What does it mean to be driven by purpose? What happens when purpose collides with ideals? Canyon takes a look at what happens when the lives of two families are rocked by an unpredictable accident. We meet a newlywed couple and a Mexican father and son as they all try their best to find a better view. A look at gender, citizenship, and the costs of trying to live a conventional, American life.
Development: IAMA Theater (Dir. Adrienne Campbell-Holt), Williamstown Theater Festival Reading (Laura Savia), Premiere Stages Playwright’s Festival, Reading, IAMA Theater (Dir. Danny Goldstein), Echo Lab Reading (Dir. Danny Goldstein) |
Cast: 4M, 2W
Productions: Los Angeles Premiere, IAMA Theater Company (Dir. Whitney White) |
Aaron is smart, privileged and liked by everyone. Iskinder, his college roommate, is modest, unconnected and comes from a middle-class immigrant family. Soon the best of friends, Aaron takes Iskinder under his wing, sharing his world of favors and fortune. But the safe haven of college only lasts so long, and once in the real world, Aaron is thrust into a terrifying situation without his familiar safety net. As the tables turn and he is forced to rely on an accused felon’s connections to keep him safe, both Aaron and Iskinder have to rethink the meaning of friendship and where loyalty has its limits.
Development: The Roundabout Underground 2013 Reading Series (Dir. Laura Savia) Berkshire Playwright’s Lab, Mahaiwe Theater (Dir. Dan Winerman) The Manhattan Theater Club’s 2011 7@7 Reading Series (Dir. Evan Cabnet) |
Cast: 3M
Productions: Los Angeles Premiere, IAMA Theater Company (Dir. Laura Savia) New York Premiere, The Flea Theater 2013, (Dir. Kel Haney) World Premiere, Old Globe, Sheryl & Harvey White Theater (Dir. Jon Munby), Windy City Playhouse (Dir. Jonathan Wilson) Awards: Winner 2012 CRAIG NOEL AWARD –Most outstanding new play. |
Lilly and Steven are smart, talented, and charming. Their new neighbor is not. After moving into a new apartment, they meet the man they now share a wall with—Mark Manners, an aspiring fiction writer and longtime tenant of the building. Lilly and Steven proceed to Google-stalk Mark and have a field day mocking his website…only to realize the walls are thin. Did he hear everything they said about him? When they try to resolve the newfound tension, it escalates in ways none of them could ever predict.
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Cast: 2M, 1W
Productions: Roque Machine (Los Angeles) |
Over the course of a long night of drinking, fire building, and smore making our groom-to-be, Dez, comes to question the very nature of love and monogamy. Rifles are drawn, stripteases are danced and secrets are unearthed as this quartet of friends comes together and falls apart. Cynical and raw, hilarious and squirm inducing, this raucous #metoo era play asks the question of how liberal "woke" boys really are when they’re alone together, out in nature, beers in hand.
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Cast: 4M
Productions: Edinburgh Fringe Premiere August 2019 |
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