Plays

 
 

Full Length Plays

I’ll Be Your Villain

A dark comedy / fantasy
Bennett wants to tell you a story. A story about how she became a villain. No. How they cast her as the bad guy without her consent. The story really begins with a mask of a bird and a friendship betrayed, but it ends today, when Bennett’s aunt dies in the garden of a haunted house.

The Abundance

A dark comedy / fantasy
After moving to a new corner of suburbia, a broke young mom is lured into a multi-level marketing scheme by her new neighbors and a slick-talking bottle of tonic, and must either claw her way to the top of the pyramid, or lose everything by leaving.

The Dead Woman

A dark comedy / fantasy about two old friends who find a dead woman in an alley in LA...or do they? 
*Semi-Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and PlayPenn Playwrights Conference; Finalist Woodward/Newman and Stanley Drama Awards

The Graveyard Shift

A comedy about the graveyard shift at Sparky’s Burger Barn as it spins horribly out of control when late-night pranks go a little too far. 
*Finalist Reva Shiner Comedy Award

Falling Slanted, Sad & Crazy

A dark comedy about a kidnapping gone bad, dead crows, and Twinkies.
*Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference & PlayPenn Playwrights Conference

The Incredible Haunted House of Lew Mallory

A dark comedy/fantasy
Lew Mallory is about to lose her house – but she has one trick up her sleeve: a haunting. 

The Wall and the Dinosaur

A dark fantasy drama
A group of townies have submitted a lone, cement block wall for consideration as an historical monument, but are derailed by mysterious graffiti that can’t seem to be painted over.
*Humanitas PlayLA Award Winner
*Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 

The Sudden Urge to Jump

A dark romantic comedy / fantasy
After her sister’s funeral, Laney tries to help her bumbling brother Witt revive his dying video store.  Witt’s friend Tate lends a hand to the effort – but brings more to the mix than Laney bargained for.

You Are Here (or the Mall at the End of Time)

A speculative comedy/horror adventure through the dangers of nostalgia with esoteric punk girl bands, an animatronic mall cop, and time travel.

Penny’s Puppet Hour

New concept currently in development
Penny’s Puppet Hour
follows the rise and mysterious fall of a children’s television show and its effect on one viewer and one child actor thirty years later.

Far Worse Things

Currently in development with Rogue Artists Ensemble
In this modern reimagining of the Frankenstein story, two urban explorers go on their final adventure into an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles, only to find that there are monsters watching them wherever they go – and they don’t look the way you imagine. Far Worse Things is a story of obsession, decay, and rules meant to be broken.

99 Impossible Things

A dark comedy / fantasy
Sea monkeys, angels, and imaginary friends come together in a coffee shop in this fable about the sticky world of grief.

Full Length written for
Rogue Artists Ensemble

(not available for licensing at the moment unless in collab with the Rogues)

Wood Boy Dog Fish

With Rogue Artists Ensemble
A modern macabre retelling of Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures of Pinocchio.”

Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin

With Rogue Artists Ensemble
A multi-sensory, immersive, site-specific experience refracting ancient Japanese ghost stories through a modern, multi-cultural lens.

Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta

With Rogue Artists Ensemble
Told through a patchwork of tall-tales, large-scale puppets, masks, music and a cast of 20 actors, Rogue Artists Ensemble electrifies Señor Plummer’s whimsical tales of early Los Angeles in a memory map that reflects back the communities of our modern city.

Cross-Media Projects

(not available for licensing at the moment unless you are interested in an adaptation or exploration - reach out!)

Spite & Malice

A theatrical fantasy adventure and interactive fiction that utilizes playing cards, audio drama, found objects, 1800-numbers and mail-based interaction that follows the longest-running card game in the universe.

One Act Plays

The Reason Why I Lie

Other one act plays listed on New Play Exchange.