plays
WHY LILIYA WHY
(full length play with music, 5 characters)
A young woman, Liliya, is dropped from the skies, and takes out her own heart. She travels home to a tower she and her M'other shared, finding a worm occupying her room. While she doesn't initially intend to stay, Theo the worm invites her to rest, and she takes the opportunity. A surrealist, Lynchian fairy tale of family, forged and found.
Development: IU At First Sight Festival
WHAT SCREAMS I HEAR ARE MINE
(full length, 3 m, 3 w)
Fourteen year old Dana has a lot going on right now. Her dead mother’s diary seems to be bleeding. Cuts have been mysteriously appearing on her arm. Oh, and she’s pretty sure she heard a woman being raped one night. She comes forward to the community, and none of the adults believe her. Against her older sister’s wishes, she recruits her friends to find the culprit.. Once she finally discovers the identity of the rapist, Dana has to choose between telling the truth, and protecting those she loves.
Development: Boston University, Clementine Collective, Tribe Theatre Company, Playhouse on Park
Honors: National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award, 2018 Semi-finalist for O'Neill Playwrights Conference
THE REBOUND
(one act, 2 w, 3 m)
Everyone knows Hal's been in a bit of a slump since his ex dumped him three months ago-but his roommate Eli has the perfect plan to pull him out of it! Can a blind date restore Hal to his former glory? With high jinks galore, this dystopian Friends episode may not be what it seems.
Development: Strident Theatre, Emerging Artists’ Theatre New Works Festival
IF YOU GIVE A KID A SUCKER
(full length, 5 w, 2 m)
Wasted in an Airbnb in Paris, Nadia asks herself: Is life worth living if nobody thinks you deserve to live? By turning back the clock, Nadia illuminates the events that left her shacked up with a girl she used to babysit when she was 16. If You Give A Kid A Sucker is the raucous confessional of a monster you didn’t know was hiding under your bed.
Development: Boston University's New Works Festival
Honors: 2018 Finalist for Campfire Theater Festival
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TERRIBLE ADIVCE GIVEN TO AND BY ME
(full length play with music, 5 m, 5 w)
Early on a Saturday morning, college drop out Celly is visited by her old friend Wardo. After undergoing a program that definitely wasn't rehab, the rockstar who practically raised her wants her to go on tour with him. So begins a dive into a broken kaleidoscope of crossed wires, displaced trauma and terrible advice. Will Wardo give Celly the life she's always wanted? Can he even fathom what that is?
Development: Indiana University Theatre Staged Reading
Honors: Hegarty Award 2021, Semi-Finalist for National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill Theatre 2020
DUMB BITCH JUICE
(full length, 1 w, 1 nb)
Dumptruck wants what every girl wants: to be involved in a climate activist organization, meet the love of her life, and ride off into the sunset after they’ve solved the climate crisis. Pretty Pretty just wants to end the climate crisis, and if he has to spend the rest of his life recruiting VERY peppy post grads to do it, so be it. So . . . is this a date or is this a one on one? Is it either if time starts to loop and then break apart and they’re trapped in this empty work cafe with any semblance of hope quickly vanishing? Or is it something else entirely? Dumb Bitch Juice invites you to grab a straw (or bring your own), and get into the muck of organizing with us.
Development: At First Sight Festival at IU Bloomington
THE ZOO WE FOUND BENEATH THE BLANKETS
(one act, 1 m, 1 w, 1 m/w/nb)
The Zoo We Found Beneath the Blankets is a surrealist plunge into the cramped apartment of a couple in March 2020. Craving the touch the world cannot offer her, She pleads for a pet. While He obliges, He dreams up a world of interior design for their furry friends. Each day their world becomes smaller and more populated with pets, living and dead. In parallel quests for purpose and connection, the couple must re-evaluate who in their habitat is friend, or foe