Festival History

Take a look at our current and past seasons since our inaugural festival in 2004.

  • The Map Maker's Sorrow

    Chris Lee

    Henry is a struggling sleep therapist, Morag is a successful maker of maps. When their only child kills himself they are forced to look at a world full of failed expectations in a new light. A politician with a fondness for prostitutes, and a prostitute with a need for something more round out this story of control, regret, and love.

  • The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl!

    Quiara Hudes

    In real life, Ana is overweight and bored to tears, but in her imagination she is the fearless superhero Barrio Grrrl! who must use her powers to overcome the evil Alchemists - imaginary villains who kill women and mine their golden hearts.

  • Courting Vampires

    Laura Schellhardt

    When a passionate and headstrong young woman falls victim to a fatal disease, her protective older sister vows revenge on the man who gave it to her. With passion and love the sisters battle vampires and fight for righteousness, but is anything – even justice – an equal opponent to death?

  • Ephemera

    John Yearley

    When a married professor of pornography falls in love with an adult film star, he is convinced he only has one option left - hire a hit man to murder his wife. But when his wife “hits” it off with her hired assassin, things begin to go awry. Throw into the mix a young Christian Scientist looking for some overdue lovin' and all's fair in love and war.

  • How Love is Spelt

    Chloë Moss

    After moving from Liverpool to London, Peta learns that solo life in the big city isn’t as simple as she thought. Trying to escape a life she left behind, Peta tries on identities like new outfits; each is a glimpse of what might have been, but can you ever really run away from yourself?

  • Indoor/Outdoor

    Kenny Finkle

    For Samantha the cat, the indoor life is one of safety and comfort where her nerdy owner Shuman beckons to her every call. But soon his constant attention becomes smothering to the restless feline. When a sexy alley cat shows up at her window, Samantha is faced with the biggest decision of her life - stay indoors, or venture out?

  • Madagascar

    J. T. Rogers

    A man mysteriously disappears and changes forever the lives of his family and friends. At three different periods of time each loved one finds him or herself alone in the same hotel room in Rome, struggling to put together the pieces of his vanishing.

  • Messalina

    Gordon Dahlquist

    For a casual evening of drinks and conversation, a writer and producer conspire for an Italian actress to come over so they can pitch a project; soon, however, the conversation turns to questions of decadence, faith, fear, and security - not to mention the end of the world.

  • Mimesophobia

    Carlos Murillo

    A young woman is viciously murdered by her husband, who then takes his own life. While two young screenwriters turn the event into a film, the sister of the victim tries to fill in the crime’s gaping holes. An emotionally unbalanced academic holds the link between the real life crime and its cinematic retelling.

  • Sick

    Zakiyyah Alexander

    While taking care of her dying father, Tasha becomes involved in an Internet affair, is offered a promotion, and suddenly finds herself having some unusual symptoms – a lot can happen in one week in New York City, especially without health insurance.

  • Split Wide Open

    Christina Gorman

    While Merita prepares for her waleemah, a Muslim wedding feast, the young Albanian bride learns a rumor is spreading that she was raped by a gang of Christian soldiers; the play moves back and forth in time, revealing the consequences of such an accusation and the evolving "truth" behind the supposed attack.

  • Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs

    Michelle Carter

    Wonder what Ted Kaczynski was like as a child? A collegiate? A coworker? Follow Wild Nature as she sings and dances her way through a man’s demise exploring why Ted Kaczynski killed people. With bombs.

  • Welcome to Arroyo's

    Kristoffer Diaz

    Alejandro and his rebellious sister Amalia cope in very different ways with their mother’s death. But when an aspiring hip-hop historian returns to the old neighborhood with a secret about her past, the siblings are suddenly forced to question everything they thought they knew about their mother, their heritage, and themselves.

  • Wildlife

    Victor Lodato

    After a disastrous exhibition, a famous conceptual artist and his neurotic wife escape from Manhattan and move upstate where life among the trees and critters proves difficult for these bred-in-the-bone New Yorkers. When it comes to a painful past, is mountain air healing, or does too much of it sting?

  • crooked

    Catherine Trieschmann

    A darkly comic coming-of-age story set in Oxford, Mississippi. When 14 year old Francie, plagued with a twisted shoulder, befriends the born-again Maribel, she embarks on a journey of reinvention, exploring religion, sexuality and the danger of telling stories.

  • tempOdyssey

    Dan Dietz

    Genny is the perfect temp – smart, efficient, and anonymous – except she believes she’s the Goddess of Death, which is bound to cause some problems when she’s placed as a temp at a bomb-manufacturing company.

Photo Credits

Mary Beth Peil and Sherri Parker Lee in Madagascar
Photo by Carol Rosegg

Lauren Marks and Michael Pemberton in Split Wide Open
Photo by Carol Rosegg

Nina Hellman in Wildlife
Photo by Carol Rosegg

 

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