This season, 5th Wall Theatre presents an exploration of the human need to belong, with stories that are fiercely imagined and centered on the radical act of self-actualization. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Wolf Play, and Tambo & Bones follow characters navigating fractured realities: familial, cultural, and historical.

They respond not with retreat, but with instinct, invention, and defiant self-definition. These plays are united by a hunger to belong in worlds that were not built with them in mind.

When the systems we inherit fail to hold us, these characters invent new ways of being, transforming ritual, performance, and identity into tools for survival and expression.

The 2025/2026 season is about forging connection, meaning, and selfhood on your own terms. It is about what happens when people imagine something truer, freer, and bolder. Because when the world falls short, they build what is missing.