Plays

STINTZ MILESTRIP CENTER: 5W, 3M, 2 Gender Not Specified. A pentaptych of plays to be performed simultaneously. The space is divided into two areas: the playing space and the audience promenade. The playing space consists of 5 distinct sets representing 5 stores of a strip mall. A YARN SHOP, AN OFFICE SUPPLIES STORE, A SALON, A NEWLY LEASED STOREFRONT, and A CAFÉ. The facade of each store is open, so that the audience can see and listen in. The audience may choose to stick to watching one set, follow a certain character to different stores, or float between multiple plays, as they wish. These plays explore connections and disconnections, Thursday night at the strip mall.

AND THE FOUR LAST THINGS: 1M, 2 Gender Not Specified. An angel and a devil weigh the soul of a man by reenacting his four last acts on earth with his corpse. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. 

"And the Four Last Things is a highly ambitious work examining eschatology utilizing a dizzying but very entertaining fluidity of time as one man's soul hangs in the balance." - The Workshop Theater.

This script’s development history includes: Production - Nickel Flour (Rochester, NY), (Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Sewanee, TN), The Loom at the Woven Theater (Nashville, TN) and the Workshop Theater’s Spring Intensive (NYC).

FIREWATER: 3W, 2M. A reimagining of the Prometheus myth told from the point of view of fire and her sister. We meet a family living in a time after the Gods abandoned humankind. The Gods took with them their knowledge of fire, halting the progress of civilization. But this family holds a secret. A spark of divine fire burns within the younger sister. A prophecy foretells the wrath to come if fire ever returned to all of mankind. The family does what it can to hide her, fire, but do they act to protect her or themselves? 

Finalist, Eleventh Annual Todd McNerney Playwriting Contest, College of Charleston, 2020.

LIQUIDATION: 3M, 2W. Set in Manny's mind, which greatly resembles a closeout furniture store, we follow as he slips in and out of daydreams, memories, and reality. His interactions with his old friend, Lane, his sister, Alexis, his college roommate, Trapper, and his girlfriend, Jazz, explore his relationship with relationships. 

LET YOU BE MINE: 2W, 2M. Descend into spilled secrets and irrevocable decisions held within this house's history. Late Winter, 1917, Vancouver.  The audience meets in the dining room of a middle class late Victorian House. This show will take them on a tour of the kitchen, the parlour and the girl's and boy's bedrooms before the night is out. What starts as a neighbourly visit descends into spilled secrets and irrevocable decisions held within this house's history.  "The Play Filling Me Up This Month" September 2022 "I am fascinated by this immersive play and badly want to see it." -Brian James Polak, playwright and host - The Subtext Podcast, American Theatre Magazine.

BALCONIES: A VERTICAL PLAY: 4W, 3M. Internet Meme Company, Commandeering Mink, has taken over the top two floors of a hotel in Florida somewhere off of State Road 597 in order to host a fund-raiser dinner. Employee Heather, aka perfection princess, is determined to make the night run smoothly and bag a lot of investors, in order to make up for a recent work faux pas, that she hopes to keep on the down-low. When her eccentric boyfriend, Brody, with an unfavorable past with her boss, Michael, shows up uninvited, Heather recruits coworker, Reggie to help keep the two men apart. Little does Heather know that Michael is desperate for mayoral candidate, Jack’s, money so he can pay off his soon to be ex-wife, Tillie, who has arrived in Florida out of the blue threatening to take away and destroy Michael and his company. Michael is so desperate in fact, that he may agree to marry, Lisbet, Heather’s not so smart coworker and Jack’s daughter. Secrets, lies and misunderstandings pile high as Heather hilariously improvises her way through a not so perfect fundraiser night and we see it all through stolen moments out on the hotel’s balconies.

TURTLE PLAY (THE PLAY ABOUT THE TURTLE): 3W, 1M. Set on the screen porch of Cedar (and formerly Ash) Webster’s home, where things and people collect. Shortly after her husband’s premature passing, Cedar finds herself with two new tenants in her home. Her husband would have eased the transition of Dawn, her mother-in-law, but now that task is up to her. Then there's Reed, whose baggage is mostly metaphorical, except for the turtle, Ambrose. The three must learn how to cohabitate while Cedar prepares to bring yet another member into the household, an adopted baby. Turtle Play (The Play About the Turtle) is a story of how important it is to feel loved. It shows how love doesn’t have to come from those that you think are supposed to love you, but it can come from unexpected and wonderful places. Now available from Next Stage Press.