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LINDSEY’S OYSTER (3w, 3m)
Sixteen year old Lindsey was date raped by her boyfriend and is now pregnant. Her parents are pressuring her to have an abortion. Instead, Lindsey decides to get a tattoo. Explores the question, “who controls the narrative of a young woman’s life?”
Commissioned by International Culture Lab, 2010. One-act version to be produced at The Kitchen Theater, Irondale Ensemble Project, garajistanbul, Istanbul Turkey, 2011
LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS (3w, 3m)
A white middle class, middle aged woman meets a young Sudanese man working in the produce section of Whole Foods. Moved by the stories of the trauma he survived and wanting to help, she invites him to live with her and her teenage daughter. Explores what can happen when we open up our lives to another human being and how we may be transformed in the process.
Co-production, Premiere Stages, Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, 2010; featured play at the National New Play Network’s 2009 National Showcase of Plays, developed at The New Harmony Project and The Lark.
A CONFLUENCE OF DREAMING (2w, 2m)
A woman having cybersex with a younger man decides she must leave her family and go to New York City to meet him. When fantasy collides with reality, she confronts the choices she’s made against the desires she has suppressed in the quest for self-fullfillment. A play about marriage, regrets and rapture, during the summer of 9/11.
Production at The Rep of the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 2010, originally commissioned by City Theater Company, reading at The Philadelphia Theater Company STAGES series.
DARK PART OF THE FOREST (3w, 1m, with doubling)
A woman moves to the country with her twelve year old daughter and her air traffic controller husband in search of peace and safety. When young girls in the community start to go missing, she is confronted with her fears and the memories of her own coming of age in 1977 when Son of Sam was on the loose in NYC.
Winner of the Premiere Stages Playwriting Festival, 2006, production at the Hamburg Studio Theater, City Theater Company, 2000. Published by Broadway Play Publishing, 2011
FBI GIRL: HOW I LEARNED TO CRACK MY FATHER’S CODE (4w, 4m, with doubling)
Adaptation of the memoir by Maura Conlon-McIvor, about a young Irish-American girl growing up in Los Angeles in the late 60’s with her FBI Dad and a brother with Down Syndrome.
Production at The REP at The Pittsburgh Playhouse. Published by Dramatic Publishing Company, Inc., 2009
BABY’S BLUES (4w, 2m)
A surreal, occasionally humorous, often harrowing look at first time motherhood and post partum-depression, and walking the fine line that sometimes exists between health and madness.
Production at The REP at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
Published by Broadway Play Publishing, 2006
THE MUSIC LESSON (4w, 2m)
Weaving together the music of Bach with memories of the Bosnian War and the universal conflicts between teachers and students, The Music Lesson tells the story of Irena and her husband Ivan, two musicians who escape the war in Sarajevo to start a new life in Pittsburgh.
Over twenty-five productions nationwide, professional world premiere at Florida Stage (2000), developed at The Bonderman National Symposium for Playwriting for Youth. Originally commissioned by Prime Stage Theater for Youth and Families. Published by Dramatic Publishing Company, 2004
PIG (5w,4m)
A black comedy in which a prodigal son comes home during a Labor Day barbeque, takes his family hostage and forces them to play charades, revealing secrets some of them would prefer to have left buried.
Production at The 29th street REP, 1996
Published by Dramatists Play Service, 1998
