Spin Off is set within the world of a network television series and weaves a surrealistic tale of characters attempting to "immigrate" from the world of fiction into the reality beyond the soundstage. Figures from television's seemingly endless stream of cop shows--a male NYPD Detective, a woman psychiatrist and a young Nuyorican/Puerto Rican woman--have been mysteriously awakened to the narrow limits of their existence as stereotypes. They devise a plan to "crossover" in order to find fully dimensional lives. In preparing to escape the confines of their artificial world, they make discoveries about the nature of memory, aspiration, dentity, loyalty and, most importantly, love. The play swings from moments of sardonic comedy to metaphysics as the characters prepare for a climactic confrontation with the individual who seems to hold power over their futures. Ultimately, the decisions they make on how to deal with the Faustian bargain of a “Spin Off” offered by their TV masters, lead them to essential questions about what it means to be real Americans and what it means to be truly human. The play slyly questions, in part, whether TV's hold on the popular mind is a product or shaper of our ugliest ethnic/class prejudices.

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