Plays
What Are You Worth?
From the 2019 Orlando Shakespeare Festival workshop, directed by Chip Miller.
Dark Dramedy - 4 actors (2w, 2m)
Value. A definition: the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. Have you ever thought about your value? Follow a ragtag group of friends/lovers/slaves/slavers as they grapple with the meaning of human value through 800 years of people owning other people.
Development History
Reading, Miranda Theatre Company’s Liz Smith Reading Series, March 2019
Reading, William Inge Theater Festival, May 2019
Workshop, Portland Center Stage JAW FESTIVAL, July 2019
Workshop, PlayFest at Orlando Shakes, November 2019
Welcome to Fear City
From the 2018 Kansas City Rep production, directed by Chip Miller.
Dramedy - 6 actors (2w, 4m)
It is July 1977 and the South Bronx is HOT: from a heat wave, from this new thing that would come to be known as “hip-hop,” and from an astounding number of fires burning the borough to the ground. E, a young African-American man, dreams of being a poet, but unemployment, a raging fiscal crisis, and a family on the brink of disaster drive him to ask a dangerous question: Can you love your ‘hood if you take part in its destruction? WELCOME TO FEAR CITY is about a community trying to get by in the midst of crime, social apathy, poverty, and a whole new art form that’s about to electrify the world.
Production & Development History
Production, Kansas City Rep, April-May 2018
World Premiere Production, Contemporary American Theater Festival, July 2017
Workshop, Play Penn Mini-Conference, March 2017
Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, October 2016
Workshop, Labyrinth Theater Company, June 2016
Time and a Half
From the 2017 Playwrights Horizons Theater School production, directed by DJ Mendel.
A comedy…until it’s not - 9 actors (8w, 2m - flexible)
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Production & Development History
Production, Playwrights Horizons Theater School (PHTS), April 2017
Workshop, PHTS, October 2016
Commission, PHTS, May 2016
Listen for the Light
Tess Talbot, photo by Dan Winters. Directed by Tamara Winters.
Drama - 3 actors (1w, 2m)
A brilliant former slave with a tragic past questions his faith. A rock star of his time fights his inner and outer demons. A precocious, gun-loving young woman locked in a room reluctantly awaits word from God. It’s 1844 and in the small town of Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith—Mormon prophet—rules all. Or so he believes.
Production & Development History
World Premiere Production, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, April-May 2017
Reading, WP Theater, April 2014
Workshop, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, June 2012
Commission, South Coast Rep, 2010
Holly Down in Heaven
Maya Jackson and Vanessa Strickland, photo by Ryan Maxwell. Directed by Michael Dove.
Dark Comedy - 4-6 actors (2w, 2m, many dolls)
Holly collects dolls. Holly is a born-again Christian. Holly is a fifteen-year-old, brainy, outspoken, spoiled, tyrannical brat. She's also pregnant. During her nine-month odyssey, she must find a way to move forward with the new life she’s landed in or remain forever hidden in her own special heaven . . . of talking dolls. A dark comedy about navigating the treacherous terrain from child to adult.
Production & Development History
World Premiere Production, Forum Theatre, September-October 2012
Reading, New Dramatists, June 2009
Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, April 2009
Workshop, New Georges, January 2008
AliceGraceAnon
Carolyn Baeumler, Ralph Capasso, and Teresa Avia Lim; photo by Jim Baldassare. Directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni.
Comedy - 6-20 actors (3w, 3m minimum)
A curious girl who falls down a rabbit hole. The lead singer of an iconic ‘60s rock band. The poor, nameless star of a classic druggie diary. Three oddly connected heroines inhabit three separate worlds, playing out their stories pretty much as expected, but when those worlds collide—we mean really, they collide—they will all start to wonder “Who's really controlling my destiny?”
Production & Development History
World Premiere Production, New Georges, October-November 2012
Workshop, New Georges, June 2011
Commission, New Georges, January 2010
I have a few more plays and LOTS of shorties and one acts. For info on any of these, hit me up.
Also, some of the titles mentioned above are available in full on the National New Play Network’s New Play Exchange.
At right: Christopher Reed Brown and Brianna Woods in Welcome to Fear City at Kansas City Rep, directed by Chip Miller. Photo by Karen Almond.