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COUNTRY ROAD Z
After years of strict adherence to Evangelical teachings, a Georgia man and his son break with the law; the boy's mother inadvertently gets her husband killed and her son arrested. 

MONSTER
A cryptozoologist comes to the rescue of her opioid-addicted daughter who has been kidnapped by a bigfoot; her two best friends try to remain at her side as she grasps for the truth. 

SOMEWHERE IN MY SUNSET
A young woman escapes her cult and heals the young man, a black hat hacker, who takes her in.  
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Semi Finalist, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, American Blues Theatre, 2021


RADIO GALAXY 
Caught between two fathers and deep-seated racism, a teenaged boy tries to save the life of a sister he never knew he had. 

Optioned for future production.
Reading, TRU New Voices reading Series, June 2017
Workshopped with Passage Theatre Company's Play Lab, Spring 2016

ABDUCTED
Based on her past experiences as a teen, a 57 year-old woman believes she is going to be abducted - permanently - by extra-terrestrials.  Not only must she make peace with leaving her home, business, and family, but she must convince her grown children and boyfriend that she hasn't lost her mind. 

Reading, Playhouse 22, April 2018
Reading, The Barrow Group, April 2015
Reading, Workshop Theatre Company, September 2014


ADVANCED WOMEN
Inspired by the lives of Phoebe and Alice Cary, famous authors of the 1850’s, ADVANCED WOMEN questions the sacrifice of love and family for career and independence.   What is revealed are the very same issues and controversies that face men and women of the 21st Century.

Winner, Todd McNerney Playwriting Award 2009, College of Charleston  
Staged Reading at 2010 Piccolo Spoleto Festival
Invited to The Great Plains Theatre Conference Playlabs 2010, Omaha, NE; staged reading
Finalist, W Keith Hedrick Playwriting Contest & Staged reading at HRC Showcase Theatre in Hudson, NY, October 2009
Reading, Luna Stage Company, Montclair, NJ, November 2008

THE BABY GAME 
Two couples - one straight, one gay - are desperate for parenthood.   They are promised the same baby by one young birth-mother, who yearns for family herself.  What ensues is an emotional and legal competition for the unborn child.

Winner, Fulton Theatre, PA, New Play Discovery Award 2012

Finalist, New Jersey Playwrights Contest, William Patterson University 2014
Reading, Penobscot Theatre's Northern Writes Fifth Annual Playwriting Festival, Bangor, Maine, June 2011
Reading, What Exit? Theatre at the Burgdorff Cultural Center, Maplewood, NJ, April 2010

31 BOND
Inspired by true events, 31 BOND follows a doomed love triangle which led to one of New York City's most sensational crimes of the 19th Century.

Reading, North American Actors Assoc. Playreading Festival Competition, Soho Theatre, London, June 2007
Commissioned & Produced, The Brooklyn Lyceum, NYC, 2003

THE TEXT OF SEX 
A sixteen year-old High School student is arrested for "sexting" her teen-aged boyfriend.   What neither her parents, the school, or the police understand is -  this is true love. 


Produced, New York International Fringe Festival 2014
Staged reading, Women Playwrights Festival, Centenary Stage Company, NJ April 2012
Reading, Luna Stage Company, NJ, April 2012
Workshop Production, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NY Company, January 2012
Reading, Soho House New York, November 2011 

UNFIT
Surrounding the 1927 Supreme Court case, Buck V. Bell, UNFIT follows the lives of defense attorney Aubrey Strode, advocate for compulsory sterilization of "unfit" patients under State care, and Carrie Buck, one such victim.

Reading / workshop, Rider 
University Play Festival, 2016

DEAR AMERICA,
Life long best friends turn against one another when under suspect of bombing their High School.

Production, New York International Fringe Festival, NYC, August  2006
Workshopped, Push Productions, NYC, 2005
Reading, The Looking Glass Theatre, NYC August 2001
Reading, Titan Theatre Company at the Westbeth Theatre Center, NYC, March 2003



BACK BURNER MURDER 
A young woman's ideals of unconditional love are challenged when her fiance commits murder.

Workshop Production, Six Figures Theatre Company Artists of Tomorrow Festival, November 2006
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2006
Reading, Women’s Project & Productions, First Look Series, NYC, April 2002



ELEPHANT NIGHT
A woman must come to terms with her father's death when confronted by her mother's frailty.

Workshop Production, The Riant Theater, NYC, December 2000
Staged Reading, Provincetown Playhouse, NYC, 1999
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2000

Finalist, John Golden Award 2000
Finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship Award, 2000





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