Dangers lurk around every corner on the African Savannah as dogs and lions are out hunting. Wandering away from home, Timmon, a young giraffe born with a noticeably short neck, stumbles into threatening territory. While finding a safe path, Timmon meets a grasshopper who can’t jump, and a dog who is vision impaired. Trouble finds these three travelers in the form of a rival pack of dogs. Will these three new acquaintances band together, or will they let their differences continue to keep them apart? This is a good play for elementary (K-6). Themes: Diversity and Inclusion, Disability, Community, and Friendship.

The script for this play for lower elementary school audiences was developed through a one-week residency with UVU students when the script won the TYE Center's Old Miner Children's Theatre Contest. It was scheduled for a full school touring production in Fall 2022 but was produced instead as a Zoom play, directed by Teresa Love. We have included the full-length video here (about 50 minutes long) with the permission of playwright Jeff Jenkins.

Abra and Zack are growing up in an isolated village that they are told is perfect, though everything that is lost, broken, or banished disappears into the wilderness beyond. When they are summoned by the mysterious milk dragon, a creature born before its time, the children find themselves in the wilderness where they discover the missing ideas, words, and people that could make their community whole. This epic fantasy adventure by renowned children’s playwright Suzan Zeder was developed and premiered at UVU in 2015 during an intensive two-year process.