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abSolution

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​Manny blames himself for Val’s death, and it’s eating him alive. 
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So he goes to abSolution™, a company with the technology to edit a person's emotional response to memory through state-of-the-art digitized electro-therapy.

Lying on a cold surgical table with nodes hooked up to his implanted digiChip, Manny relives every last moment of his relationship with Val, as a clinician twists her words and actions to present a version of reality he can live with. But when Manny wakes up, he realizes that there may be more to absolution than he'd originally thought.

Developed in Residency at Philadelphia Young Playwrights
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Pintop

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Rose’s friends, who have never felt real emotions, can’t help her. Eve is a widowed self-help guru, more concerned with astrology and chakras than Rose’s problems. Celia is a prolific criminal defense attorney, too obsessed with brunch cocktails and grudges to do anything useful.

Rose’s husband, who thinks everything is a joke, is a beacon of mediocrity. They met in college and fell in love over post-expressionism and hyper-caffeination, but now their relationship is dying and Rose has nothing left to paint about.

Rose’s son, who’s constantly going through phases, is a compulsive liar. He’s an otherwise well-adjusted nine-year-old kid, and they’re really stupid, trivial lies, but it bothers Rose more than she’d care to admit.
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Rose Evelyn Hawthorne lives in Pintop, a city, really more of a town, and she's unraveling. Then she’s accused of murder.

Developed in Residency at Philadelphia Young Playwrights
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The Glennanike Colonists

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Upon realizing that his days on Earth are numbered, Charles Coates Junior vows to record the remarkable story of his life: when he was a child, he was sent on a colonist mission to the recently discovered planet Glennanike, along with several other impoverished youth, in order to find alternate habitation for humanity.

As time passed, however, their new lives crumbled beneath them as they faced adversity, uncovered shocking secrets, and fell victim to their own humanity. While recounting these events and interacting with the memories he had spent his entire life suppressing, Charles finds it harder than he could have ever imagined to face his own past.






YoungArts National Merit Selection
​Blank Theater Playwrights Festival Semifinalist
Scholastic Gold Medal Winner

Imaginary

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Arthur Blair, a quiet, lonely man with crippling social anxiety, lives in a decrepit New York City apartment with a minimum wage job at a frozen yogurt store. His life is made more vivid, however, by the presence of his three imaginary friends: Hector, Zeke, and Samantha. Hector is a failed children's magician, Zeke a sarcastic drug addict, and Samantha a flirtatious librarian.

Arthur's imaginary world is threatened when a new girl, Mia, moves in across the way and they strike up a relationship. As Arthur's friends begin to revolt against the new girl, and control his life in increasingly extreme ways, he must attempt to face the reality of his situation and the source of his loneliness and despair. 

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​PYP New Voices Festival Winner
Temple Theaters Production
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