Perhaps the World Ends Here is a sci-fi epic that blends video game culture and Choctaw cosmology in the style of Theatre of the Ridiculous.

Frankie Brown is a young Choctaw woman with big dreams and an even bigger destiny. Hopelessly devoted to becoming a professional video gamer and e-sports star despite some serious ineptitude, she pawns her personal belongings to pay rent and further her dreams. After unwittingly losing the key to the universe, she must undertake a journey of epic proportions accompanied by her queer best friend, her granddad, and a fearsome hopaiyai to prevent a great cataclysm.

Written & Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith

Production Dramaturgy: Dr. Courtney Elkin Mohler (Santa Barbara Chumash), Sal Rubio, Mauricio Tafur Salgado

Production Elders: Dr. Carolyn M. Dunn (Cherokee, Muskogee Creek, Seminole Freedman, French-Canadian, African, Tunica/Choctaw/Biloxi/Ishak), Andrina Smith (Shinnecock)

PSM: Sofie Daley | Indigenous Stage Management Consultant: Amanda Sayed (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma & Cherokee)

Scenic Designer: Sophie Jacobs

Costume Designer: Nile Helgerud | Costume Consultant: Asa Benally (Diné & Cherokee)

Lighting Designer: Linnie Hampton (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)

Co-Sound Designers: Megan Hayward, Ella Danyluk

Assistant Sound Designer: Nina Ganyard (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

Video Designer: Neil Wang

Cast: Noah Ong Bamola, Sophia Constantine-Sanchez (Wixárika), Alex Grech, Sydney Greenhill, Eva Harris (Mayan), Serenity Mariana (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), Artemis Wheelock (Māhūwahine), Justin Winston.

Photos courtesy of Justin Chauncey