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.  (work-in-progress)

Production History

• 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, 2011n
• 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

• Phoenix Theatre New Works Festival—development workshop
• Garson Theater New Works Festival—development workshop
• Baltimore Playwrights Festival—workshop
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Awards

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

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Colony Collapse

90 minutes / 3w / 2m

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)