PLAYS
Word of Mouth
3W, 2M
Leo has created an unlicensed restaurant inside his apartment, where handpicked groups of four are invited to dine on his meticulously concocted dishes. A possible ghost sighting at last week’s dinner has tonight’s quartet of strangers hoping for a repeat apparition. But what the group is in for, as the evening unfolds, might be more haunting than even the supernatural can provide.
Originally developed with the Geffen Writers’ Room. Staged reading at the Geffen Playhouse in December 2022.
The Palm of Her Hand
2W, 4M
Set in the world of professional magicians, The Palm of Her Hand examines the double-edged sword of personal mentorship, and the ethical choices that young sleight-of-hand practitioners face about how to use their skills of deception.
Originally developed with HUMANITAS Prize / StageRaw PLAY LA. Staged reading as part of the PLAY LA Festival in July 2023, produced by Circle X.
Semifinalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2023
A Long Time Coming
4W, 3M
A forest is growing in Norway, planted to provide paper for a set of texts that will be printed in the year 2114. Each year between 2014-2114, an author is selected to write a text for this Future Library which will be preserved, unread, until the printing. The play tells two intertwining stories of one family: a novelist in 2022 who puts his mother’s life story into words, his great-granddaughter and her son in 2114 who journey from a California farm to a Norwegian forest for the opening of the Library, and a secret that has waited a century to come to light. Examining the voices we choose to preserve and those that are lost forever, A Long Time Coming looks toward a future that holds both disaster and hope.
Inspired by The Future Library Project, conceived by artist Katie Paterson in 2014 and commissioned by the City of Oslo’s Slow Space public art program.
Originally developed with The Vagrancy Playwright’s Group in Los Angeles.
Virtual reading as part of The Vagrancy’s Blossoming Festival, June 2021.
Staged reading as one of four winning plays at Ashland New Plays Festival, October 2023.
Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2024
Octopus’s Garden
1W, 2M, 1 Giant Pacific Octopus puppet
Two marine biologists and a composer slowly lose their minds at the discovery that an octopus in their lab has composed the greatest piece of music of all time. Career ambitions, creative insecurities, and the madness that comes from a brush with the divine — all combine to set events in motion toward a final desperate confrontation. Octopus’s Garden is a funny, soulful fable about beauty, science, and cephalopods.
Finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2021.
Staged reading at Boston Court New Play Reading Festival, 2024
Developmental “puppeturgy” workshop at Outside In Theatre, 2024