IN DEVELOPMENT
The Friendless Plays are stand alone comedic works that are thematically linked through a shared exploration of friend break-ups and the social stigmas associated with friend loss. Both are works-in-progress that began during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apology Play is about Cap and Gem, two estranged ex-best friends who find themselves, along with everyone else in the world, mandated to repair the harm between them by an unknown entity. Those who don’t apologize in time…disappear. Apology Play is a dark comedy about blame, growth, grudges.
In Dream House, Henri grieves her chosen family after being kicked out of their collective home. She has become so isolated that she only talks to her cat and her possessions. Fortunately, they talk back. Dream House is an absurdist romp through shame, isolation, and healing.
GHOST PLAY
Ghost Play is a devised theatrical haunting in which participants embark on a ghost tour of an abusive relationship. Originally developed through 20% Theatre’s 2017 Q STAGE New Works program, the play ends in one of two ways as indicated by the audience’s action or inaction. Both endings are designed to highlight the discomfort of leaving and/or intervening in abusive relationships.
CHILDREN’S PLAY
Children’s Play is is about the whimsy and horror of childhood depression and dysphoria; a god child wanders through their own mind in search of meaning. They find it and they don’t.
PROXY
Proxy is about the power of communal delusion and conformity. The play asks why we might suspend our disbelief for theater but not for other folks’ perceptions and experiences, especially when they challenge our own ideas of reality and fiction. Proxy was written as a senior thesis and won high honors as well as a Phi Beta Kappa award in 2010.