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.
*Winner, Himan Brown Award 2024, semifinalist Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, Semifinalist, LaMama Experiments in Playwriting. Reading at Playwrights Horizons, May 2024
Cul-de-Sac is a play about language, land, and the ghost who haunt it.
Based on the bloody history of a real-life traffic circle in Connecticut, the men responsible for a violent past haunt three cousins, determining their fates, and ultimately exposing an accretion of unmet desires, wasted talent, and missed connections in their lives and the earth beneath them.
*Second-Rounder, AFF 2024, semi-finalist Terrence McNally New Works at Rattlestick
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.
cynosure | 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