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Mary Gets Hers
It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam! When two hermits find an orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself.
A new play, adapted from Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s 10th century closet drama-comedy Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.
Produced by: The Playwrights Realm, as part of a Page One Residency, directed by Josiah Davis, Fall 2023.
Supported & developed by: The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, 2021-2022; Brown University’s Writing is Live Festival, directed by Josiah Davis, Februrary 2019.
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Bogdonoff
Francis and Alice walk their dogs off leash in Riverside Park. A play about dying to talk.
Supported & developed by: New York Stage and Film’s Winter Season, March 2024. Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group Reading Series, directed by Lila Neugebauer, June 2023; Williamstown Theater Festival residency, July 2022.
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The Executrix
Do you ever forget what the word masturbation means? Sorry, I mean: do you ever remember what the word defenestration means? Did I say defenestration, I meant meatballs, did you pick them up from Val Salvio’s? The famous restaurant, yes, the one on Eighth with all of the sisters-in-law who you used to love back when Peter your assistant-husband was out getting cake. A non-murder murder mystery in favor of lesbians, longing, and love-affairs.
Winner of the Chelsey/Bumbalo Playwriting Award, 2022. Longlist, 503’s International Playwriting Award, 2020.
Supported & developed by: Clubbed Thumb & Brown University, virtual reading directed by Sarah Blush, 2020. Brown University’s Writing is Live Festival, directed by Emma Horwitz, 2020.
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Untitled Babysitting Play
I answered an ad someone had emailed the school-wide listerv. I had a job catering weddings for an upscale diner in town but the season was coming to an end as winter was rolling in, and I needed cash in hand, untaxed. They said they had one daughter, and that she was very easy. That’s all they said about their one daughter, that she was easy.
Supported by: New York Theater Workshop Monday’s @ 3, directed by Annie Tippe, May 2023. Workshop with Sarah Blush, winter 2021.
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Leo at Yeshiva
Three women ferociously feed on their hairiest dreams while swimming in tubs of Pantene. A Shabbos ascent into the multi-million-dollar industry of lice-picking.
Finalist, 2021 Jewish Plays Project’s Jewish Playwriting Contest.
Supported & developed by: Williamstown Theater Festival, 2019-2020.
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kemps
In the pine-woods of the Poconos at a sleep-away camp, where Every Girl Here Is A Winner, welcome to the last summer of your life. Lip-syncs, line-up, Lil Miss, and that poster you were never brave enough to put up in your bedroom. A queer bildungsroman of athletic proportions, where the ghosts of your past tug at your sleeves, sucking hickies on your neck like your life depends on getting, finally, a little pleasure. A play about finding yourself, when you’ve been here the whole time.
University Production, University of North Carolina, March 2022; University Production, Brown University, directed by Josiah Davis, 2019; Workshop reading, Brown University’s Writing is Live Festival, Directed by Addie Gorlin, 2018.
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