Chelsea

What would you do if you had the power to build your own baby? In this version of a near future society, prospective parents learn within the first weeks of conception which genetic traits their child will have, and what behaviors they are likely to exhibit. Based on these test results, the parent(s) are either issued a PRE certification which legally guarantees the baby will be a “good” person or not. Without the certification, the child will be limited in what it is allowed to do. Two couples collide over what to do with their PRE certification test results. With rapid advances in reproductive technology, modern eugenics is science’s Wild West. What will we do to “civilize” it and ourselves? How far will we go when playing God? If you like Booker’s “Black Mirror,” Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go,” or Haley’s “The Nether,” then this play is for you.

Nicole tells her sister Lee that she was abducted by aliens. Lee goes on a performance art journey to figure out why. THE GAP brings them both closer to articulating the truth about that strange moment in their childhood that neither of them can exactly name. Winner of the 2018 Barrymore Award, a new dark comedy about trauma, art, and sisterhood that asks, what’s ultimately worse: forgetting, or remembering?

A derogatory comment, a summit gone awry, an anal abscess—it’s a bad day at the White House. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven women he most relies upon risk their careers, families, and freedom to save the day.

Allonda and her friends wrestle their way through the summer – sometimes it’s on the playgrounds in the projects of Coney Island, sometimes it’s with their feelings and often it’s at home. A coming of age story about friendship and heartache, ALLOND(R)A asks how much is too much to fight for?

A cross-country road trip veers off course when family ties collide with the values of a changing culture.

“StoneHeart” is a deconstructed western that explores the parallel deterioration of a family and a society in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua in the 1980s. Persecution, curses, and rattle snakes, and past lives come together in a visceral family drama where the Zermanis are forced to cope with the death of their legacy amidst the rise of a new generation of ‘society’s finest.’

Two months after Hurricane Katrina, 13-year-old Davis & her father Ernest find themselves in Chicago. With her mother dedicated to the fight for Black land ownership in New Orleans & her father committed to starting a new life in Chicago, divorce threatens to further separate a family already torn apart, & Davis is left hanging in the balance. [HIEROGLYPH] explores Davis’s experience navigating the Chicago public school system while silently coping with the PTSD of a secret assault at the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.

It’s been 936 days since Marion’s family has had clean water. When local activists file a class action lawsuit against the city, Marion—a third-generation employee at General Motors—must decide how best to support her two daughters, sister, and mother while lead seeps into the community, their home, and their bodies. As corrosive memories and secrets rise among them, the family wonders if they’ll ever be able to filter out the truth.

Meeting young, at pivotal moments in their lives, Manuel and Johaira fell in love and got married. Although both were raised in the same type of environment, each had different perspectives on how their experiences affected their choices. Johaira, a smart young lawyer, has always been an independent spirit that gets things done. Manuel, is an entrepreneur on the rise with a mechanic shop that is on the cusp of expansion. Both have ambitions and dreams that they hope to achieve together. Johaira lands a career defining case that rocks her confidence and has her questioning her husband’s will to adopt a more feminist way of thinking. But when Manuel’s mother falls ill, he has little choice but to care for her, adding more tension to things at home. When tragedy strikes, their love for each other is tested.

Five former employees. One great love.
Thorny, uncomfortable, and funny (and… sexy?), LOVE asks what accountability looks like when an abuser of power is one of our favorite men, and dares us to get to the other side of accountability and hashtags together.