Full-Length Plays

See You in a Minute (2 W / 1 M / 1 Flexible) - 100 minutes, no intermission

Okay, so, twenty years from now during a future pandemic, Kathryn returns to her childhood home to take care of her aging parents. But her dad just wants to eat sandwiches and play puppets. Her mom is pissed that the smart city locked them in the house. Kathryn’s boss wants her working in person at their off-Broadway theatre as Education Director for a century-old snoozefest play. Kathryn doesn’t want to explode her carefully built theatre career, but she’s got to take care of her parents, doesn’t she? After all, they took care of her during the last pandemic. And this whole mess isn’t bringing up any unresolved feelings, is it? Nothing worth mourning anyway. Right?
World Premiere: Contraband Theatre (St. Louis)

18 Months After November (4 W / 1 M / 1 Flexible) - 60 minutes, no intermission

After the president's contested re-election, Emma has to leave her home in St. Louis in a desperate bid to escape the USA.
World Premiere: Contraband Theatre (YouTube)

Joan’s Laughter (2 W / 3 M) - 90 minutes, no intermission

Her trial is over; her fate is sealed. Joan of Arc will be burned as a relapsed heretic at dawn. But should she listen to the priest who says she can save her soul by repudiating her Voices? To the nun who wants her to accept her fate as a final trial from God? To the guards who blame her for their suffering on the battlefield? Or should she continue to assert her Voices were from God despite their silence? From its historical inspiration, Joan’s Laughter explores the abandonment we all feel in our darkest moments.
World Premiere: the side project (Chicago)
University Premiere: Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)

Hath Taken Away (2 W / 1 M) - 90 minutes, no intermission

Dorothea is a young Evangelical whose faith and steadfast love for her best friend and new husband is put to the test by her child-to-be. This feminist retelling of the biblical Book of Job set in the modern-day Midwest is hauntingly spare and richly poetic.
Workshop Production: Contraband Theatre (Carbondale)
University Premiere: Ball State University (Muncie)
Top 10 Faith-Based Plays on New Play Exchange (January 2020)

In the Shadow of His Language (3 W / 4 M) - 120 minutes, one intermission

Didi O’Connor must escape South Boston where her Dad scoffs, “How did you get so fat on your Ma’s shitty cooking?” She seizes her chance when she gets “a free ride” to a prestigious college in Upstate New York. But when her advisor forces Didi to change her name, accent, clothes—even her religion—will success destroy her more than her dead-end home-life ever would? In the Shadow of His Language explores the costs of class-jumping and the imperialism we call “education.”
University Premiere: Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)

Under America (3 W / 4 M) - 150 minutes, two intermissions

Under America is an epic ensemble piece that explores various characters’ connections to the United States prison industry. The plot primarily focuses on Sam, a lesbian journalist who lives in Chicago’s upscale Gold Coast, and Michael, a seventeen-year old African American who resides just down Division Street from Sam in the infamous Cabrini Green complex. After deciding to pursue a story concerning Chicago’s public housing crisis, Sam becomes involved both in Michael’s world and his mounting legal problems. Through this, the lives of Sam, Michael, and their loved ones become intractably intertwined.

World Premiere: Mortar Theatre (Chicago)