The King’s Speech
By: David Seidler
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (IL, 2019) National Theatre (DC, 2020)
George ("Bertie") reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be King, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue.
Monica:
This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky
By: Dianne Nora
59E59 Theater (NY, 2019) Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK, 2019)
The play follows a woman named Monica through a series of relationships. During these scenes between friends, lovers, boyfriends, girlfriends, and therapists, we are asked to contemplate how men and women are treated differently when intimate encounters are played out under public scrutiny.
Fade
By: Tanya Saracho
Victory Gardens (IL, 2018)
In this witty behind-the-scenes drama, Mexican-born Lucia is hired to write for a ruthless Hollywood TV series. She soon discovers that the Mexican American custodian, Abel, has a windfall of plot ideas. As their friendship grows, his stories start to blur with hers leading to unexpected consequences.
Security!
By: Patrick Hamilton
Secret Theater (NY, 2018)
Three security guards work at a quiet corner of a small university. As they interact, talking love, sex, and race, a dark story starts to emerge, ultimately revealing an ugly incident and cover-up that could rock the university. Security! deftly explores the nature of truth and what lies just under the surface.
For The Loyal
By: Lee Blessing
Interrobang Theatre Project (IL, 2018)
Toby and Mia are graduate students with a bright future ahead of them: a baby on the way and a college coaching job for Toby. But when Toby stumbles across a secret that threatens to derail their future, he and Mia must decide between honesty and loyalty, and whether doing something wrong is the only way to do what’s right. Inspired by the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, FOR THE LOYAL is an emotional and thought-provoking night of theater.
A Bad Night
By: Nicole Pandolfo & Amy E. Witting
The Frontier (IL, 2018)
A Bad Night is a complex portrait of acquaintance rape as told by real interviews from men and women, survivors, detectives, attorneys, and others affected by what is a problem of inconceivable proportions.
Bachelorette
By: Leslye Headland
Walkerspace (NY, 2016)
Bachelorette follows three troubled women through a wild night of reminiscing and wreaking havoc before a mutual friend’s wedding. As part of Headland’s Seven Deadly Sins series, this play examines every sin in the book while exploring toxic relationships from the vantage point of the perpetrator, as well as the victim.
Between Men
By: Dennis Porter
Jewel Box Theatre (NY, 2016)
Secrets, disloyalty & distrust, Between Men begs the question, who are you loyal to? And what, or who, is worth fighting for when expectations are dashed and trust is forever lost?