Jeanne Drennans' 12 Dogs was a 2006 finalist for the National New Play Network's Smith Prize and a 2007 finalist for both the Reva Shriner Prize of Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Lark Play Development Center's Playwrights Week. At a tiny outpost in a post-apocalyptic work some hundred years in the future, a young teacher is trying to nurture and protect a brilliant 17-year-old student. Her efforts to win opportunities for him endanger their home and everyone in it, but in a world where poetry, comic books and particle physics have a power to transport and elevate characters with few choices and grim futures, nothing is impossible.