Craig Cackowski

The Kings of Summer

Three restless teenagers run away to the woods for the summer, determined to escape their parents and live by their own rules. In a hidden clearing, they build a makeshift house and attempt to create an independent life, testing their friendship, freedom, and the challenges of living off the land.

Wine Country

A group of friends head to the land of oaky Chardonnays and big, bold Cabernet Sauvignons for one member of the squad’s 50th birthday party.

Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss

A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.

Magazine Dreams

Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.

The Moof Milkers

With a packed house, deep-cut fandom energy, and wildly committed performances, the evening turned a familiar script into something fast, chaotic, and genuinely hilarious-a fully unhinged celebration of Star Wars on stage.

For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close

Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, mental wards, and his peculiar talent for making everyone famous but himself, Close emerges as a personification of the creative impulse itself. He's a muse with BO and dirty needles, offering transcendence despite (or because of) the trail of wreckage behind him.

Take Five

In a world where time travel has been commercialized, a woman connects with a man from the future who will do anything but give her the answers she’s in search of.

Good Grief

GOOD GRIEF is a darkly comedic whirlwind, set in Salt Lake City at a Mormon Mortuary. We follow Avery, the estranged daughter of the deceased, who is slowly suffocated by her dysfunctional family at the viewing of her father’s body. Her patience wears thin as her family members continue to make the day about themselves. Eroded with guilt over her father’s last attempt at connection before his suicide, Avery reaches a breaking point which blows the lid off the family’s repressed grief. GOOD GRIEF is a fast paced, overwhelming, emotional portrait of collective grief and the bizarre ways in which we cope.