Untitled Sketch Comedy is a project in Mercury III (June 2021) Development of a long-form sketch comedy web series dealing with issues of race. The project scope and project deck is creating a sustainable budget for a web/tv series, writing time for the first season...
A focused work group intent on researching the correlation between queerness and the horror genre, why queer people love scary things, and why our narratives feel so connected to spook. The work from this group may result in a play, a dance party, a haunted house, an...
written by Bobby Bermea A theatrical account of what went on behinds the scenes of the 1974 murder trial of Joan Little. Joan Little was the first woman to be aquitted of murder committed in self defense against a sexual assault. She was also the first black woman to...
Artists from across areas of practice gather for a single day intensive story circle/sharing workshop. Participants are guided through a series of prompts/themes and share autobiographical stories in response to those prompts. Writing breaks are interspersed...
written by Francisco Garcia On July 28, 2019, three pink teeter-totters were briefly placed on the border wall of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, which stands on the most-crossed border in the world and a continual site of political divide. For 40 minutes,...
Staged reading June 5, 2022 @ 5pm written by Derek Kolluri & Deven Kolluri Two cousins, STU and SOL, are seeing each other for the first time in years. STU, a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology, is finally beginning to gain acceptance by commodifying elements...
A working group organized and led by Kisha Jarrett and B. Frayn Masters. This multi-year multi-media project centers on four Oregonian black women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote and particularly fought for women of color to have the right to...
Staged Reading June 2, 2022 @ 7pm written by AnaSofía Villanueva Sabor is a story of a mixed-race Latina, Clara, in search of her place within the elite culinary world and among her relationships. After the passing of her abuelo, Clara makes drastic life changes:...
The Revolution of the Unbearable Departed Yearning was a project in Mercury I & II (June 2020/November 2020) and now Mercury III written by Lava Alapai, Linda Alper, Anthony Hudson, Dan Kitrosser, Susannah Mars, Luan Schooler, Josie Seid The old mill town of...
A workshop for a future film project produced by Red Door.
Written by Reena Dutt Every neighborhood has a mystery to solve...and residents with clues. Similar to Spoon River Anthology, everyone's history develops based on who you ask, and how your hippocampus recollects these memories. In this piece (utilizing Eko or a...
Written by Yussef El Guindi Love, politics, art and the struggle to maintain the idealism of all three in the face of various corrupting forces. A young man and an older woman meet in a bar on Senate Election Night and return to the young man's apartment. Both are...