In the near distant future, work is closer than family and we continue to never quite notice the true value of time. The years pass by, the secrets to their importance washed away by the immutable existence of entropy. By the time they’re old, what will the Arrow of Time reveal to Cheryl, Bob, and Paul?
Didi and Dada are two early humans excited for the future, unaware of the progress and technology that is to come long after they stare at the moon. 30,000 years later, Fuu and Goten meet in an AOL chatroom on the cusp of adulthood. How did it once feel to dream behind our eyes and wait at the screen, anticipating a response? Will we ever do this again?
Exponential 2025 @ TheBrick Clubbed Thumb Commission Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab, Semi-Finalist Workshop, Brick Aux, dir. Carl Holder
The Hub
In the midst of puberty, 12-year-old Marissa discovers The Hub, a chat room where a group of young losers and outcasts can do or be anything, and together escape the confines of reality. Under the alias Ami-chan, Marissa begins her first relationship with a sixteen year old gamer, but soon finds that even online, it’s hard to hide who she really is. As Marissa learns to grow up in this new digital frontier, she will begin to understand just how much control she has over her own existence.
Playhouse 22 Reading Series, dir. Genevieve Blaise Semi-Finalist, Princess Grace Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire Read on NPX
Extraordinary Machine
From the days of mailing lists and message boards to the now seamless world of iPhones and social media, Extraordinary Machine is an intimate three-act examination of computer programmer and activist Aaron Swartz’s relationship with technology, and how his story mirrors the arc, and ideals, of the Internet.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Commission Leap of Faith Session, Lucille Lortel Theatre 2022 Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, Final Shortlist
Nothing Remained But Voice And Bones
original art by Lisa Kramer
In second grade, Narcissus visits overweight Mel and informs her that she is cursed to search for perfection but to never find it. Unable to grapple with this truth, she spends a lifetime letting this curse define every relationship, even those between her past selves. Only Mel can find a way to break out of a cycle of self-hatred that keeps her from realizing what is truly beautiful about her body and her existence.
Clubbed Thumb Reading Series, dir. Jessi D. Hill Theater Accident’s Hit & Run Series, dir. Jessi D. Hill Semi-Finalist, New American Voices Playwriting Festival Semi-Finalist, Normal Avenue NAP Series Workshop Theater, Spring 2022 Intensive Read on NPX
gumshoe (an online noir)
Gumshoe’s brother has gone missing. He hasn’t been seen since the election was certified. Once an activist and now a doomer, Gumshoe dwells inside, solving online mysteries for the right price.
Under Construction 4 / The Road writers’ group Reading @ Dramatists Guild Foundation (dir. Dina Vovsi <3)
selected lil plays
An Instant Message
In the age of dial-up, a New Jersey teen saves up lunch money to buy a phone card to call her boyfriend in Kansas. Their first conversation might’ve gone like this. Or so she remembers.
A top 12 Finalist, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival Semi-Finalist, Clinical Trials, Pharmacy Theater Originally developed with Clubbed Thumb, dir. Arpita Mukherjee Read on NPX
Batabid Drexel University Playwriting Scholarship, 1st place
The Breeze From August Buck’s County One Act Festival: Best Production Buck’s County One Act Festival: Excellence in Writing
support + development SoundLab, The Brick Theater Early Career Writer’s Group, Clubbed Thumb Road Theatre’s Under Construction 4 Writer’s Group
fun beautiful stuff 22/23 SohoRep Writer-Director Lab with Leonie Bell, Finalist NJ Council on the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship, Finalist Clubbed Thumb, The Constitution Commission Ars Nova PlayGroup, Semi-Finalist Colt Coeur Artistic Residency, Semi-Finalist Arthouse Inkubator, Finalist Nominee, 2018 & 2019, Playwrights’ Center, CORE Apprentice Nominee, New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts, Writing
publications Theatre Unbound’s Bittersweet Monologue Book
teaching Playwriting Workshop Instructor, Women’s Performance Workshop, The Strand Theatre
