Selected Short Plays
The First Yes
1 W / 1 M
flexible age and race
10 minutes
A couple looks back on their lives and the first yes that sent them on their journey.
Script available at New Play Exchange or via email.
World Premiere (commissioned): the side project (Chicago)
University Premiere: Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
Published: Contextualizing New Plays (Cognella)
The First Yes at Chicago’s the side project (World Premiere, commissioned)
Dying Alone
3 W / 3 M
flexible race and age
10 Minutes
A woman haunted by her parents and her future learns that there's more than one way not to die alone.
Script available at New Play Exchange or via email.
World Premiere:
Manhattan Repertory Theatre
University Premiere:
Ohio University
Dying Alone at Manhattan Repertory Theatre (World Premiere)
No Winter, No Worries
1 W / 1 M / 1 Flexible
flexible race and age
10 Minutes
It turns out life after the apocalypse isn’t so bad, not with mosquito martini’s at hand! If only the robot butler didn’t have that humor chip installed. A climate change comedy.
Script available via email.
World Premiere (commissioned):
Core Artist Ensemble (New York City)
University Premiere:
Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
Black and White
7 Actors
flexible age, race, and gender
10 minutes
When an usher is asked to sort “white” and “black” into segregated seating, he finds that it is not quite that simple in our mixed-race society.
Script available via email.
University Premiere: Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
Published: Contextualizing New Plays (Cognella)
Saddam’s Lions
1 W / 1 M
African American, College Aged Actors
10 minutes
After her return from Iraq, Rashida skips out on her own homecoming party. Her brother, Jon, wants to help her reintegrate into society, but she is convinced that no one will understand after her time with Saddam’s lions.
Script available at New Play Exchange or via email.
Workshop Production: Vet Arts Project (Chicago)
World Premiere: Source Festival (Washington, DC)
Published: Plays for Two (Vintage)
Saddam’s Lions at The Source Festival (Washington, D.C.)
Our First Times
3 W / 1 M
flexible race, college aged
10 minutes
Three women remember their first times with the same man. Strong roles for female actors, college-age characters, and an important depiction of sexual violence.
Script available at New Play Exchange or via email.
World Premiere (commissioned):
Core Artist Ensemble (New York City)
See Him?
2 W
flexible age
10 Minutes
A woman needs her best friend to see that her son, who was taken by the Belarusian secret police, can still be seen fishing at sunset in the countryside outside of Minsk.
Script available via email.
World Premiere:
See him? was part of the Belarus Dream Theater Project (Artistic Director, Brendan McCall). It had its world premieres simultaneously at:
The Troika Collective, Vancouver, Canada
European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Theatre Language Studio, Frankfurt, Germany
Global Theatre Project, Florence, Italy
Global Theatre Project, Los Angeles
Stage Left Theatre, Chicago
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
The Belarusian Dream Theater action was covered in a variety of press, including American Theatre.