Control Top

Five women face the funny and not-so-funny of what they wear. Like a long heart to heart with best friends, they share their life experiences and grapple with the control that’s not just hidden in pantyhose all while wondering why they don’t have pockets in all of their clothes.

Control Top was created with support from the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Community Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. It premieres June 2025.

 

Borrowing Time

An eclectic group of volunteers called The Friends of the Stamwick Public Library hold one disastrous fundraiser after another trying to save their beloved town library. Meanwhile their leader, Lillian, deals with her own crisis which brings her daughter back home. Loaded with laughs, a ton a heart and sea shanty or two.

 

The Sleepover ~ A Comedy of Marriage

Life coach Susie and her husband, psychotherapist Mark, hold their first couples counseling retreat in a run-down ski lodge. Susie is livid they are not at a five-star resort as five couples arrive is various states of marital mess - from self-help-seminar junkies to newlyweds who’ve yet to consummate their marriage. Things get worse when one husband learns his wife used to be engaged to Mark. Unable to leave until the next day, the couples spend the night sharing rooms and bunk beds. Through creative name calling and therapeutic games that involve blindfolds, insult and injury, each couple ends up learning something in the midst of this one-of-a-kind retreat.

 

Lunch Money

Having worked her way up to Assistant Director of Food Services at the high school, 62-year-old Marilyn hires her handful-of-a-sister Jackie to keep an eye on her. Just as the two of them are about to be charged with embezzlement, Charlie shows up in search of her birth mother. Complicating matters are the boarders of Marilyn’s house, a rag-tag group of family-less senior citizens who have part time jobs in the school cafeterias.

 

The Family of EWE

Described as “an ode to the bonds of female friendship,” The Family of EWE is a play about women, who despite imperfections and challenges, choose to stand by each other and, when necessary,  stand up to each other as well. A comedy that dives deep on real feelings in between the hilarity of everyday life. It is the story of women who become family - on purpose.

 

The Seymour Sisters

Two estranged sisters, Eleanor and Cecile, meet to sort through their deceased parents’ belonging. As each box is opened, so too is their past trauma. As the sisters find their way back to each other, they must face not only themselves, but the wounds they’ve kept hidden for decades. A touching, provocative, and often funny look at family, The Seymour Sisters ask what, if anything, we owe our adult sibling relationships.

 

Pronouncing Glenn

A comedic romp with a giant heart, Pronouncing Glenn looks at life and death through the lens of an unconventional family. With humorous repartee interrupted by madcap antics, a caregiver named Millie goes to crazy lengths to hide a body with only the best of intentions. All the elaborate ruses and schemes come undone as one by one, Dorcus, Ben, Sandra, Thomas, and Boyd learn the truth. 

 

A comedy about reunion and second chances, Alumni Pie reunites a group of friends, who in college were called "The Magnificent Seven Eight." Now in their 50's, the old gang, each arriving with their own agenda, gathers at crazy Lena's guest house to reminisce and reconnect. From reviving old traditions to modeling bras, "The Magnificent Seven Eight" find a renewed bond through laughter and tears.

 

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