“Can you contract an STD from having sex with a dead person?”
- Pauline, in her high school sex ed class

“Excision” is overflowing with deep red blood and jet black comedy. Pauline navigates the pitfalls of her senior year - menstruation, losing her virginity, bullies, church counseling, fighting with her uptight mother - in the most unexpected ways. Moments of hilarity are interspersed with artistic fantasies of bathing in a tub of blood, and occasionally something a bit more…

Valeria endears herself to the audience immediately as a woman hoping to become pregnant. She and her partner get their wish and proceed to share the good news. But after an uncomfortable visit with her “teasing” family, old insecurities rise to the surface and sweet Valeria now appears wild-eyed and anxious. She has trouble sleeping and loses her appetite. She compulsively cracks her knuckles. She witnesses a terrifying act of violence, then experiences a home invasion. But she has no…