PLAYS
Octopus’s Garden
1W, 2M, 1 Giant Pacific Octopus puppet
When two marine biologists and a struggling composer discover that an octopus in a cephalopod lab has written the most transcendent piece of music ever heard, their worlds begin to unravel. Ambitions clash, egos fray, and their brush with something divine breeds obsession. Innovative puppetry brings soulful theatricality to this fable about art, science, and the moral quandaries that erupt when another being surpasses humankind.
World Premiere coming in 2026, a co-production with Boston Court Pasadena, Circle X Theatre, and Outside In Theatre. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky. February 26-March 29, 2026. More information here.
Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2025
Staged reading at Circle X Theatre, 2025
Developmental “puppeturgy” workshop at Outside In Theatre, 2024
Staged reading at Boston Court New Play Reading Festival, 2024
Finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2021
Word of Mouth
3W, 2M
Four guests, handpicked from a waitlist of hundreds, convene 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 eating together 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?
Staged reading at IAMA New Works Festival, 2025
Workshopped at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2025
Originally developed with the Geffen Writers’ Room. Staged reading at the Geffen Playhouse in December 2022.
The Scrumping
5W, 5M
In this contemporary retelling of the Greek myth of Castor and Pollux, the Roan family gathers for an annual apple harvest and cider-making weekend on an orchard in the Pacific Northwest. Ancient traditions are tested and secrets come to light as twin half-brothers, feuding cousins, and flawed parents assemble. Starting in contemporary language and gradually boiling up into mythic, poetic verse, The Scrumping asks: What divine part of yourself would you give away for the person you love most?
Staged Reading produced by Circle X in January 2026
Originally developed in Circle X Evolving Playwrights Group
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.
Staged reading as part of the PLAY LA Festival in July 2023, produced by Circle X.
Semifinalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2023
Originally developed with HUMANITAS Prize / StageRaw PLAY LA.
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.
Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2024
Staged reading as one of four winning plays at Ashland New Plays Festival, October 2023.
Originally developed with The Vagrancy Playwright’s Group in Los Angeles. Virtual reading as part of The Vagrancy’s Blossoming Festival, June 2021.