NEIGHBORS (2M, 4W)
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Tenants in an apartment building wonder if their trusted doorman is responsible for a rash of thefts. They discuss the dangers and thrills of tagging trains. They plan to start a business making sandals from old tires. Community forms through these conversations that treat the quotidian with outsized importance. Moving through apartments creates a cinematic, almost jump-cut structure to the play. Plus there is an elephant in the room, figuratively and literally.
RECKLESS EYEBALLING (3M, 6W)
When Georgia is assigned to do community service as a tutor at a minimum-security prison, she is reunited with her estranged sister, Taylor, an assistant district attorney. Reckless Eyeballing was inspired by my volunteer work as a college tutor at the Queensboro Correctional Facility over two years. During my time with the men I was taken with the language they used to describe their often Kafkaesque-like circumstances. It was the only way they could exert some control over their lives while incarcerated. Their language is the pulse of the play.
SO UNNATURAL A LEVEL (3M, 3F, 1 Sea Monster)
An insurance office. A natural disaster. A sea monster washes ashore. Leave it to the interns to clean up the mess.
Produced at the Actor’s Theater of Louisville.
Directed by Les Waters.
Winner of the 2015 Heideman Award for best ten-minute play.
Published in Humana Festival 2015: The Complete Plays (Playscripts, 2016).
​​​COOLER (1M, 3F)
Four friends live in a world of false nostalgia. Language is warped and the rules of society confused and mysterious. The characters try to reconcile their desires with the chilling environment they live in. The play operates in a dream-like state as the characters negotiate language, will and the nature of oppression-both external and self-imposed.
Produced at the Chocolate Factory Theater, 2010.
Produced at Defunct Theatre (Portland), 2009.
​DAREDEVIL (2M, 4 W and 1 pre-taped M)
My objective for this collage-like piece was to explore the value of surface considerations in a play. In developing DAREDEVIL with director Meghan Finn, actors and musicians, I was interested in finding out how the meaning of the play is conveyed through imagery, music and jump-cuts. Storytelling happens, but the challenge for me was to resist linear narrative.
Produced at The Brick Theater, 2014.
Directed by Meghan Finn.
AT SAID (2M, 3W)
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When Sybil starts typing her memories of a childhood lived under an oppressive regime, the act of memory has a profound effect on her shut-in daughter, Darra, who resists the intrusion of her mother’s words. AT SAID is set in an isolated housing project in an American City, and is about the echoes of genocide across generations.
Produced by 13P at PS 122, 2006.
AENEAS (4M, 6W)
A modern adaptation of THE AENEID, set in the subway tunnels of New York City.
AENEAS was developed in collaboration with director Hayley Finn, sound designer
Rob Kaplowitz and the Flea Theater’s acting company, The Bats.
Workshop Production at The Flea Theater, 2002.
​BARGE (2M, 1W)
Two men of different backgrounds work a summer job in the freezer of salmon-processing barge anchored in Bristol Bay, Alaska. They find common ground when one learns of the death of a friend. Ten-Minute play.
Produced at the Actor’s Theater of Louisville A/I Tens, 2014.
Directed by Gregg Wiggans.
GOLEM (3M, 2W)
When Gil, a pathological liar, is transformed into modern-day Golem by a prostitute (don’t ask), all hell breaks loose when his lies become fact to everyone he encounters. When love comes within his grasp, he must find a way to break the curse or continue to live in a false reality that is incompatible with true love.
Produced at the Cherry Lane Alternative as part of the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, 2000.
Directed by Haley Finn.
Mentored by Alfred Uhry.
DEAD RECKONING (4M, 2W)
Dead Reckoning is about a working-class Jewish family in Brooklyn, set in 1971.
Produced at the Cherry Lane Alternative Theater, 2001.
Directed by Hayley Finn.
CENTRIFUGAL FORCE (3M, 2W)
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Centrifugal Force received readings at Playwrights Horizons (2005) and The Jewish Play Project (2013). The play was a runner-up for the 2002 Princess Grace Award.
THE WHITE ROOM (1M, 2W)
A one-act play about a woman who visits the archives at a concentration camp which holds the names of family members who perished there.
Finalist for the 2019 Heideman Award, Actors Theater of Louisville.
​​I LOVE NEIL LABUTE (3M, 1W)
Short play. A parody featuring three Neil LaBute’s and one Joseph Smith.
Produced by Sticky in a bar and at Oberlin College (not in a bar).
Published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues.
(Vintage Books, 2011).
