Audrey, a socialite turned relief worker, finds herself in a war-torn nation awarding a free feast and celebrity-style photo shoot to the besieged family of Anya Andonov. Trapped in a world that is as absurd and laughable, as it is brutal, Anya and Audrey struggle to salvage their feast as the world around them spirals into collapse.
Length: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes (84 pages)
3 Women, 2 Men
Social – Political Comedy/Satire
World Premiere: InterAct Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA
Rocky Mountain Premiere: And Toto Too, Denver, CO
Selected for the 1997 National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center
Runner up for the Bug ‘n Bub Award at Primary Stages
Midwestern New Plays Festival ExposureNY Festival – Rattlestick Theater
Excerpted in “Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999” (Smith & Kraus)
LIGHT
A spiritual rebirth, under the guidance of a mysterious, self-proclaimed guru, is Helena’s motivation for re-connecting with her childhood friend, and recent divorcee, Abby. But the joyous reunion is short-lived when Abby discovers out that Helena’s new path requires her to forget her past… including Abby.
Length: One-act (12 pages – approx. 20 minutes)
2 Women
Serio-comic
Published in Great Short Plays: Volume 6 (Playscripts.com)
World Premiere: Moving Arts One-Act Play Festival (LA Theater Center)
MERCY FALLS
Description: A Hospital Christmas play that will leave you in stitches! Marcy Wuggelson is a jinx, she’s always known it, so when she decides to visit her favorite self-help author, Wanda Moore, in the hospital on Christmas Eve, the scene is ripe for disaster. But Wanda discovers something priceless in Marcy – the subject for her new book. With the help of Santa’s Reindeer, the Ghost of Christmas Future, a Nun, and phenomenologist Martin Heidegger, Marcy performs a true Christmas miracle.
Length: One-Act (1 hour – 41 pages)
4 Women, 1 Man
Farce
Excerpted in: “Best Stage Scenes 1999” and “Best Stage Monologues for Women, 1999” and Audition Arsensal (Smith & Kraus)
New York productions selected as one of the top “1000 Things To Do” for the holidays by Time Out Magazine
Louise and Heather watch their kids on the playground sharing stories of mommy-hood joys but when Heather shares her disappointment, Louise turns out not to be the soul-sister she was looking for. Heather doesn't know how right she is.
Length: One-act (10 minutes)
2 Women, 1 Man
Dramatic
Mom doesn't know why it's taken Luke so long to break the news, she's liberal after all, but she's thrilled that after years away Luke finally coming home to tell her he's gay. He's even bringing his new boyfriend Chris! Chris is his boyfriend… right?
Length: One-act (10 minutes)
1 Woman, 2 Men
Serio-comic
AMERICAN EYES
Soso thinks he understands English and he hopes to impress Maka on their first date to Washington Square Park. When they stumble across an outdoor production of “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” Soso finds himself seriously challenged – as does the interpreter trying to translate their date (and the play) for the audience – in this meta-play about love, language and the plight to be understood.
Length: One-Act (12 pages, approx 10 minutes)
2 Women, 2 Men
Comedy
Commissioned by GorillaRep for their “Washington Square Dreams” series
Published in “Plays and Playwrights 2001.” (NY Theatre Experience)
THROW OF THE MOON (written with Ben Sahl)
Midge knows her mechanic husband Tony is stepping out on her, and with the begrudging help of her couch-potato brother Bobby, she manages to catch him red-handed, only to discover that Tony’s not in love with another woman, he’s in love with Shakespeare!
Length: One-act (10 minutes)
2 Women, 2 Men
Comedy
Commissioned by GorillaRep for their “Washington Square Dreams” series
Published in “Plays and Playwrights 2001”(NY Theatre Experience)
THE MARTYRDOM OF WASHINGTON BOOTH
Description: Virgilia’s plan to impress a local militia hero is thrown into jeopardy when the lethal virus they’ve arranged to purchase from a mysterious African nationalist is accidentally unleashed… on her own father. As she struggles to find a way out of her dilemma she is forced to ask herself: who hears the voice of God? And who is qualified to decipher it?
Length: 1 hour, 20 minutes – 60 pages
2 Women (1 Caucasian, 1 African), 3 Men (2 Caucasian, 1 African)
Serio-comic
The Bad Water Juju Circus has hit hard times. Luckily, the clowns have a plan... but watch out because the jokers are willing to do whatever it takes to push their extreme, and very final, solution all the way to it's dramatic, and not so funny, end.
Length: 90-120 minutes
13 named characters, plus circus performers
If you can tell me what this style is, I'll buy you a pizza
SALTY
To celebrate his birthday, Chase takes her friend Franklin on his first trip to see the ocean. Facing the wide expanse, Franklin musters the courage to finally free himself from a truth he’s still learning to come to terms with, and embrace the newfound optimism that comes with self-acceptance.
Length: One-act (10 minutes)
1 Woman, 1 Man
Dramatic
KANDAHAR
A modern tale of love, life, the games we play and the unknowable landscape fo the human soul.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Dot, a young, wannabe novelist from Kansas and Alek, a cynical scientist from a far-flung corner of the former Soviet Empire who find each other, and themselves, slinging hash and chasing dreams in Greenwich Village. Cultures clash when Alek’s sister arrives unexpectedly; as it turns out “coming to America” isn’t quite what any of them expected.
Length: 114 pages
Cross cultural love story
TOP DOGS (written with Ben Sahl)
Two young attorneys magically switch bodies with their own dogs when they take the wrong side of an animal cruelty case. While the lawyer’s dogs struggle to manage their lives and careers in their newfound bodies, the canine lawyers chase their only hope: put things right before the case goes to trial.
Length: 111 pages
High-concept Comedy