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Ann, Fran, Mary Ann
Ann, Fran, Mary Ann is a play, shaped like a mirror, exploring perception and reflection. Two married neuroscientists, Ann and Mary Ann, share a lab but their studies could not be more different. Mary Ann, a former atheist, has become obsessed with God and has built a “God Helmet.” Ann, interested in the visual cortex and memory, studies Capgras Syndrome. When Ann decides to study Fran, an atypical subject, she jeopardizes her work and her marriage. The lab becomes a site of unethical scientific practice, violence, and betrayal. All three women confront the question - What danger comes from unexamined blind spots?
3W
Ann, Fran, Mary Ann is a play, shaped like a mirror, exploring perception and reflection. Two married neuroscientists, Ann and Mary Ann, share a lab but their studies could not be more different. Mary Ann, a former atheist, has become obsessed with God and has built a “God Helmet.” Ann, interested in the visual cortex and memory, studies Capgras Syndrome. When Ann decides to study Fran, an atypical subject, she jeopardizes her work and her marriage. The lab becomes a site of unethical scientific practice, violence, and betrayal. All three women confront the question - What danger comes from unexamined blind spots?
3W
The Tattooed Lady
Book by Erin Courtney, music and lyrics by Max Vernon.
Spanning roughly one hundred years of forgotten history, The Tattooed Lady is a musical meditation on beauty, perversity, shattering of taboos, and a woman’s right to control her own body and choose her destiny.
10W, 1M
Book by Erin Courtney, music and lyrics by Max Vernon.
Spanning roughly one hundred years of forgotten history, The Tattooed Lady is a musical meditation on beauty, perversity, shattering of taboos, and a woman’s right to control her own body and choose her destiny.
10W, 1M
Alice The Magnet
A wayward temp, a charismatic self-help pioneer, an angry fifteen year old, and a narcoleptic office manager become intertwined in this dark comedy about magnetism and the desire we all have to follow someone who is passionate.
2W, 2M
A wayward temp, a charismatic self-help pioneer, an angry fifteen year old, and a narcoleptic office manager become intertwined in this dark comedy about magnetism and the desire we all have to follow someone who is passionate.
2W, 2M
A Map Of Virtue
A Map of Virtue is a symmetrical play in which a bird statue guides us through a story of coincidence, tragedy and friendship. Part interview, part comedy, part strange middle of the night horror, a group of friends encounter evil and dissect their own responses to it.
3W, 4M
A Map of Virtue is a symmetrical play in which a bird statue guides us through a story of coincidence, tragedy and friendship. Part interview, part comedy, part strange middle of the night horror, a group of friends encounter evil and dissect their own responses to it.
3W, 4M
I Will Be Gone
Seventeen-year-old Penelope goes to live with her Aunt Josephine in a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains after her mom dies. Everyone in this small town—built right next door to a ghost town—is haunted by something or someone, and no one knows how to behave. Filled with apparitions, earthquakes, and strange attempts to mourn, this play explores the beauty and awkwardness of living with the knowledge that everything ends.
5W, 4M
Seventeen-year-old Penelope goes to live with her Aunt Josephine in a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains after her mom dies. Everyone in this small town—built right next door to a ghost town—is haunted by something or someone, and no one knows how to behave. Filled with apparitions, earthquakes, and strange attempts to mourn, this play explores the beauty and awkwardness of living with the knowledge that everything ends.
5W, 4M
Demon Baby
An American couple, Wren and Arthur, are relocated to London. Wren retreats into an agoraphobic state, until she is visited by a demon baby in the form of a garden gnome. Demon Baby is a comic and surreal exploration of culture shock and the meaning of identity.
3W, 4M
An American couple, Wren and Arthur, are relocated to London. Wren retreats into an agoraphobic state, until she is visited by a demon baby in the form of a garden gnome. Demon Baby is a comic and surreal exploration of culture shock and the meaning of identity.
3W, 4M
Honey Drop
Diane, a charismatic but depressed poet, and Xander, a younger writer, travel cross country in an RV trying to find the son that she disowned.
2W, 3M
Diane, a charismatic but depressed poet, and Xander, a younger writer, travel cross country in an RV trying to find the son that she disowned.
2W, 3M
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Erin Courtney is the winner of the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, & the 2012 Obie Award for Special Citations
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