Rocky Mountain Wildflowers

Once upon a time there was a girl who would not sleep. Or so went the fairy tale Eileen's mom told her before bed. Now Eileen won't wake up. Comatose on a hospital bed in Provo, Utah, Eileen's mind crests in and out of lucidity; treading toward the fairy tale from her childhood. As a menagerie gathers in Eileen's hospital room– her technophile boyfriend, boss-ass best friend, estranged mother and an odd Mormon doctor– reality, memory, and fantasy begin to overlap, tangle, and intertwine.

Production: University of Arkansas, February 2026, dir. Leigh Fondakowski

Photography by Shawn Irish