Full-Length Plays
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.
Honey Brown Eyes
90 minutes / 3w / 3m
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.
Photos Stan Barouh
Production history: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival — reading, August 2008; Theater J — main stage production, Fall 2008; The Barrow Group’s Playwright Development Lab.
Awards: Helen Hayes / Charles MacArthur Award for best new play/musical — 2009 award winner; Smith Prize — 2007 finalist; Princess Grace Award — 2008 semi-finalist; Juilliard Lila Acheson Fellowship — finalist.
Save Me
Full-length comic drama / 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: Bay Street Theatre reading series; Phoenix Theatre New Works Festival — development; Garson Theater New Works Festival — development; Baltimore Playwrights Festival — workshop; The Kennedy Center's Page to Stage; The Barrow Group reading series.
Awards: Phoenix Theatre’s National Playwriting Competition — winner; 2007 Baltimore Playwrights Festival Carol Weinberg Award — winner; Cherry Lane Mentor Project — finalist; New Harmony Project — finalist; Black Swan Theater Jane Bingham Contest — finalist.
Short Plays
The Fear Project
Septet of short plays about fear and the media / 4m / 2m (or more) / simple set
Note: There are six authors involved in this project about the culture of fear in the media. Stefanie's contributions, Haunted and Leaving, are listed below.
Production history: Off-Broadway run at The Barrow Group, 2006.
Haunted
One-act comedy / 15 minutes / 1w / 1m / one set
Dan wants to propose to Audrey; Audrey thinks Dan is going to kill her. A meditation on fear, love, and the effects of too much Lifetime Television.
Production history: The Barrow Group; Lillian Theatre, L.A.; Mae West Fest, Seattle; Theatre 68, LA; Sounding Theatre; Estrogenius Festival.
Leaving
One-act comedy / 10 minutes / 1w / 1m / one set
A Connecticut couple, ordered to evacuate the state, finds their marriage under siege.
Production history: The Barrow Group; Acorn Pictures' Live Works, Los Angeles.
Bliss
One-act / 10 minutes / 1w / 2m / one set
A woman with Alzheimer’s relives her wedding day.
Production history: Vital Theatre, Samuel French Short Play Competition Finalist; Baltimore Playwrights Festival.
Dora's Box
One-act / 10 minutes / 1w / 1m / one set
Rich broke up with Dora; Dora can’t let go, and she’s armed with decoupage.
Production history: Short Stuff II, The Barrow Group; Theatre 68, L.A.
Wedding Jitters
One-act / 10 minutes / 2m / minimal set
Two straight men participate in the ultimate civil disobedience: they get married.
Production history: Samuel French Short Play Competition finalist.