Life is looking sunny for 17-year-old Carly. Her BFF Mike E and his cool mom just moved in. The fandom website she made for her celebrity crush is blowing up. And the mysterious fan she’s been talking to online just might be the object of her affections. The one catch – her crush is a serial killer, and his murders are getting closer to her home. Sunny Days explores the gap between our online and offline selves, the cultural effects of toxic masculinity, and how far women will go to save the people they love.
Workshop production, Seabury Quinn Playwrights Festival, Ohio University, April 2019
Cora
A young photojournalist travels overseas to document war crimes. But first, she must agree to leave her heart behind. Fortunately, her news corporation has state-of-the-art technology to ensure the hearts are protected and thoroughly entertained. Cora explores how a digital culture that connects us to the world can separate us from ourselves.
Staged Readings: New Works Festival, Viterbo University (La Crosse, WI; January 2019) Fever Dream Festival, Benchmark Theater (Denver, Colorado; October 2018) Regional Writers Showcase, Geva Theatre Center (Rochester, NY; May 2018) Seabury Quinn Playwrights Festival, Ohio University (Athens, OH; April 2018)
Energy Mass Light
AJ, a budding computer scientist, and her twin brother Elliot, a hopeless romantic, have nothing in common other than the college apartment they share. But when a girl with a parasol claiming to be from 1915 suddenly shows up in their living room, they'll have to combine their loves of physics and poetry to figure out who she is and where she belongs.
Staged reading: Regional Writers Showcase, Geva Theatre Center (May 2015)
Campus production: The Opposite of People Theatre Company University of Rochester (October 2015)
Screenplays
A Very Covid Christmas (Work in Progress)
"13 Going on 30" by way of "It's a Wonderful Life" but written in a quarantine stupor.... It's 2005 and high school senior/overachiever Grace just got her Christmas wish: early acceptance to Stanford to study pre-med. And she's terrified for what her future may hold. Thanks to a chance encounter with Santa, she fast-forwards 15 years and wow - she was terrified about the wrong things. Why is she engaged to a CEO who insists on mask-kissing in public? When did she and her best friend Jenny unfriend each other on Facebook? And even if she can figure out a way to go back to the past and live her 20's for real, how will she find meaning and hope knowing what's to come?
It's Not Rocket Science
Tara has always known her destiny: to become a rocket scientist. After all, it says so in the stars—at least according to her parents, founders of an astrological cult. But when she attends a rocket science camp for advanced high school students, she meets a mysterious puppeteer, and her plans start to falter.
Finalist round, KCACTF/NNPN NPA Playwrights Workshop at the Kennedy Center, 2019
2 time playwright for Rochester Fringe Festival: writer for 24 Hour Play Festival (September 2019) and staged reading of 1-act play Q&A (September 2015)
Participant in Curious Theatre New Voices National Collective, 2016
Midnight Madness
As part of my MFA training at Ohio University, I wrote a 5 minute "Madness" play almost every week. Please contact me if you're looking for theatre that's 5 minutes or less. I have over 52 short plays / monologues!