Plays

Ultimate Beauty Bible

4/5 w (flexible), 2m

Danielle, Lee and Tiffany have scaled the masthead of Crimp magazine, gaining access to the best the city has to offer--nightlife, men, and the beautiful baubles showcased in every issue. But when workaholic Danielle is forced to face her mortality, she begins to wonder what it's all worth. In this dark comedy, questions of romance, sex, ambition, and loyalty spin Danielle and her friends out of control as they consider the possibility of life without one another.

Ultimate Beauty Bible received its world premiere production off-Broadway at Page 73, directed by Stephen Brackett.

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The Bachelors

3m

Inside a house, a house in a series of houses on a fraternity row, a house in which DVDs serve as coasters and drool stains the sofa, live three roommates far past their college days. A thousand girlfriends come and gone, a thousand drinks downed, a thousand parties crashed–every night the same, until now. There’s a party tonight, but it is not the blaring music that makes sleep impossible. Tonight, these bachelors will understand what their choices have really gotten them.

The Bachelors received its world premiere production at Lesser America, directed by Portia Krieger.

1983

4w, 1m

Manhattan, 1959: Tess and Belinda meet in the famed Jewelbox Hotel for Young Ladies, months before a new surveillance law goes into effect. Unexpectedly drawn to each other, the young women embark on a relationship that threatens to upend both their lives. In an America in crisis, we follow them from youth to middle age, safety to peril, privacy to invasion.

1983 was originally commissioned by Yale Repertory Theater.

I Get Restless

2w, 3m

Hazel just started a job at a top law firm, bought an apartment, and married a man who adores her. But, after an accident on her honeymoon, she can't remember how--or anything else about the past six years. Now Hazel must find out who she is without the help of who she was, and answer the question everyone must ask themselves at one point or another: how did my life become my life? I Get Restless is a dark comedy about the wonders--and horrors--of second chances.

I Get Restless has been showcased at City Theater, the Lark’s Playwrights Week, and South Coast Rep’s Pacific Playwrights Festival.

Louder

5w

It’s the fall of 1999—the eve of Y2K—and the start of another school year at Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In the convent near campus, the sisters await the return of their students. Sister Ursula awaits the girls with excitement; Sister Mary Magdalene awaits them with ambivalence; Sister Francis Assisi with restraint; and Sister Seraphina with…well, no one quite knows. There’s a new soul in the convent, too: Carly, a postulant who lives with the sisters and works in the school’s front office. But as fissures in the student body and faculty begin to appear—and the 2000th year since Christ’s birth approaches—the five women find their ordinary lives suddenly enveloped by a strange uncertainty. For those who are looking, signs and portents are everywhere. But what they portend no one knows. Louder is a play about looking deeply, and the enormity within the seemingly quietest of lives.

Louder was originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theater.

Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys

3w, 3m

Brandy is the city’s most sought-after birthday party clown, and she’s never let her drinking, gambling, and bed-hopping interfere with her work—until now. Her teenage boyfriend won’t stop calling, her clients are getting needy…and the monster under her bed is growing restless. Weaving fantasy and clowning with brutal reality, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys is a play about the price of growing up.

Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys received its world premiere at Washington Ensemble Theatre, in a production directed by Jane Nichols. Its midwest premiere was named one of the top theatre productions of 2015 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The Vaults

3w, 4m

When a young American tourist disappears in the famous Edinburgh vaults, those left behind must unravel his disappearance, grappling with unfriendly ghosts, suspicious police, fringe festival actors--and their own dark secrets.

The Vaults received the AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Award, and premiered at the New Georges Jam on Toast Festival, in a production directed by Portia Krieger.