selected plays

LOWCOUNTRY

A disgraced high-school teacher in the midst of a custody battle goes on his first date after a year of house arrest in the rural South.

Forthcoming world premiere at Atlantic Theater

DIDO OF IDAHO

A hard-drinking musicologist competes with a former Miss Idaho for the love of a married English professor. 

Script now available for purchase and licensing through Theatrical Rights Worldwide

World premiere at Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC)

West coast premiere at Echo Theatre (LA)

Development support from LAByrinth Theater Company and New York Stage & Film

Finalist: AracaWorks Chicago

Winner - Best Writing: LA Theatre Bites

Excerpted in The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2016 (Smith & Kraus) 

BLUE RIDGE

At a church-sponsored halfway house in North Carolina, a high-school teacher with a rage problem attends to everyone's recovery but her own.  

Script now available for purchase and licensing through Theatrical Rights Worldwide

World premiere Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater

Featured on Play-Per-View

Production archived at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts/Lincoln Center

SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE

A South Carolina army widow angles for romance with an Oklahoma fundamentalist at a dating convention for farmers. 

Script now available for purchase and licensing through Theatrical Rights Worldwide

Excerpts published in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2016 (Smith & Kraus) 

Development support from Dixon Place and The Brick

Regional productions at Bristol Riverside Theatre and Aurora Theatre

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. 

Development support from Clubbed Thumb

Commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation

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.

Developed with support from The Spot Sun Valley

Commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club

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

Excerpts published in 2014 best-of anthologies by Smith & Kraus and Applause Theatre & Cinema

Series of excerpts published by Little Star

one-acts

FIREWOOD

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

Originally commissioned and produced by Montana Rep

Also produced by 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)

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