BUST
3W 3M

Sein fights for the leadership of her Model United Nations team. An economist gives one last lecture. Fish Grandma goes to the bank. Meanwhile, the global market teeters on the brink of collapse. BUST explores the money in our wallets, the illusions it buys, and the future it promises.

Lost Coast
4W 3M

In a coastal forest in northern California live Sheila, Pru, Angel, Gigi, Nara, and Joon, isolated from society in nature. When a wildfire burns down a nearby town, their lives start to unravel. With Stephen, a fire refugee, now living among them, they contend with the transformations they must go through. This seven-protagonist play explores community and compassion in the face of irrevocable change.

Manuka
2W 2M

Sungho flunks out of college and his business-savvy mother is worried. But his business-savvier father turns up out of nowhere with the greatest idea he's ever had. This could be the answer to all of their prayers.

The Seekers
3W 3M

Ilhan is a Somali high school student living in Minneapolis on the verge of deportation when she is visited by figures from far-flung places: the Arctic, European fringes, and an African refugee camp. They draw her into an unseen and forgotten world that exists just beyond reality and appeal to her for the sanctuary of their souls. With the letter from immigration waiting for her on the table, Ilhan decides to negotiate for her freedom. A poetic drama on displacement, environment and freedom.

Penny Thoughts
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Money plays a huge role in our lives. We pin our hopes and dreams on the dollar and yet we are unwilling to talk about it. Let’s end that taboo.
A storytelling project/video collage, Penny Thoughts is a digital companion to BUST (Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab).
Co-conceived and produced by Bryn Herdrich, performed and composed by Catherine Brookman.

Dahlia
5W 3M

Dahlia Kim leaves Chicago after a fraud derails her professional and artistic life. Despite protests from her friend Ezra, she accepts a position at a community college in the Texas Panhandle to provide for her mother suffering from dementia, and her sister, in love with a racist marine. There, she falls in love with Rosa Ramirez, a Mexican-American rancher, tutors a troubled girl called Mandy, and learns the secret of the girl’s grieving father. Against the backdrop of vast blue sky and rusty canyons, Dahlia rediscovers what brings meaning to her life.

Cecilies
5 W/M

Cecily lives her life dictated by her schedule, overflowing with commitments, menial tasks, deadlines and promises to be kept. One day, she sees a bird outside her window, and it inspires her to change things around. She hires people to assume her identity and live parts of her life. Then slowly, but surely, things start to fall apart. Conceived by Jeesun Choi and Thalia Kostman. Devised by Jeesun Choi, Thalia Kostman, Nate Gebhard and Anna Lewein. Music by Keith Kostman.