IN DEVELOPMENT
Dean, a brand new closeted employee for the nonprofit, Save The Penguins, discovers that his 501c3 is actually a brothel! Nobody cares about penguins. Nobody cares about his mission statement! Will Dean, a passionate penguin advocate and total nerd get the girl and sell the lie? Or will Dean come out, find himself, and fall in love with an idiot?
A new experimental dark comedy by Playwright Raechel Segal. Directed by Laura Archer.
Kites Fly East follows Dee, a would-be Special Effects Creature Designer as she navigates the juncture in her 20's when she's deciding what type of adult she should become. She’s not where she wants to be, she doesn’t have the confidence to get there. Everyone is pushing her, but she’s not quite ready to take the leap. It’s when she meets Jack, a washed-up comic book artist, and sees the dark side of where she could end up as an artist that she finally gains the courage to trust her own instincts and imagination.
This is a film that uses puppets, and marionettes, and cityscapes and movie magic; that draws on a wealth of personal experience to bring the viewer into that crucial point in time where a young adult decides between seeing the world as it is, or striving to create it as it could be.
Written & Directed by Laura Archer
NEWS
Save the Penguins played from 8/30-9/1 at the Gene Frankel Theater as part of the 2024 Lucky's Lighting 15 Minutes of Frame Festival. The play received the audience choice award which grants it development assistance over the next six months.
Another Day of School Laura's short musical parody screened as at the CUNY FF in May of 2024. The film was awarded the runner up prize for best Cinematography.
In April of 2024 Laura's short film The Pit screened as part of CUNYTV Presents.