P A R A L L A X

​Tonight, in a living room not far from you, an HOA board convenes after an act of vandalism takes place at Meryl’s house. What begins as neighborly concern turns volatile as questions become accusations and the room fractures, exposing the invisible borders of class and power. In this community, where territory is everything, decency is just another performance. Welcome to the neighborhood.

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SGT. HANK COLE'S

DRAMA CLUB OF ALGONA 

After being captured by Americans during WWII, a group of young foot soldiers from the German army are transported to a P.O.W. Camp in Algona, Iowa where they are recruited to join a Drama Club led by Sgt. Hank Cole. Inspired by actual events, Calamity West’s play explores the hypocrisies of the war machine, the dangers of nationalism, and the magic of theater.​​

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                                   FEAST!

Carol just got fired. Her husband Michael has already paid for the company’s $12,000 holiday dinner. Instead of canceling, they decide to go through with it - to host the meal no one asked for and prove they still belong at the table. But when no guests arrive, the night spirals into a brutal showdown over money, marriage, and the cost of holding on, where the only thing left to swallow is the truth. FEAST! is a darkly comic pressure cooker about privilege and power.

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  GREETINGS FROM MOSCOW!

                        A LOVE STORY
Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov are caught in a brief and blazing romance, swept up in a Moscow bursting with artistic rebellion and possibility. Letters fly across provinces as Olga steps into the spotlight of a rising theatre movement while Anton confronts the stark isolation of rural Russia. What begins as curiosity erupts into devotion as two souls fight to create something that might outlast them both. 

     ENGINES AND INSTRUMENTS OF FLIGHT:
               A FANTASIA IN THREE ACTS

Calamity West is conjuring a fantasia: It’s 1986 New York and Tony is a playwright who isn’t writing. As he and his closest collaborators search for meaning in an increasingly fractured America, figures from history begin appearing with agendas of their own. Engines and Instruments of Flight is a play about the magic of making theatre in a world that refuses to stand still. 

                         IN THE CANYON
Written before Roe v. Wade was overturned, this haunting play now reads as both warning and prophecy. What was once imagined as a cautionary tale feels startlingly immediate. A new American saga by Calamity West spanning from 2007 to 2067, the play chronicles a story of survival amid the unraveling of a broken society and asks what remains when fundamental freedoms are stripped away. As the sun sets on a shattered world, the canyon rocks and walls come alive, giving rise to a story of resistance, resilience, and the enduring fight for one another.

                               HINTER
Whispers and rumors had been swirling around the Gruber family farm long before the bodies were discovered on that cold April day. It's 1922, and a remote community in Bavaria is reeling in the aftermath of World War I: gender roles are shifting, a generation gap is emerging, and farmers are battling poverty in the shadow of a growing urban intelligentsia. 

                     GIVE IT ALL BACK 
Paris, 1966. An American musician has gone electric and his fans are furious, his record company is panicking and everyone he knows seems to have an opinion about who he used to be. Holed up in a hotel room with a revolving door of friends, lovers, reporters and handlers, The Artist is offered a chance to reclaim his place at the center of American culture: the cover of Time magazine. All he has to do is explain himself. Give It All Back is a darkly comic play about fame, reinvention and who gets to decide what an artist should be.

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