Plays
Safe As Houses
Full length. Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill, 2023.
A city couple moves to the suburbs to start a family, only to be met with a host of anthropomorphic characters including an urbane, commuting mountain lion, the bumbling personification of their Victorian home, and their aggressive, anti-authoritarian lawn. Wife, a playwright, struggles to conceive both a baby and a play while her marriage begins to fracture under the pressures of creation. Laced with magical realism and metatheatrics, Safe As Houses examines the challenges of being forced to choose between two worlds that sustain you. When the boxes people put us in threaten to smother us, sometimes the only solution is to expand until they break.
Swansong
Published by Steele Spring Press, 2016. Premiered as a reading at the Red Bull Theatre in 2016.
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In this rhyming verse retelling of the famous myth of Leda and the swan, the Spartan queen considers the subject of her famed union with Jove.
Short play. Premiered at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, 2019.
A woman of a certain age, alone in her suburban home, removes her makeup and applies a face mask. While doing so, she spins a ghastly tale that may be true or false or somewhere in between.
The Still Point of the Turning World
Short play. Premiered at Barrington Stage Company in 2017.
1940, London: a librarian trapped during the worst of the Blitz considers the poetry of T.S. Eliot.
Musicals
They Call Me Mother
Full length musical.
With composer Katie Horner.
In development.
Hildegard von Bingen was read her last rites at the age of nine, and bricked up into a cell where she was supposed to spend the rest of her days in religious contemplation. Instead, she became one of the most powerful and accomplished women in medieval history. A high-powered abbess, a popular speaker, prolific composer, groundbreaking naturalist, original philosopher, and mystic visionary, this one-woman rock musical also in the nascent phases of ideation will tell the story of Hildegard, vis-a-vis her conflicts with the powerful men of the church.
Beethoven in manhattan
10 minute musical.
With composer Zalman Kelber.
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Bea Ludwig, a onetime Pulitzer finalist, clings to romantic fixations on all the wrong girls, her social justice TikTok following, and her barista job to distract from intractable writer's block. A series of crises at the coffee shop leads to a confrontation with her employer and friend, who convinces her that she needs to look inward if she's going to reach her true potential as an artist. The events of the story are based (quite loosely) on the historical life and persona of Beethoven, and the piece re-envisions four of Beethoven’s most notable compositions as modern day musical theater songs.
Hour-long musical.
With composer Daniel Sefik.
In development.
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When a selkie bride can't find her skin, she's doomed to stay on land, married to the man who caught her forever. What's a poor housewife to do? TEAR THE HOUSE APART. This musical comedy pastiche of 1950's sitcoms retells the traditional Irish story of the mythical seal women called selkies.
just outside
10 minute musical.
With composer Allison Kraus.
When an agoraphobic Long Island housewife learns her husband may have seen a UFO, she makes a social media post which snowballs out of control, turning the couple’s life upside down but breathing new life into their stalled relationship. The play is based on found text from a real social media post.
