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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.

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"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 spend the summer after high school hanging out in the woods and eating side dishes in diners. But as they try come to terms with their adulthood, their lives changed by a mysterious visitor from another world hell-bent on nibbling the teens. A dark comedy about that time of life when everything and nothing seems possible.

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"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 early 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.

"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.

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"Stan, can we talk?"

Stan, armed with roses and a hairbrush, meets Annie for dinner at their favorite café. Stan thinks that their six-month old relationship is going well, but Annie thinks otherwise: she is there to end it because she’s seeing David. Stan enlists their waiter Aaron in his battle to show Annie his love is true and she needs to grow up. Aaron, meanwhile, has his own relationship issues. His older boyfriend Marcus doesn’t believe in monogamy and Aaron isn’t sure he is into sharing. In the steam room at the gym, Annie turns to fellow schoolteacher Mandy for relationship advice, but Mandy has a lot on her plate: her father’s lost his arms and mom’s speaking like a greeting card. When Alice joins the pair in their steamy oasis, Annie realizes her love life is about to get even more complicated. But for these seven twenty-nothings, when life gets a little too crazy, there is always the power of song.

Sample forthcoming.

"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.

Sample forthcoming.

"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.

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.

Sample forhcoming.

Bedazzler has a plan to stop her dad Phil's addiction to jury duty, involving a vet in a bee costume named Charlie, his dog Lana, and an underage boy he bought online.

Sample forthcoming.

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.

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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.

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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).

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