rule of her once-beloved brother, Amalia desperately searches for meaning, happiness, and most importantly, a legacy. At the same time, her fellow musical siblings seek flashes of fortune, monumental military victories, and the freedom to love who they choose. Harmonizing Amalia’s few surviving compositions with famous pieces of the Baroque and Classical eras, Natalie Welber’s THE ASH SONATA traces a young woman’s quest for musical recognition in a time when women were relegated to the drawing room, not the drawing board -- a recognition that Amalia has yet to receive today. ​

Short Plays

MONDAY MORNING STILL IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
​1W/1M




​Lizzie is trying really hard to do some viral activism. George is trying really hard to not have some girl's activism make his workday involve extra paperwork. A fresh ten-minute comedy, MONDAY MORNING STILL IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE invites all of us to reevaluate which causes we're willing to fight for, and what role art plays in that fight.
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