A dozen short films improvised in and around Grand Central Station.

This project began as a way to log more hours behind the camera, and to spend creative time with friends and artists who inspire me. Over the years, it has become an ongoing and evolving experiment in finding new ways to invent and tell stories on film, and a reacquaintance with what’s really, actually essential in the process. Come for the generous and excellent work by the actors, stay for some of the lessons we’ve learned along the way.

3 Actors clown their way through 3 of Chekhov’s short stories—Gooseberries, The Play, and Verochka. Directed by Pauli Pontrelli. Featuring: Sam Im, Christian Frost, and Mallory Avnet.

3 Actors clown their way through 3 of Chekhov’s short stories—Gooseberries, The Play, and Verochka. Directed by Pauli Pontrelli. Featuring: Sam Im, Christian Frost, and Mallory Avnet.

In the wake of devasting losses, Eleanor, the last of the Halcyons of Westchester County, puts on a show at the local library, performing roles she played in acting school. Not the lark she'd hoped for, the evening offers up shocking discoveries as family, ex-friends, employees and community members replace Eleanor's theatrics with the truth. Written by Lynn Hawley, featuring an expert cast of seven.

The Ceiling: A Passion Play is a raw, darkly funny, and theatrically inventive two-hander about grief, love, and the fragile stories we build to survive. In the wake of an unthinkable loss, a young couple’s Brooklyn apartment quite literally cracks open—revealing a surreal passage between worlds where the boundaries between reality, memory, and the afterlife begin to blur. As they struggle to repair both their ceiling and their relationship, the play spirals through therapy sessions, auditions, absurd encounters, and moments of piercing intimacy. With actors transforming roles in full view and a hauntingly playful theatricality, The Ceiling asks: how do we live with what cannot be fixed—and what if the break itself is the only way through?

When your beloved daughter suddenly decides to break off all contact, what’s a caring mother to do?

My Daughter Hates Me: A Mother’s Story, by Belinda Munsell, is about family estrangement and a mother who tried to create the perfect family. The struggle to be perfect took a toll, leaving her daughter to avoid her for years.

Now she wants to try to make contact again, before time runs out. Will her attempt to connect be successful?

Sophia loves to sing.

Unfortunately, she's been very busy lately.

Stop distracting her!

She needs some space. 

When your beloved daughter suddenly decides to break off all contact, what’s a caring mother to do?

My Daughter Hates Me: A Mother’s Story, by Belinda Munsell, is about family estrangement and a mother who tried to create the perfect family. The struggle to be perfect took a toll, leaving her daughter to avoid her for years.

Now she wants to try to make contact again, before time runs out. Will her attempt to connect be successful?

One actor performs The Godfather. Live. Solo. Every word. Every gesture.

What happens when we stop sweeping Shakespeare's shit under the rug?

One actor performs The Godfather. Live. Solo. Every word. Every gesture.

A series of mysterious debilitating seizures and a freak elevator accident send actor Deirdre Lovejoy on an off-road scavenger hunt for healing. From sound baths to bean diets, this deeply personal solo play traces one woman’s unconventional recovery, as she flips the bird to western medicine and swan dives into otherworldly remedies to reintegrate body, mind and soul. A mystical post-traumatic-stress-fantasia featuring bad choices, safety tips, spirit guides and shamanism—with cameos by polyamory and The Patriarchy. Written and performed by Deirdre Lovejoy (The Wire, The Blacklist, Daredevil Born Again).

One actor performs The Godfather. Live. Solo. Every word. Every gesture.

One actor performs The Godfather. Live. Solo. Every word. Every gesture.