my plays
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Full-Length Plays
Existence and the Single Girl
Ashley is a 12-year-old girl with a severe psychological problem: she can’t stop pondering the meaning of life. Her long-suffering mother finally decides to call a psychologist for guidance, who provides her with the best treatment possible for a young girl with existential blues—she molds her into a pop culture phenomenon. Attempting to find her place in the world, Ashley adopts the various teen girl pop culture personas that are given to her, with the hope that she will discover the answer to the age-old question--Can the secret to purpose and meaning in the universe be found in a Cosmo personality quiz?
Family Vise
Janis is 27 years old, fresh out of graduate school with an amazing degree, and is
moving back home with her parents and two younger sisters. A home where benign hijinks occur, and an unseen group of people laugh at them. A home where the prospect of employment is always just out of reach, and the debt continues to grow. A home where the laughter from an invisible audience almost drowns out the rumbling of hungry stomachs and the howling of the
repo men just outside the door. Almost.
The Ghosts in Aisle 30
Kevin is single, jobless, living with his parents, and about to turn 30. When he has a very awkward and embarrassing encounter with a former high school classmate in Wal-Mart, his life plunges down a surreal rabbit hole where the ghosts of his past lurk just behind the toilet paper, the uncomfortable truth of his present is waiting to spring out behind the hand moisturizer, and the answers to whether he will be able to survive his impending adulthood will be discovered through playing the Wal-Mart-sponsored game show somewhere near the shoe racks. Retail therapy is given a whole new meaning in this surreal comedy about the perils of life in the Boomerang Generation and all the social stigma that comes with it.
One-Act Plays
Strutting and Fretting
Tracy, 55, Jim, 68, and George, 47, are three young kids rehearsing a play as part of an amateur group, but what they really want to do is move to New York and make it big. When one of them drops to the floor and appears to be in some mysterious condition called “dead,” the other two must race against time to figure out what the play means and if this strange “death” concept does, in fact, come to us all.
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Available for purchase and licensing at Original Works Publishing
The Balancing of the Budget
A young woman named Joan Flat is on the run from an army of outraged revolutionaries out to kill her. Her crime: singing incredibly off-key in a Youtube video which went viral and brought her fame and fortune. When this millionaire happens upon a sad homeless man named Willy at a bus stop, he agrees to hide her from her ubiquitous enemies for a price: she must turn over all her earnings. However, not all goes according to plan, and both Willy and Joan are killed by a revolutionary, left in their dying moments to wonder where they went wrong.
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Available for purchase and licensing at Original Works Publishing
Ten-Minute Plays
Candy Likes Your Status
Candy and Sandy are two bright-eyed recent college graduates who are ready to jump into life and love and post about it on Facebook. When one of them starts becoming more successful personally and professionally, however, jealousy and passive aggressive Facebook posts threaten to destroy their once-close friendship in this surreal “online” comedy.
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Published in Smith & Kraus's Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2014
Available for purchase and licensing at Original Works Publishing
Summer Solstice
A couple nerds stroll through the park after taking in the latest summer comic book movie. They may or may not be on a real "date." It's a perfect summer day--if you like social awkwardness and an evil demonic supervillain forcing you to confront your issues with emotional intimacy.