The Alcove

Nothing but the Blood is a fantasia on period stigma, reclamation, and that time birth control almost killed me. It’s 50% funeral, but 100% party! It’s the woman with the issue of blood, and my aunt with her issue of blood, and me with my own issue of blood. It’s Eve wondering what the fuck is going on when she gets her first period, and Carrie thinking she’s dying when she gets her first period, and it’s all of us wondering what is going on when we get our first periods; It’s wanting so desperatly to share a secret with my body like Anne Frank. It’s being told life is gift, but the way we get to the gift is through punishment. It’s the question, if it’s a punishment, could it ever be a gift?

At a county fair in Texas, a doomsday prepper and her ex-husband navigate co-parenting while they run a survivalist convention. Meanwhile, their kid excels at music camp. What If I Did? is a play about learning to drive, dodging old flames, and measuring incalculable loss.

Samia never knew her father, and her secretive Lebanese mother is more interested in watching Wheel of Fortune than providing answers. While she’s proud of her Arab American heritage, Samia wishes she knew more about her family history — until her friend does her DNA test without her consent, making Samia confront just how much knowledge about her ancestry she can handle.

Three executives, an international diplomat, and a mysterious squatter with a bulldozer collide over a single plot of land. What begins as a routine corporate acquisition quickly devolves into the grand opening of a “data center park” – a fragile, architectural nightmare where danger lurks behind every motherboard.

In a forgotten neighborhood of 1990s Chicago, a family plays childhood board games. While arguing over house rules and Jordan’s return to the Bulls, they struggle to succeed in a country increasingly stacked against them. What happens to a family, when everyone loses?

There’s been a death in we family. You’re invited to come an mourn we beloved mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunty, friend, daughter-to-an-ancestor. She live to be 200 an 31 years of age. Da’is young-young-young in we family. Everyone is welcome. Bring allyuh people an dress nice: We go lime. We go dance. We go celebrate an drink. There is no land to worry about. No inheritance to claim. She leff wit all she ting. Please respond, kindly, with who you will be bringing. She sons will be there. She daughter-in-law, and she daughter-in-law sister, an she gay grandson will be in attendance. Even she step-child comin from London. Come an bring good energy only. JUMBIE LAND! is a celebration of life for people who live and die far from home.

Silvio García Rendón was destined to break baseball’s color barrier long before Jackie Robinson stepped up to the plate. To be immortalized, he would have to put up with the inevitable abuse and taunts that would come his way. His refusal altered the history of the game, two countries, and three New York baseball teams. If he could have another at-bat, would he make the same choice? Untitled Baseball Play asks us if we had the bases loaded and no outs, would we swing for the fences? Or would the pressure cause us to hit into a game-ending triple play?

It’s the roaring 2020’s! In this town, the analog reigns supreme and the titans of industry measure influence by the ream. Morgan, a recent grad with a “unique ability”, stumbles into a prestigious design mentorship program with H&G Publishing. Under the guidance of Madam, a glamorous notebook magnate, she’s on her way to becoming the second most well-known producer of analog time management resources in North America! If she survives Madam, that is. Unlined Hardcover Layflat is an absurdist corporate satire that explores capital’s unholy union with time and the perennial allure of a bunch of dykes in the dangerous world of luxury notebooks.

Marisol, a drainage engineer and recent transplant from Puerto Rico, struggles with cultural and language barriers at her new job in Florida while grieving the loss of her family home due to a hurricane. As climate change renders her storm‑frequency models useless at work, she fights to convince her boss and clients to seek out updated models that will be better for designs and uphold public safety. Political resistance, limited resources, and isolation threaten her progress until an unexpected ally, a disabled fifth‑generation Floridian citrus farmer, helps her rediscover solitude as a catalyst for innovation, connection, and confronting our fragile infrastructure.

It’s 1548, and Giacomo has to teach the first day of class because Ferrari is coming on a very slow horse. There’s a lot of math to cover… but first, in order to know math, we need to know history. And in order to know history, we need to know men. Specifically, Italian men. And so begins THE CUBIC!, a play (with little regard for actual fact) that traces the discovery of the cubic equation (x^3 + ax = b) and the many men who laid claim over it, all leading up to a big decision for Giacomo. This piece is loosely (oh so loosely) based on the Cardano vs. Tartaglia debate, an actual moment in actual history. But the play reimagines the history to ask questions about what it means to achieve greatness, how we create a legacy, and whether we can hold ambition and kindness simultaneously.