Full Length
obscura
(Developed with Boston Court Pasadena)
120 min - 1NB, 3M, 3W - drama, tragedy, thriller
Finch Montgomery’s photography exhibition began as a series of photos capturing a week long family gathering at their childhood home in Elmhurst, Illinois. In the midst of shooting this series, their father took his own life. This exploration into the series of events leading into and falling out of his death reveal the intricacies and complexities of familial relationships, how we hide our secrets, and where trauma makes its home with us. In order for a photograph to truly develop, it must first plunge deep into the vast, swallowing darkness.
Shorter Plays
27 Rue de Fleurus
60 min - 3W, 4M - dramedy, period, historical fiction
This one act play provides a window into the unravelling relationship between two of early 20th century’s most notable artists: Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Set against the backdrop of Stein’s Paris apartment in the summer of 1925, amidst one of her many salons, we witness the threads of their relationship begin to fray—all while the other attendees put on an amusing, impromptu reading of Stein’s newest project, “Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters”.
With interpolations of real life letters, essays, poems, and plays, 27 Rue de Fleurus not only tackles the questions behind Hemingway and Stein’s mysterious falling out, but also examines the debate surrounding what art actually is—what it can be, what it has been, and what it will be.
One Night at the Wilted Rose
10 minute - 2M - drama, romance, LGBT+
In the summer of 1953, just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, two young men enter a motel room—one a sex worker, the other his client. However, very quickly, a moment of clarity hits them both; the two of them used to be schoolmates.
One Night at the Wilted Rose is a brief exploration of queer trauma and catharsis through a historical lens. Finding solace, however temporary, may still be precious nonetheless.
Beast of Burden
10 minute - 1W, 1M - drama, magical realism, romance
In the midst of a dark, stormy August night, a young woman receives an unexpected visitor at her front door—a childhood friend, drenched to the bone and beaten black and blue. As his wounds are nursed, it becomes increasingly clear that there is something very strange and otherworldly about him.
Beast of Burden is a story of reconciliation, tearing down metaphysical walls, and of trying to find the one world—or even person—where you most fit.