Play Synopses
Walls
Below are descriptions and excerpts from my plays. All are copywrited, by me. If you would like to reprint or produce anything you see here, please contact me.
Walls is a dance/theatre piece, an adaptation of the seminal feminist work "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The main character, portrayed by three different women, has been confined to a room as treatment for "hysteria." I am workshopping it with director Sophie Anderson. Look for it soon at a theatre near you.
One-act, 6-8 women
She/Phases
A dance into the realm of the goddess, where she dwells in all her forms: Maiden, Mother and Crone. Meet 9 women whose physical ages belie their spiritual ones, and witness the extraordinary power of the Sacred Feminine. A full-length play with dance. 3 women, various ages/ethnicities
A one-act version of the play, titled Phases was presented in a staged reading by Aspire Playwrights Collective in April 2007.
Miss Roberts if You're Nasty
Barbie has gotten a bad rap - being blamed for all these eating disorders and bad body image. Now she has the chance to defend herself. A six-minute monologue. 1 woman or 1 man in drag
Hear Me Roar
2 women (Full-length version, 5 women/2 men)
Greek to Me
Lying, cheating, jealousy, revenge... is it a Greek tragedy or an American high school? It can be hard to tell. A one-act farce, which got rave reviews at the Fault Line Theatre. One act, 7 women/5 men; teens
Click on the "Greek to Me" link above to read an excerpt from the script.
Salt, Light & Stars
This full-length examines the ways in which young people are "won over" to Christian fundamentalism, and how this affects their lives and relationships. Full-length; a semi-finalst for the 2007 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Festival.
3 women/2 men, early 20s
The Day After Yesterday
It's madness!! The world government has decided to make everyone on the planet take a day off. Workaholic Gina just cannot face the proposition of wasting an entire day. Somehow, though, she survives... only to discover that she has lost her ability to perceive the passage of time, and her whole life is suddenly upside down. One act, 1 man/2 women, late 20s-early 30s; 1 woman 50s
