HANG FIRE
Hang Fire,” is a dark comedy of the Hollywood film industry where ambition know no bounds and excess is the norm.
In 2019 Hollywood, struggling novelist James Lansing is trapped in a seductive dilemma when a fast-talking, on-the-fringe producer dangles the promise of a film adaptation of his book. She tantalizes James with introductions to Hollywood elites and promises of deals just out of reach. James finds himself bankrolling a dizzying parade of power lunches and star-studded dinners, convinced that success is just around the corner, and wondering why he always picks up the check.
Enter a Felliniesque parade of L.A. characters: parasite producers, desperate directors, guileless ingénues, exhibitionist shrinks, and stars in danger of falling. In this maze of Hollywood ambition, lives intersect in unexpected ways, forming a complex web of competition, lust and greed. Unlikely partnerships and betrayals emerge driven by an insatiable hunger for success and fame.
No one suspects the approaching pandemic and total lockdown of 2020 which is about to upend their world, threatening to turn their Hollywood hustles and dreams into so much nuclear dust.
REVENGE SESSIONS
The Revenge Sessions is a dark character-driven drama with an unusual twist. The story opens as four members meet at a local tavern to continue their sex therapy sessions without the psychotherapist. When a young woman joins the rogue session, the group hatches a plan to avenge the predator they believe has wronged her. When the woman resists their insane plotting, we find out how determined and dangerously unstable they have become. Dark humor adds a chilling edge as the group migrates from a “what if” fantasy to actually plotting out their revenge scenario. The Revenge Sessions tackles issues such as sexual assault, adultery, and isolation with humor and piercing insight.
BANG! A LOVE STORY
Mora adapted his controversial, award-winning novel as a play which starred Linda Cardellini premiered at the Acme Theater in Los Angeles and The American Place Theater in New York. Bang! features characters whose core values are upended by youth and was described in an LA Weekly review as “a blend of Vladimir Nabokov and Bret Easton Ellis.”
POP: THE PRINCIPLES OF PERFECTION
The Principles of Perfection spotlights America’s obsession with pop culture, pop stars, pop psychology and pop transformation. It leads down a path to blackmail, intrigue and a supreme Warholian deal with the devil.
MODERN LOVE
What happens when those in power become obsessed with their own creation? The play follows one of Hollywood’s most successful blockbuster producers, whose obsession with his directorial debut takes him down a dark, precarious path.
SILENCING SILACE
Silencing Silace is a one act noir play that features a lethal female lead. Placed in a no win situation, she raises the stakes.
RICOCHET
Ricochet is adapted from the second chapter of Virtual Velocity, an LA Story tells the story of Jake Jensen who, video camera in hand, is preparing to send the evening with his girlfriend in a house he believes is vacant – it’s not.
REVENGE SESSIONS
Ricochet is adapted from the second chapter of Virtual Velocity, an LA Story tells the story of Jake Jensen who, video camera in hand, is preparing to send the evening with his girlfriend in a house he believes is vacant – it’s not.
CELEBRITY CONFESSIONS
Celebrity Confessions tells the story of Brooke, a celebrity who deals with her transgressions, by unloading them each week at Father Tom’s confessional. But this week Father Tom is away and his replacement, Father Charles is a very different type of priest.
VIRTUAL VELOCITY
Based on a section of the novel, it tells the story of Jake Jensen and Cindy.