Descriptions of Plays
2021
Party Line, A young woman, recently graduated from college, moves into a new apartment during the pandemic while attempting to fight loneliness by calling people on the phone. Party Line is a limited audio drama series pushed out via a robocall platform over the course of eight nights. Audience members receive a phone call and overhear a series of eight phone conversations. Featured in Post Theatrical (RealTime Interventions Production). Performed by company members of New Day Art Collective. Sound engineer: Gavin Price.
2019
Lakeview Terrace, a play with songs about a young couple from New York on a weekend vacation in the Catskills when an epic storm descends upon the town trapping them with the hotel proprietor and local Sheriff. Something is lurking in the woods that will change their lives forever. Reading directed by Kip Fagan.
2017
TUPU TUPU TUPU, A preservationist needs money to fund his dream nature preserve in Lapland so he decides to capture, raise, and sell wolverines which is perhaps not the best idea. La MaMa Experimental Theater, reading/rendering.
The Anti-Gardener, The joining of two families fulfill the destiny of the anti-gardener to cross mountains to destroy the Garden of Butterflies when he discovers a yeti preventing his passage he must get creative. Simon Fraser University, produced/directed by Ian McFarlane.
2016
The Kioskers, Two city hipsters are tired of the parties, art openings, and happenings so they escape the city to visit one of their favorite childhood bird watching spots in the New Jersey woods when they discover the birds are gone but a band of wayward travelers convince them to travel via dirigible to the Seven Seas to find the missing birds. Produced by St. Ann’s Warehouse – Labapalooza, dir. Mia Rovegno, music Alaina Ferris, scenic/puppetry Sara Walsh.
2011
Theory of Lavender, A young man obsessed with finding proof of aliens suffers from regret when his mother passes before he can say goodbye until he writes a viable theory for time travel. Living Room Reading Series @ 2617 Hermosa, featuring Paul Willis and Michael Harrington.
2009
The Character adapted from Felippe Alfau’s LOCOS: A Comedy of Gestures, Annual Weasel Festival @ The 13th Street Theater, dir. Meghan Finn.
Mika, The mother of a young woman who has been abducted into a sex trafficking ring must save her daughter on her own when the police refuse to help. Presented at United Nations National Women’s Day hosted by Ban Ki-moon, written by Scott Adkins and Erin Courtney, produced by Tiyatroglobal dir. Jimena Duca and Helen Richardson.
2008
Parable of a Spider, A computer program using If, Then, While logic calls functions (scenes) based on how the audience is reacting. A non-linear concept play designed to provide joy or contemplation depending on the collective state of mind of the audience. City Tech Reading Series, produced by Adhesive Theater, dir. Jared Mezzocchi with video and sound.
2007
Running Commentary No. 4, A new landlord inherits an 80 year old rent control tenant with his building and must collect rent when time splits into three strands of the past, present, and future until he realizes he has fallen in love. Five Myles, produced by Joyce Cho, dir. Scott Adkins & Amber Reed, music by Rebecca Hart.
2006
Black Dot, A woman loses her husband suddenly to death and embarks on an existential trip to realize her identity. Part monologue part song cycle. Night and Day Readings, dir. Hayley Finn.
Party Line, A young woman, recently graduated from college, moves into a new apartment during the pandemic while attempting to fight loneliness by calling people on the phone. Party Line is a limited audio drama series pushed out via a robocall platform over the course of eight nights. Audience members receive a phone call and overhear a series of eight phone conversations. Featured in Post Theatrical (RealTime Interventions Production). Performed by company members of New Day Art Collective. Sound engineer: Gavin Price.
2019
Lakeview Terrace, a play with songs about a young couple from New York on a weekend vacation in the Catskills when an epic storm descends upon the town trapping them with the hotel proprietor and local Sheriff. Something is lurking in the woods that will change their lives forever. Reading directed by Kip Fagan.
2017
TUPU TUPU TUPU, A preservationist needs money to fund his dream nature preserve in Lapland so he decides to capture, raise, and sell wolverines which is perhaps not the best idea. La MaMa Experimental Theater, reading/rendering.
The Anti-Gardener, The joining of two families fulfill the destiny of the anti-gardener to cross mountains to destroy the Garden of Butterflies when he discovers a yeti preventing his passage he must get creative. Simon Fraser University, produced/directed by Ian McFarlane.
2016
The Kioskers, Two city hipsters are tired of the parties, art openings, and happenings so they escape the city to visit one of their favorite childhood bird watching spots in the New Jersey woods when they discover the birds are gone but a band of wayward travelers convince them to travel via dirigible to the Seven Seas to find the missing birds. Produced by St. Ann’s Warehouse – Labapalooza, dir. Mia Rovegno, music Alaina Ferris, scenic/puppetry Sara Walsh.
2011
Theory of Lavender, A young man obsessed with finding proof of aliens suffers from regret when his mother passes before he can say goodbye until he writes a viable theory for time travel. Living Room Reading Series @ 2617 Hermosa, featuring Paul Willis and Michael Harrington.
2009
The Character adapted from Felippe Alfau’s LOCOS: A Comedy of Gestures, Annual Weasel Festival @ The 13th Street Theater, dir. Meghan Finn.
Mika, The mother of a young woman who has been abducted into a sex trafficking ring must save her daughter on her own when the police refuse to help. Presented at United Nations National Women’s Day hosted by Ban Ki-moon, written by Scott Adkins and Erin Courtney, produced by Tiyatroglobal dir. Jimena Duca and Helen Richardson.
2008
Parable of a Spider, A computer program using If, Then, While logic calls functions (scenes) based on how the audience is reacting. A non-linear concept play designed to provide joy or contemplation depending on the collective state of mind of the audience. City Tech Reading Series, produced by Adhesive Theater, dir. Jared Mezzocchi with video and sound.
2007
Running Commentary No. 4, A new landlord inherits an 80 year old rent control tenant with his building and must collect rent when time splits into three strands of the past, present, and future until he realizes he has fallen in love. Five Myles, produced by Joyce Cho, dir. Scott Adkins & Amber Reed, music by Rebecca Hart.
2006
Black Dot, A woman loses her husband suddenly to death and embarks on an existential trip to realize her identity. Part monologue part song cycle. Night and Day Readings, dir. Hayley Finn.
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