Hannah’s job is to portray “ghosts”— deep-faked recreations of people’s dead loved ones— as a form of grief therapy. When a new client reveals a startling connection to Hannah’s life, she must reckon with her own ghosts: the family she lost, and the family she left behind. Ghost Play by Brenden Dahl is a sci-fi drama about the cost of human connection and the strange ways we memorialize those who’ve passed on.
Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award |
Manny blames himself for Sam leaving. He spends every waking moment wishing things could have gone differently, that they could still be together— and then digiCore offers him a chance to move on. To absolve himself of guilt. He can’t say no. Lying on a cold surgical table with nodes hooked up to his implanted digiChip, Manny relives every last moment of his relationship with Sam, as a clinician twists his words and actions to present a version of reality Manny can live with. But when he wakes up, Manny realizes that there may be more to absolution than he'd originally thought. Developed in Residency at Philadelphia Young Playwrights and through Theatre Exile's Studio X-hibition Relative Theatrics Playwrights Voiced Festival Finalist Semi-Finalist at Blank Theatre and Dreamcatcher Rep |
Her friends, who have never felt anything real, can’t help her. Her son, who doesn’t know what he likes, can’t stop lying. She lives in Pintop, a city, really more of a town, and she’s had enough.
But Rose didn’t mean to kill her husband. Really. Developed in Residency at Philadelphia Young Playwrights Produced by Ball State University Produced by Northwestern University |
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 sardonic drug addict, and Samantha a sexy librarian.
But 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. PYP New Voices Festival Winner Produced by Temple University |