PLAYS
PRODUCED WORKS
EUREKA DAY (3W, 2M)
At Eureka Day School in Berkeley, all decisions are made by consensus, diversity of opinion is valued, and vaccinations are a personal matter. When a mumps outbreak hit the school, it turns out that not everyone in the community has the same definition of social justice. Now the board of directors must confront the central question of our time: how do find consensus when you can’t agree on the facts?
Premiere: April 2018 at Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley.
Winner: 2018 Rella Lossy Award from Theatre Bay Area
Commission: Aurora Theater, 2016
GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (4M, 2W)
A one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip, an interwoven story of bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers, and tourists. As the nighttime festivities get under way, an earth-shattering event happens half a world away. In the midst of this tragedy and the chaos it unleashes, the characters must reckon with how much to let it disturb their good time.
Premiere: June 2018 at Custom Made Theater, San Francisco
Workshop: 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Readings: San Francisco Playhouse, Theatre of NOTE,
A one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip, an interwoven story of bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers, and tourists. As the nighttime festivities get under way, an earth-shattering event happens half a world away. In the midst of this tragedy and the chaos it unleashes, the characters must reckon with how much to let it disturb their good time.
Premiere: June 2018 at Custom Made Theater, San Francisco
Workshop: 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Readings: San Francisco Playhouse, Theatre of NOTE,
IN FROM THE COLD (4M, 1 W)
A Cold War Spy's past may not be past after all, the secret meaning of 80's movies is revealed, and it's Ladies' Night at Chilis'. A play about what it means when you used to mean a lot, and now you may not mean much anymore.
Premiere: Just Theater, Berkeley 2014
Winner: Aurora Theater's Global Age Prize 2013
Reading: Aurora Theater
Reading: Playwrights Foundation's Rough Reading Series
Finalist: O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2013, New Harmony Conference 2013, LARK playwrights’ Week 2013
THIS IS ALL I NEED
(co-written with Liz Lisle and Christopher Ward White)
This Is All I Need untangles and retangles the threads connecting our hearts, our anxieties, and our stuff, exploring the ways that our belongings become physical repositories for our most potent memories, to the fine boundaries between collecting and hoarding, to the psychosocial motors driving the contemporary urge to accumulate.
Premiered with Mugwumpin, San Francisco, 2010
Workshopped in the Fury Factor, San Francisco, 2009
Named one of the best plays of the year by both the San Francisco Weekly and San Francisco Bay Guardian.
THE VAST EXPANSE (short)
(formerly titled Be What You Wish to Seem)
Bored with your life? Maybe it's time to change it up. Get a new job, move to a new city, or maybe consider becoming a Ficus tree?
Premiered at Source Theater Festival, Washington DC 2013
Produced by Something Marvelous, Chicago 2015
Produced by St. Bonaventure College, 2014
Produced by San Francisco State University, 2014
Produced
NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT (short)
There’s no electricity, lines of communication have been severed and society is collapsing around us, but we’ve with seven post-graduate degrees between the five of us, surely we can get this thing figured out.
Premiered at Source Theater Festival, Washington DC 2014
Produced by Breach Once More, San Francisco, 2016
(formerly titled Be What You Wish to Seem)
Bored with your life? Maybe it's time to change it up. Get a new job, move to a new city, or maybe consider becoming a Ficus tree?
Premiered at Source Theater Festival, Washington DC 2013
Produced by Something Marvelous, Chicago 2015
Produced by St. Bonaventure College, 2014
Produced by San Francisco State University, 2014
Produced
NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT (short)
There’s no electricity, lines of communication have been severed and society is collapsing around us, but we’ve with seven post-graduate degrees between the five of us, surely we can get this thing figured out.
Premiered at Source Theater Festival, Washington DC 2014
Produced by Breach Once More, San Francisco, 2016
IN DEVELOPMENT
THIS MUCH I KNOW
A In which Stalin's daughter, the plight of accidental killers and the work of Nobel-prize winning pyschologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky create and interwoven exploration of how much we are responsible for the things we do.
Development: Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor 2017
Reading: Just Theater New Play Lab, 2018
A In which Stalin's daughter, the plight of accidental killers and the work of Nobel-prize winning pyschologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky create and interwoven exploration of how much we are responsible for the things we do.
Development: Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor 2017
Reading: Just Theater New Play Lab, 2018
SEAS BETWEEN US BRAID. (3W, 2M)
Set in the Sea Ranch community on the Sonoma Coast, this is a play about about not being the person people remember you as being, and about the sneaky, creepy influence of technology on our lives. And about Jews.
Reading: Just Theater New Play Lab 2016
Reading: San Francisco Playhouse 2017
Set in the Sea Ranch community on the Sonoma Coast, this is a play about about not being the person people remember you as being, and about the sneaky, creepy influence of technology on our lives. And about Jews.
Reading: Just Theater New Play Lab 2016
Reading: San Francisco Playhouse 2017
ADULT SWIM (3M, 2W)
A magic realistic play in which a pair of teenage lifeguards struggle to unwrap the mysteries of life during in a hot, slow summer amongst bratty kids, killer ping pong and lots of whistle-twirling.
Commission: PlayGround, San Francisco
Workshop: 2014 PlayGround Festival
Finalist: O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2015, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2015
A magic realistic play in which a pair of teenage lifeguards struggle to unwrap the mysteries of life during in a hot, slow summer amongst bratty kids, killer ping pong and lots of whistle-twirling.
Commission: PlayGround, San Francisco
Workshop: 2014 PlayGround Festival
Finalist: O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2015, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2015