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- Vinny. A young entrepreneur. Mourning the loss of his wife, sells his company in Detroit and moves to Silicon Valley where he hits the one idea that he can turn into a successful business. Along the way, he makes compromises with his investors and the market. None is serious. None proposes a fundamental moral question. However, each alienates the one person who came with him from Michigan, the loyal Jessie. Eventually, she feels that she is no longer part of the decision making process and storms away. She leaves just as Vinny is about to sell the company and gain the fruits of their labors. He questions how to compensate someone who was present at the start of the company but has done little to advance it mission and, at times, thwarted it.
- Great Depression. Not jobs to be found. Gertrude Blanch, a trained mathematician can only find work in a hat store when she is discovered by a representative of the Worlds Projects Administration and is given the opportunity to run the worlds largest computing office, 450 jobless clerks adding and subtracting at long tables. Suspecting that this will be her only chance for a professional career, she takes the job, even though she knows that the WPA is disparaged by scientists and is considered a hotbed of Communist organization. She and her assistant, Ida, trip through several adventures (including work for the Manhattan Project) until the spotlight of government investigation suggests that Dr. Blanch might not be loyal.
- Hamburg, Germany. Family business. Four generations. Four at the moment. A patriarch who is ready to move on. Owns a cabin in the Swiss Alps. Sends as much time there as possible. Coffee Logistics. The moving, storing and sorting of coffee beans. No one knows about it, yet the world won't run without it. Two nieces are the next generation of the family. The Ant and the Grasshopper. The Loyal Child and the Prodigal. The diligent, child who has spent years preparing herself for the position. The wayward one who has drifted away to become a producer of EDM, Electronic Dance Music. A consultant arrives to assist with the transfer and step, by perceptible step, the world falls apart. A transport truck drives from the warehouse to the port, leaking beans on the streets of Hamburg. So the story goes. The only thing that saves it, the only thing that keeps the owner form making a fool of himself, are a group of friends who put their arms around him and say "You're making a fool of yourself, Florian".
- Washington DC. A day of Congressional testimony. A chance to show the world what Big Tech can do. An opportunity to to reveal that damage that has already been done. Two leaders of the tech community come to Washington in an effort to change the country (and the world). They discover an Intern who is more influential than most Senators. A Congressional Aide who can use no social media more advanced than a manual typewriter. An Uber Driver who knows more than they do. The story of Abby Alton and Ed Kowalski. Two business leaders who came to conquer the bureaucracy but found that the bureaucracy can put up quite a fight.
- Ro Hawley, a successful CEO, arrives in Dublin with the intent of purchasing a company to expand her operation. When arriving at the company, she is met by a night watchman, Jamie Gavin, who appears to be someone that she once knew and perhaps kissed. As her visit unfolds, she discovers that Jamie is being held in subjection by people who falsely claim control of the company. When the extent of the deception becomes clear, a minor employee steps provides information that breaks that displaces the controlling clique and allows Jamie to reclaim his place in the company and Ro to reconsider her strategy.
- London. 1906. A scandal. A pandemic. Four women. One missing. A baby. A pile of numbers. A disturbing new technology. And play that is being presented across town that seems to be the real story. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" meets "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Honoria Fawcett is a small business owner who is attempting to earn her living in turn-of-the-century London. She does this with women who have been cast out of polite society. A teenager of mixed parentage form Jamaica. A French housekeeper who is not interested men. The wealthy daughter of a woman of ill-repute. Unlike what might be expected, she running a business of numbers, a computing shop that takes digits in one form and turns them into another. The job is hard. She must promote her office. Struggle to find new jobs. Bargain with potential bosses. Nudge aside the competition. Meet the challenge of new technologies. In this work, one of her employees, Vivian Warren, always seems to be absent. She is actually appearing in a different play - one in which she is the lead character - that is currently having its premier. She drops a texts to Honoria (they called them "telegrams" then) to let her feelings be known. In her world, Vivian Warren is being pursued by the news that her fortune came from a chain of brothers in Europe. In this play, Honoria is trying to outrun the London Necropolis Express, the train that takes the victims of the impoverished victims of the pandemic to distant cemeteries.