When Jackson ingests an experimental drug and transforms into a superhero, he learns that protecting others is more complicated than he thought. As he navigates his new identity as a trans man, his shifting relationship with his twin sister, and a college campus teetering on total destruction, Jackson must face what it truly means to care for his community – and what it means to accept that care himself. 

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
2024 - AMTP Workshop
2023 - NAMT Festival of New Musicals

“As Sylvia” is a one-person play developed by Summer Minerva in collaboration with director/choreographer Bo Frazier. “As Sylvia” plops audiences into the bedroom of S, a young transgender femme who has to make a decision that seems, on the one hand, quite trivial, and, on the other, a symbol of deeply ingrained unhealthy patterns related to sex addiction and self-love. Do I continue to allow myself to be devalued by the anonymous men I meet on hookup sites, or do I choose a different way? While grappling with the ways she’s always been and conversely wants to be, S decides to light the candles on her altar in order to call upon her spirit guide Sylvia Rivera, transgender icon.

It’s 1999 and 17 year old Declan is visited by three Celestials who task him with the impossible— create a new number. If he makes a new digit between 9 and 0, then he buys time before Y2K and the crisis that comes with it.  But he’s also seeing prophetic visions of a better — and distracting —  future; one where he is safe and happy as a trans adult. In My Head I’m 21 is a new musical that suggests we don’t all need to be heroes, and creating our own future is the most attainable superpower of all. 

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(though the music has changed substantially, it's a good reminder of the malleable nature of theatre)

Cass wakes up from a dream to find her hands are burnt having seen a vision of Greenville engulfed in flames. No one believes her, but smoke has started descending on the town. People are leaving, never to be heard from again. Meanwhile, the Director of Tourism is determined to keep tourists out of the town.

Bell at the Back of Her Throat is an examination of patriarchy, witchcraft, and xenophobia through the Cassandra myth.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
2019 - Iowa New Play Festival Workshop
2018 - Iowa Playwright’s Workshop Reading

Chicago friends return to a gay summer campground to continue their annual tradition of competing to be named “Summer’s Campiest Camper.” As the competition draws closer, the campers are forced to reveal their true selves and confront their hidden feelings.

Campy; The Search for Summer’s Campiest Camper is a gay Indigenous rom com about love, lust and longing.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
2023 - Goodman Theatre