PLAYS
Word of Mouth
3W, 2M
Cat needs something to believe in. Robin wants to be reminded she's alive. Ayala seeks solace after a tragedy. Orson avoids talking about his past. Each has been handpicked, from a waitlist of hundreds, for an elaborate dinner in Leo's converted loft apartment. But as Leo attempts to orchestrate the perfect dining experience, he and his guests confront the deeper hungers and fears that eat away at them. What is it about sharing a meal that so effectively opens strangers’ hearts to each other? Where is the line between nourishment and consumption? And what is waiting in the dark, empty space beneath this apartment?
Originally developed with the Geffen Writers’ Room. Staged reading at the Geffen Playhouse in December 2022.
Workshopped at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2025
Octopus’s Garden
1W, 2M, 1 Giant Pacific Octopus puppet
Two marine biologists and a composer slowly lose their minds at the discovery that an octopus in their lab has composed the greatest piece of music of all time. Career ambitions, creative insecurities, and the madness that comes from a brush with the divine — all combine to set events in motion toward a final desperate confrontation. Octopus’s Garden is a funny, soulful fable about beauty, science, and cephalopods.
Finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2021.
Staged reading at Boston Court New Play Reading Festival, 2024
Developmental “puppeturgy” workshop at Outside In Theatre, 2024
Staged reading at Circle X Theatre, 2025
Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2025
The Palm of Her Hand
2W, 4M
Set in the world of professional magicians, The Palm of Her Hand examines the double-edged sword of personal mentorship, and the ethical choices that young sleight-of-hand practitioners face about how to use their skills of deception.
Originally developed with HUMANITAS Prize / StageRaw PLAY LA. Staged reading as part of the PLAY LA Festival in July 2023, produced by Circle X.
Semifinalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2023
A Long Time Coming
4W, 3M
A forest is growing in Norway, planted to provide paper for a set of texts that will be printed in the year 2114. Each year between 2014-2114, an author is selected to write a text for this Future Library which will be preserved, unread, until the printing. The play tells two intertwining stories of one family: a novelist in 2022 who puts his mother’s life story into words, his great-granddaughter and her son in 2114 who journey from a California farm to a Norwegian forest for the opening of the Library, and a secret that has waited a century to come to light. Examining the voices we choose to preserve and those that are lost forever, A Long Time Coming looks toward a future that holds both disaster and hope.
Inspired by The Future Library Project, conceived by artist Katie Paterson in 2014 and commissioned by the City of Oslo’s Slow Space public art program.
Originally developed with The Vagrancy Playwright’s Group in Los Angeles. Virtual reading as part of The Vagrancy’s Blossoming Festival, June 2021.
Staged reading as one of four winning plays at Ashland New Plays Festival, October 2023.
Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2024