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Curiouser: A Zoom Play

{VIRTUAL} SHORT PLAY. How do we navigate a chaotic world in which nothing is what it seems? Fall down the rabbit hole with Alicia and we journey through a ~virtual~ wonderland with her! This is a Wonderland like you've never seen it before! This Zoom-specific script is an energetic ensemble piece ripe for a creative virtual performance!

Commissioned by The Firehouse Theatre in Farmers Branch, TX.

Premiered August 2020 on Zoom, directed by Olivia Grace Murphy.

“Curiouser is a smart and quirky gloss on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, conceived as a Zoom Class, with all the constraints and opportunities that venue implies. […] Curiouser was delightful and filled with ingenuity, shaping Carroll’s twilight zone to a plot that perhaps might alleviate our shared predicament, if only we can can roll with our ongoing challenges, resisting frustration and perplexity.”

Christopher Soden, SharpCritic

this is fine.

ONE-ACT. Trauma is a swirling, never-ending cycle of hell. this is fine sends us through nine circles of a very specific kind of hell; investigating the process of sifting through all the dark, ugly parts of yourself and attempting to make sense of the chaos 2020 was. Not a quarantine play by any means, but written in 2020 as we were forced to confront the darkest parts of ourselves in isolation. Interspersed with moments of poetry and movement, an unflinching explication of the pain we try to bury away only until it boils over.

Currently undeveloped/unproduced.

don’t call me “bestie”

FULL-LENGTH. The writer has the worst writer's block until his best friend gives him a magical joint that sparks his inspiration. From the heavens, SOPHIE the late hyperpop producer, descends as his fairy godmother, ready to challenge the writer to write the story he's most resistant to tell. A mix of poetry & play, chronicling the beginning, middle, & end of a mind-boggling relationship while the writer teaches himself to speak about & find meaning in his complicated past.

Currently undeveloped/unproduced.

cinéma vérité

SHORT PLAY. Two college students attend a Japanese horror movie festival at an eerily vacant movie theater. As the night presses on, Jennifer begins to realize that her new friend Layla may be not quite the person she met in class.

Premiered at Collin Theater Center’s 24 Hour Play Festival in 2014.

Produced by Sundown Collaborative Theatre in 2016.

cinéma vérité ii: a new host

SHORT PLAY. Jennifer's back! In the new sequel to 2014's cinéma vérité, Jennifer has a tough decision to make... sacrifice her new crush, or fight back against the evil that's been in control for far too long. What will she pick? Stop by the Briarcliff Megaplex once more to find out.

Staged Readings produced by Flexible Grey Theatre Co. and Chicago Dramatists in 2022.

The Burning

SHORT PLAY. Tyler & a t-shirt are about to have a very heated conversation that's long overdue.

Staged Reading produced by IMPRINT Theatreworks in 2018.

I Know What You Did Last Friday the 13th

(An 80s Slasher Jukebox Musical)

FULL LENGTH. Angela, Tina, and the gang graduate high school tomorrow and to go out with a bang, they're throwing a party inside the gym at midnight!! Little do the students know they're being stalked by a mysterious masked killer... This 80's jukebox musical romp lovingly parodies classic slasher films like "Slaughter High", "Prom Night", "The Burning", & "Friday the 13th" while featuring some of your favorite 80's hits including "Jessie's Girl", "Like a Virgin", "Thriller", "Holding Out for a Hero", & "Maniac."

Developmental Read sponsored by The Aviary Dallas in 2019.

NEEDS ORCHESTRATIONS.

Currently Unproduced.