Full Length Plays
(Full Length, 13m, 4f, plus chorus and a guitarist)
The parallel stories of a Spanish treasure galleon that wrecks off the coast of Florida in 1622, and the search by a modern-day treasure hunter to find the fortune in ancient silver and recover his lost glory.
Playwrights' Center Core Member Apprentice Workshop
Developed at The Puzzle Festival, NYC
Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award
(Full Length, 2m)
In 1951, a US Army Counterintelligence agent had the chance to interrogate a German medical doctor for one night, to find a vaccine that would stop an American disaster. This play examines the human need to condemn that is in us all, and traces the disease as it is passed from father to son.
Winner of the Trustus Theatre Playwrights Festival.
(Full Length, 1m, 1f)
An office affair, from start to disastrous finish. We can't help being human - sharing a laugh, falling in love - even in a sterile corporate world.
(Full Length, 3m, 3f)
John works in a sleep lab. Over the course of a few nights, he must face his past and reconcile with his future, or he may never fall asleep again.
Winner of the 2008 Helford Prize.
(Full Length, 1m, 2f)
A futuristic campfire tale about Zombies, survival, and the meaning of family.
Developed at The Studios of Key West.
(Full Length, 3m, 1f)
The secrets of the universe revealed in the wrestling ring.
Developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
One Act Plays
(One Act, 1m)
A man is struck by a vision of Heaven and comes back to tell us about it. His monologue uncovers our deepest longings about what lies beyond, and changes the way we see what's around us.
More about TRUMPET SOLO.
Short Plays
MORAL SUPPORT
(10-Minute, 2m)
Bret and Tom have been best friends since college. But the pressures of growing up - jobs, rent, girlfriends - may be getting to them. What's more, Ninja Palace 3 just came out today, and that gives Bret has an idea...
Development workshop at Carnegie Mellon University
Official Selection at the 2009 Emerging Voices Playwriting
Competition at the historic Lincoln Theatre.
JOY OF COOKING
(10-Minute, 1m, 2f)
Joy is at the end of her rope until she meets the model from her 1967 copy of Joy of Cooking. Can she learn to cook in one night, or will her life not turn out like the recipe?
Selected for reading at the 2009 "Best of the Rest" Fest
at the Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz.
THE TASTE OF FREE COFFEE
(10-Minute, 1m, 1f)
Everyone in the diner gets the same friendly service, but today there's one man that seems to need it a little more than the rest. As the story unfolds, we experience his despair and redemption, all for a little cup of coffee.
Official Selection at the 2007 St. Genesius Play Festival.