WRITING/ Productions
(New York City, unless otherwise noted)
Hazelwood Jr. High
Based on a true story, a lesbian love triangle at a junior high in Indiana goes horribly wrong. When Shanda, the new girl at school, catches Amanda’s eye, Amanda’s girlfriend Melinda is furious. Melinda enlists the aid of a disturbed “goth” girl and her friends, and they set out to teach Shanda a lesson.
Early version presented by the Director’s Company, 1997
Premiere: New Group, directed by Scott Elliott 1998
Miss Julie in Hollywood adapted from “Miss Julie” by August Strindberg
Set in Beverly Hills in the 1950’s, John, a Mexican immigrant, becomes involved in a power struggle with the tempestuous daughter of a studio mogul.
Premiere: 1993, University of Oregon
Northwest Actors Studio, Seattle, 1996
The Salon, New York City, 1997
The 78th St. Theatre Lab, New York City, 1998
Cruel & Barbarous Treatment adapted from the story of the same name by Mary McCarthy. A married socialite in the 1930’s has an affair with another man. She contemplates the pleasures of deception, and the pain of divorce and a life of solitude.
Premiere: The Salon 1999
Gloucester Stage Company, 2000
Cole Porter’s Nymph Errant
Five pretty girls graduate from an English boarding school and set out to begin their lives. Adapted from a Cole Porter musical, “Nymph Errant” follows the adventures of one of the students, Eve, as she travels the world in search of someone to love. On her journey, she stumbles upon her classmates, each of whom is involved in a sexual adventure. Or is the whole play Eve’s dream of what the future may hold?
Premiere: Theatreworks, Colorado 2002
The Other Heart
When a prim and proper dance student receives a new heart, she undergoes a major personality shift, which consequently alters the lives of everyone around her. Is her new personality the result of “cellular memory,” a documented medical phenomenon, or was it just time for a change?
Premiere: Doane College 2002
Karaoke Night at the Suicide Shack
Eleven American “celebrities” – Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, James Whale, Lupe Velez, Margaret Mary Ray, Diane Linkletter, Kurt Cobain, Mark Rothko, Dorothy Dandridge and Abbie Hoffman – all of whom committed suicide - gather over drinks and songs to discuss an artist’s responsibilities - to society, to their families, and to their art.
Premiere: Queens Theatre in the Park 2003
Rebel Voices
A stage adaptation of Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s, “Voices of a People’s History of the United States” Rebel Voices is a new play about the United States today as seen through the prism of history. The play brings to life incendiary and inspirational stories of dissent from U.S. history, past and present. The “voices,” include such major historical figures as Fredrick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Malcolm X.
Premiere: Culture Project September 2006
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Shangri La – Three high school girls from a tough neighborhood in Queens are determined to make it to the top of the charts. With a little grit and a lot of talent, they transform themselves into singing sensations. And that was the easy part.
Premiere: Queens Theatre in the Park December 2006
West Moon Street adapted from “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” by Oscar Wilde.
Young Lord Arthur is deliriously happy – just down from Oxford and engaged to be married – when a mysterious palm reader predicts that he will commit a murder. Being a proper English gentleman, he resolves to get the murder over with before he weds. But it isn’t as easy as he hoped.
Premiere: Prospect Theatre Company at Hudson Guild Theatre April 2007
Published by Samuel French
