selected plays

LOWCOUNTRY

A disgraced basketball coach in the midst of a custody battle embarks on his first date after a year of house arrest in the rural South.

Forthcoming world premiere at Atlantic Theater

DIDO OF IDAHO

When a love affair goes brutally awry, an alcoholic musicologist seeks asylum with her estranged evangelical mother.

Now available for purchase and licensing at Theatrical Rights Worldwide

BLUE RIDGE

A North Carolina high-school teacher with a rage problem attends to everyone's recovery but her own.  

Now available for purchase and licensing at Theatrical Rights Worldwide

World premiere at Atlantic Theater, archived at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts/Lincoln Center

SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE

An army widow angles for romance with a taciturn fundamentalist at a Texas dating convention for farmers. 

Now available for purchase and licensing at Theatrical Rights Worldwide

WILMA

South Carolina, 1999. A distressed mother and her 12-year-old daughter are trapped with one another and their radioactive secrets during a flood.

Commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club

RUBY THE FREAK IN THE WOODS

A tech whiz is eaten alive by her industry, retreats to the woods and falls in love with a bear. 

Commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation

Development support from Clubbed Thumb

NADIA ROYA

An unlikely domestic terrorist in federal custody seeks legal counsel from an old flame.

Commissioned by Bristol Riverside Theatre

DIFFERENT ANIMALS

A Lutheran woman agrees to a threesome with her husband and his unbalanced coworker. 

New York premiere at Cherry Lane Theatre

one-acts

FIREWOOD

A do-gooding non-profit employee tries to buy firewood from a formerly incarcerated man she once taught in a workshop.

Commissioned and produced by Montana Rep and Echo Theater Los Angeles

KENNY’S TAVERN

A teacher and her principal hash out the terms of their affair on the eve of a presidential election.

Commissioned and produced by Throughline Artists at 59e59

FRAGOLINA

A 1940s Hollywood socialite realizes she’s hosting a fundraiser for a ballroom full of fascists.

Featured in The Green Plays by Gowanus Art + Production

NO ONE IS HOME

Preparing for a TV appearance, FLDS sister wives open up about their sex lives to Oprah’s production assistants.

Developed and produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre

Published in Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016 (Smith & Kraus)

[AND MORE]