The Academy
The poignant story of the relationship between the director of a prestigious boarding school for Black and Brown girls and the valedictorian of the senior class. Who's the teacher? Who's the student? And does either of them belong in a girls' school?
P. Pan Et Al
Exploring the complicated place of a queer woman in STEM before the term existed, P. Pan Et Al. tells the story of Maude Adams, the original Peter Pan, and the peculiar power of the wizards and wizardesses who shape the technology that shapes us.
Out Into the Sun
Out into the Sun, is a first opera for both conductor and composer, Adrian Sylveen – the music, and Ed Napier, writer/singer/theatremaker – the libretto. This opera examines the fallout thatoccurs after a teacher, Richard Colby, is falsely accused of sexually assaulting a student at a New York City private school. All seems lost to Rich Colby until he meets his new neighbor, Cathy Schwartzman, and middle-age romance ensues. But nothing is as it seems: the student has lied; the head-of-school betrays Charlie, and the kid’s Father, a major donor at the school, has contempt for anyone or anything that might threaten him in any way. We look at the brutish, cruel dynamics that can emerge in such academically rigorous, competitive environments, and we consider the parents who, for the most part, create them.
Cantata for My Sisters In the Key of Dreams
What is the price of being female? Three apparently unrelated women who are haunted by their dreams seek to understand and heal the traumas of their past.
Content Transparency: Cantata for My Sisters in the Key of Dreams contains an extended discussion of suicide and implicit and explicit references to sexual abuse.
Tough Love
A comedy-drama about a tight-knit Italian-American family in New Jersey fighting to stay together in the midst of an implosion of revelations about who they really are.
The Drunk & The Elephant
Dick Jaeger, obsessed with horror movies, panics when a local serial killer emerges, convinced he's in a slasher film, while his skeptical wife, Tabby, questions media’s role in everyday violence.