Full Length
The Second Avenue Subway
(Full Length, 2m, imaginative set)
A liberal, white father tries to teach his son about life, faith, and finding good in the world as they ride the New York City Subway together, over many years. But as the son grows up, the values they once took for granted become a vivid battleground for conflicting visions of personal responsibility, the public good, and the meaning of hope.
Developed with the Ingram New Works Lab
Reading with The Drawing Board (NYC)
Fall Down Seven
(Full Length, 3m, 2f, with doubling)
Jim always imagined that he would be a Samurai when he grew up. But he's a dad. Living in Brooklyn. When trouble comes looking, in the form of a bullying incident at his son's school, Jim seizes the chance to teach some life lessons. But what is the place of honor in a fallen world? FALL DOWN SEVEN is a dark comedy about parenting, martial arts, and following your dreams even if they're a few hundred years out of date.
Reading with the Olmsted Salon (NYC)
Reading with The Drawing Board (NYC)
Christina Haring and Jason Lange
(Full Length, 1m, 1f, unit set)
Two freshman at an Evangelical Christian college navigate the passions and pressures of first love, surrounded by a watchful community, and under the eyes a jealous God. Told in a fragmented, lyrical style, CHRISTINA HARING AND JASON LANGE documents the confusion, isolation, and exhilaration of young love in a subculture where the simplest earthly choices can have eternal consequence.
Reading with The Drawing Board (NYC)
Stepping Out of the River at Dawn
(Full Length, 2m, 2f, plus dancers)
Rwandan immigrants living in Queens, NY try to recreate the traditional wedding ceremonies, despite the horrors of their past.
Centre Stage Greenville Production (Fall 2014)
Mixed Blood Theatre Production (Spring 2015)
Winner of the Centre Stage Greenville New Play Festival
Great Plains Theatre Conference - Main Stage Reading
Reading at The Dramatists Guild (NYC)
Selected for the D.C. Black Theatre Festival
Together We Are Making a Poem in Honor of Life
(Full Length, 1m, 1f)
A mother and father navigate a series of support group meetings, over the course of many nights, in an effort to make sense of the tragic event that took their child.
Great Plains Theatre Conference - PlayLab Reading
Developed with the Nashville Repertory Theatre
Reading at The Dramatists Guild (NYC)
(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 - raises the unsettling hope that we can't help being human, 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.
Bellhammer
(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
THE END OF THE WORLD WILL COME WHILE I'M IN LINE
(10-Minute, 2m, 1f)
3 actors to play 10 characters standing in a grocery store line on a Sunday evening. Existential thoughts seep in, and maybe we move forward, or maybe we're all waiting for something yet to come.
Reading with The Drawing Board (NYC)
Reading with Playhouse Nashville
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.