PLAYS
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tokens (2W, 2M)
Roscoe, Peter, Mick, and Jia are on a pinball team. Roscoe, Peter, Mick, and Jia are also dead. Will winning an upcoming pinball tournament lead them to the eternal rest they so desire, or might there be some other way to get to paradise...
58:39 (4W, 1M)
It's mandatory team building night for the employees of Paradigm Management Consulting, and tonight they're doing an escape room together (how fun!). Founder and CEO, Melinda, believes that this activity is what the team needs to rally together and gain the teamwork skills they clearly lack at work. When the escape room proves to have a mind of its own, it's up to the Paradigm employees to reckon with their behavior in the office and decide once and for all if they can escape oppressive, male-dominated corporate office culture.
tennis lessons (2W, 2M)
It’s the summer before senior year of high school in suburban New Jersey, and it’s Savannah "Sav" Osmond's last chance to make it onto the varsity tennis team before she graduates. Should be a piece of cake considering her father, Mark, was a former tennis pro and the team’s former coach. Only thing is… Mark was caught in a scandal with one of the girls on the team, and he’s recently deceased, leaving his claw marks in Sav’s present and future. Despite her tumultuous relationship to tennis and to the high school’s team, Sav perseveres, spending the summer preparing for tryouts by taking extra lessons with her private coach, Rich Decker on the court in his backyard. She also spends the summer trying to be as numb as possible, which manifests as a toxic secret situationship with Rich’s dirtbike-rider son, Callum Decker, aka "Decker." Sav and Decker have a lot in common – namely having nowhere else to hang out but a backyard and daddy issues. Speaking of dads… Rich was once a tennis pro too – Mark’s doubles partner – he’s still picking up the pieces Mark left behind, even going as far as to console Mark’s grieving widow Sue, who is trying desperately to connect with Sav, who really just wants to be as far away from what remains of her family as possible. Through rhythmic game play and a theatrical puppeteering of her parents – Sav juggles reconciling her complex father-daughter story, a turbulent present with her mother, and deciding once and for all if she actually likes tennis or not. A coming of RAGE story, tennis lessons is a reminder that we are shaped by the actions and beliefs of our parents, whether we like it or not.
Staged Reading: First Kiss Theatre Company (August 2024)
VASHTI (2W, 2M)
Is it possible to recover something lost to time? Is it possible if the “something” is a woman that does not exist outside of the confines of an ancient story? If it is possible to recover her, is it then possible to dust off the detritus of a millennium of dismissal and over-analysis of her role?
VASHTI is a retelling of the story of the Jewish holiday Purim, its frame is a spiel gone horribly wrong. The Actor Playing Vashti is an actor who would typically be cast in an “Esther role,” while the Actor Playing Esther would typically be cast in a “Vashti role." The more they try to navigate their mis-casting, the actors find that their only way forward is to break out of the play, literally. Meanwhile, the Actor Playing Ahasuerus doesn’t seem to realize he has completely lost himself in the play – he cannot even remember his real name – and Rabbi Pearlman, our “director,” just wants this spiel to go as tradition states. An experimental, absurd, and humorous meditation on gender, religion, and the form of theater itself, VASHTI demands that “lost” women be seen and taken seriously.
Staged Reading: The Garry Marshall Theatre (April 2024)
STAR MART (2W, 3M)
Star Mart is where Sam works. Star Mart is your classic, good ol' American grocery store run by a hard-ass manager and staffed with misfit high school kids. Seems a simple enough life for simple guy Sam, especially since he's been having some memory troubles lately. One day, the employees notice a strange, other-worldly mold growing in the store. As the mold takes over, Sam's memory seems to get worse - or is it vice-versa?
Reading: Los Angeles Theatre Center (May 2023)
AUDIO DRAMA
wht big teeth u have (4W, 2M)
Bria Redd is your classic over-achieving college senior - she's got no time for fantasies, she's got a future to achieve. Still, that doesn't mean she can't enjoy a Friday night in with her bestie, Eve Christie, eating snacks and going down internet rabbit holes. One night, the girls stumble upon the internet phenomenon of "Boyfriend ASMR" and are cringed-out to the point of hysterics. It's not until one particular Boyfriend ASMR account, @THEWOLF, catches Bria's ears. Bria and @THEWOLF get to talking - there's no way this guy is real, right? ... Based on Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood, wht big teeth u have reminds us that the "hidden wolves" in our lives might be right under our noses.
Production History: UPCOMING Play-Mates Podcast / First Kiss Theatre Company (April 2025)
SHORT PLAYS
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles (3W, 2M)
An interactive, immersive, multi-media theater piece that highlights the burdens and dangers that increased air pollution puts on every-day families, particularly those who live in the "Diesel Death Zone" area of Long Beach, California.
Production History: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History (January 2024)
Not Published (1W, 2M)
Toby writes books for children and dreams of one day being a published author. Her writers group colleagues seem to have their own opinions on success.
Reading: Villa Aurora (January 2024)
"All I Have To Do..." (2W, 1M)
Susie is the mastermind behind her family's esteemed clothing business, with dresses made from a "mystery fabric" that everyone in town can't wait to get their hands on. Susie is also obsessed with The Everly Brothers - if only she could be with them instead of stitching all day...
Staged Reading: The Ebell of Los Angeles (November 2023)