HypergaMater
Alanna Aberdeen married for money, not love. Now she teaches other women to do the same. But when skeptic Robin Rigby joins her program, both women grow disillusioned with the lives (and men) they’ve chosen, and their carefully built worlds begin to crumble. Literally.
Marjorie Muller writes body plays and when she’s not writing body plays, she’s writing romance novels, which are kind of like body plays but sexier. Though Chicago-based, Marjorie’s work has appeared across the US at the Road Theatre, The Tank, Urbanite Theatre, and Wild Imaginings, among others. Her work seeks to explore how the messy, perfect body interacts with the world. And how that world attacks it, feeds on it, adores it. How do humans claim autonomy on their body when the body is inherently political? Marjorie’s plays littlespace, or the daddy play, The Sporting Life, and HypergaMater have all been semifinalists for The O’Neill. In 2024, she received an Honorable Mention for the prestigious Relentless Award. Her work has been recognized twice as a finalist for the Henley Rose playwriting competition and most recently has been accepted to The Last Frontier conference for 2025. She is an alum of the acting program at The Theatre School at DePaul, Jackalope Theatre’s Playwrights Lab, New Coordinates’ Writers Room, The Road Theatre’s Under Construction 3, and a former playwriting resident at Three Brothers Theatre.
Victoria Hoffman is thrilled to be directing again for the SPF! A Los Angeles based Casting Director, Director and Performer, she is the resident CD at the multi award winning Rogue Machine Theatre Company with recent credits including Bacon, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, H*tler’s Tasters (Stage Raw Best Ensemble winner), and Heroes of the Fourth Turning. For the Skylight Theatre: Hide and Hide (World Premiere by Roger Q Mason), The Winter’s Tale, Hungry Ghost and No Place Like Gandersheim; Elsewhere – For the Love of a Glove at The Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Theater; Kiss of the Spider Woman and Othello at A Noise Within; Judas Kiss & A Streetcar Named Desire for Boston Court. Film projects include the AFI Thesis films Zenaida (LAAPFF Official Selection) and The Fishmonger (Slamdance 2025, College Television Awards Nominee, CAA Moebius); Dog Lover at the DTLA Film Festival (among many). She is currently Manager of Casting at the AFI Conservatory. Directing Credits include four seasons of The Blank Theatre’s YPF & Living Room Series, Road Theatre’s SPF, Hollywood Fringe Fest, Rogue Machine’s Around the Clock Plays. Acting credits include Troubies Home Alone-ly Heart’s Club Band & Julius Weezer, The Winter’s Tale @Skylight, and TV pop ups on Abbot Elementary and The Shrink Next Door. www.victoriahoffman.com @VicHoffmanLA
“HypergaMater”
Robin Rigby – Hilary Bass*
Casey Zimmerman – Christian Prentice*
Alanna Aberdeen – Avery Clyde*
Roger Quinn – Jeff LeBeau*
Elin Vit – Chelsea Gonzalez*
Ellen Schwarz – Julia Manis*
Stage Directions – Amy Tolsky*
Talkback Moderator – Cherish Monique Duke*
*Road Company Member