BEST OF WEEK #1. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote.

Berserker, by Kari Floren. Teenager Olga Larson has finally begun to fit in at school, after she and her gay father moved from Minneapolis to Florida. Olga’s blog for the school paper has transformed her from a funny talking, slightly overweight outsider into an influential trendsetter. But when Olga’s new-found popularity is about to be snatched away, she finds solace through a surprising link to her Norwegian heritage. Olga appears to get her confidence back, but in fact she slips into a darker reality. Featuring Sarah Alessandro, Lowell Bartholomee, Van Tracy and directed by Michael McKenzie.

room by Rosalyn Nasky. A movement solo.

Lady Without a Baby, written and performed by Molly Fonseca. Growing up Molly always felt she wasn't a top candidate for motherhood, but it can be harder explaining that feeling to those around her.

Ethyl Formate, written and performed by Sam Gorena. Sam will do a piece where he digests both food and liquid in a metaphorical interpretation of his relationship with his family. The piece's intention is that there's a stigma on mental health, and how we talk about it: how some things are faux pas and some are perfectly accepted. I hope to show the juxtaposition of how violent acts of consumption are more widely accepted than speaking to your friends/family.

God’s Rabbit Hole, written and directed by Anthony Ellison (Punchkin Repertory Theatre). Jean is married and in the middle of a sexual crisis; she is completely unfulfilled, so she turns to God for guidance to ultimate ecstasy.

BEST OF WEEK #2. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote.

Souvenirs From Tomorrow, by Kirk German, developed by Kirk German and Heather Huggins. Whose stories are retold, and whose stories are forgotten? In 1939, New York hosted an enormous World's Fair in Flushing, Queens, which promised a dazzling glimpse at "The World of Tomorrow" -- but for the city's immigrant pushcart peddlers, the promise was a broken one.

Your Neighborhood Association, by Max Langert (ScriptWorks Commission). Ripped from the headlines of your local Listserv. Hope you've paid your dues.

The Knuckleball Now, by Lee Eddy, Craig Kotfas, Michael Joplin, and Ace Manning. The Knuckleball Now is an improv comedy troupe based in Austin . . . but first and foremost, TKN is a philosophy, an energy and a way of thinking. It's all about having fun with fearless enthusiasm. It's having an unwavering faith in each other, where the brain synapses are in sync, and there is a connection through chaos. A Finalist in Austin Chronicle's Best Improv Troupe 2016, 2015 B. Iden Payne Award, Rudy Kloptic Award for Outstanding Improv Troupe and 2016 FronteraFest Best of Fest.

Hope House. Story by Chris Alonzo, Bina Chauhan, and Laura Maxwell-Scott. Written by Chris Alonzo and Laura Maxwell-Scott. Travel with us back in time to the early 21st century to learn about the Hope House residents who lived there, and hid there, during the regime of 45. Group tours are appropriate for both school students and adults. Brought to you by the team behind Hey Girl, It’s Ryan and Janus Geminus. Performed by Bina Chauhan and directed by Laura Maxwell-Scott.

The Fourth Wall Is Behind You, by Norman Tran, Brian Bonnet, and Catherine Grady (Inner Picnic). This show is a personal, experimental, and interactive mix of short plays written and performed by our ensemble. Inspired by NeoFuturism and Lucky Chaos' 30 Plays in 60 Minutes, we push the boundaries of theater while holding nothing back. This fast-paced series of short plays will leave the audience thinking about identity, culture, and family.

BEST OF WEEK #3. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote.

Jack Ace: Private Dick -- Episode 01: "Artsy Photographs," written and directed by Stephen Bittrich (Brain Fire Productions –– Earl Ameen and Stephen Bittrich, producers). An affectionate parody of the old-time radio serial, this piece set in the 1940s follows the first adventure of private detective, Jack Ace. The piece will be performed in the style of old-time radio where the actors created voice magic in a small studio with a couple of microphones.

Polly's Playhouse, by Charley Devany and Rosalind Faires. The third installation of Charley Devany's one-man shows focusing on family history. EHD (2013) and All The Weight You Should Not Carry (2015) were FronteraFest Best of Week participants. This time his mother, Polly, gets center stage. Directed by Brooks Naylor, featuring Rosalind Faires.

Mad, written and performed by T. Lynn Mikeska. In this short play, transpiring in a trailer park, a present-day woman seeks and finds the counsel of the immortal Medea.

Christmas With The Kaubells, by Holly Bell. A humorous one-woman performance about the evolution of holiday traditions in one family, including food, family, and mug shots. Directed by Elota Patton.

Mean Mean Streets, by Brian Wittenbrook. A series of interlocking monologues from characters living in a comically noir hellscape filled with crime, misfortune, and occasional ghosts.

BEST OF WEEK #4. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote.

Final Conversations, by Rita Anderson (ScriptWorks Commission). Final Conversations explores a mother's wish to have one real conversation with her son before he's accidentally killed. One morning before he leaves for school, she suddenly knows that he has one hour to live. With a kitchen-sink approach, Mother attempts to get it "right" in conversation after conversation, using comic and often absurd methods to reach Son, none of which alters destiny.

The Apple Doesn't Fall, by Aaron Johnson and Anders Nerheim. A one-man show portraying the village it takes to raise a man--or lack thereof. Directed by Caitlin Taylor, featuring Aaron Johnson, with music by André Martin.

Pigs Sweat, Men Perspire, Ladies Merely Glow, written and performed by Bernadette Nason. After four months of unfamiliar life in Tripoli, Libya, Nason gets a vacation in Malta, an island jewel in the middle of the Mediterranean between the North African coast and Italy's boot. Apart from relaxing with friends and downing gins and tonics, she has only one serious appointment: a leg wax. Desperate for pampering, she's almost looking forward to it. She soon learns waxing is done differently in Europe.

Bitches Anonymous, by Gloria C. Adams, Jennine "DOC" Wright, and Teresa Johnson. Bitch (n): a woman who doesn't give men what they want. Three Austin poets redefine, reinvent, and reclaim the word "bitch." When you call these women bitches, you'd better mean it as a compliment. Directed by Gloria C. Adams and produced by Teresa Johnson.

The Dyeing Woman, by Kyle John Schmidt. A group of beleaguered dyers at a textile mill clash with their boss over time off, quotas, and promotions. A comedy about the wonders and troubles of suffering in public by the five-time FronteraFest Best of Fest winning team of writer Kyle John Schmidt and director Elizabeth C. Lay.