Mac Welch

Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.

Ten Times Over is a short film that follows the life cycle of a relationship. It is broken up into ten finite scenes; each scene representing one of ten typical benchmarks in a relationship. The cycle goes like this: fall in love, make promises, get annoyed, fake make-up, make new promises, blow up, cries and apologies, pile-ups, break up, move on. We don’t claim that all relationships happen like this, but this piece serves as a way to look at relationships on a macro scale rather than micro. This is a comedy that asks: When one constantly finds themselves in the same relationship cycles, is it best to change course or to acknowledge your instincts and grow in the cycle?

Follow an experienced Black stage actress through rehearsals of a major Broadway production in Alice Childress’s funny, moving, and ultimately shattering look at racism, identity, and ego in the high-stakes world of New York theatre. A scathing indictment of racism in American commercial theatre, Trouble in Mind tells the story of Wiletta Mayer, a Black actress cast in a supposedly “progressive” play about racism by a white male author—it turns out to be anything but progressive.