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[“Your voice, and your ideas, have made a significant impact on our office”]

— 2019 O’Neill Conference

A Field Guide to the Amazon

(4W with doubling, as many as 9W without; 1 lead can certainly be a trans woman):

FINALIST 2018-19 SCREENCRAFT STAGE PLAY AWARD

Included in the BEST STAGE MONOLOGUES of 2021 series (Smith & Kraus).

Included in SHE PERSISTED: STAGE MONOLOGUES BY WOMEN 2021 (Honor Roll, Applause Books Acting Series)

SEMIFINALIST 2018 LABUTE NEW PLAY FESTIVAL (in one-act iteration ‘Good People’)

An activist-attorney tangoes with a client about filing a sensational lawsuit. The case’s Muslim paralegal tries to navigate a path through the fog of relative morality as her boss’s lonely suicidal daughter quietly forces a forbidden connection.

Goodman Theatre literary manager Jonathan L. Green: “A sharp analysis of contemporary society. Dialogue is snappy and distinctive.”

Yale Repertory Theatre: “Witty [and] fast-paced…characters spar with one another with agility and deftness.”

2019 Papatango New Writing Prize committee (Second Round): “You write some really cracking dialogue. Nicely structured, and there is real skill on display throughout.”

["From hundreds of plays, yours was selected by our committee as being among the best of the best. That's no small feat.”]

— 2017-18 Woodward/Newman Drama Awards

["A yearning and melancholic drama, rendered in lovely precise language”] 

— Playwrights Horizons literary director Sarah Lunnie

Woman Descending a Staircase

(2W, 2M)  

FINALIST 2017-18 WOODWARD/NEWMAN DRAMA AWARD

SHORT LIST 2019 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL STAGE PLAY/PLAYWRITING AWARD

SHORT LIST 2021 ASHLAND NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL

As seen in BEST STAGE MONOLOGUES of 2019 series (Smith & Kraus)

Included in SHE PERSISTED: MONOLOGUES BY WOMEN 2021 (Applause Books)

Having returned to London as her marriage to faithless fellow poet Ted Hughes implodes, Sylvia Plath debates whether to formally set her divorce in motion. She unpacks her troubles to the exasperated art-historian divorced father and wannabe painter living in the apartment below, a disappointed academic with his own tragic history. Plath is as sensitive about being called crazy as the professor is about his homosexuality, then a jailable offense in the UK, where it is classified as mental illness, and he remains deep in the closet.

These are two people living in exile and not coping well as the play toggles back and forth between their mirror-image sitting rooms all the way to the finish line of this poetic whydunnit. Indeed they loathe each other until they discover devastating common ground. A new full-length work in a Surrealist, free-verse style charting Plath's path to self-destruction and an unlikely final friendship.

[“Theatrically inventive”]

— Clubbed Thumb

2017 Papatango New Writing Prize committee: "An effective and insightful depiction of a notorious and profoundly sad episode. The script's ambition to collide poetic voices with theatricality is apparent and laudable." 

2017 O’Neill Conference: “Our readers expressed great admiration for Woman Descending a Staircase.”

[“Park Avenue under the microscope of comedy is refreshing”]

— Clubbed Thumb associate artistic director

[“A linguistically rich and endlessly clever comedy of manners”] 

— Playwrights Horizons lit director Sarah Lunnie 

Pan

(2W, 2M)  

SHORT LIST 2016 STANLEY DRAMA AWARD

A writer-roué presents the promise of a more exciting, fulfilling life as he pursues best friends whose dreams have dead-ended. (And his dream has dead-ended, too.)

Pan incarnate, his boozy pranks and twisty horndog sexuality will alter the characters' lives forever in this modern-day satyr play. There’s a fair amount of phallic imagery whistling around the stage, between the bottles of booze and dick talk.  But go deeper, and Pan is also about the value people assign themselves and others. How brute competition still drives mating, and how the rules of attraction remain engraved in DNA, untouched by feminism.

Pan could be the bastard child of God of Carnage and Carnal Knowledge. 

actress/waitress/model/'ho

(4W)  

Jerilynn Fike, late of Cedar Bluff, Tennessee, is being hazed by prima donna NYC acting coach Diana De Cordova, who warns if she's not careful, the only work she'll get is "the girl face-down in a pool of blood." At her waitress day job, after a bit of casual racism in the workplace aimed at co-worker Lamonica Gates, the pair exact revenge on the manager. Jerilynn finds herself out of a job.

[“Great fun”]

— New Georges new-play advocate

A black comedy about ambition/fluidity of identity, drawing on interviews with sex- and fetish-workers in addition to actors. Cast is all-female and an hommage to the work of Maria Irene Fornés and Rainier Werner Fassbinder (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) -- with a Tabasco shot of Robert O'Hara and Jean Genet. 

Castro's Convertible

(3M)  10 minutes

JFK and Castro throw it down for the Bard
An afterlife knife fight rocks the boneyard

Abigail

(2W, 1M)  10 minutes

The Blaneys get some household help. With unintended consequences. Inspired by the Salem witch trials and Miller's The Crucible. An exercise in time and sound developed at the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive.  

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