Full Length Plays
Vampire Panic!
In 1890’s New England, a wave of consumption is wreaking havoc in a small town. The local doctor is using the epidemic to sell his fraudulent elixirs and tonics, young women are actively trying to catch the disease to achieve their dream figures and a preacher woman has everyone convinced that consumption is caused by vampires. (That’s right, blood sucking undead VAMPIRES.) When the logical Lucy Greene returns home to care for her orphaned niece, she takes it upon herself to teach her neighbors about germ theory but will her recent encounter in Europe dilute her message? Inspired by true historical events, Vampire Panic! is a gothic pandemic comedy that reminds us that medical misinformation, conspiracy theories and general hysteria aren’t just byproducts of the Covid era. 6W, 1M
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
Selected for the Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Conference, 2024
Nurse Cadden
Everyone in mid-century Dublin knows Mamie Cadden
— she’s the boorish woman who motors around the city in her bright red sports car. She also happens to be a notorious backstreet abortionist who profits off the secrets of Dublin’s most powerful men. When the body of pregnant Helen O’Reilly is found dumped outside of Mamie’s flat, the infamous nurse is sentenced to hang. Can a Divine intervention save Nurse Cadden’s soul before it’s too late? 4W, 1M
NURSE CADDEN is available for purchase and licensing through Next Stage Press!
Reading, All It Takes is One Act New Play Festival
Featuring Ann Dowd, Den, Garret Dillahunt, Lecy Goranson, Jenn Lyon, Nan-Lynn Nelson. Directed by Claire Karpen.
First Place - A is For Playwriting Contest
Finalist - 2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition
Semi-finalist - 2020 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
#2 on Coverfly’s The Red List for the year’s best historical plays.
Reading, The Vagrancy’s Blossoming New Play Festival, May 2019
Developed with The Vagrancy’s 2018-2019 Writing Group.
A Banshee Killed My Boyfriend
Fiona and Gemma are best friends and amateur witches who are tired of getting screwed over by mortal men. While trying to conjure up the perfect boyfriend, the girls unwittingly screw up the entire metaphysical world, stranding banshees, seal women, and other magical (and pissed off) beings on Earth. 4W, 2M
Selected for the 2019 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska.
Read on the New Play Exchange.
The Scranton Siren
Based on a salacious true story, this hard-boiled noir follows the scandal that erupts when film star Evelyn Hart's name is found in a call girl's little black book. Her manager hopes hiding out in her home town of Scranton will save her career, but the past Evelyn ran from is harder to shake off than Scranton coal dust.
Workshop Production, 2013 New Works Festival, Carnegie Mellon University
Selected Short Plays
The Incident
While touring the gardens of Versailles, two Edwardian school-teachers encounter a time slip and find themselves face to face with Marie Antoinette. Now that they're safely back home in 1901, they must make a hard decision. Do they keep quiet and preserve their reputation, or do they risk their careers and tell the world their story?
Production, Meet Cute LA, March 2020
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
Mod Party
What would you do if the spirit of David Bowie told you that the love of your life was a loser?
Production, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Tens Festival, 2013
Winner, KCACTF Region II Ten Minute Play Award, 2013
Reading, KCACTF Region II Festival, 2013
Read on the New Play Exchange.
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the Pioneer Drag Queen of the Wild West. When the dastardly sheriff steals her razor, Manifest must use ALL of her feminine wiles to get it back.
Workshop, Playground Festival, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013
Featured in American Theatre Magazine, “All The Media Is a Stage”