Plays

Full-Length Plays

sample work available upon request, here. Or, check out some of my work on New Play Exchange.

Big Black Sunhats

3W 3M

Forty years ago, Penelope, Bobbi, and Evelyn last waved goodbye to their husbands (Owen, Percy, and Hugo), as the men embarked on a perilous journey. It’s now forty years later, and the women, now all nearly 70 years old, receive a phone call. It turns out, their husbands aren’t dead after all. The men are coming home. They come bearing tales, talismans, and a dangerous proposition: youth. Oh, and the men haven’t aged a day since they left. BIG, BLACK SUNHATS is a play that explores time — how we pass it, the stories that live outside of it, and what we do when it’s handed to us in new ways. It’s a play that asks questions about youth, marriage, waiting, and womanhood.

  • The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2022

  • Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission 2020, finalist

Riya, Morgan, and Frites are the only women on the pit crew for Scuderia Pirandello's Formula 1 racing team. Actually, they're the only women in all of Formula 1... and it's not quite how they imagined it. Over the course of the season they travel around the world, from race track to race track, feeding their desire to win (trophies! champagne!) and grappling with the inherent danger of being a woman in a man's world. LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO asks questions about time, success, and whether faster always wins.

  • Developmental Reading - Clubbed Thumb, June 2022 — dir. Sarah Cameron Hughes

  • Developed in Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, 2021-2022

LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO

4W 2M

Howl From Up High

3W 2M

After the moon, Luna, has her heart broken, she decides to hit the road, leaving Lily, the muse of astronomy, to her most challenging mission yet. Lily sneaks off to Earth to inspire famous-astronomer Orion to bring Luna back. But when Blue, a painter in a rut, accidentally turns Orion into a jackal with a sketch, Lily finds herself more intrigued (and, perhaps, inspired herself) by Blue than the task at hand. What really matters at the end of the world? And is it possible that art floats?

  • Developmental Reading - Gingold Theatrical Group, February 2021 — dir. Lily Riopelle

  • Developmental Reading - Gingold Theatrical Group, December 2019 — dir. Stephen Brown-Fried

  • Developed in Speakers’ Corner, Gingold Theatrical Group, 2018-2019

THE PAGE TURNERS

5W 1M

In a fictitious-kind-of-1844-or-so, four somewhat-Victorian women, Kipper, Mary, Sadie, and Alice are “The Page Turners,” a book club determined to redeem themselves after their disgraceful showing at last year’s Book Club Conference. But being a woman who reads is not a simple life; and over the course of the year, they maneuver a husband becoming a vase, a lesbian sexual fantasy, a great-grandmother haunting, and questions of guilt, motherhood, self, and, of course, propriety. This is a play that questions how to shape our identities as women not by society’s rules but rather by the women we surround ourselves with, the choices that we make, and the books that we read.

  • Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist, New Dramatists, 2022

  • National Playwrights Conference Finalist, The O’Neill, 2021

  • Shortlist Sunday - The Bechdel Group, January 2021

PONY UP

4W 3M

A Wild West. A world where men ride horses and women ride bicycles. A world that is changed forever when Ruthie’s husband, Jack (biggest pistol in town), wins three larger-than-life stallions in an auction. Hell-bent on riding the stallions, Ruthie finds herself enticed by Rooster and Pearl, two women with their eyes set on the horizon line, on a place impossible to reach by bicycle. With the help from a forward-thinking heifer (yes, a cow), the women discover the kind of strength female friendship can inspire. And ultimately, they try to find a place all their own.

When Maebh, a selkie (half-woman, half seal) reveals that she had a whole lifetime in the world above (Long Beach Island, NJ), her granddaughter, Cap, runs from her magical, underwater home to meet the family she never knew she had. But when the underwater ministry council votes to destroy the world above, Cap’s high-strung best friend, Pinni (with the help of ministry postal worker, Brendan) must either save the world or convince Cap to leave her now-sister, Jane, and return home. A play about sisterhood and saying goodbye; seals and violin teachers; the world ending and feeling as though it might.

  • Reading - Cherry Lane Theatre, May 2019 — dir. Tatiana Pandiani

  • Reading - The Lark, March 2019

  • mentored by Sarah Ruhl

Losing You, Which Is Enough

4W 1M

Inside Siberia

5W 2M

Five of the top female sled dogs — Lucy, Doon, Logan, Iva, and Hope — battle it out during pre-season for two slots on the mythical Siberian sled dog team. But as civil unrest grows outside the camp, it becomes clear that this sled is about much more than a race. Inside Siberia is a play about female athletes and the contradictory expectations placed upon them as athletes and women. What does it mean to represent something greater than yourself and what do you do when you no longer believe in what you represent?

  • Fall Workshop Series - The Bechdel Group, October 2021

  • Workshop Reading - Root Beer Occasion Theatre Company, November 2020 — dir. Jessie Field

A & Z’s Escapades in Moonstruck City

1W 1M

Zuzu, an artist looking to create something that matters, discovers the way out only through trusting Adam with both her work and her heart. Meanwhile, The Hatter works to transition from haberdasher to tea-shop owner in order to win back the love of his life, The Queen, who has stopped wearing hats. And time, like everything else in Moonstruck City, is a circle.

Amaretto Sour

1W 1M

Deeds and Cormac, two gods of sorts, fall in love over their shared darkness. Their diverging expectations for what commitment looks like, however, results in a kind of murder of Deeds’s shadow, Echo. And when Deeds discovers that Cormac disapproves of the very parts of her that she thought he loved, the two must maneuver their way through feelings of betrayal and guilt.

  • Developed at The New School, 2017-2018

Beginning

2W 2M

Gal and Guy attend Man's cocktail party and then everything breaks. A contemporary retelling of the creation myth, this play explores what happens when Man desires Gal (who was originally meant for Guy) for himself. And then there is Gail, a fish-turn-woman who, in her frazzled state of emotion speaks with true clarity. 

Short Plays

scripts available upon request, here. Or, check out some of my work on New Play Exchange.

On her honeymoon and confined to her hotel room, Penny writes to her ex-boyfriend, William, with questions about love, choice, health, and safety during times of unrest. 

  • Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival, July 2020 - dir. Vivienne Benesch

  • Available for purchase, here.

Evermore Unrest

1W, 1M, 10min

I think it’s worth pointing out that I’ve been Very serious throughout this entire discussion or, dave and julia are stuck in a tree

1W, 1M, 20min

A radio play. Dave and Julia are father and daughter. And they’re hanging out. This is a play that both makes a banana-phone joke and asks whether jokes have an expiration date. How do we connect when we no longer find the same things funny? How do we know that we’re on the same team if we aren’t laughing together? We’ll figure it out, just don’t look down.

  • Winner of Playing on Air’s James Stevenson Prize 2020

Margaret is a woman, an octopus, and a comedian, and she can’t sleep. After a conversation with her partner about whether or not they’re ready to have kids, Margaret finds herself wide awake. Somewhere deep in her DNA, she knows that octopuses used to die after they had children. And even though things have changed… it doesn’t feel like things have changed. Can she… have it all?

  • Premiered at Root Beer Occasion Theatre Co.’s “The Living Room Stories”, September 2020 - dir. Jessie Field

Woman, Octopus, Comedian

1W, 10min

On the morning of her mother’s funeral, Eleanor finds herself preparing her childhood home for a flood that her father, a weather man, has convinced her will swallow the world. Meanwhile, Eleanor’s girlfriend, Sophie, attempts to salvage her relationship, which Eleanor has tried to sever in her panic. All three look to another to save them from the grief of loss, which begs the question: when you’re almost under water, whose responsibility is it to keep you afloat?

  • Published in “The Dionysian” Issue 004, November 2017

  • The New School, December 2016 - dir. Rebecca Etzine

Underwater

2W, 1M, 10min