Projects

Past and ongoing projects in our repertoire include (but are not limited to):

  • Grandmas! (2024), drawn from interviews with local women of many walks of life, about aging, mortality, and agency (or lack thereof) in forging a life across time
  • On Function (2019), commissioned by the National Neurotrauma Society to create a live performance drawn from immersion and interviews with patients, therapists, and doctors of those with traumatic brain injuries
  • Voices of East Blue Hill (2018), an in-depth residency and co-created series of vignettes arising from a tiny town in rural Maine, exploring its deep politics and issues of peaceable co-existence in a bucolic setting
  • Nice Town, Normal People (2017, 2019), our signature production began as a Davis Project for Peace, drawn from 100+ in-depth local interviews about “home” in our hometown of Arroyo Grande, CA, interrogating what it means to be “nice” and “normal” across vast difference. Toured nationwide to Chicago, Princeton, Maine, CA, etc.

Our current and upcoming project, tentatively entitled The Nipomo Plot, explores the controversy, tensions, and decision-making processes surrounding a proposed housing development that would provide much-needed homes while destroying thousands of native California oaks.