North Korean sisters Minhee and Junhee are torn apart at the border as they attempt to flee the “Best Nation in the World.” Each must race across time and space to be together again—navigating the perilous “Land of the Free” and the treacherous terrain of personal belief. Chung’s fantastical, humor-filled play is a kaleidoscope of imagery and beauty, casting light on the darkness of a secretive regime while simultaneously illuminating American values from a unique perspective.

Winner: 2017 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Hillary Parker

Tom Helmer 
Stage Manager
Erin Washburn
Co-Dramaturg
Paige Zubel  
Co-Dramaturg
StoneDog Studios 
Set Fabrication

When an American fighter pilot becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she is reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas.  By day, she hunts terrorists with signature dexterity and ferocity. By night, she enjoys a quiet family life in suburbia.  But as the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

Nominated for 3 2017 Barrymore Awards

Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Paige Zubel 
Assistant Dramaturg

What does it mean to be radical? Marcus/Emma mashes together two of American History's wildest activist leaders - Jewish Anarchist Emma Goldman and Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey - and launches them into a no-holds-barred, sex-fueled, bloody-minded battle to rekindle the smouldering flames of their legacies. Core Playwright alum Mary Tuomanen's vibrant voice brings the political passion, tender humanity, and savage humor of Goldman and Garvey to life in a timely play that challenges the audience to continually question what it means to be American.

Nominated for 3 2017 Barrymore Awards, including the Independence Foundation Award for Outstanding New Play 

Stone Dog Studios
Technical Direction
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager/InterAct

At 16 years old David found himself in Uganda as a church missionary. When he follows the girl of his dreams into the woods to help a Rwandan boy he enters a world from which he will never escape. On the 20th anniversary of the genocide, a book David wrote regarding his experiences arrives with a note from the boy he tried to save: “There are untruths here." What David omitted will haunt him the rest of his life.

In the raw, ever-pumping, kitchen of a busy Wall Street restaurant, George -- a master chef with a dark and tortured past -- rules over his crew with the swagger of a giant.  While grappling his inner demons, George has to manage two Guatemalan cooks, a nosy busboy, and an a-hole of a boss. But he forges an unlikely personal connection with the dishwasher, Steve, a mysteriously reserved  African immigrant.  Fast-paced and gritty, Snider’s pressure-cooker drama explores both the personal and moral questions that arise when the ugliness of the past boils over.

Winner: 2017 Independence Foundation Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play

Nominated for 5 Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Overall Production of a Play    

Tom Helmer 
Stage Manager
Paige Zubel
Dramaturg
Stone Dog Studios 
Scene Shop
Esther Cohen 
Assistant Director
Jeremy Jason 
Assistant Lighting Designer
Dylan Wallace 
Assistant Stage Manager