Our Work

Here in the Grey Area, we are committed to helping provide the means for artists tell stories.

Too often, artists run into strain along the creative process. Underrepresented communities continue to find difficulty in expressing identity.

Grey Area Productions is committed to telling stories by and for these communities. Prioritizing BIPOC, Femme, and LGBTQIA+ stories, we are devoted to living in the

GREY AREA.

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

Trap Door Theatre and Grey Area Productions Present

Any Rebellion of Will

by S.L. Daniels

Directed by Spencer Huffman

A depressed, anguished Will is kicked out of his authoritative parents’ home on his 28th birthday. He returns home with an odd, mystical street performer who ignites a rebellious passion in Will, and a demented, destructive mania in his parents. A dark absurdist comedy, with a twist of vaudeville.

Running October 8 - November 1

Trap Door Theatre, one of Chicago's premier storefront theaters, is located at 1655 WestCourtland Street, within walking distance of the Clybourne Metra station.

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PAST PRODUCTIONS

Mother Of

by Katherine Gwynn
Marian is visited by a Marian Apparition (just call her Mary, thanks) who tells them to write a play about the Blessed Virgin considering an abortion. Miryam is visited by the angel Gavri'el, who tells her she's to bear the son of God. And pomegranates keep fruiting up all around, asking them to choose.
Nobody Fucking Leaves

A John Mossman Film
The story of an unremarkable, quietly suffocating woman with a secret so deep even she doesn’t recognize it. Having escaped as a teenager from a rigidly insular world that was alternately free-thinking, unstructured, loving, and traumatic, she finds herself in a postcard-perfect society where she has fallen into a fugue state with little conscious memory of her past. But when she’s abducted by her former family, it all comes back in vivid color—along with some pretty badass powers she’s not in full control of.
Untitled (blood, marble)

A Snails on a Bike Production
By Kate McMorran
Tally’s husband is a famous sculptor. All his statues have her face. When she’s left alone with the block of marble he’ll carve into his next creation, things get weird as she tells her story - and her secrets - to the block. Struggling with an eating disorder. Tally starts to relate to the block as something that must be reduced, shaped, and sculpted into an ideal woman.
Catacombs

By Katherine Gwynn
Catacombs tells the story of Ari who is the unofficial (meaning not paid for it) manager of a queer bar; her boss is on a yacht in Mykonos, all her coworkers are either sick or on the side of the highway, and she’s going to have to open by herself unless she can get a last-minute temp for the night. Luckily, in strolls Beau: hot, charming, and able to load a dishwasher. As the meet-cute goes pitch perfect, it seems Ari’s ass is saved and maybe she could even have a fun hook-up when her shift is over for the night–until Beau reveals that they’re not the last-minute temp hire from the service industry app they ordered. They’re actually Ari’s reincarnated soulmate who they’ve spent dozens of lifetimes with over the past 1000 years. Whoops