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Ten minutes, TYA, 2W. As the dust bowl of 1930s America forces prairie families to migrate west, Clara insists that she does not want to move. After a particularly windy night, a mysterious stranger appears in Clara's backyard; it turns out that this stranger is also a climate refugee, forced to leave her planet after a terrible flood. Amidst the turbulence of their changing worlds, the two are able to find a moment's solace in knowing they're not alone.

"Uninhabitable Home" was first performed in 2023 as a part of Northwestern University's annual ten minute play festival. It was directed by Alex Lopez and starred Mia El-Yafi as Clara and Lou Stockmeyer as Shirley.

Full length, 1M 4W. Chip, at her core, is smart— something she believes is tied to her atheism. When she falls into a relationship with Julia, a lesbian on the run from Southern Baptist homophobia, Chip’s secular Jewish perspective is challenged in full force. Set across Easter and Passover, City Scripture by Grace Valaskovic tests the ways that our grandest beliefs influence our smallest actions.

City Scripture was developed in part during Northwestern University's advanced playwriting sequence, instructed by professor Laura Schellhardt. 

Grace was a member of the writer's room of the 92nd Annual Waa-Mu, a theatrical tradition at Northwestern University. In winter, Grace collaborated with a handful of other students to write assigned scenes and songs for the show. Romance En Route is available for streaming; check out Grace's lyrics in the song "Stuck."