full length plays Dov and Ali (2 female, 2 male) -- the story an Orthodox Jewish high school teacher, his Muslim student, and the heated friendship that forces both men to question their faith. Produced at Theatre 503, London, June-July 2008, www.theatre503.com Dov and Ali was also developed at the Geva Theatre Center, The Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, The Lark Theatre and the Playwrights' Center. *** The Minotaur (2 female, 4 male) -- a loose adaptation of the myth in which Theseus, with the help of Ariadne, kills the Minotaur and steals Ariadne away with him, off Crete, and into an uncertain future. Poetic, quirky and about the vagaries of storytelling, The Minotaur is set in a timeless present where Ariadne dreams of her wedding to Theseus being listed in The New York Times and a chorus consisting of a rabbi, priest and lawyer take on themes of love, loss, our primal selves and forgiveness. The Minotaur was written in the Lark's Monthly Meeting of the Minds Writer's Group. *** Variations on a Theme (2 female, 2 male) -- Joshua and April marry young, and before too long, their marriage crumbles. N and K are middle-aged, and real or not real. They lead and counsel April and Joshua and in so doing, discover themselves, and the nagging insistence of lost love. Variations on a Theme explores through memory and fantasy how little we know each other, how easy it is to lose someone, and the way we cling to love even though it is the very thing that often brings so much sadness. Variations on a Theme will have staged readings and development by the Chautauqua Theatre Company in July 2008, directed by Ethan McSweeny. *** Photograph 51 (1 female, 5 male) -- the gripping true story of Rosalind Franklin and her involvement in the discovery of DNA's double helix. Photograph 51 was commissioned and produced by Active Cultures in March 2008. *** BFF (2 female, 1 male) chronicles the period of adolescence in girls when the tools of growing up are also weapons. Lauren and Eliza are best friends who enter adolescence at different times and become divided socially and psychologically by the changes their bodies undergo (or don't). In the end, Eliza is accused of something she doesn't yet understand and for years to come Lauren holds herself accountable for the act of growing up, an act that became more dangerous than she could have possibly anticipated. BFF was developed in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and was then workshopped at the Sundance Theatre Lab 2005, and at Ars Nova Theatre in its Out Loud Reading Series. 
Life Science (2 female, 2 male) is a comedy about high school, identity, adoption, and genocide. Life Science was produced in New York in March 2007 (see www.lifesciencetheplay.com for info). It has been read at the Lark Theatre, New Georges and in The Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival 2006.
Novel (4 female, 5 male) When Harry, a recently widowed geneticist, attends a conference in Baltimore, he discovers a conference of unusual world record holders in the same building, and his imagination is sparked. A play that grapples with grief, guilt and the fictions we create, novel is funny, sad, and poetic. It follows Harry on his journey towards personal redemption. 
novel was produced in SPF 2007, and was also developed at Theater J, The Old Vic, New Georges, Catalyst Theatre, Clubbed Thumb and in the PlayLabs Festival 2006 at the Playwrights' Center. Click here to read an excerpt www.pwcenter.org/gallery.asp
To Be Fair (1 female, 2 male) tells the story of laurel's seduction of mike and jim--two teenaged boys she meets on a cruise ship. when she disappears, they must make sense of what she was, or wasn't. to be fair was written in the lark theatre's playwrights' workshop 2001 and went on to be read at the tank theatre, at the hampstead theatre in london, at the birmingham rep in birmingham, uk, and at the belvoir street theatre in sydney, australia. 
Everything You Have (2 female, 5 male) Mike, a Chinese immigrant cab driver, and Lars and Lucretia, middle-aged Swedish-Americans, have never met until Mike hits and injures their son. After that, their lives are inextricably bound as Lars and Lucretia take the law into their own hands. A play about love, guilt and loss, "Everything You Have" chronicles the aftermath of an accident, a time when everyone is to blame and no one is, and the punishment becomes less about the crime than about grief itself. 
everything you have was developed at Tisch as my graduate school thesis, and then read in the ars nova theater's out loud reading series. it was further developed in clubbed thumb's boot camp 2005.
In the Same Room (3 female, 1 male) When Sarah, 28, moves in with her recently divorced mother, they both must take stock of their lives, despite the clutter of Pilates classes and online dating. Utterly contemporary, IN THE SAME ROOM examines the distances between people, and what it means to love in today’s technologically-charged world. it was developed at the new harmony project, 2007. 
| ten minute plays sad song (2 male, 1 female) is published in New American Short Plays 2005 (Backstage Books). Its editor, Craig Lucas, wrote that sad song "manages to provide a glimpse of late adolescence or early adulthood--whatever you call it, it's that appalling time when you don't have any idea what damage you are doing to other people, or yourself, as you blithely flail and stumble around trying to hammer together some sort of Self--a 'personality,' a set of likes and dislikes, a job, a mate, a life; the results are both tender and terribly bitter."
memorial day (2 male) is published in Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors: The Best of 2004 (Smith and Kraus, Inc.) |