Selected Plays
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Your Local Theater Presents:
A Christmas Carol,
by Charles Dickens,
Again
(2W, 4M), 90 MINS
Eddie is fresh out of Juilliard, and he’s ready to make his mark on the American Theater. But first, a quick stint at your local theater for a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to keep his health insurance. As the years pass, Eddie finds himself back at your local theater, over and over and over again. Much remains the same: the play, the stage manager, the green room—though Eddie's in different costumes as he ages through the play's male roles over the course of his career. A love letter to actors, artists, and dreamers of all professions who make sacrifices large and small in service of their work…and ultimately wonder whether it was worth it.
World Premiere: La Jolla Playhouse, 2024
Workshops: Magic Theater, 2021
Mothers
(4W, 1M), 120 MINS
Three moms, a stay-at-home dad, and a nanny watch their kids play at Mommy-Baby Meetup. One mom is the queen bee and one is here to shake things up. The dad just wants to fit in, and the nanny doesn’t say a word. When catastrophe comes, the five of them have to figure out how to survive a war and each other. MOTHERS examines the primal heartache of raising children in a disintegrating world.
World Premiere: The Playwrights Realm, September-October 2019
Productions: The Gift Theatre, 2022
Workshops: Kennedy Center's MFA Playwrights Workshop
UC San Diego
Published by TRW
Mary is a “content moderator,” one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds of violent, sexual, and otherwise disturbing imagery. As she goes deeper and deeper into the dark rabbit hole of unfiltered human depravity that is the internet, she finds a graphic video that makes her question her relationship, her sanity, and her own capacity for violence. By plunging us into a job where technology meets drudgery, SIN EATERS examines how our daily toil transforms our perceptions of ourselves and those around us.
Digital World Premiere: Theater Exile, 2020
Productions: National University for Theatre & Film, Bucharest, Romania, 2022
Workshop: UC San Diego, 2015
Published by TRW
During a mission trip to Bangkok, the four members of a Korean Christian girls’ youth group discover that their revered pastor has hidden a camera in their hotel bathroom. Samantha is personally wounded that Pastor would do this to her. Jen is worried about how this might affect her college applications. Mimi’s out for blood, as usual. And Kyung-Hwa thinks everyone needs to have lower expectations for men. Their communal rage and disillusionment fuel increasingly violent revenge fantasies amidst the no-holds-barred neon bubblegum sex-tourism mecca of Bangkok. MAN OF GOD is a funny feminist thriller about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along—and decide they’re definitely gonna do something about it.
World Premiere: East West Players, January-February 2019
Selected Productions:
The Geffen Playhouse, March-April 2020
InterAct Theatre Company, January-February 2020
The Geffen Playhouse, 2022
Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2022
Theater Mu
Shotgun Players
100 Days of Darkness
(2W), 70 MINS
The first three months of a baby’s life are also known as the fourth trimester, the time when a helpless newborn baby is adjusting to life outside the womb. For parents, these months constitute 100 days of darkness. No sleep. No personal space. No alone time. Nearly no time with one’s spouse without a screaming baby in arms. This play is every moment Bruna and Jan spend together without their new baby during those 100 days, as they adjust to their new identities as Mamas and struggle to find their footing as a couple.
John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.
2017 BETC Generations Award Winner
2017 Kilroys List Honorable Mention
Selected Productions:
Boulder Ensemble Studio Theatre
Thrown Stone Theater Company
Theater With A View
The Odyssey Theater Company
Workshop: UC San Diego
Hunger
(3W, 4M), 90 min
In the sandy hills of China’s Loess Plateau, a farming couple mourns the death of their only son. Their search for an illegal afterlife bride is complicated by the fact that before his death their son committed an act of horrifying violence, leaving them outcasts in their community. Told with actors and life-sized puppets, HUNGER explores the boundary between life and death and the friction between tradition and progress in contemporary China.
Kilroys List
BRIC Arts Development Residency
The Lark Play Development Center's Playwrights Week
Jerome Foundation Travel Grant
In Quietness
(3W, 2M), 90 min
A former consultant follows her born-again husband to a Southern Baptist seminary. There she enrolls as a student at the Homemaking House, the nation's premier training ground for future homemakers and a place where marital bliss means never having to say thank you for cleaning the toilet.
Productions: WalkerSpace (produced by Dutch Kills Theater Company), Indiana University of PA
Workshop: Ensemble Studio Theatre's Unfiltered Series
Published Shorts
Backwards at the Speed of Light
A play for young actors.
(2W, 2M, 11 W/M)
(15-20 actors possible: 2-18 W, 2-18 M)
Three of Earth's finest have set off on the Encounter Mission, a thousand-year journey to the planet Syrnac. In order to survive the long mission, Commander Michaelson, Lieutenant Vega, and Dr. Carmine are "Rebooted" every hundred years into adolescent bodies. But just after their first Reboot, they wake to a message from NASA: the mission has been canceled. Michaelson intends to follow orders and return to Earth, but Dr. Carmine has other plans and wrests control of the ship. A true flight of fancy that explores teamwork, bullying, and courage under pressure.
The Forest for the Trees
(1W, 2M)
A Forestry student doing field research in Armenia has a one night stand with a really nice guy who turns out to be her worst nightmare.
A Polar Bear in New Jersey
A play for young actors.
(3M, 7W, 4 W/M)
A teenage polar bear sets out on her own...to New Jersey. A play that's a little bit about global warming, but mostly about fitting in when you're different. A Polar Bear in New Jersey was presented as part of Keen Teens 2013, a unique and free educational theatre program, run by the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning Keen Company.