Works — Skye Berger

Theatre & Performance

Musical Comedy Cabaret · FemmeFest 2026 · March 27–29 · Indy Fringe
Female Troubles
2026

A musical comedy cabaret exploring the lived experiences of female-bodied people through storytelling and music. Performed under The Skye Webb Walker Simulation.

Solo Performance · May 30, 2026 · Arts for Lawrence · Indianapolis
Freedom Reimagined: NAATC Collaborative Storytelling Slam
2026

A solo performance examining power, memory, and embodied resilience through civic critique and lived experience. NAATC × Flanner House Literacy.

World Premiere · Indy Fringe 2025
A Place for Plant People
2025

The third part of The Trilogy. The story of how community organizing becomes art — and how art becomes a record. Co-produced with Austin Dean Ashford.

In Development · IndyFringe Spotlight 2027
Lysistrata 2026: The Sovereign Disconnect
2027

A direct response to Project 2025. Premiering during Indy Fringe Spotlight Fest 2027.

Musical · The Trilogy Part Two
The Welfare Lady Musical
Ongoing

Twenty years inside government distilled into song. The second part of The Trilogy — preceded by The Grand Challenge of Well-Meaning Beatitudes.

Parody · Indiana History
The Search for Good Richard Owen
In Development

A parody and springboard into Indiana constitutional history.

Play
The Anna Logs
In Development

A reflection of the Diary of Anne Frank through the lens of youth work and the moon.

Play · Minnesota Fringe + IndyFringe 2026
The Alphabet Play
2026

About spelling. About the letters we use to name ourselves and the ones others use to contain us. Premiering at Minnesota Fringe August 2026 and IndyFringe August 2026.

Astrological Cycle · 12 Plays
The 12
In Development

An astrological examination of the cosmos — one play per zodiac sign. As above, so below.

Produced
Baby Mama Drama
Produced

Produced under The Skye Webb Walker Simulation.

The stage is not where I perform. It is where I document. Every play is a record submitted to the living archive of what it cost to be here.

Speaking

Story as Strategy: Theatre, Power & the Body Politic

How performance becomes civic intelligence — and why the body is the most honest data we have. For organizations, institutions, and communities ready to move from information to transformation.

The Welfare Lady: What Twenty Years Inside Government Taught Me About Survival

A first-person account of building systems from inside systems not designed to hold the people they serve. For social workers, policy makers, youth workers, and anyone who has ever had to survive a bureaucracy to save someone else.

As Above, So Below: Astrology as Civic Intelligence

How symbolic systems — astrology, myth, the moon — function as frameworks for understanding collective behavior, institutional cycles, and the timing of change.


Research

Doctoral Dissertation — In Progress
From Extrinsic Selflessness to Intrinsic Afrofuturistic Knowing: The Body as Methodology and a Healing Praxis for Child and Youth Work Practitioners
Independent Research  ·  Crosswalks the Mandate for Leadership, SAMHSA's 8 Dimensions of Wellness, and the AASWSW's 14 Grand Challenges for Social Work through an Afrofuturist healing framework
Master's Thesis — Complete
Extrinsic Selflessness, Intrinsic Burn-out: Effects of Resilience and Implementation of Self-Care Practices in Child and Youth Work Practitioners
UT Dallas  ·  MS Organizational Behavior, Executive Coaching concentration  ·  Six Sigma Green and Black Belt
Undergraduate — BA
Psychology & Sociology — Double Major
Purdue University Calumet  ·  Commencement Address, Class of 2004

Programs & Organizations

Door Opener Academy

A training company rooted in over twenty years of child welfare, behavioral health, and public systems leadership. Programs for youth workers, families, and organizations navigating systems not designed to hold them.

Skye Wellness Academy

The interdisciplinary container for the full body of work — where theatre, civic practice, astrology, and embodied systems literacy intersect. Grounded in the principle that symbolic systems are maps and every person is capable of reading their own.

Living Systems — Indianapolis

A community organizing initiative structured as an ad hoc network plugging into existing Indianapolis infrastructure. Skye's role: artist, astrologer, and playwright holding adventure days at the crossroads.

Children's Mental Health Initiative — Indiana

As Bureau Chief of Children's Mental Health Services for the State of Indiana, Skye wrote several programs ensuring youth across all 92 counties had what they needed to survive, become productive citizens, and heal from trauma before age 18. The legislation and master plans are active and ongoing.

Intimacy & Wellness Under the Moon

A 12-session sexual health education series rooted in the RACK framework and organized around the lunar calendar and zodiac seasons.

Rooted & Nourished with Sound & Sustenance

A 52-week nutrition and wellness ecosystem anchored to existing community infrastructure. Includes a monthly Sound & Sustenance open mic, First Wednesday Sound Bath, and Faith & Community Fellowship Series.


Writing & Publishing

Memoir-Guide Hybrid · Forthcoming September 2026
How Summer Festivals Soothe
2026

The intersection of community, healing, and collective gathering as a framework for living. Soft launch at Breathe Fest 2026, Asheville, NC.

Book Series · In Development
Your Life in Three Acts — Compendium
In Development

A three-book compendium documenting the arc from systems worker to system builder to sovereign storyteller.

Poetry · Archive
My Life as a Play
Ongoing

A journey through poetry submitted to the Library of Congress as living record. The spine of the theatrical work.

Guide
The Loop Guide
Ongoing

The official guide to the cryptic messages — the legend for Skye's operating system. Available for download.

Podcast
Live from the Fairy
Ongoing

Recorded from Falcor, the truck. The ongoing audio record of the work, the life, and what's moving in the sky.

Newsletter · Thursdays
Skye Wellness on Substack
Ongoing

New writing on systems, survival, astrology, and what the maps left out. Subscribe here.