Playwriting
CONTROL (5w, 2m)
Written in conversation with Aristophanes’ classic, Lysistrata and inspired by the group, Moms Demand Action, Control addresses the very charged issue of gun violence in America. Set in Southlake, Texas, the play centers on a group of parents who rally together for change after a violent shooting at their children’s school.
EVENING (4 m, 2 w)
It's 1832 in London. Arthur Brandon, an up and coming member of The House of Commons, has been campaigning for major reform for corruption that had long prevailed through English government. At the start of his meteoric rise, however, ghosts from his past threaten to ruin everything. Inspired by the events of the Reform Act of 1832.
Written in conversation with Aristophanes’ classic, Lysistrata and inspired by the group, Moms Demand Action, Control addresses the very charged issue of gun violence in America. Set in Southlake, Texas, the play centers on a group of parents who rally together for change after a violent shooting at their children’s school.
It's 1832 in London. Arthur Brandon, an up and coming member of The House of Commons, has been campaigning for major reform for corruption that had long prevailed through English government. At the start of his meteoric rise, however, ghosts from his past threaten to ruin everything. Inspired by the events of the Reform Act of 1832.
*Finalist for ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition, 2019*Semifinalist for ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition, 2021*Semifinalist for The Austin Film Festival, 2021
*Finalist for ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition, 2019
*Semifinalist for ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition, 2021
*Semifinalist for The Austin Film Festival, 2021
UNSEX: A SHORT PLAY CONCERNING JOHN RICE
Actor John Rice has made a career playing Shakespeare’s leading ladies. When the famed playwright presents him with a challenging new role, he can’t seem to grasp it. Afraid of losing his standing with the company, and in order to keep the part as his own, he murders newcomer Robert Pallant in order to hold on to the spellbinding titular female in Macbeth.
*2019 reading at New Wave Theatre Collective, NYC
*2020 reading at Askew Theatre Company, Ashland, OR
VESPERTINE
An aging actress suffering from dementia attempts to rally her adult children together on Christmas Eve in 2016.
RIPTIDE (4m)*
It's Labor Day weekend. George and Nathan have just purchased their first home together, a house in Fire Island Pines. Their celebratory getaway is halted when George's ex-, the brilliant and handsome Daniel appears on the beach. Old wounds are opened and sexual boundaries are pushed to the limit as Bash, Daniel's new young love interest, shows up, challenging everyone to question their relationships, as well as their own definition of what love -- and commitment -- is.*
*Semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference, 2018
*Semi-finalist for B Street Theatre's New Comedies Festival, 2019
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FIRE ON BABYLON (2m)*
Actor John Rice has made a career playing Shakespeare’s leading ladies. When the famed playwright presents him with a challenging new role, he can’t seem to grasp it. Afraid of losing his standing with the company, and in order to keep the part as his own, he murders newcomer Robert Pallant in order to hold on to the spellbinding titular female in Macbeth.
*2020 reading at Askew Theatre Company, Ashland, OR
An aging actress suffering from dementia attempts to rally her adult children together on Christmas Eve in 2016.
RIPTIDE (4m)*
It's Labor Day weekend. George and Nathan have just purchased their first home together, a house in Fire Island Pines. Their celebratory getaway is halted when George's ex-, the brilliant and handsome Daniel appears on the beach. Old wounds are opened and sexual boundaries are pushed to the limit as Bash, Daniel's new young love interest, shows up, challenging everyone to question their relationships, as well as their own definition of what love -- and commitment -- is.*
*Semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference, 2018
*Semi-finalist for B Street Theatre's New Comedies Festival, 2019
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FIRE ON BABYLON (2m)*
Two New Yorkers gripped by trauma while the city is having one of its own: the 2003 blackout. Reclusive novelist Hugo Thomas hasn’t written anything in years. After accepting an advance for a new book, he’s assigned a beguiling yet challenging young junior editor to assist him at his downtown apartment who may not be all that he seems. When the city is plunged into darkness, secrets are revealed and the two men launch headlong into a psychosexual game of cat and mouse.
*Nominated for The Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Foundation Playwriting Award
*Received a developmental reading at TACT, 2014
*Residency at The Great River Shakespeare Festival, 2016
*Workshop Production at Wild Project/All Out Arts, 2016
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Theatre in the Now
On the cusp of political prominence in Victorian England, a young man's hopes are dashed by his former lover exposing their secret past.
*Finalist for Red Bull’s Short Play Festival, 2015 and 2016
*Received developmental reading at Playhouse on Park, 2015
QUIET ELECTRICITY (2w)*
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*Received a developmental reading at The Pearl Theatre Company, 2013
*Received a developmental reading at TheatreLab, 2011
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (4m, 2w)*
*Received developmental reading at Playhouse on Park, 2015
QUIET ELECTRICITY (2w)*
An O'Neill semifinalist in 2017, Quiet Electricity is a tense portrait of intimacy. Six months after tragedy has struck them, married couple Jodie and Dana now have little to say to one another. When the power in their Hoboken apartment building is temporarily shut off in the evenings for rewiring, they are forced to spend their nights together in the dark. A simple game of confessions unearths truths and hidden feelings, leading Jodie and Dana to epiphanies about love, sex and marriage.
*Received a developmental reading at Emerging Artists Theatre, 2018
*Received a developmental workshop at The Bridge Street Theatre, 2014
*Semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference, 2017
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The Seagull (6m, 4w)*
Classical TV*Received a developmental workshop at The Bridge Street Theatre, 2014
*Semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference, 2017
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The Seagull (6m, 4w)*
This adaptation sets Chekhov's play in Connecticut in the summer of 1937, just before America joined World War II.
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*Received a developmental reading at The Pearl Theatre Company, 2013
*Received a developmental reading at TheatreLab, 2013
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (4m, 2w)*
In an era when social media, human transparency and blurring of sexual boundaries are ever-present, The Picture of Dorian Gray has prophetically become a thesis statement for a new generation. A pure soul ultimately destroyed by an obsession with self-image, Dorian Gray’s infatuating charms radically poison all of London by way of a Faustian pact to remain young and beautiful. Adapted from the Novel by Oscar Wilde.
*Received a developmental reading with Bedlam, 2014
*Received a showcase production at Sonnet Repertory Theatre, 2012
*Received a developmental workshop at TheatreLab, 2011
*Received a developmental reading at New World Stages/On the Square Productions, 2010