D-DUBYA-I
One-act play (20 minutes) 3f, 3m. Minimal set
A renegade White House intern attempts to sabotage President Bush’s second inauguration with surreal and hilarious results.
Part of WIRED, 24 hour play festival, Dartmouth College, 2005.
PHOENIX BOUND
Full-length play (90 minutes) 4f, 3m. Minimal set
When Kaethe’s father is taken to Dachau as a political prisoner, her family has to relocate to Nuremberg. Adjusting to a new town, a new school and a new national government, a blossoming romance can only do so much to distract and sustain her.
Reading at Dartmouth College, Hanover, 2005.
FEE
Full-length play (90 minutes) 2f, 2m. Minimal set
When Theodora’s father is found dead in Regent’s Park, her estranged mother arrives to investigate independently of Scotland Yard. A web of espionage, seduction and betrayal follows, as Theodora struggles to transform her sleepy academic life.
Reading at Tristan Bates Theatre, London, 2007. Directed by Deborah Paige.
COOK’S CLOCK
One act play (20 minutes) 3f, 3m. Minimal set
Cook’s Clock has been with the town’s people since Archibald Cook fell in love with them many years ago, whilst on a visit with his wife and son. When Emma arrives in India to see the clock in 2008, her strange request forces Ravi, Neel and other locals to think about what the clock really means to them.
Reading at Soho Theatre, London, 2008. Directed by Poonam Brah.
THE LAZARUS YEARS
One-act play (15 minutes) 2f, 2m. Minimal set
An imagined meeting between a 6 year old Sylvia Plath and suicidal Virginia Woolf changes the course of 20th century poetry.
Part of JAMBOREE, week-long play festival, Red Room, New York, 2009. Directed by John Conor Brooke.
SEZZE SUN
Full-length play (1 hour) 3f, 3m. Minimal set, high technology requirements.
A struggling actor invites friends and family to his parents’ Italian villa for a festive birthday weekend. But he has an ulterior motive: he’s making the weekend into a reality TV show and doesn’t tell anyone they’re being filmed. As his ambition gets the better of him the social experiment spins out of his control.
Produced at Capital Fringe, Washington DC and walkerspace, New York, 2009. Directed by Stanley Brode.
THE TUTOR
Full-length play (70 minutes) 2f, 3m. Minimal set, high technology requirements
Meredith is a Yale Law graduate turned SAT tutor with a secret. In addition to coaching high school students in the ways of time management and sentence construction, she leads a life online as Cassandra, selling her used lingerie. In a world where one wrong click online can end your career or relationship, can Meredith continue to maintain her mystery or will her precarious fantasy turn on her? A timely new play about colliding worlds and what happens when your virtual life meets reality.
Produced at New York International Fringe Festival, August 2011. Directed by Ben Gougeon and Doug Spagnola.
