"Over fifty years into the future, memory is digital - at a cost. Faced with mounting data fees, Nancy and her two children, Diana and Emmett, argue over donating Howard, an AI containing their deceased father's memories, to a museum curator. When memory is eternal but space is limited, what do we hold dear? What happens when grief is an emotional, physical, and digital burden? What does it cost to store, lose, forget, move on? How do we make room for the future, and what do we pass down to our children?"

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This 30-minute one-act play was performed live in a Zoom Webinar for an audience of 80 people across the country. Originally intended for presentation at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art Capstone exhibition, CLOUDBANKS was adapted for virtual production due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This play is a work of active transformation; born out of curiosity for our imagined futures and given new meaning in a world where connection is coded by isolation. CLOUDBANKS embraces the unknowns of art in the wake of social distancing and explores what happens to our relationships when filtered through a screen.