Plays

The Electric Baby

3w / 3m / Flexible Set

When a young man is killed in a car accident, a group of fractured souls come together to care for a magical dying baby. Folk tales and folklore weave throughout this story of sad endings, strange beginnings and the unlikely people that get you from one place to the next.  

Production History

• Two River Theater Company, Production, April 2013
• Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Production May 2013
• Quantum Theatre: World Premiere Production March 2012
• PlayPenn: Development workshop July 2011

Awards

• 2011 Women in the Arts and Media Coalition's Collaboration Award

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Honey Brown Eyes

Production Slideshow

Bosnia 1992: In two kitchens two soldiers recover a little of what they've lost during the war — a Serbian paramilitary must face the consequences of his own brutality, while a Bosnian resistance fighter, crippled by the limits of his own courage, seeks refuge with a kindred soul.

Production History

• Working Theater - Off Broadway production,  2011 
• Theater J - world premiere production, 2008
• San Francisco Playhouse, mainstage production, 2011
• Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival - reading

Awards

• 2009 Helen Hayes Award, Charles MacArthur Award winner for best new play/musical

Save Me

100 minutes / 3w / 1m / one set

Beth, a born-again Christian, comes to New York to save her estranged sister from a brain tumor, but ends up saving her daughter and herself. Save Me delivers its miracles in odd packages: a bright red wig, a postcard from the edge, a superhero sex–addict, and a bouquet of flowers from a woman without a nose.

Production history

• The Barrow Group - student production, January 2013
• Phoenix Theatre New Works Festival—development workshop
• Garson Theater New Works Festival—development workshop
• Baltimore Playwrights Festival—workshop

Awards

• Phoenix Theatre's National Playwriting Competition Award winner
• 2007 Baltimore Playwrights Festival Carol Weinberg Award

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Colony Collapse

The bees are disappearing, a young girl is missing, and a son returns to a family to which he has never really belonged. (work-in-progress)