Playwriting

All Souls

A mystery unfolds on a small Croatian island
Presented in:

• Ghost Light Theater Staged Readings, Gateway City Arts, Holyoke Mass
• MFA Workshop, Kennedy Center, Washington DC | All Souls was nominated by Lesley University and was a semi-finalist for the workshop.

Countdown

Aids did not only infect bodies, it infected hearts
Presented in:

• Home Grown Festival, Greenfield Community College Greenfield Mass
• One-Act Festival, Curtain Theater, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Examiner

A physician arrives in the Court of Catherine to screen her lovers of venereal disease
Presented in:

• Actor’s Theater of Charlotte, Charlotte NC | The Examiner was a semi-finalist.
• Ghost Light Theater Staged Readings, Gateway City Arts, Holyoke Mass
• Lesley University New Play Reading Series, Cambridge, MA

In the Name of God

The proud angel meets Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane to convince him not to go through with the Crucifiction.
Presented in:
Hampden Theater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

One Good Look

A retelling of the myth of Narcissus and Echo.
Presented in:
Hampden Theater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The Accident

Debt is a hole onlookers may fall into
Presented in:

• Boston Theatre Marathon, Boston MA
• Missed Connections, One-Act Festival, River City Stages, NYC
• Urban Stories of Power, Calgary, Alberta

Adios

What do you do when your ex threatens to call immigration?
Presented in:
Lesley University’s Graduate Student Readings, Cambridge MA

As It Appears: A Play about Bullying

Presented in:
Pride Week Play Easthampton Massachusetts High School

Benefit

Why doesn’t the minister’s wife know where he was born and raised?
Presented in:

• 3rd Annual Fresh Fruit Festival’s Short Play Contest, Noyerican Café NYC | Benefit won audience favorite and continued into the main festival.
• Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC
• Secret Theater’s One Act:Act One Festival, Long Island City, NY

Circus Boy

That boy spun cotton candy on a tree branch
Presented in:

• Live a Little One Act Series, Palace Theater Seguin TX
• MaMaDrama Stage Left Studio Theater NYC November

Glissade

Her daughter is offered the lead role in Swan Lake, at what price?
Presented in:
Roger T. Sermon Center Stage by City Theatre of Independence, Missouri

The Hidden Word in My Vocabulary: an evening of work by Richard Ballon

Presented in:

• Alumnae Theater’s New Ideas Festival, Toronto, Ontario
• Red Bull Theater at Playwrights Horizon NYC

Meet u @Stavros @2

Moving from Chat to real time can be awkward
Presented in:
Off the Book Festival HUGE Improv Theater Minneapolis

Midnight Clear

Their bell ringing Christmas show clangs to a halt.
Presented in:
Suburban Holidays III Reading, MA

Overdue

What can be worth a passing grade?
Presented in:
Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater, NYC

Orphans

Who stole the baby Jesus ?
Presented in:
Boston Theater Marathon, Boston, MA

Syphilis?

The test results come back just after the honeymoon.
Presented in:

• Evening of New Work, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts
• Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater, NYC

Things That Go Bump

Family furniture unleashes a shadow of former times.
Presented in:

• Inspirato Festival, Toronto Ontario
• Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC

What Friends are For

The man he aroused can’t seem to be roused.
Presented in:
Naughty Readings, Image Theater, Lowell Mass

What Was, a short opera

The mirror they bought came with more than a reflection.
Presented in:
BGSU Micro Operas, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Wintergreen and Smoke

What is thought a treat is laced with poison.
Presented in:
Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater, NYC

Beneath the Window

Presented in:
Small Fish Radio and Theater, Chicago

Blind Date

Presented in:
Marathon, One Minute Sprints. Boston. MA

Bulgakov

Presented in:

• One Woman Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC
• Piney Fork Press Theater Festival NYPL Riverside, NYC
• Syllable Series, La Paloma Café, Hartford Connecticut

Cassandra’s Choice

Presented in:

• Lesley University’s Creative Readings Sherrill Library, Cambridge MA
• Loading Dock Gallery Juried Show on Alienation, Lowell Mass
• Piney Fork Press Theater Festival NYPL Riverside, NYC
• Shad Radio Hour, Shelburne Falls Mass
• Universal Theater Winter Festival, Provincetown Mass

Cellfish

Presented in:
One Man Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC May

Cluster

Presented in:
Sola Voces, Estrogenius Festival, Manhattan Theater Source

Desert Storm

Presented in:

• ArtHotel. Montreal Quebec September
• Asphalt Shorts, Kitchener Ontario July
• Lesley University’s Creative Readings Sherrill Library, Cambridge MA

Doubletake

Presented in:

• I am the Shea Festival, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts January
• Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC

Enough of a Little

Presented in:

• Augusta Savage Gallery University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge Mass

Forsythia

Presented in:

• ArtHotel. Montreal Quebec September
• Women at Work Festival Stage Left Studio Theater, New York City

Griselda

Presented in:

• MaMaDrama Stage Left Studio Theater NYC November
• The Good Ear Review Magazine

His Name was Doug

Presented in:

• Coming of Age, True stories of Love, Loss and Learning Harvard Cultural Center, Harvard, MA
• Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1 Qommunicate Media

How Leaving Came to Me

Presented in:

• Bolder Life Festival
• One Woman Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC

How We Began

Presented in:

• Caffeine Theater’s Dylan Thomas Festival, Chicago IL
• Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC
• Small Fish Radio and Theater, Chicago
• Specter Magazine
• Specter Magazine: Online Magazine
• Walking the Wire Festival OMG, Riverside Theater, Iowa City

Kanga

Presented in:
Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC

Light on Nob Hill

Presented in:
The Fine Art of Storytelling, Image Theater, Lowell Mass

Mama and the Baby Jesus

Presented in:

• Family: True Stories, Harvard MA Cultural Collaborative
• Memories of my Mother Festival, Miami Botanical Gardens
• Two Countries Anthology

O Christmas Tree

Presented in:
One Man Talking Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC

Paddy McClintlock

Presented in:

• Evening of New Work, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts
• I am the Shea Festival, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts January
• Universal Theater Winter Festival, Provincetown Mass
• Walking the Wire Festival, Riverside Theater Iowa City
• Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater, NYC

Pelican Girls

Presented in:

• Estrogenius 2011 Collection of Plays
• For Better or Worse Festival. Fresh Water Theatre, Minneapolis
• Loading Dock Gallery Juried Show on Alienation, Lowell Mass
• Sola Voces, Estrogenius Festival, Manhattan Theater Source, NYC
• Solo – An evening of Monologues, Owl tree Theater, Raleigh, NC

Pillow Talk

Presented in:
One Man Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC May

Petrushka

Presented in:
Syllable Series, La Paloma Café, Hartford Connecticut

Ricky Boy

Presented in:

• Evening of New Work, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts
• I am the Shea Festival, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts January
• Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC

Swananoa

Presented in:

• Asphalt Shorts, Kitchener Ontario
• One Man Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC May

Table Setting

Presented in:
One Man Talking Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC

That Apron

Presented in:
Apron Strings Project, Riverside NY

That Bench Over There

Presented in:

• Asphalt Shorts, Kitchener Ontario
• Black Box Series University of Hawaii

That First Winter

Presented in:

• All For One Headliner, Under St. Mark’s NYC
• Sola Voces, Estrogenius Festival, Manhattan Theater Source

The Last Blow

Presented in:

• One Woman Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC
• Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater, NYC

The Last Words

Presented in:

• Asphalt Shorts, Kitchener Ontario
• One Man Standing Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC May

The Perfect Match

Presented in:
Asphalt Shorts, Kitchener Ontario July

The Support Group

Presented in:
One Man Talking Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC

Thumbprint

Presented in:

• First Break Festival, Manchester England
• I am the Shea Festival, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts
• Left Out Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC
• Monologues that Go Bump, Coffeeblack Productions Brooklyn NY March

Trailer Talk

Presented in:
Solo – An evening of Monologues, Owl tree Theater, Raleigh, NC

Trickledown

Presented in:

• Estrogenius 2008
• I am the Shea Festival, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts January
• Sola Voces, Estrogenius Festival, Manhattan Theater Source

Slaves

Presented in:
Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater NYC

Spirited

Presented in:

• Evening of New Work, Shea Theater Turners Falls, Massachusetts
• Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio Theater, NYC

Vampiro

Presented in:
All For One Headliner, Under St. Mark’s NYC

Wedding March

Presented in:

• Lesley University’s Creative Readings Sherrill Library, Cambridge MA
• One Man Talking Festival, Emerging Artist Theater at TADA, NYC

When the Dead Talk Back

An evening of monologues supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural council.
Presented in:

• Phineas Newton Memorial Library, Royalston MA
• Wendell Public Library Wendell, Mass

Zephyr

Presented in:
ArtHotel. Montreal Quebec September