DESCENT
A call to Planned Parenthood. One drunken night. A puzzle. Molly confronts the men in her life, piecing together the events of one forgotten evening to keep her family from falling apart.
Readings at Moving Arts and the Road,
RICH GIRL
When Claudine meets Henry, a starving artist, she falls head over heels. Her mother, a financial guru, has her doubts. Is Henry everything her daughter has been looking for? Or is he after only one thing?
Productions at The Old Globe, Cleveland Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Florida Studio Theater, Lyric Stage and others
Published by Broadway Play Publishing
HARDBALL
Virginia Eames, an aspiring political pundit, attempts to negotiate her way through the constantly shifting landscape of cutthroat commentary and learns what it takes to be a star.
Productions at Live Girls! Theater and SPF Summer Play Festival
Winner of the Francesca Primus Award and finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.
Published by Broadway Play Publishing
CLANDESTINO
Written with Cory Hinkle
A multilingual meditation on Postville, Iowa, one of the largest immigration raids in US history (in Spanish, English and Hebrew)
Production at Mixed Blood and developed by the New York Theater Workshop and Sundance, MASS MOCA
800 WORDS: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick
A reinvention of the last few days of Philip K. Dick, the science fiction author, who had religious visions in 1974 when an extraterrestrial God appeared to him, communicating with artificial intelligence.
Productions at Workhaus Collective, Live Girls! Theater, Caravan Theater
Best of the Year, Seattle Times and CityPages, Minneapolis
Published in the Workhaus Collective Anthology
LIVE GIRLS
Three women, a performance artist, her personal assistant and an interview subject, a porn star have to grapple with what is real when everything is a performance?
Productions at Urban Stages, WHAT, Eternal Spiral Project, Stage Left
OPHELIA 2.0
A modern retelling of Hamlet, OPHELIA REDUX presents an alternate reality of court intrigue, betrayal and a young girl caught in the middle.
Reading at the Road Theater and Skylight Theater
THE LAST SCENE
The making of the 1949 film In a Lonely Place, a Humphrey Bogart vehicle directed by Nick Ray, the director who would later rise to fame as the director of Rebel Without a Cause. Nick Ray shot two endings to the film and in doing so, changes the course of his life.
Readings at The Public Theater and Queensland Theater
THE BOSTONIANS
Set among the New England upper crust of the late 1800s, Henry James’ The Bostonians is about the love triangle between Basil, a conservative Southerner, his cousin Olive and Verena,, a charismatic speaker for the women’s movement.
Reading at the Playwrights’ Center
FISSURES (lost and found)
written with Cory Hinkle, Deborah Stein and Dominic Orlando
An ensemble piece of individual experience, it’s a journey into a past that never happened and explores the false truths that are found along the way.
Production at the Actors Theater of Louisville, Humana Festival