Sheila Callaghan Selected Works

Playwright Sheila Callaghan & director Daniella Topol’s epic exploration of their epic exploration of an element so epic it’s taken a decade to explore.

The world premiere of a funny, sexy and unconventional romance with music. Raw, racy, spanning 10 years in less than 90 minutes and featuring original songs, BED explores issues of love, abandonment and betrayal through the unique and inimitable lens of playwright Sheila Callaghan.

What’s on the menu for Meredith, Tori, and Sandy: the three women in Guy’s life? Healthy lifestyles, upward mobility, meaningful sex? Or self-loathing and distorted priorities? Award-winning playwright Sheila Callaghan serves up a world premiere on a bed of bawdy language in a gender-bending comedy vinaigrette, inviting everyone—men and women, mothers and sons—to savor this complex recipe of desire and shame.

Women Laughing Alone with Salad dishes out our image-obsessed culture with abrasive imagery, biting social critique, and devastating humor.

Guns, gals, jello wrestling, war, and lots and lots of profanity. A fragmented exploration of the things we find really fucking hot. Special appearance by Jane Fonda.

New York City. Right now. Ramona's going on lots of first dates but is intentionally sabotaging her chances for a second. Khalil, a social media superstar, is about to close a huge deal that will take him completely off the market. They'll do anything to float above their own lives, even as fate tries to pull them both back down to earth. Elevada is a warm, witty, and wise romantic comedy about the fear of being alone—and the fear of not being alone. A finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Mysteries buried within a sleepy suburban block are unearthed when April returns from college unannounced with a burning question: "What's in your briefcase, Louise?" A story about family secrets, yard sales, strange rain, and exactly what the neighbors really do know.

Ever since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an illegal internet café in the hopes of one day being allowed in. They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing research in the café. He is a self-proclaimed “freelance scholar” from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret. Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth… but what about Belly? This play explores the effects of rampant capitalism on a country that is ill-prepared for it.

At the opening of Scab, Anima has hit rock bottom. An intoxicating drama queen, she is immobolized by the death of her father. Christa, her new roommate, is a straight laced academic studying the women of the Belle Epoque. These unlikely heroines are drawn together into a unique and intense friendship that profoundly changes their lives. With a talking Virgin Mary lawn ornament, a bloodthirsty plant, a three-headed academic monster, and a mom stuck in a 1950's sitcom (via video projection), a simple love story is turned into a macabre comic strip of splashy color and gritty subtext. Ultimately, this unconventional dark comedy is a story of how love and wisdom can rise out of grief and darkness.

It’s 1980 and Reagan has just been elected. August fled the country six years prior to be with his beautiful young Greek bride on a secluded Mediterranean island, where he planted a modest vineyard. Now, his young wife is pregnant, his crop is robust, and he is about to have his first tasting, when a strange woman in a large-brimmed hat arrives at the couple’s guesthouse.

Say your father was the President of a multinational corporation and you were chained to the customer service desk as soon as you could dial a phone... if someone made you CEO for a day, would you go crazy? And if all around you the inner workings of the company were in turmoil——people in disguise, marriages plotted, overthrows planned——and you were told that everything happening to you is only a dream, what would you do? A modern corporate dynasty phantasmagoria freely adapted from Pedro Calderón'’s Life Is A Dream.