SPF 13: A Different Kind of Strong (Canceled)
June 15, 2022 9:58 pmFisher and Dad have never been close. Now that they are both house-bound during the pandemic, there is an attempt at a conversation.
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SPF 13: Tune In
June 10, 2022 3:50 pmA young female psychology professor struggles against the patriarchy and her own bipolar disorder to conduct LSD experiments in 1963.
SPF 12: Family Tree
June 6, 2021 11:58 pmIsabella is losing herself to Alzheimer’s. Her communication comes in repetitive stops and starts, leaving her children to untangle the roots of their past in order to make...
SPF 12: Waiting for Godínez
June 7, 2021 12:07 amEach night, immigration officials kidnap Jesús and throw him in a cage with the intent of deporting him. But each time, Jesús escapes and makes it back to...
SPF 12: The Outside World
June 7, 2021 12:23 amThe Outside World is an immersive multimedia play about a young mother’s fight to save her family’s life, after her untimely death, and her eight-year-old son, whose emotions...
SPF 12: The Sweater Curse
June 7, 2021 12:30 amWarning! Knitting is bad for your relationship! Find out why when Charlotte knits her boyfriend an intricate Norwegian sweater. Is their love strong enough to survive a gift...
SPF 12: Beloved
June 7, 2021 12:17 amDorothy and Stephen, married co-owners of a failing business, are shocked to discover that their teenaged son has committed a disturbing crime – and they’re devastated when they...
SPF 12: Day of Saturn
June 7, 2021 12:13 amFor Achilles Jones, the reality of his son, Icarus’, attempted suicide still haunts him a year later as he works tirelessly to repair his run-down hardware store alongside...
SPF 12: STOOP PIGEONS
June 6, 2021 11:39 pmStoop Pigeons takes place in the early/mid-2000s when the Bushwick area of Brooklyn experienced rapid gentrification. We witness what happens in the span of a decade: how the...
SPF 12: Earworm
June 6, 2021 11:34 pmFive people have five different reactions to a punk rock breakup song. Now the Song wants to know why.
SPF 12: 50 Love Letters
June 6, 2021 11:29 pmWhat should an older woman do with 50 letters from her first love? She could burn them, bury them, float them out to sea or take them on...
SPF 12: Our Lady of Broad Street
June 6, 2021 11:17 pmIt’s almost time for the grand old hotel’s gala reopening. But when an inexplicable stain appears on a lobby wall, a young architect is forced to question her...
SPF 12: The Peace of Home
June 6, 2021 11:04 pmQuarantine forces two lovers to confront the cost of peace in their home. Development 5 minute version read by We, the People, 2020 7 minute version read by...
SPF 12: M-theory: A Play Told in 11 Dimensions
June 6, 2021 10:58 pmThe near future. Former biographer Pauline Grey has shut herself and her daughter Ava away in a remote cabin in Angeles National Forest for nearly a year. Pauline...
SPF 12: Modern Minstrelsy
June 6, 2021 10:48 pmOn a hot August night in a predominantly white community on Long Island, NY, a Black man shoots and kills a white teenager who with three friends has...
SPF 12: Stuck With Fred
June 6, 2021 10:42 pmHilly wants a friend, needs a friend, but the best she can do is Fred… thirty years older, irascible in the extreme, in poor health and a fellow...
SPF 12: Origin Story
June 6, 2021 10:18 pmA play about work, debt, race, friendship, drive-thru windows, and a very very big, very very sudden, existential crisis.
SPF 12: Here Is Where
June 6, 2021 10:32 pmIn the aftermath of 9/11, two sisters receive an unexpected package that brings them to the intersection of their uncertain present and their grandmother’s past in wartime Nanjing.
SPF 11: Off the Interstate with Maizie and Willow
July 14, 2020 2:41 pmMazie and Willow, a promise, a pillow, one very bleak day. Development Off the Interstate with Maizie and Willow has its world premiere at the Road Theatre Company’s Summer...
SPF 11: Go
July 7, 2020 6:28 pmA company of actors, backstage, in the dressing room of a small black box theater, preparing to perform “GO!” written by the stage manager. No one is too...
SPF 11: Inevitable
July 7, 2020 6:20 pmWhen a young data scientist meets the girl of his dreams at a party, he can’t help but predict the various routes their relationship will take. After running...
Under Construction: ExZoomed
September 3, 2020 1:15 am23 years after their mysterious breakup, two ex-lovers reunite on Zoom. Inner secrets will finally be exhumed – and truth is king.
Under Construction: Everything is Going to Be Okay
September 3, 2020 1:24 amA long-time married couple struggles to adjust to the never-ending pandemic living situation while their marriage counselor wrestles with her own problems.
Under Construction: Reach
September 3, 2020 1:21 amA short comedy about the ways in which we connect, or try to, Reach takes a peek at socially-distanced friends during a time when the dual pandemics of Covid-19 and Racism...
Under Construction: Terrorist is Spelled K-A-R-E-N
September 3, 2020 1:18 amGrocery stores. Parks. Sidewalks. Restaurants. At home. Black couple, Toni and X, fight daily for their survival as they move through these commonplace spaces that are regularly targeted...
Under Construction: The Keepsake
September 3, 2020 1:13 am“Love and clocks.”
Under Construction: The Statement
September 3, 2020 1:11 amLate to put out a “Black Lives Matter” statement, the marketing team at White Claw holds an emergency meeting to find the right words while remaining on-brand.
Under Construction: Bubble
September 3, 2020 1:08 amTwo women hover on the brink, juggling the insanity of solo parenting in the pandemic. How far will they go for their friendship?
Under Construction: Snowflake
September 3, 2020 1:02 amTwo college administrators of color meet online with an applicant they think is Black. Much to their surprise, while the applicant identifies as Black, she looks White. The...
SPF 11: Dusk at Nine Joy Street
July 7, 2020 6:16 pmMattie and Herm blame their daughter Jenny’s drug death on her friend Curt, but when he shows up at their home each evening at dusk, the couple struggles...
SPF 11: Wicked Child
July 7, 2020 6:13 pmWicked Child is a one-act play about two conflicted hitmen assigned to kill each other…who may end up falling in love.
SPF 11: Warren and the Polar Bear
July 7, 2020 6:07 pmWarren has spent several months at the Central Park Zoo observing the Polar Bear and has come to worry about the animal’s happiness. There’s only one thing for...
SPF 11: Attachment
July 7, 2020 1:30 pmWhen a Father and Son trip into the woods reveals itself to be much more than a Birthday retreat, it soon becomes evident that things are not what...
SPF 11: Ringxiety
July 7, 2020 12:21 pmNow that technology allows us to communicate 24/7 with voice, text and video, could over-communication be just as bad as no communication? Development The path of this play...
SPF 11: Visiting Hours
July 7, 2020 12:17 pmA reclaiming of the Persephone myth, now set in a psychiatric hospital, Visiting Hours follows the arduous journey of Stephie Green, a middle-aged music teacher who must break...
SPF 11: Cam Baby
August 17, 2020 2:37 am‘Cam Baby’ is a contemporary comedy. Matabang and Joseph secretly web-cam girls who rent a room in Joseph’s apartment, and share the footage with the Brobonic Union, their secret society of friends. Joseph’s having...
SPF 11: The Machine
July 7, 2020 12:11 pmLaney Chamberlain is an acclaimed poet-turned-professor with a severe case of writer’s block. One day, she is approached by the CEO of a tech company with a strange...
SPF 11: Cam Baby (old)
July 7, 2020 12:04 pmhttps://vimeo.com/448426636 7-Day Replay of this Broadcast expires Sunday, August 23rd – 8pm PT/11pm ET
SPF 11: Turbulence
July 7, 2020 12:26 amImagine sitting on a park bench watching the passers-by. Each character stops to speak with you. They unfold their hearts to you and move on. It’s not so...
SPF 11: Marianas Trench
July 7, 2020 12:21 amTeddy Passanante and Anzor Khasanov are eleven-year-old pen pals. Teddy is an unathletic, half-Korean nerd living in a liberal U.S. made up of what used to be Blue...