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03/13/2020

The Lightswitch

After reading a short story in his college creative writing class about a man with OCD, Matt has a flash of insight and realizes that he himself showed all the signs of obsessive-compulsive behavior i...

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03/13/2020

A Farewell To Limbs Almost!!!

When Matteson was in college, he backpacked through Europe for six weeks with his friends Kyler and Carney, and ended up in Pamplona, Spain, with the goal of achieving his dream -- running with the bu...

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03/12/2020

The French Deflection

18 year-old Margot is a freshman theatre major, and is passionately in love with a French guy named Pierre who’s in her same department, and is just stereotypically romantic in a way she can’t res...

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03/09/2020

Bulletproof

Andrew grows up Jewish in the south, with an identity as a rather nerdy, dateless hypochondriac; he wants so much to be cool, and to have a girlfriend, and it’s just not happening. While he’s in h...

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01/16/2020

Interview: Tracy and Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison interviews Tracy about the process of creating and performing her shocking and deeply emotional story “Transcendent” as part of the Live From Philly episode. The interview contains e...

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12/02/2019

Marcia Nadel

Carlos is in film school in LA, and his assignment is to create a character study; he’s only allowed to use one actor in the film, and he feels this rule is stupid. He decides to get around it by in...

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10/15/2019

Act Two

Christina has always had an assortment of mysterious health issues, but in college, she starts getting much sicker, with joints so achy she can barely move, and fatigue that makes her fall asleep in c...

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10/15/2019

Both Sides Now

Tara grew up a working class kid in Queens, dividing her time between her divorced parents -- one side Italian, one side Irish. She had tough street smarts, and, at the same time, a secret love for li...

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10/15/2019

Call It a Crime

At 19, Nancy was an innocent Theatre major at a Catholic university - so innocent she’d never been drunk, and needed to know what drunkenness felt like in order to play a character she’d been cast...

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10/14/2019

Transcendent

Tracy is a sophomore at Bard College searching for transcendental experiences to escape from the grief she’s been carrying inside. When she takes mushrooms for the first time, the initial good trip ...

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