Elsewhere
Wherever we are it better be epic. A play in which the last woman in the world flees her wedding ceremony for the Neolithic era. Across highways, a petrified forest, and an anachronistic shore, she lands where she can live and love freely. But when her presence threatens the harmonious Elsewhere, she must grapple with sacrifice---of herself, or of the world where she’s possible. Full-length with music. PDF here. Contact for pw.
*Winner, Himan Brown Award 2024, semifinalist Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, Semifinalist, LaMama Experiments in Playwriting. Reading dir. by Molly Shayna Cohen at Playwrights Horizons, May 2024
Cul-de-Sac follows three women as their lives unfold on doomed land. Based on a real-life traffic circle in Connecticut, a bloody history and the men who haunt them determine their fates, ultimately exposing an accretion of unmet desires, wasted talent, and missed connections in their lives and the earth beneath them. PDF here. Contact for pw.
*Second-Rounder, AFF 2024
Jerri won’t leave the gym. Cynosure is a tragicomedy in which a wealthy white woman’s breakdown keeps her imprisoned in her luxury nyc gym with her subway mole enemy: Gary. As Gary wreaks havoc on Jerri, Jerri wreaks havoc on the gym’s employees. A dark comedic look at wealth, loneliness, and femininity in late-stage capitalism that takes a turn for the Greek.
cynnosure | a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration
“Annhilation, obliteration, dissipation…they’re not what you think.” In Greetings! From the Mojave, a Black cowboy and suburban housewife navigate new landscapes and new identities after world-ending change. In this post-grief, post-Americana sand study, new desires and outlooks are revealed in the creosote for those who ask: what happens after loss? PDF here. Contact for pw.
*a one-act based on William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Performed September 2024 at BAM, dir. by Marissa Joyce Stamps.
PLANTER PLAY
In a technocracy where water can’t cross state lines and soil is so scarce it has to be stolen from the cemetery, two tech-addicts establish a rare connection in state-mandated recovery. While they bond over an escape from the city of Trimetro, a more sinister secret about what truly connects them threatens their unlikely friendship. Part sci-fi, part coming-of-age, Planter Play is a plea for humanity in an algorithmic universe.
23 is a memory play with music (trying to be) contained in the laws of quantum theory. When Girl 1 meets Girl 2, it's as though her life begins. But as first love coincides with a life-threatening diagnosis, affection, queerness and mortality entangle Girl 1 in a years-long, reality-altering journey. PDF here. Contact for pw.
Performed at Theater for the New City