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PILLOW FORTRESS
SYNOPSIS
​Pillow Fortress follows three college classmates after they receive an alert that someone has just escaped the local jail. Chelsea has a penchant for the law. Ry advocates for prison abolition. Jordan is just scared shitless. They try to prepare for what might happen if they encounter the escapee, but find out they need to face each other first. Pillow Fortress is part polemic, part slumber party, and all chaos.
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist (2026)
Selected for Theater Alliance's Hot House Open Mic (2025)
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Peregrine Theatre Company
(Workshop Production)
Directed by Jaida Gillespie
Production photography by Taylor Stevens
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"Pillow Fortress is a caution and a comfort to young women...Zackria’s style is humanist with a strong social justice edge, and Pillow Fortress shows how young women can be soft like a feather, playful in a slumber party, and strong like a pepper sprayer, in ways that can support and hurt all at once...[T]he script itself is strong, with well-developed dramatic suspense driven by characters’ bad decision-making and misunderstandings."
- Daniella Ignacio for DC Theater Arts
Carnegie Mellon University Playground Festival XXI (Excerpt)
Directed by Wendy Kuhn
Production photography by E. Lieu Wolhardt
Theater Alliance Open Mic (Excerpt)
Directed by Nikki Mirza
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