plays/Adaptations
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CAST SIZE. 11
A queer reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set in the pulsing heart of Club Verona, ruled by the illustrious drag queen and host, Mutha Laurence.
Inspired by the electric energy of the ballroom scene, drag culture, and underground club life, this immersive production plunges into the complexities of queer love, grief, pleasure, and mortality. CALL ME boldly questions the very purpose of love itself. What unfolds is a fierce, poetic, and unapologetically raw night of dance, intimacy, and theatrical rebellion—exploring the edges of queer utopia while asking: what does it truly mean to love—and to lose?
Part party. Part drag show. Part nightclub. Part play.
Filled with love, sex, drugs, and grief, we invite you to spend a night of debauchery, tenderness, and unapologetic queerness at Club Verona.
World Premiere at The Voxel Theater (2025)
Workshop Premiere at Muhlenberg College (2021)
Olney Theatre 2024 Vanguard Arts Fund Semi-Finalist and then Finalist.
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CAST SIZE: 7
Sarai Jones; a public health student at “TheUniversity” in Baltimore. When the university announces a major initiative promising to transform the city, Sarai uncovers a dangerous public health issue tied to a new data center being built. This reimagining propels the story into 2026 and beyond, exploring university politics, data centers, AI, and public health—asking what it truly costs to speak truth to power.
Commissioned and developed through Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute.
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CAST SIZE: 7
An experimental dance theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It explores the shadows of the human psyche where ambition, guilt, and fate intertwine with the supernatural. Blending movement, dance, and spoken text, this reimagining draws inspiration from horror and the macabre of Edgar Allen Poe.
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CAST SIZE: 7
Five childhood friends once inseparable, once strange and radiant in their own ways return to the childhood home that once was their sanctuary, that held their hopes, dreams, desires, and even their fears. But now, in their early 30s, life has happened. Distance. Careers. Grief. Resentment.
What begins as a nostalgic reunion slowly unravels into something feral. Beneath the laughter, shared memories, and performative closeness, something older and more primal awakens, and they begin to feel haunted by the ghosts of the past. Like wild animals that once curled up together for warmth, they begin to bare their teeth, territorial, hungry, wounded. Secrets come to light. Old wounds resurface. And the brutality of the animal kingdom begins to take hold.
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CAST SIZE: 7
Adapted from Titus Andronicus by Nigel Semaj is an experimental movement driven adaptation exploring gendered violence in Shakespeare’s text.
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CAST: 12
On a camping trip, three friends discover the stories they are sharing might have some ghostly truths to them.
in the darkest forest was conceived at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as part of the 2024–2025 New Plays, New Ways season.
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CAST SIZE: 8
Concept by Nigel Semaj. Adaptation by Calley N. Anderson and N. Semaj tells the story of Hercules and Hylas through song, poetry and dance. For Hylas explores queerness in Ancient Greek mythology and focuses on a love story that hasn’t been traditionally told.