Songbird
Readings:
New York City, NY, 2019
Union, NJ, 2020
New York City, NY, 2019
Union, NJ, 2020
In addition to being selected for The Bechdel Group's New Play Development Reading Series in 2019,
Songbird was one of five finalists chosen out of 939 submissions to receive a private reading with Premiere Stages at Kean University in 2020!
Due to COVID-19, the public staged reading of Songbird with Premiere Stages is scheduled to take place in March 2021.
Songbird was one of five finalists chosen out of 939 submissions to receive a private reading with Premiere Stages at Kean University in 2020!
Due to COVID-19, the public staged reading of Songbird with Premiere Stages is scheduled to take place in March 2021.
Jess is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter who she doesn't want to talk about why she abandoned her career. In fact, she doesn't want to talk about it so badly that she hasn't spoken or sung about anything in months. Jess's sister, Brit, thinks a beach trip to their old family vacation spot is just the trick to get Jess to open up. What Brit doesn't expect is for her sister to stay silent, while also making friends with a young teenager who breaks into their beach house. Jess is haunted by the events that led up to her vow of silence, even as she is battered by her sister's insecurities and troubled by signs of abuse marking her new friend's face. As tensions rise, Jess knows there are words that have to be spoken; she's just hoping she has the right ones.
You can read Songbird on New Play Exchange.
Characters:
JESS, a former singer who has gone silent
BRIT, Jess’s sister, older by 5-10 years
HARRY, a woman about Jess’s age; her best friend and manager
BOY, around the age of 12 or 13
MAN, the boy's father
You can read Songbird on New Play Exchange.
Characters:
JESS, a former singer who has gone silent
BRIT, Jess’s sister, older by 5-10 years
HARRY, a woman about Jess’s age; her best friend and manager
BOY, around the age of 12 or 13
MAN, the boy's father
The Last Daughter
Readings:
New York City, NY, 2018
Scranton, PA, 2018
New York City, NY, 2018
Scranton, PA, 2018
The Last Daughter was a finalist for the 2020 Jane Chambers Award for Excellence in Feminist Playwriting.
What if the last fertile woman on earth didn't want to have children?
When Eve discovers she is the only known woman still able to conceive a child, she has no idea how radically her life is about to change. Immediately, Eve is put into a box - a literal, bulletproof, could-withstand-a-nuclear-blast-box - where she is looked after by a vaguely charming (and terribly un-funny) doctor and spied on by an ever-present Very Important Person. Eve's ecstatic mother is on hand, with a parade of horrid would-be suitors, intent on impregnating the very last of the Last Daughters. In this environment, it's impossible for Eve to figure out if she actually wants to have children, not that anyone cares what she wants. But can Eve really look into the face of her barren sister, Elizabeth, and reject what her sister so desperately desires?
The Last Daughter has had readings by Ensemble Atria and cast members of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival, but it's ready for a full production! You can read it now on New Play Exchange.
Characters:
EVE, the last fertile woman on earth
MOTHER, her mother, fiercely intent on convincing Eve to have children
ELIZABETH, Eve’s barren sister
DOCTOR, Eve’s doctor
VIP, a very important person bent on controlling Eve’s choices; female
When Eve discovers she is the only known woman still able to conceive a child, she has no idea how radically her life is about to change. Immediately, Eve is put into a box - a literal, bulletproof, could-withstand-a-nuclear-blast-box - where she is looked after by a vaguely charming (and terribly un-funny) doctor and spied on by an ever-present Very Important Person. Eve's ecstatic mother is on hand, with a parade of horrid would-be suitors, intent on impregnating the very last of the Last Daughters. In this environment, it's impossible for Eve to figure out if she actually wants to have children, not that anyone cares what she wants. But can Eve really look into the face of her barren sister, Elizabeth, and reject what her sister so desperately desires?
The Last Daughter has had readings by Ensemble Atria and cast members of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival, but it's ready for a full production! You can read it now on New Play Exchange.
Characters:
EVE, the last fertile woman on earth
MOTHER, her mother, fiercely intent on convincing Eve to have children
ELIZABETH, Eve’s barren sister
DOCTOR, Eve’s doctor
VIP, a very important person bent on controlling Eve’s choices; female
Drowning Ophelia
A new production of Drowning Ophelia is coming to the University of Indianapolis in April of 2021!
Productions:
San Francisco, CA, 2013
Scranton, PA, 2016
Philadelphia, PA, 2016
Moscow, ID, 2019
View production photos from Drowning Ophelia here.
You can read Drowning Ophelia on New Play Exchange.
San Francisco, CA, 2013
Scranton, PA, 2016
Philadelphia, PA, 2016
Moscow, ID, 2019
View production photos from Drowning Ophelia here.
You can read Drowning Ophelia on New Play Exchange.
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Jane doesn’t know what to do with the literary character who has taken up residence in her bathtub. She doesn’t want Ophelia interrupting the obsessive order of her life with obnoxious songs about death and valentines. She doesn’t want Ophelia disrupting her relationship with Edmund, the oddly charming actor who might show up for dinner in a suit…or a suit of armor. And she most definitely doesn’t want Ophelia stirring up memories of a brother she would rather forget. But Ophelia doesn’t care about what Jane wants so much as what she needs. As Jane’s past intrudes dangerously on her present, it becomes clear that Ophelia is not simply a character from "Hamlet," but a long-forgotten messenger with a question from Jane’s own troubled mind: How do you move on when reconciliation is not an option?
Drowning Ophelia is a dark comedy performed in one act about the long-term consequences of childhood abuse, and a love letter to those who have suffered. There is always hope. Characters: OPHELIA, straight out of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” child-like, purposeful JANE, somewhere between twenty and thirty-five, a bit obsessive, a tad on edge ADAM, her brother, older by eight or ten years, devastatingly likable EDMUND, an actor, equal parts charm and awkwardness |
The Poe Asylum
Productions:
Scranton, PA, 2016
LaPlume, PA, 2018
View production photos from The Poe Asylum here.
You can read The Poe Asylum on New Play Exchange.
Scranton, PA, 2016
LaPlume, PA, 2018
View production photos from The Poe Asylum here.
You can read The Poe Asylum on New Play Exchange.
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The Poe Asylum is an immersive theatrical adaptation of short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Each audience member moves from room to room in this asylum, watching and listening as stories of horror unfold. One patient recounts their imprisonment and torture. A mother calls out for her lost child, only to be answered by an enigmatic raven. Another patient fights with the uncontrollable and irrational desire to commit murder. The audience will have to ponder if these individuals are really patients in a mental asylum, or if they are simply trapped in their own minds. And then comes the greatest question of all: where is hope?
Re-imagine five of Poe's classics:The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Premature Burial. Characters: PATIENT 1, a mother who has lost her child FIGURE, the child's father, or else a raven PATIENT 2, a sufferer of PTSD FIGURES, their tormentors PATIENT 3, an alcoholic FIGURE, their wife, or else a black cat PATIENT 4, a sufferer of paranoid schizophrenia FIGURES, their internal demons PATIENT 5, a sufferer of taphophobia DOCTOR, their doctor, or else their tormentor DOUBLE, the patient as they were or could have been |
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Short Plays & Monolgues
Light and Light the Way Back were recently available for streaming as a part of Auburn University's production of Together Apart.
Ghost Story recently received a production at Centerstage Theatre in Federal Way, Washington, as part of their show Theatre Magic.
Ghost Story recently received a production at Centerstage Theatre in Federal Way, Washington, as part of their show Theatre Magic.
In the last eight years I've written almost twenty short plays and monologues, most of which have received live productions or online performances.
You can read all of my short plays and monologues on New Play Exchange.
You can read all of my short plays and monologues on New Play Exchange.
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Ten-Minute Plays:
A Clean Bathroom Empathy Ghost Story I'll Be Zooming You In the Dark It's Enough Light the Way Back Matthew Weaver Writes One Million Plays Rona and the End of the World Safe as Houses Sisters The Donation The Next Step Writing a Play for the Quarantine Bake Off One-to-Three Minute Plays: Balconies Light |
Twenty-Minute Play:
Perchance to Dream Short Monologues: Ghost in the Wall Itch Photos with my Rapist Quarantine Eating Still Life Tooth Fairy from Hell WIT (Women in Theatre) Monologues: A Trial by Her Peers (Elizabeth Robins) Fragile Beautiful (Isabel Rubio Ricciolini) Happy Birthday, Homa Rousta (Homa Rousta) Her Little Match Girl (Dinara Yuldasheva) Look (Canyon Sam) My Mother, Mr. Brown (Charlotte Charke) Now, Rebirth (Shabnam Tolouei) Vaudeville Queen (Dora Dean) |
