Genevieve and Matthew, newly married and moved into a Brooklyn apartment, are soon to spend one long night in uncertainty. Genevieve is two months pregnant, and both Genevieve and Matthew are stuck not knowing how to protect their soon-to-be daughter. They spend brief, periodic moments of the evening in brutal honesty, but are constantly torn to the maddening snowstorm outside. The city has called a snow emergency, and the conditions are only getting worse. Then, the two of them begin to recall their monsters in the closet they both feared as children. The paranoia begins to return to them in gentle waves, uncertain of what the shadows on the walls truly are. Flash forward two years: their daughter Elena has been born for a little over a year. It’s midnight, and the city is once again experiencing a blustering storm. Everything reminds Genevieve and Matthew of the evening two years ago where they exposed their deepest insecurities. Now that their daughter is sleeping in the other room, the want to protect has only grown stronger. Now, the three of them are stuck in the apartment, trapped in a snowstorm, where there may a monster in the other room—or the monster may be something else entirely. 

Snow Over Atlantis received its first reading at Augsburg University in March 2016. The reading was facilitated by Christina Ham; the cast was as follows:

Brid Henry as Genevieve
Jayce Hanson as Matthew
Jamil Toney as the Shadow
Emily Wrolson as Elena

Stage Directions by Leah Otto

Snow Over Atlantis received a workshop production at Augsburg University in April 2018. The production was stage managed by Ivy Benson and directed by Shanna Frasier, with sound design by Malick Ceesay. The cast was as follows:

Nikki Whittaker as Genevieve
Jayce Hanson as Matthew
Julia Charron as the Shadow
Sydney Baker