THE WORRY DOLLS
A play. Inspired by the anxieties passed from mothers to daughters, the realities of corn farming amid climate change in Central America’s “Dry Corridor,” and the Guatemalan tradition of giving children handmade dolls said to cure the worries whispered to them overnight, THE WORRY DOLLS centers a small town in which women regularly hear the whispered and mundane worries of God. When one of the town's residents sets out to solve the worries she hears and doesn't return, her sister journeys across the Corridor to find her.
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RIDERS TO THE SEA
A musical adaptation of Ralph Vaughan Williams' opera by the same title that seeks to answer the question: Where is the line between opera and musical theater? Through reverent dramaturgical and musical transformation, Riders' is tested, illuminated, and experimented on in collaboration with composer Jake Landau.
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ANANKE
A novel. For the first time in eons, Fate intervenes. As the destiny of the world falls off track, stifling one girl's newfound agency may be the key to keeping it from chaos -- or plunging it further down the slope.
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12:15 (EARTHLY TIME)
A musical inspired by true events. A retelling of Exodus set in 1919 New Orleans. A pair of amateur musicians play jazz funerals by day and rob the graves by night to make ends meet. When a serial killer called the Axeman places a letter in New Orleans’ Times-Picayune threatening to kill anyone who wasn’t listening to jazz music one Tuesday night, the two musicians find themselves faced with the unprecedented, terrifying opportunity to literally perform for their lives.
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SERAFINA
A collection of short stories. A series of haunted evenings in a city under the thumb of a hundred ancient gods and near-gods -- Rome. A man meets a haunting relic in the chapel of an old church. A young woman contests her fate. Two artists play emperor for an evening. A nun finds the truth behind superstition. A lost child finds something more than her father.
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AN ANGEL AMONG THE DEVIL'S CHILDREN
A novel. Ancient beings that have literally lived in the shadows since the beginning finally gain the power to launch an attack on the human race, successfully wiping out all but eight people. Those that are left move by night to find each other and discover what to make of life in the aftermath.
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