Plays

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photo credit Kat duPont Vecchio

Ten Weeks

5W

Jo, the pregnant creative director of a boutique agency, arrives at what she thinks is a late-night work meeting to discover that her protégé Anna has thrown her a surprise baby shower. But the celebration takes a turn when Jo learns that the company’s biggest client won’t wait for her maternity leave to end to begin a career-defining project. As the evening unravels, five women grapple with an impossible question: can you be both a mother and the person you were before? A dark comedy about identity, ambition, and the choices we’re forced to make.

Production, the Gallery Players Black Box New Play Festival, 2024

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Shiva

3W, 2M

Samuel Cohen has long since turned away from his orthodox Jewish upbringing, now leading a barely Reform life with his wife Ella and soon-to-be-Bat Miztvahed daughter Abby. When Samuel's estranged father Mayer passes away and the family doesn't attend the funeral, Mayer's gentile housekeeper and former "shabbos goy" Katya shows up with her teenaged son, bearing artifacts and painful memories. As details of the past begin to emerge, Samuel and Ella are forced to reckon with their spirituality, intimacy, and life they have built.

Selected for the Great Plains Theater Conference, 2014
Finalist, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellows Program, 2012

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Urge

2W, 2M

June has always relied on her mother, Ruth, for everything—including the decision to have a baby. When June becomes pregnant, she receives a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder. As she begins treatment and learns to sit with her anxiety, Ruth’s attempts to help her daughter backfire, exposing truths she may not be able to handle. Urge wrestles with the legacies we inherit, the difficulty of breaking cycles, and the impossibility of protecting those we love from life’s inevitable uncertainty.

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Of Love of God of Love

1W, 1M

Psyche loves Cupid. Psyche does not know Cupid. Cupid asks for 24 hours' notice if you have to cancel or else he has to bill you in full. Based on the myth fromThe Metamorphoses, Of Love of God of Love is a 10-minute play that explores the magic and the tragedy of the relationship between therapist and client.

Reading, Red Bull Theater’s 13th Annual Short New Play Festival, 2023
Forthcoming publication by Sordelet Ink

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The Son

1W, 1M

In this 10-minute play, Naucrate, newly freed from bondage, seeks out the father of her long-lost son Icarus to wrestle with the limits of grief, parenthood, and wax wings.

Reading, Red Bull Theater’s 7th Annual Short New Play Festival, 2017
Published in The Best of the Red Bull Short New Play Festival by Stage Rights Publishing

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Dog People

3W, 1M

Annie—so she’ll tell you—has been methodically trying to escape from the suburban home she shares with her mother Julia. When the return of her erratic twin sister Claudia coincides with the delivery of life-altering news from Julia, the women are forced to reexamine their well-established family dynamic. Dog People is an exploration of responsibility, the power of memory, and the need to grow toward and away from our families.