HELL IS REAL

Nate’s trying to keep The Fields Of Hell (voted Northwest Ohio’s No. 1 Haunted House Attraction between 2003-2018) afloat after his dad’s sudden death. Joan, his friend since high school (and the best Mistress of the Swamp this haunt has ever seen) woke up this morning and decided to become the thing that scares her most. Teeny and Franny, a.k.a. The Terror Tots, are attached at the hip…but this hip might need a replacement when Teeny gets promoted. Left behind, Franny is stuck with August, a transman who’s returned to Ohio after his life in New York fell apart. August’s carrying a secret…but it might not be as terrible (or strange) as the secret Franny is keeping in the basement. Meanwhile, a visitor discovers euphoria in the body horror of the haunt. We might be sitting on a portal to hell, and it might become a swampland paradise…if those Midwest Moms don’t kill us first.

Development: 
developed in Page 73 Writers Group (2024)
Reading, Skidmore College, Tang Art Museum (2025)
             directed by M. Sloth Levine
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