Hyena
A Terse Philosopher
Chicken War
Suicide Chimps
Planety Humanity
Sugar On Top
These Things Take Time
The Starter
How She Got Her Name
Every Damn Year
Search and Rescue
Slow Burn
Crash Splash
Theodora's Bicycle
The Quick and the Dead
Snort
Mandala Girl
Eight Tiny Rednecks
Bedtime Story
Take Me Out Tonight
Take Your Nightmare to Work Day
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2W/2M 100 minutes, 2 acts.
Italian Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola arrives at the Spanish Court the same time as King Philip II's 14-year-old bride, Isabel. Sofonisba is quickly taken into the young queen's confidence, and navigates the tricky waters of court politics as an unmarried woman.
Written with a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Reading at the Kennedy Center 9/08. Reading at National Museum of Women in the Arts 5/09.
THE TRAGEDY OF MARY LOU SKATONDA
3M/5W. 75 minutes.
A futuristic comedy about murder, genocide, and mother-daughter angst.
Unproduced.
SAFEWORD
4W/3M. 2 hours, 3 acts.
SAFEWORD lays bare the secrets and struggles of two suburban DC families and asks us why is it so much easier to get what we need from strangers?
Unproduced. O’Neill Semifinalist 2006.
DIRTY HEART .
4M/3W. 2 hours, 2 acts.
A Thanksgiving comedy stuffed with practical jokes, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and a murder confession.
Unproduced.
MAY 39th/40th
1M/1W. 1 hour.
Meet Sam and Louisa the morning after their first date. Meanwhile, halfway around the world, Jim consents to a startling procedure when he asks Roya to heal his blindness. A thousand years from now, dating in the city will still blow chunks. And playing doctor will be way more creepy.
MAY 39th produced by DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue at DC Fringe 7/06. MAY 39th/40th produced by 11:11 Productions at DC Fringe 7/09.
JUPITER ZOOM
3M/4W. 2 hours, 2 acts.
Family breeds contempt in this comedy that puts a chiropractor, a baked snowboarder, two sets of sisters, and a guy named after a planet in an upper NW home for three whole days.
Equity Showcase 3/06
LULU FABULOUS
3W/2M. 90 minutes.
An imaginative romp through two years in the life of Lulu. Helping her find her way are 54 characters, including her grandmother’s doting cousins, her two pet fighting fish, and the Zen friends she meets at a yoga retreat in the Berkshires.
Commissioned and produced by Phoenix Theatre 5/05.
4W/7M. 2 hours, 2 acts
A Tennessee landowner rides a hot-air balloon to Mount Olympus to persuade Peace to return to earth. She will, but at a price. A wickedly subversive play based on Aristophanes' original.
Commissioned and produced by Washington Shakespeare Company 9/08. Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn award.
NUTSHELL
12W/5M/11Either. 75 minutes
The staff of a DC non-profit are headed to Kenya on a mission to save the elephants. Meanwhile, the elephants are making their own preparations.
Based on Hamlet and The Waste Land.
Produced by DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue at DC Fringe 7/07.
THE IMPRESARIO
3W/2M. 20 minutes
A newly translated adaptation of Mozart’s operetta THE IMPRESARIO.
Commissioned and produced by The In Series 1/08.
LUCRECE
5M/2W. 75 minutes
This stage adaptation of "The Rape of Lucrece" lends a fresh perspective to the centuries-old story of Lucretia, a noblewoman who killed herself after she was raped.
Based on Shakespeare's poem.
Commissioned and produced by Washington Shakespeare Company 2/07.