Plays
Where Is Miss Stone?
Miss Barbara Stone is missing. Well, maybe not missing, but she didn’t show up at school today, and everyone is worried. Or at least curious. Where did she go?
1W, 9 flexible, W/NB preferred.
Currently developing with Clubbed Thumb
*Finalist, 2022 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission
I could never
Isn’t it horrible? What she did? Can you even imagine doing that? Three women reckon with the dark myths we tell ourselves…while their husbands golf.
3W.
Reading, Playhouse on Park, West Hartford, Connecticut, directed by Moira Sullivan, October 2023
Workshop, Hunter College MFA Festival, directed by Carolyn Cantor, with Tina Benko, Emily Davis, and Jennifer Seastone, May 2023
Reading, HB Studio 6/12 Reading Series, directed by Burak Tatar, June 2022
*Finalist, Bushwick Starr Reading Series, 2022
Narrowsburg
When Spencer goes to the Catskills to help his friends M and Richie reopen their restaurant in the summer of 2021, they spend late nights trash-talking customers while trying to avoid their deepest fears and regrets. A play about bitchy Yelp reviews, bears vs. otters, and keeping your friends alive.
2M, 1W.
Workshop, The Quickening Room, directed by Arpita Mukherjee, with Emily Davis, Jesse Pennington, and Nick Westrate, October 2023
Reading, Hunter College MFA Reading Series, directed by Knud Adams, with Brad Heberlee, Polly Lee, and Bruce McKenzie, 2022
Ohio Sketches
Remember the summer of 2020? Yeesh. What was *that* about? That’s what this is about: remembering a strange summer, through writing exercises never meant to be performed. A metatheatrical meditation on mortality…or just some unrelated scenes and awkward rants, all smooshed together.
Short play, 3+ actors, any gender.
Staged reading, Quick + Dirty, Brick Aux, directed by Theresa Buchheister, with Matthew Antoci, Theresa Buchheister, Zoe Geltman, and Ben Holbrook, 2023
That Was Fun
Justin and Sam are friends, but Sam is really loud and annoying, it’s like why are they even friends? But what if they break up and it kinda changes…everything?
Short play, 2M.
Staged reading, Theater Masters Take Ten National MFA Playwrights Festival, directed by Julie Kramer, with Jakeem Dante Powell and Ryan Spahn, 2023
Publication by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals forthcoming
#’s
An existential office comedy (with math) about a group of coworkers who must rate their colleagues (and themselves) with numbers from 1 to 12 by EOD. As they struggle to define a scale that keeps changing—testing their friendships, their egos, and their patience—how will they hold on to the jobs they hate?
6W, 1M.
Dead Friend Comedy
Michael and Daniel want to tell you about how Daniel went to see a medium to talk to their friend Kat, who died ten years ago (or was it nine?). She didn’t say anything that important, but...should they tell Kat’s husband? A metaphysical, metatheatrical (vague) memory play about friendship, loss, and what we owe the people we say we love...even after they’re gone. (And are they ever really gone?)
4M,1W.
Reading, HB Studio 6/12 Reading Series, directed by Dani Alés, 2022
Retreat, or “A Curious Token”
It’s been two years since the 2016 election—and since Henry and Caleb left Brooklyn to start an intentional community on a Pennsylvania farm. (You might call it a “gay commune,” but they wouldn’t.) As they prepare for a vernal equinox party—with fireworks, skinnydipping, and a farm-to-table feast—an unexpected visitor forces the men to reconsider what they owe the community they’ve created and the one they left behind.
4M.
*Finalist, Brave New World Repertory Theatre’s Brave New Works, 2022
*Quarterfinalist (top 16), Third Culture Theatre’s Nexus Festival, 2022
*Semifinalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2021