Rain City Projects

Karl, a famous writer, is dying, and he invites his estranged son to film his final 'death festival'.

A young woman must have a late-term abortion, and chaos ensues on several realistic and metaphysical planes.

Plucked from the audience, three contestants live and die their way through a myriad of American incarnations as they compete for the ultimate prize, perfect enlightenment. The entire history of United States becomes their playing field, from Jamestown to the World Trade Center attack and beyond, as they struggle towards their individual goals. In between lives, the contestants visit the bardo realms, wacky worlds between death and rebirth where Stonewall Jackson and Harriet Tubman are husband and wife; and people reincarnate as corporations. Even when things seem like they couldn’t get weirder, they do, as the contestants start to reincarnate as each other and the understanding begins to dawn that enlightenment is now here and nowhere; a trillion light-years and just a blink away.

Stage adapation of John Gardner's outrageous novella retelling the Beowulf epic from the monster's existentialist point-of-view.

A dying playwright writes the first act of a ten-minute play hoping a computer will finish it. With its crew of sub-atomic crew particles, the New You Boat sets sail through a sea of quantum uncertainty on its last mission of kill or be killed versus live and let live.

Two men and two women make up the four voices of this classic fugue, charting the demise of rock star Kurt Cobain and the author’s career as a New York window cleaner.

Love, memory and death.

In an Alpine village, four villagers -- each with his or her own peculiarities and obsessions -- pursue each other with the constant threat of snowy destruction hanging over them.

The fantasy writer met success early with his imaginary land, Werndoald, and bought his dream home. Now, with his fourth book due and the advance money gone, he has writer's block and must bring in boarders to pay his mortgage. The eccentric renters initially inspire further adventures in Werndoald, but soon the worlds merge, threatening the writer's sanity, and possibly his life.

When visiting a college buddy whose wife was shot to death, Donald Everly finds himself entrenched in a whodunit. He shares suspicion with a greasy-haired detective, Castor Follett McSouly, that his old friend may be crafting an insurance scam. But things get complicated when a slinky stripper and violent bald man enter the picture. DOUBLE CLIMAX is the story of an innocent man caught between an insurance scam and bizarre love triangle. A mystery where deviance is submerged beneath lies and friendship is just a way to manipulate treachery. DOUBLE CLIMAX, K. Brian Neel's third solo play, is noir film live on stage.