Plays

The Saying Sorry Play
Full length, experimental/language play, 2W
Written as a part of First Kiss Theatre Company’s 2021-22 Residency Program
Workshop Reading — First Kiss Theatre Company [2022]
S and L, longtime friends whose bond has recently shattered, meet over and over in the hopes of hearing an apology from one other — and thus, a total acknowledgement that the breakdown was their friend’s fault, not their own, 100%. But, neither S nor L will admit to that, so neither apologizes. Frustrated, angry, dejected, and just plain sad, they transform — they become dozens of objects, parts of nature, and states of being, performing their poignantly mundane and strange apologies to one another instead of acknowledging their own feelings. Meanwhile, each tries to figure out what exactly happened between their friendship and how they move through the world now — moving closer to the possibility of acknowledging how significant the breakdown was between them. 

DJ LONELEE
10 minute Radio Play, 1M 1W
Commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse and Blindspot Collective

Co-created with Joshua Brown | Directed by Blake McCarthy

An out-of-work radio DJ tries to put on a radio show for no audience alone in his apartment. Lee misses his soundboard. For someone whose day-job involves interviewing people for an audience of other people, he now has neither a person to interview nor an audience. In his boredom and isolation, he creates a new radio show, DJ LONELEE, wherein he interviews household items to an imagined audience.

Walks of Life: In the midst of a pandemic that fractures and isolates our communities, this aural experience offers the opportunity to safely and imaginatively reconnect with each other by bearing witness to life’s intimate moments captured entirely in sound. Participants experience the performance while walking independently through their own neighborhoods, and over the course of three 30-minute parts, they are introduced to characters and stories that might be unfolding in the homes around them.

DJ LONELEE is featured in episode three of the series.

ICKIpedia Theatre | Podcast

Based on modern adaptations of classical plays, ICKIpedia is interested in poking fun at (and poking holes in) the western canon and highlighting a diversity of experiences with it — what artists find in those plays that sparks some creative resonance and how that might speak to the current theatre landscape. Features an audio adaptation of “beth” by playwright Alex Lin. Created with Joshua Brown.

Find ICKIpedia Theatre episodes on Spotify.

Are You Still? — PLAYDATE Theatre (Summer 2020) | Screen-Play for Zoom

Are You Still? explores what it takes for Em, stuck at home during pandemic times, to resist the ever-present siren call from The Internet to keep scrolling, watching, and browsing through all of her waking hours.

https://www.playdatetheatre.com/find-a-way-or-make-one-festival

Three Knockdown Rule (or, When My Friend Was Not Dying)
Full length, experimental, 2W 1M
Recipient of the Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award [2019]
Workshop Production, Carnegie Mellon University [2018] | Directed by Bonnie Gabel
Erin said that she was sick, but she wasn’t. Hayden said that hers was incurable, but it wasn’t. Erika said that she was dying, but she wasn’t. Spanning the first lies between three old friends to a chance encounter where they can’t anything more than hello, Three Knockdown Rule (or, When My Friend Was Not Dying) is a meditation on lying, truth, and precision.

How To Talk To Others (and Talking About Yourself)
Full length, drama, 2W
Finalist, 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
In Maggie’s short story that may or may not be based on her own life, no one can say anything important. And when the fictional world of the carnival dissolves into publishing and meetings and reality, communication isn’t any easier. But if Maggie wants her story published, she needs to be able to say why it’s important. How To Talk To Others (and Talking About Yourself) explores loneliness and isolation, the desire to connect through art, and when connection feels impossible.

Hannah and the Archaeologist and the Deep Sea Diver and the Helicopterist Recall the Instance in which Hannah Repaired the Roof
One Act, experimental language drama 4W (with doubling)
Reading, Fall New Play Development Reading Series at The Bechdel Group [2018]
As Hannah reconnects with her childhood best friends, she is reminded once again of her problems with memory. While her friends reflect on the good times in detail, Hannah consults an archaeologist, a deep sea diver, and a helicopterist for help to remember just one moment.

NEW YORK IS THE NEXT STOP
One act, experimental/absurd, 3W
To pass the many miles between the first stop and the last stop of a cross-country ride, an emotionally complex Greyhound Bus fantasizes about the budding relationship that may be forming between the passengers seated in its favorite row.

Grande Pumpkin Spice Solo Show
Solo play, absurdist comedy, 1W
Alexandra's grande pumpkin spice latte with whip and extra pumpkin pie spice is sitting on the drink pickup bar at Starbucks while she gives a TEDTalk about what it means to be a basic bitch — and how women can avoid such a title. But the latte gets cold as Alexandra falls off script after an uncomfortable interaction with a fellow Starbucks-drinker.