TOP GIRL, or the cheerleader play
A tragedy about the most dangerous athletes of our time: competitive cheerleaders. Hearts, spirits, and skulls may be broken.
Workshop: Bramble Theatre Company’s 2024 Festival of Unfinished Work (Berry Award & Festival Winner!). Chicago, IL. June 2024.
Reading: NoMads Art Collective. Virtual. June 2020.
Perennials
Perennial (adjective):
1. Lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring.
2. Having a life cycle longer than two years, as a stream.
3. Perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent.
It is the Future, and human life is on the brink of extinction. In the middle of it all, two women journey across a decimated country, on the run from... well, everything, really. Resting in a forest clearing, they read a Book about a family that can never die. And for the first time, they begin to open up to one another, to chip away at the wall that stands between them. And they keep coming back to this Book, this story that they can't seem to shake. But it’s just a children’s story. It’s fiction, a fantasy. People can’t really be immortal. Everlasting. Perennial.
Right?
Reading: Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLab. Virtual. June 2021.
Workshop: Rhinofest (produced & curated by Prop Thtr, Curious Theatre Branch). Chicago, IL. February 2019.
Workshop: Silver Masque Theatre Company. Boston, MA. January 2018.
TREYF PLAY
The Restaurant, the hottest dining establishment in all of Chicago, is in utter chaos. Nora quit two days ago out of nowhere, and no one seems to know why. Rachel is brand new and has no idea what she’s doing.
Rumors fly, servers spar, and secrets come to light in this ensemble play about the abuse of power in two radically different communities, and how to rebuild from the wreckage.
How to begin again.
Reading: Church of the New Play, Prop Thtr. Chicago, IL. September 2019.
Reading: Ritual Reading Series, Strawdog Theatre Company. Chicago, IL. June 2019.
Mad Girls
Eileen and Ruthie have always been different. Growing up Jewish smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt tends to do that to a person. But Eileen survives her torturous adolescence, escaping to Chicago the first chance she gets, while Ruthie stays behind. Eileen blossoms and blooms in her new life, but Ruthie remains the same, stuck firmly in the past. As we jump about in time and space, we see Eileen finally return to her hometown on the day of a family tragedy, only to discover that her sister is no longer the ally she thought she was.
A play about madness. About hermit crabs. About grief.
Workshop: Rhinofest (produced & curated by Prop Thtr, Curious Theatre Branch). Chicago, IL. January - February 2020.
Workshop: Silver Masque Theatre Company. Boston, MA. September 2016.
Sadie, Sadie
Two artists, an unfinished painting, a graveside spat, Frida Kahlo eyebrows, and other things. Most importantly, a love story.
Workshop: Silver Masque Theatre Company. Boston, MA. October 2017.
Lavinia
Inspired by ten lines from Titus Andronicus, this movement-based poetry play brings Shakespeare's most gruesome tragedy into the 21st century. Ancient Rome becomes modern-day university, Goths become frat bros, victim becomes survivor. As Lavinia's world transforms into a living nightmare, new text fuses with the old to give her the voice that Shakespeare did not.
Reading: Queen Mary University of London. London, United Kingdom. April 2017.
Three Strangers
Midnight. Chicago. Elizabeth is working in her university's call center, counting the hours until her shift ends. Katherine is on a date, starving and bored to tears. Viola is commuting home, hot and sticky on the un-air conditioned subway. Three sisters, three ordinary nights. But everything is about to change.
Workshop: Silver Masque Theatre Company. Boston, MA. December 2015.
