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Sometimes I Never Suffered
Poems

In his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains “a shrewd composer of American stories.” Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.

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Pew
A Novel

A small town in the American South takes a strange, silent visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town prepares for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, townspeople confess their secrets to Pew. By the time Pew’s story reaches a climax, the secret of their true nature is dwarfed by larger truths.

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The New American
A Novel

When Emilio turns 16, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal, until he gets into a car accident and the policeman on the scene reports him to ICE. Emilio is deported to Guatemala, but he is determined to take an epic journey home.

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DMZ Colony

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony explores Edward Said's notion of "the intertwined and overlapping histories" in regards to South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story, and poetics.

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Writers & Lovers
A Novel

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody now waits tables in a small Massachusetts town and rents a moldy room where she works on a novel. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures further.

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Becky Nurse of Salem

Becky Nurse is an outspoken, sharp-witted tour guide at the Salem Museum of Witchcraft who’s just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She’s also the descendant of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692—but things have changed for women since then…haven’t they? After losing her job for calling out The Crucible in front of schoolkids, Becky visits a local witch for help. One spell leads to another, and then everything really goes off the rails.

Premiere Year
2019
Premiere Theater
Berkeley Rep
Premiere City
Berkeley, CA
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Cast: Owen Campbell, Rod Gnapp, Naian González Norvind, Rubio Qian, Pamela Reed, Adrian Roberts, and Elissa Beth Stebbins; Director: Anne Kauffman

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Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven

Stephen Adly Guirgis takes his signature style to another level in this play about the harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking inner workings of a women’s halfway house in New York City.

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Premiere Year
2019
Premiere Theater
Atlantic Theater Company
Premiere City
New York, NY
Premiere Creative

Cast: Victor Almanzar,  David Anzuelo, Elizabeth Canavan, Sean Carvajal, Patrice Johnson Chevannes, Molly Collier, Liza Colón-Zayas, Esteban Andres Cruz, Greg Keller, Wilemina Olivia-Garcia, Kristina Poe, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Andrea Syglowski, Benja Kay Thomas, Viviana Valeria, Pernell Walker, and Kara Young; Director: John Ortiz

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The Lady Matador’s Hotel

A theatrical adaptation of  Cristina García's lush, sensual novel. The Lady Matador’s Hotel follows the denizens of a luxurious hotel in the capital of an unnamed Central American country in the midst of political turmoil. There is the matadora in town for a bullfight. There is an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel. And there is a colonel who committed atrocities in the country’s long civil war. Each day, the pull of revenge and desire draws them closer and closer together. 

Premiere Year
2019
Premiere Theater
Central Works
Premiere City
Berkeley, CA
Premiere Creative

Cast: Rudy Guerrero, Sylvia Kratins, Gabriel Montoya, Steve Ortiz, Neiry Rojo, and Erin Mei-Ling Stuart; Director: Gary Graves

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Hookman

It's freshman year of college and Lexi's life is falling apart. Ever since the mysterious death of her high school best friend, Lexi has found herself stalked by a tall, dark, hook-handed stranger who has been seriously cramping her style. In this existential slasher comedy, Lexi learns what it means to grow up -- and it's not pretty.

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Premiere Year
2015
Premiere Theater
Encore Theatre
Premiere City
San Francisco, CA
Premiere Creative

Cast: Taylor Jones, Sarah Mattes, Devin O’Brien, and Aily Roper; Director: Becca Wolff

Major Production Year
2019
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California Repertory Company
Major Production City
Long Beach, CA
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Director: Lisa Sanaye Dring

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Origin Story

Margaret doesn’t know who she is or what she’s aiming for. Forced to work two jobs to pay down her debt, she wades through office triviality at The Services Corporation by day and by night she works the drive-thru of The Burg, a 24/7 fast food restaurant. But through co-workers and friends, Margaret’s existential muddle begins to resolve as connections are found in the most unsuspecting of places. Funny, satirical, and surprising, Origin Story is an offbeat look at the quarter-life crisis and how to connect in an unconnected world. 

Premiere Year
2019
Premiere Theater
WaterTower Theatre
Premiere City
Addison, TX
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Director: Tiffany Nichole Greene

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