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P.R.O.M. (horror feature): A sanctimonious purity queen takes down her Christian high school when, after an unforgivable fall from grace, she starts having disturbing revelations about her beloved youth pastor.
COLLEGIATE (one-hour TV drama): When an ambitious teen is rejected from her dream school, she poses as a student to make her dreams of higher ed—and all its privileges—come true.
GRILL (short by Jason Lobe and Liz Maestri): A young woman struggling with mental illness makes a plan to escape suburbia, her coddling parents, and the endless torments of a sadistic American Girl doll.
SIGNS + WONDERS (one-hour TV drama): When the loser son of a televangelist receives a sign from God to take over his father’s ministry, he must make an otherworldly deal to overcome his personal weaknesses — and his poster-boy of a brother — in order to fulfill his destiny and become America’s favorite pastor.
PLAYS
BOYS AND MEN AND MEN AND BOYS (fka Sinner-Man): Ensconced in a gilded world of lavish parties, narcotics, and the fine arts, Dorian goes to extremes to preserve his glorious youth and privilege. But nothing really lasts forever, and Dorian and his entourage must contend with the rapidly changing world knocking on their doorstep.
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL: Three generations of a family cope with the sanitized pain of dying in America and the impossible task of saying goodbye.
OWL MOON: A play about love and body bags.
THE ICE ROOM: An Evangelical comedy of manners about Vacation Bible School, infidelity, and crushed dreams.
THE KNOT: Two brides vow to attain envy-inducing, idyllic AF perfection in their search to find true happiness. But can they survive the onslaught of flowers, cakes, alcohol, presents, and nervous breakdowns in the Disney Princess universe of wedding mania?
THAT'S HOW I LIE: Pop star Justin Beaver goes to extremes to sabotage his cesspool of a career only to wake up in a dark kitchen with a blowtorch-wielding old woman.
CONDO CONDO CONDOLAND: It’s the end of the world. Dan and Jillian’s well-appointed condo will save them.
INHERITANCE CANYON: Three survivors of a mysterious disaster struggle for meaning within the restrictions of their new lives as government guinea pigs. Trapped in a canyon full of inexplicable anomalies and ruled by an overbearing celebrity physicist, Shell, Sal, and Gary threaten the very fabric of the cosmos.
SOMERSAULTING: An adaptation of Sammy Harkham's 3-color comic from Drawn & Quarterly Showcase #3. Two best friends deal with death, love, boredom, and sex in their run-down beach town.
PRODUCED SHORTS
NIGHT WAKING: At home one night with their two young children, Ari and her wife Miriam face an existential threat.
THE LAUGHING CLUB: Two yogis avoid their personal problems - and the apocalypse - by practicing laughter exercises.
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