Dramaturgy

New plays are my life and passion. I’ve worked in new play development at Actors Theatre / the Humana Festival, Clubbed Thumb, EST/Youngblood, Page 73, and Playwrights Horizons, among others. There are SO MANY playwrights and new plays that I am eager to champion ! Below are selected full lengths that I have developed, and believe in deeply - these plays are ready for production!

Plays are listed alphabetically by title. I would love to discuss further any of these works or artists; scripts available upon request :)

Bug in Mouth Disease by Fiona Gorry-Hines (MFA Columbia)

  • Script workshop at Columbia University, on Zoom

[Cast: 6] Six siblings meet for lunch to discuss a huge family problem: three of them have bugs coming out of their mouths. In their attempt to discover the reasons why this impossible medical phenomenon could be ailing them, the siblings uncover and weaponize truths about one another that have been held back for years.

Can I Hold You? by Kari Barclay (PhD Stanford) - artistic pairing by Young Jean Lee - asexual identity / representation —

  • Script workshop + public readings at Teddy’s Bar, Williamsburg Brooklyn

[Cast: 5] Alma is an asexual woman looking for love (minus the sex) in the hyper-sexual world of online dating. And it's not coming easy. Should she just pour her love into her asexual roommate Sammie, who wants a deep partnership but could care less for romance? Or should she take a chance on Phoebe, the sexual, saxophone-playing woman of her dreams, even though Phoebe wants sex and she doesn't? When Alma introduces Sammie and Phoebe to each other, all her calculations go haywire in this queer comedy exploring the complexities of intimacy and attraction for folks of all orientations.

Down South by Edward Precht (MFA Fordham / Primary Stages) - written for and featuring Eddie Barbanell

  • Script workshop at Fordham MFA + public reading at the Drama Book Shop NYC

[Cast: 5] Shady Mae Beauford has developed the perfect method for raising her son with Down Syndrome: keep him as close as possible. But as America’s Bicentennial approaches, and new neighbors - with a radically-different parenting style - move in next door, this mother-son bond is tested as their small, protective life begins to unravel. This is a touching new work about motherhood, independence, and the Turtle that Holds up the World.

Echo, in a Diner by Evie Mason (MFA Columbia)

  • Workshop production at Columbia University, the Theatre @ Schapiro

  • Script workshop and public reading at Columbia University, on Zoom

  • Play developed together from scratch thru a Collaboration course led by Anne Bogart, David Henry Hwang, and Christian Parker

[Cast: 6] A surreal, bizarre, heartfelt adaptation of the myth of Echo & Narcissus. It takes place at a diner. But not just any diner. This diner is tucked away in the Pine Barrens in the depths of South Jersey, where Echo, a lovelorn waitress, pines for Narcissus, a forlorn fry cook. The play collides Greek mythology with the lore of the Jersey Devil to tell a story about fate, longing, the pains of change, and the possibility of love... It might be a dream. It might be a fairytale. Or it might just be New Jersey.

Hometown Boy by Keiko Green (MFA University of California, San Diego)

  • World Premiere at Actors Express, Atlanta GA (directed by Rebecca S Ware)

  • Script workshop at the Kennedy Center’s NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop (directed by Leslie Ishii)

  • Script workshop at Columbia University, on Zoom

[Cast: 6] After a decade away, James returns to his hometown in rural Georgia with his girlfriend to check in on Walter, his father, whose erratic behavior has been the talk of the town. Something stinks, and it’s not just this pig-stye of a house. Hometown Boy is a story of outsiders and power dynamics due to race and class; it explores what happens when corrosive secrets find their way into the light, and asks the age old question if you can really go home again.

If You Like Me at My Worst by Tré Calhoun (MFA Columbia)

  • Workshop production at Columbia University, the Studio @ Schapiro

[Cast: 3] When Miles brings Jake, an attractive and depressed homeless man, into his home, he discovers Jake has a special power of swapping bodies. As Miles lives in and out of this older white man's frame, he learns how to look beyond the body – Jake's body as well as his own – in order to appreciate the consciousness within.

o good god by David Jackson (alum: Actors Theatre - acting apprentice)

  • Workshop production of an earlier one act version, Dig, at Fordham University, White Box Theatre

[Cast: 5] a contemporary messiah myth that weaves together the major miracles of the three Abrahamic religions. Khajija and Ike have fled the city to quarantine with her parents in New Jersey. Realizing they have little in common, outside of mixed faith homes, Ike persuades his father to rescue him and his stuff -- but that same weekend God visits Khadija, and declares her the first female profit.

sunk by Cory Finley (alum: Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, EST/Youngblood) - Cory is also an acclaimed screenwriter / film director

  • Workshop production at Actors Theatre of Louisville - Apprentice/Intern Company

  • Script workshop + private reading at Actors Theatre of Louisville - Apprentice/Intern Company

[Cast: 3] Matt and Anna’s relationship is going swimmingly, until the sewers under their apartment open up and begin to speak. The plumber is angry, Matt’s paintings are getting stranger, and a storm is gathering. An eerie comedy about what is real, what is not and who knows; a thriller about trolls beckoning from the toilet.. and how mental illness can complicate a loving romantic relationship...

This Hair I Tear is Mine by Evie Mason (MFA Columbia)

[Cast: 9] In 1963, a housewife named Dorine started writing a play. And it was very strange. In 1987, following Dorine’s death, her daughter, who once upon a time had been her son, endeavors to finish her mother’s play in a quest to understand the questions Dorine left behind. These two moments in time are bookended by the beginning and end of Dorine’s play, Thrice Adrift, which takes place at an indiscriminate time, on an indiscriminate ocean, where three lonely people have struck out in pursuit of paradise.

Visiting Hours by Arika Larson (MFA Brooklyn College)

[Cast: 6–8] two families, one black and one white, travel across the state to visit a loved one serving a sentence in a medium security prison in rural Kansas. second in a cycle of three plays, visiting hours focuses on what it's like to love someone who is incarcerated. families are separated, messy relationships become messier, or sometimes just fade away, and the entirety of these relationships is packed into weekend hours between 10am and 3pm.