selected plays
THE CALLING, or BROKE
90 min, drama
THE CALLING, or BROKE examines the relationship between social services, capitalism, and violence in the united states of america. Over an unpredictably cold winter in the rural Northeast, three domestic violence agency workers deal with funding cuts, secondary trauma, and their fleeting burning hope for a better world.
Workshop at Fringe Festival Providence 2025.
THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA DON’T SELL COOKIES, B*TCH
90 min, dark comedy
THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA DON’T SELL COOKIES, B*TCH interrogates the relationship between capitalism and violence through the lens of american youth. Effie, a scrappy eleven-year-old, decides to join the Scouts of America during a super duper hot summer, yuck. Excited to learn new skills and make friends with boys (WOAH!), Effie enters with an intensity that surprises her troop leader, Joe, and scares some of her fellow scouts. As she traverses this unfamiliar landscape, she battles assumptions and underestimations of her personhood.
Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, Ojai Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, Primary Stages Echoes Writers Program Finalist, PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Contest Finalist, Top 12 Amoeba Productions Emerging Playwrights Lab, Staged Reading at The Tank 2024.
THE BOX OFFICE
95 min, dark comedy
It’s opening night of La Bohème and Box Office Assistant, Jess, has to make a choice. Does she attend her stepfather’s funeral the next day or stay behind in the Box? THE BOX OFFICE asks the question: who is allowed to grieve and for whom and what?
SheNYC Festival Semifinalist, Production at The Tank 2023, Staged Reading at The Tank 2023.
All photos by Christina X Brown & Lily Crowley.
ADIRONDACK CHAIR MISSING PLEASE RETURN OR ELSE!
90 min, farcical tragedy
One fine summer morning in Podunk Vermont, June Daly goes berserk after finding out her very sturdy, very homemade adirondack chair has gone missing. Desperate, she enlists the help of her 90 year old neighbor Boris, and a 15 year old girl named Addy to figure out who stole it. A really fun PTSD play!
Barr Hill Players Semifinalist, Playwrights Realm Script Share Program, Workshop at The Barrow Group F.A.B., 2023.