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A night with one man, one corpse, one fly, and a history of loneliness. Inspired by a true event, NEAR DAWN is a solo play about belonging and solitude, drawing influence from the culture and tradition of rural China in the early 1980s.

An SAT tutoring session takes a shocking turn when the teacher realizes that his new student is not who she claimed to be, in this intense nerve-racking drama. | www.bluekissplay.com

Musician/performer Esquzito conjures up notorious characters of "The District" in an adaptation of a Danny Barker (1909-1994) tale from The Last Days of Storyville. Interpreting Barker's "lies embellished with truth,” Esquizito makes New Orleans' redlight district and the birth of Jazz come alive.

Patch of Red is a provocative erotic thriller set in the night life of 1990's New York City. An art student witnesses a gruesome murder and is pursued by the killer.

Strindberg’s Creditors is a powerful psychodrama, which has a comedic flare. Adolph, a painter is developing a neurological disorder, has been befriended by Gustav, who both inspires him and feeds his mind with doubts and insecurities about work, his wife, his masculinity and his mortality.

Do young people have the power to create change? How do they fight unseen powers that manipulate their fear when the rules keep changing? With Pavlovian consequences & Orwellian overtones, this play questions authority & the definition of freedom, while exploring the journey of revolution.

When her 6 year-old girl is abducted, and the police can’t/won’t help, Sarah goes after the drug dealer she is convinced took her daughter, despite his claims of innocence. How far should she go to get to the truth, when she has no actual proof, just her mother's intuition, and what if she’s wrong?

6 Vignettes about women in the workplace that happen to take place in a restroom.

In the circle that is Widows Anonymous, five characters come together to share stories, secrets and the brutal humor that is being a widow in modern times. As they discover, there is no short cut, no alternate route, and the only way out is through. Welcome to the front lines.

Five short comedies exploring the middle age white male struggle to fit in during these confusing times. FANDOM - navigating politics, POLITE RACISM - analyzing ethnicity, SUICIDE PACT - tolerating millennials, BRITTLE TROMBONE - contemplating economics, FANTASY FOOTBALL - grasping identity

Sex blogger star turned novelist Ethan crashes the snowy B&B of the gifted but obscure novelist Olivia. Each crave what the other possesses. As attraction turns to sex, they inch closer to getting what they want but at what cost to their complicated relationship when the past is only a click away.

SICKBOY is a collection of stories about filth & healing, as told by the chronically ill gay who lived them. Tim puts it all out there with extreme frankness, or as the Chicago Reader put it, he, “...uses boyish candor to blend absurdity, pathos, and graphic sex in ways that are deeply humanizing."

From Communist Czechoslovakia to Harlem, from exorcisms to orgasms, the daughter of a New Age Holocaust survivor is compelled to "cha-cha" away the wounds of her ancestors. Through the celebratory delight of her loose underwear, she finds freedom. And yes... it's funny.

Cupid is given one last shot by God to save modern love or be sent to where all the people fired by God go... New Jersey.

LOST VOICES - Three Women, Aarthi. Helena. Simone. Today their stories may determine the fate of 7.6 Billion people and they don't even know it. DEATH UNIT - Texas Prison. Two Men. A dead body. Elevator not working. Doors locked. Lights flicker off and on. What else could go wrong?