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JOHN DESERVES TO DIE Full Length CAST: 4F, 2M SYNOPSIS: All is calm until theater department favorite Professor Daniel Holmes casts unassuming freshman Laura Vogel as Carol in his Spring production of David Mamet’s Oleanna. No one is less pleased than ambitious, fat sophomore Jen Barnett, who threatens to expose a secret that could turn lives and careers upside down. When fiery student reporter Andy Stark starts to follow leads for an explosive exposé, it is only a matter of time before dangerous truths come out. Art begins to imitate life as secrets unravel, masks come off, and classic texts are challenged. In this decidedly murderous exploration into the devilish intricacies of sex, power, consent, and gender politics in academia, three students take control in asking: If Carol was telling the story, wouldn’t John deserve to die? Production History: Production - Fresh Ink Theatre (Spring 2023) Reading - LakehouseRanchDotPng (Summer 2024) Staged Reading - Tier5 Theater Company (Summer 2024) Reading - The Tank / First Kiss Theatre Company (Fall 2022) Workshop/Reading - Fresh Ink Theatre (Summer 2022) Development in Artist Residency - First Kiss Theatre Company (2022) |
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XOXOLOLA Full Length CAST: 1F, 2M SYNOPSIS: Everyone has their secrets, including Lauren - a bookish English major by day, fat fetish camgirl by night. These worlds collide as romance sparks between Lauren and fellow classics-lover Simon, who meet studying Titus Andronicus in their Shakespeare class. The two dive into the play and discover the deep, world-altering nature of pain and trauma – even the fictional kind. In an analysis that borders on the supernatural, this decidedly femme horror play explores patriarchy’s morbid fascination with and fetishization of violence, fat bodies, and voiceless women. Production History: Production - LakeHouseRanchDotPng (September 2023) |
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GUTS Full Length CAST: 5F, 2M, 1NB The hit reality weight-loss competition show GUTS is back with its BIGGEST! SEASON! EVER! There will be grueling challenges, verbal abuses, and – of course – the fan-favorite weekly weigh-ins. But behind the camera, relationships are forming, romances are blossoming, and friendships are being found in the most unlikely of places. Can these six contestants find self-love, communal healing, and liberation in a place designed to make them hate themselves and their bodies? Do they have the guts? Production History: Staged Reading - The Brick / First Kiss Theatre Company (October 2023) Development in Artist Residency - First Kiss Theatre Company (Summer 2023) |
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POWER PLAY Full Length CAST: 5F, 2M SYNOPSIS: When overachieving, agreeable, and undeniably fat undergrad Sarah gets cast to play historical sex symbol Helen of Troy in a student production, she and her peers are forced to confront their understandings of beauty, sex, and fatness. To make matters more complicated, a budding tension between Sarah and her on-stage love interest Chris begs the student actors to ask where the characters end and the real bodies begin. With a cast of all-too familiar characters, Power Play puts a magnifying glass to the underbelly of “liberal” and educational theatre-making and the bodies it continues to marginalize. Production History: Production - Brick Road Productions (Southeast Missouri State University) (upcoming Fall 2024) Staged Reading - Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (May 2023) Staged Reading - Artists' Theater of Boston (March 2022) Women’s Theatre Festival Finalist (2022) SheNYC Arts Festival Semi-Finalist (2022) |
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MARGARET MY NAME Full Length CAST: 2F, 3-4M SYNOPSIS: Margaret My Name is an explosive adaptation of Shakespeare's first tetralogy retold from the perspective of the oft-neglected and villainized Queen Margaret of Anjou. Most popular scholarship ignores Margaret entirely, or else dismiss her as a villain; scholar Harold Bloom goes as far as to call her “termagant,” “any actress’ nightmare,” and “a ghastly widow, for whom Shakespeare never could compose a decent line.” This adaptation strives to tell the gentle, proud, and ruthless Queen Margaret’s story in its entirety, and to explore the capacity of modern artists to reclaim classical narratives for the women who drive them forward. Read more about the development of Margaret My Name here. Production History: Production with Brandeis University Department of Theatre Arts (2020) Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best Original Play (2020) Highest Honors from Brandeis University (2020) |
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