Outside In Theatre
Skylight Theatre Company
Califas
Trilogy
Roots & Wings Project
Land
Power
Dreams
ThREE
GENRE-BUSTING
PLAYS ABOUT
LAND, Power,
and Dreams
IN CALIFORNIA
by Roger
Q. Mason
California Story
A Faustian Preter-Capitalist Scream by Roger Q. Mason
Directed by Michael Alverz
April 26 - June 3, 2025
Produced by Outside In Theatre
Whipping between a post-capitalist water-world dystopian future and the Golden Era of 19th Century Manifest Destiny, California Story scrutinizes the past, present, and (hopefully not) future cost of grasping for privilege in America.
At the heart of the tale is Pio Pico - California's last Mexican governor - who sacrifices family, identity and integrity to stake his claim in the American dream during California's journey to statehood in the 1800s. California Story was a finalist for the 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference.
HIDe & Hide
A Homeric Provocation on Immigrant Themes by Roger Q. Mason
Directed by Jessica Hanna
May 9 - June 22, 2025
Produced by Skylight Theatre Company
Set in seedy 1980 Los Angeles, Hide and Hide is a Homeric critique of the American Dream. Enter Constanza - a recent Filipina immigrant from Marcos' Philippines - and Billy - a white Texan rent boy running from a Christian sex conversion camp. Their lives collide while searching for the freedom dreamed up on movie screens, billboards, and our minds.
Hide and Hide is the recipient of the LA New Play Project from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, & Television. Additional support provided by the Vladimir And Araxia Buckhantz Foundation and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Juana Maria
A Ritual Dirge by Roger Q. Mason
Director by Michael Alverz
May 25 and June 1, 2025
Produced by Outside In Theatre and Skylight Theatre Company in association with The Roots & Wings Project
West of the West Coast lies the isolated St. Nicolas Island where a young indigenous woman lived for almost two decades without human contact. And then she was "rescued" in 1853 by an American sailor with a bounty.
After living as an exotic at the Santa Barbara Mission for seven weeks, rich food, fleeting fame, and the excess of the West killed her. This is a dirge for her last two months alive. Juana Maria is a recipient of the 2024 Ojai Playwright Conference Fall Playwright Residency.
The Playwright
Roger Q. Mason
the DIRECTORS
Michael Alvarez
California Story
jessica hanna
Hide & Hide
Michael Alverz
Juana Maria
