Plays
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LOVE
Five former employees. One great love.
When Penelope is asked to join a group of women making harassment allegations against her former boss, she finds herself at an uncomfortable crossroads—the man accused was indeed a former lover and remains a dear friend. As the other women’s stories unfold, however, Penelope begins to question what happened to her, what she enabled, and her very identity. "Wonderfully sharp, poignant, and funny in all the right places" (Marin Independent Journal, five-star review), Love explores the quandary of reconciling our past selves with the current moment, and dares us to place love at the center of these reckonings.
-Winner of the 2020 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize
-Marin Theatre Company, 2019-2020 season, directed by Mike Donahue
-Ojai Playwrights Conference, 2019
-Development: South Coast Rep New SCRipts Series; Parity Play Fest, WP Theater/Colt Coeur; New Dramatists
-Finalist: Sundance Theater Lab, Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
IS EDWARD SNOWDEN SINGLE?
Much like the United States government, two BFFs find themselves in a crisis of integrity, whatever the hell that word means. Two virtuosic actors plus an adorable amorous puppet play all nineteen roles in this volcanic comedy about pretty lies and ugly truths. “By far one of the most exhilarating new plays I’ve seen in the last few years.” -Natalie Rine, OnStage Blog
-The Pool at The New Ohio Theatre, fall 2021, directed by Kate Bergstrom (Live World Premiere)
-Single Carrot Theatre, February 2022 (DMV Area Premiere)
-The Jungle Theatre, MN, 2020, directed by Christina Baldwin (Virtual World Premiere)
-Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize Finalist
-PlayTime at New Dramatists, 2019, featuring Elise Kibler and Crystal Dickinson, directed by Meghan Finn
-Dorset Theatre Festival, summer 2018 featuring Keilly McQuail and Amelia Workman, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh
-Play Hotel at Colt Coeur, featuring Molly Carden and Amelia Workman, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Great Kills
A high school achiever’s college application reveals a family secret and sends her Staten Island family into a tailspin. Is this ambitious young woman traumatized by violence, as her essay claims, or by a culture of achievement that has trained her to market herself at any cost?
Premiere Stages New Play Festival, 2015 directed by Kel Haney
terraNOVA Collective’s GROUNDWORKS: New Play Series directed by Kimberly Faith Hickman
Other development: Bedlam; EST; New Dramatists.
One more less
Mother is mean. Little Brother is shy. Big Sister is cocky. And the guy in the police uniform doesn't know what the hell he's doing in this play. ONE MORE LESS uses everything from Super Soakers to Ferris Bueller to delve deep into our American psyche formed and deformed by police brutality.
2017 Relentless Award finalist
2017 O'Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist
Playwrights Horizons, Superlab, 2017, directed by Robert O'Hara
Other development: Primary Stages; Partial Comfort; New Dramatists.
A Patron of the Arts
When a high school drug dealer does a drop off at a new address, he is unexpectedly reunited with the father of his childhood best friend. The recently laid off father is holed up to re-start the arts career of his youth; this young entrepreneur wants to help. So they come to an unusual mercantile arrangement. “Calls to mind fragments of Hopper, ‘Breaking Bad,’ Susan Sontag, Hemingway, and Noam Chomsky, as it careens through topics that litter American life, from guns to junk food to obesity.” - Correriere Nazionale (Rome)
Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project 2018, directed by Mike Donahue, mentored by Anne Washburn (!)
Kairos Theatre's In Scena! Festival, Rome, 2019
South Coast Rep's New SCRipts Series, October 2016
Colt Coeur 2016 Parity Fest
New Dramatists
Trustus New Play Festival Finalist; O’Neill 2018 National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist
RADIO NOWHERE
Streaming on all major platforms, Radio Nowhere is my first audio play, written and recorded remotely during the pandemic, commissioned and produced by Keen Company.
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Starring George Salazar, Amelia Workman and Alfredo Narciso
Featuring the sound design and songwriting of Frederick Kennedy
An irreverent comedy about a young artist’s attempt to save his strange little radio show by selling off an even stranger set of valuables. Tune in and join DJ Anonymous as his scrappy telethon turns into an exploration of grief, art, popularity, and the myth of the white male genius.
CITIZENS UNITED
A one-act for a young cast
A comedy about the end of American democracy. Well, not the end, but a pretty drastic assault that came from within by five people who can’t be voted out. Five men. Men who will keep that job till they quit or die. Granted, one of them is already dead…
The youth ham it up as Supreme Court Justices and other relevant grown-ups. Commissioned by Keen Theater, published by Samuel French. Lots of roles and a tasteful smattering of raps.
-Performed by BRILLIANT & HILARIOUS tristate area girls at Theatre Row, KeenTeens, spring 2019
“I love parties”
An 8-minute monologue.
Elderly Auntie Patty is presumed to be a member of a “vulnerable population” so she’s here to set the record straight about exactly who is vulnerable to whom.
-Written for Emily Kuroda for The Homebound Project, directed by Jenna Worsham
-HEAR ME OUT MONOLOGUE FESTIVAL 2021 WINNER