staging the imagined truth with speed & violence
Five plays. Four presidents. Three decades. Two assassinations. One nation unraveling.
THE BLACK BAG PENTALOGY
What is the Pentalogy?
The Black Bag Pentalogy is a series of five standalone plays united by shared themes of surveillance, secrecy, and the unraveling of American power. While each volume can be experienced on its own, together they form a panoramic descent into the backrooms, bedrooms, and bugged boardrooms of 20th-century American history.
Volumes I–III (Sunny Afternoon, King Dick, and ...meantime at HoJo’s) have been written and staged.
Volumes IV and V—Black Bag Job and Hotel Del Charro—are written and currently in development for future production.
Black Bag Job
On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, four FBI agents wire up the Lorraine Motel—and come face-to-face with the moral rot of the bureau they serve.
Claustrophobic, incendiary, and razor-taught, this is a play about obedience, complicity, and the cost of silence.
Hotel Del Charro
Labor Day weekend, 1954. A luxury La Jolla hideaway becomes the stage for backroom deals and front-page betrayals. Oil barons, FBI brass, and Hollywood legends mingle over cocktails and conspiracy.
Behind the smiles? Paranoia, power games, and the slow-boiling death of the American soul.