Written by Ejay Amor

Directed By Brodrick Santeze Ryans

Con-Veiled is an emotional whiplash of a story that takes us into a chasm of comedically dark existentialism. We follow two women, Elise and Lily, who begin a journey to reshape their destinies in an apocalyptic world. As they discover their humanity, all of their concepts of morality, sexuality, and religion shift, challenging them to find out what “living” truly means. As the world disintegrates around them, Elise and Lily come to the inevitable moment where they must choose who can survive, and who is left behind to face the end.

Written by Ejay Amor

Directed By Brodrick Santeze Ryans

Con-Veiled is an emotional whiplash of a story that takes us into a chasm of comedically dark existentialism. We follow two women, Elise and Lily, who begin a journey to reshape their destinies in an apocalyptic world. As they discover their humanity, all of their concepts of morality, sexuality, and religion shift, challenging them to find out what “living” truly means. As the world disintegrates around them, Elise and Lily come to the inevitable moment where they must choose who can survive, and who is left behind to face the end.

Curiosity is an original new musical written and produced by Mary Ann Tavi, co-produced with Annex Theatre.

Step right up and be transported to a world of the strange, odd, and grotesque. Meet the owner, Mr. Curiosity, whose family has owned the shop for over 100 years. Meet our many unique oddities including the Two Headed Calf, and Miss Ella the Fortune Teller. To those who have joined us before, welcome back! We knew you couldn’t stay away. Get ready for a tale of excitement, danger, lessons, and fun. Curiosity is a cunning commentary on the tourism industry and failed Capitalist infrastructures of our world today. 

Conceived by Emily Pike & Emily Sershon

Created by the Company of Annex Theatre

Live stream performances from Annex Theatre on October 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2024

What waits for you in the woods? Leave Only Footprints is an immersive and haunted experience set in a cursed Pacific Northwest state park along the Salish Sea where a lone hiker has recently gone missing. Venture inside to explore the mysterious wood, encounter its inhuman inhabitants, and uncover the mystery of the wayward hiker’s disappearance. As you puzzle your way through the eldritch forest, remember to stay on the path or risk leaving only footprints.

A new comedy by Marcus Gorman (he/him)

Directed by Jasmine Joshua (they/them)

Live stream performance from Annex Theatre on February 6, 2025

When 19-year-old Frankie inherits her late grandfather’s little black book, she goes on a cross-country road trip to meet his mistresses. As she and her college bestie travel across the United States and through decades of her family’s secret history, she learns not just who her grandfather truly was…but also a key to her own identity. GOLD is a funny and relatable drama about what we leave behind.

And also, some psychedelic dinosaurs.

Written by Kelleen Conway Blanchard (she/her)

Directed by Sam Ro (they/them)

Live stream performance from Annex Theatre on Friday, October 13, 2023

An evening of diabolical radio mysteries by Kelleen Conway Blanchard with swoony live music and haunting shocks. Like the enchanting goth cousin of Dragnet and Scooby Doo, the full-length edition of Battle Crow Radio presents four terrifying tales both live and streaming to freeze your blood! Join Detectives Palverson and Jiggles as they follow the trails of murdering fiends, other worldly creatures, and spine-chilling evil!

A Holiday Variety Show

Curated by Catherine Blake Smith (she/her)

Live stream performance from Annex Theatre on Friday, December 2, 2023

At our variety show to cap off the year, be amazed and delighted by a bevy of performers. The naughty list has been intentionally curated by Catherine Blake Smith to bring you holiday cheer and features:

• Your host, Ben Laurance!
• A Haunting Short Play by Kelleen Conway Blanchard called The Prayer!
• Rockin’ Holiday Tunes by Lesli Wood!
• The Gift of PowerPoint from Glambrosia Salad & Thistle Thornbox!
• Wintry Flute Shenanigans performed by Merry Candy and their Horny A.I. Alexa!
• BRR-lesque brought to us by the one and only Chuse Violence!
• An original song by Jesse Calixto!
• A short holiday comedy by gude/laurance!
• Even More Music from seranine!
• Our favorite annual holiday tradition: Hot Dog Christmas!
• && Scottish Smut written by Kelleen Conway Blanchard and performed by Cody Smith!

Written by Nelle Tankus (she/her)

Co-Directed by Grace Carmack (they/them) & E. Pike (they/them)

Live stream performance from Annex Theatre on Friday, February 16, 2024

At the dawn of a new swine flu pandemic, Lemon Lymes is a retired pop star and aspiring fascist looking to collaborate on a secret project with an adoring fan. Meanwhile, three Queerdos are planning for their uncertain futures as artificial intelligence renders their jobs obsolete. When a parasocial Lymes fan takes things too far and billionaire industries begin to collapse, the queerdos have to outsmart the state and keep their loved ones cared for. Tenderness is an anticapitalist cyberpunk experience you can enjoy from the comfort of your home computer or the theatre.

A New Play by Jesse Calixto (he/him)

Directed by Catherine Blake Smith (she/her)

Live stream performance from Annex Theatre on Saturday, March 23, 2024

Four strangers are invited to participate in a focus group where they are asked to watch a trailer about an infamous hidden-camera prankster. Despite being told “Your opinion matters!” they suddenly begin to wonder if they themselves are the subject of a sick joke or a life threatening disaster.

A new play by Marcus Gorman (he/him) & Jo Jo Stiletto (she/her)

Directed by Tootsie Spangles (she/her)

Live stream performance from Annex Theatre on Thursday, June 13, 2024

It’s Double Dare meets Noises Off! The creative team behind a late-1980s kids’ cable network is on the eve of launching a high-energy, neon-colored competition series. Will they succeed, or will it be a slime-a-riffic, televised, darkly comic catastrophe? GET GUNKED!

WRITTEN BY CHRISTINE DEAVEL (SHE/HER)

DIRECTED BY ALISON KOZAR (THEY/THEM) & ROWAN GALLAGHER (THEY/THEM)

Live Stream performance from Annex Theatre on April 12th, 2025.

What do you do when your mother dies, your father decides to mail you box after random box of her things, and Emily Dickinson poems begin appearing in everyone’s pockets? If you’re Beryl, you head to your job at the coffin-making shop and look for guidance from the two-person Greek chorus that now accompanies your changed life. Unfolding over three days in the 1990s and set in the ancient neighborhood of grief, Blue to Blue presents the timeless search for solace after loss and the unexpected ways it arrives.