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Longer Plays

I KANT

"I just realized I'm suspicious of happiness. I'm afraid of happiness."

Four women who call the Garden State home are lost, stifled by sex, drugs, dead-end jobs and unfinished dissertations. In a play that weaves together four stories, and features a talking stuffed cat and the ideas of philosopher Immanuel Kant, the women search for happiness and instead stumble upon the sublime.

Productions: Moving Arts (Los Angeles), Union Garage (Seattle), Rude Guerrilla (Orange, CA), The Committee (NYC).

"I believe believing is a waste of fucking time."

It is the summer of 1992 in the small town of Medford, New Jersey. A group of teenagers comes to terms with impending adulthood, and find their lives changed by a mysterious visitor from another world. A dark comedy about that time when everything and nothing seems possible.

Sample forthcoming.

Productions: upcoming at Theatre of NOTE (Los Angeles). An early version was developed at Rude Guerrilla (Orange, CA).

"In this world, you do what you have to."

During the final days of the twentieth century, a mother looks backwards and forwards at her life, a young man and woman commit a crime, and Everyman takes a journey from which she won't return. A triptych about faith set in the Garden State.

An earlier version of the play is published in the anthology Plays and Playwrights 2002. To purchase, click here.

A monologue from the play is included in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2001. To purchase, click here.

A monologue is also included in One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century . To purchase, click here.

Productions: The Present Company (NYC), Rude Guerrilla (Orange, CA).

"This is what people do to each other. Do not forget that. This is what people do to each other."

April 1999, Easter weekend. Charles, an African-American journalist, arrives in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, five years after the genocide that took the lives of over 800,000 Tutsis. Charles has come to interview two Catholic nuns about to stand trial for crimes against humanity, the first trial of its kind. The story is Charles’s big chance at the magazine where he works. He is the only journalist to have access to the nuns before their trial. The trip becomes something more troubling, however, when he finds he may be part of the story. After he meets a survivor, the journalist struggles to understand the nature of man's inhumanity, and to find the path that returns us to the best versions of ourselves.

Sample forthcoming .

Developed at Soho Rep (NYC), The Huntington (Boston), and Urban Stages (NYC). Winner of the 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Prize, given to an unpublished and unproduced new play, nominated by the Huntington.

"There's no roadmap for this."

Annie wants to call things off with Stan. Aaron wants to know why Marcus can't be monogamous. Mandy wants to know why her mom keeps singing like a greeting card. And Alice wants to sing in the sauna. A play about relationships in a world where there are too many options. With songs.

Sample forthcoming.

To purchase the music from the show, go here.

Developed at the Flea (NYC) and Playwrights Horizons (NYC). Part of the 2009 Summer Play Festival at the Public Theater in New York.

"This is a Crusade, There is still an Us and a Them, A Right and a Wrong, A Good and an Evil, There must be, Or else it's all been for naught."

President Truman's Secretary of Defense is committed to an institution after he attempts suicide. Forrestal, the architect of cold-war hysteria, fears that Russians have not only infiltrated the highest ranks of the U.S. government, but are hiding in the bushes outside his home. A young man joins Forrestal in his hospital room, but this mysterious figure may bring about an untimely end for the first Secretary of Defense.

For a sample from the play in PDF form, click here.

Developed at Moving Arts (Los Angeles), Lincoln Center Director's Lab (NYC) and Annex Theatre (Seattle). Winner of the 2004 Moving Arts Best One Act Award.

"The hardest question a person can be asked is, What do you want?"

In an America where bombings and kidnappings are daily occurrences and civil liberties a thing of the past, Amelia documents the lives of famous female terrorists, from a homegrown anti-abortion assassin to a Palestinian hijacker. After a visit by Agent from the Office of Homeland Security, Amelia finds herself drawn into a world more frightening than she could possibly have imagined.

The play is published in the anthology New York Theatre Review. To purchase, click here.

Productions: The Committee and The Chocolate Factory (NYC), and Rude Guerrilla (Orange, CA).

A dark comedy about life after anti-depressants. A man and woman are in trouble. Marvin loses something he needs to live: his cell phone. When he calls the phone in hopes of recovering it, a mysterious woman answers. The two learn they share a secret. But things are never what they seem in a world of explosions and Spam-speaking Eskimos.

Productions: The Committee (NYC), and The Mill @ Stage Left (Chicago).

Shorter Plays

Mushroom
A short play about annihilation and Australia
2M, 1W
Short drama

"Worse than Texas Alabama and the Epcot Center all pureed into one fucked-up country. That's where we are. Dead space Australia and we just need to get home."

Andrew and Laura wait for news about Mark. But what's behind the door that begs to be opened? And furthermore, what's that big cloud in the sky? A dark comedy about annihilation and an Australian.

To read the entire script in PDF form, click here.

Productions: The Production Company (NYC) and Odd Duck Theatre (Seattle).

Tecmessa

A footnote

2M, 1W

15-minute play

"And what, what happens to me?"

Disgraced, the great warrior Ajax kills himself, leaving behind a concubine and son. Their fate was a mystery, until now. A short play about mythological footnotes.

To read the entire script in PDF form, click here.

Developed by Target Margin (NYC). Production: Rude Guerrilla (Orange, CA).

Ted, the local TV reporter, interviews Henry, an aging WWII vet, hoping for a sweet human interest story. Instead, Ted gets a tale of voluntary amputation and man boy love.

Published in Issue 18 of the Brooklyn Review (2001).

To read the entire script in PDF form, click here.