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POPPER
Co-Created with Ryan Howzell
2024 - Workshop, ?!:New Works at The Brick
TIX ON SALE NOW: April 26th at 8pm & April 27th at 8pm
Ryan is a labor organizer fulfilling a decade-old sexual fantasy. Kara is a scientist who has just made a field-shaking discovery. Both believe in outing celebrities. Neither is pro-gun. A stage reimagining of the landmark news show DykeTV, POPPER follows two dykes’ quest — through interviews, the scientific method, and lots of explosions — to ensure that love really wins.
20 mins; multimedia play; 2 performers
SONNETS FROM
A SIN-EATER
2024 - Production, New York City Fringe
TIX ON SALE NOW: April 4th through April 19th
2024 - Finalist, Spectrum Theatre Ensemble New Play Festival
2023 - Residency, Breadcrumbs Productions
Sin-eating is a ritual older than Jesus. It’s been practiced across the globe, but the version I’m doing comes from 17th-century Wales. In essence, you eat a meal off the chest of a dead person, and, in doing so, you absorb their sins. This allows the dead to transition easily into heaven, free from the weight of their mortal wrongdoings. Calgary, of course, has not died, so instead of eating off her corpse, I’ll be meditating on her spirit—and internalizing her sins—as I eat this Taco Bell.
An apology video. A shakespearean sonnet. A dark comedy about guilt, getting canceled, and detoxifying diets.
60 mins; multimedia play; 1 performer
PIGEON HOUSE
2024 - Semi-Finalist, SheNYC
2023 - Staged Reading, Fresh Ink Theatre
2022 - Workshop, Fresh Ink Theatre
2019 - Workshop, Williams College
Two Lindas, steamy rumors, depressed undergrads, oh my! I’ve a feeling we’re not in 1899 Louisiana anymore. No wait. I’ve a feeling we’re not in *book club* anymore. Or are we…? Bring out the Trader Joe’s apps, ladies, and pour yourself another glass of sauv blanc. A sort-of adaptation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Pigeon House explores the ways that wealthy suburban womanhood begins and ends lives.
90 mins; straight play; 9 actors (8W, 1any) | New Play Exchange
JENNY’S DOLL
HOSPITAL
Music by Sara Stebbins
2022 - Workshop, Williams College
It's a lesbian tale as old as lesbian time: Jenny meets Jane. Jane floors Jenny. Jenny moves in with Jane after one gorgeous, wild night together. Jane runs a doll hospital. Jenny learns to repair dolls. Something happens to Jane (Sorry! No spoilers!!!). Jenny's left to operate the hospital alone—well, alone if you don't count the piles of broken dolls lying around, waiting to be fixed… A dragged-up musical about devotion, brokenness, and who we see as human, Jenny's Doll Hospital explores just how much of ourselves we will (or should) sacrifice in order to heal the one we love.
90 mins; musical; 8 actors (2W, 6any) | New Play Exchange
SELF MADE
2021 - Winner, Dunbar Writing Prize, Williams College
2020 - Production, Yale College*
2019 - Residency, STUDIO’62
2019 - Workshop, Hopkinton Center for the Arts
* Canceled due to Covid-19
Everything is impossible until it isn’t. Your straight crush could end up crushing back. Your experimental play could make you fifty thousand dollars. Pete Buttigieg could actually be gay.
Set in 2019 and 2020, Self Made follows the romantic relationship between two college seniors, as they struggle to figure out the kind of people they want to become.
90 mins; straight play; 4 actors (2W, 2any) | New Play Exchange