News
3/1/24 - Vampire Panic! Selected for the Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Conference!
Vampire Panic! was one of ten plays chosen for the GPTC New Play Conference taking place this May in Omaha, Nebraska.
1/29/24 - Moving Arts Theatre’s MADlab
Very excited to work on a my new play "The Christmas Coven" with this year's MADlab cohort!
“2024 marks the 11th cohort of MADlab playwrights joining together to write, grow, and create with us for the next nine months. Selected from hundreds of submissions, these five playwrights’ ideas sparked true intrigue for us. At the MADlab, we start with the idea, the spark of the play. We nurture them, support them and bring them into the world. Through this unique program, these playwrights will work with dozens of artists on their play as they write, re-write and finally present a first look to you this fall.”
8/5/23 - VAMPIRE PANIC! READING
Had such a blast at the reading for my new play, Vampire Panic! Thank you to everyone for their talent, feedback and support and a HUGE thanks to Jennie Webb for hosting and giving me a deadline to finally finish this thing!
6/28/23 - NURSE CADDEN is in stock at THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP.
When I was in high school, I would make regular pilgrimages to The Drama Book Shop to find new monologues and buy copies of Backstage Magazine, so this is a BIG DEAL for me. It would mean the world to me if you stopped by for a copy.
4/12/23 - NURSE CADDEN to be PUBLISHED by Next Stage Press!
I am so excited to announce that my play will join the Next Stage Press family this May. Visit Next Stage Press to inquire about licensing or pre-order a hard or digital copy of the script!
8/16/22 - Blatant Anachronisms in the New Persuasion Adaptation That Didn’t Make the Cut
If you watched Netflix’s Persuasion and rolled your eyes…it could’ve been so much more Austen AF. Read my parody over at The Belladonna!
3/30/22 - HAG FACE is a Semifinalist for the 2022 Stowe Story Lab Maven Screen Media Fellowship!
Read the announcement here!
3/16/22 - Vampire Panic Play at Inkwell Theater’s Playwrights’ Night
Had a blast participating in Inkwell Theater’s Virtual Playwright’s Night, where actors cold read the first 8 pages of my new play, “Vampire Panic.”
10/23/21 - Hag Face Advances to the Quarter-Finals of the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition!
HAG FACE, my comedy about a hag prophetess in Tudor England is currently in the quarter finals of the contest. Read more HERE.
7/2/21 - This is Art? (or the Andy Warhol Ghost Pilot) Advances to the Second Round of the 2021 Tracking Board Launch Pad Pilot Competition!
Read about the second rounders HERE.
12/12/20 - All It Takes Is ONE ACT New Play Festival is this weekend!
All it takes is ONE ACT
Three New Plays.
Three New Perspectives on Reproductive Justice
A is For believes the theatre is an especially powerful platform with which to share stories, debunk myths, and disempower fears. Theatre can transform. The subject of Reproductive Justice is one too often simplified by our current dialogues, and the voices and perspectives of the people most affected by restrictions, legislative prohibitions, and cultural prejudices are excluded from our artistic institutions.
A is For seeks to change that.
Join us on Saturday, December 12 - Sunday, December 13 for the live-streamed performances of the 2020 A is For Playwriting Contest winning plays.
Produced by A is For:
Board Chair Martha Plimpton, Exec Dir. Kellie Overbey
Plays by Kate Mickere, Sado Kpade, and Cris Eli Blak
Directed by Claire Karpen
Stage Managed by Katherine Nelson
All proceeds will benefit A is For.
Tickets can be purchased here.
12/1/20 - "Nurse Cadden” Wins First Place in the A is For Playwriting Contest!
I am thrilled to announce that the one act version of NURSE CADDEN won First Place in the A is For Playwriting Contest. The script was awarded $5,000 and will receive a live-streamed reading on December 13th, 2020 at 7pm EST / 4 pm PST.
For more information on the One Act Festival, click the show poster below:
6/22/20 - “Nurse Cadden” is #2 on The Red List!
Thanks to the 2019 Screencraft Stage Play Competition, NURSE CADDEN is now #2 on Coverfly’s The Red List for the year’s best historical plays.
View the list here.
3/11/20- The Incident” Produced by Meet Cute LA
My ten minute play, THE INCIDENT, appeared in the fifth installment of Meet Cute LA, March 9 and 10th at The Three of Clubs in Hollywood.
I was paired with director Sophie Goldstein who enthusiastically brought the show to life. Actors Kristi Schultz and Daphne Gabriel starred as Charlotte and Eleanor, two Victorian spinsters who have just had a very supernatural experience.
Kristi Schultz as “Charlotte” in The Incident. Photo cred: Brian Hashimoto
3/11/20 - “Nurse Cadden” is a finalist for the Screen Craft Stageplay Competition!
Thrilled that NURSE CADDEN has advanced to the finals of the 2019 Screencraft Stage Play Competition. This year’s jury is comprised of three Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, an agent at Creative Artists Agency, and an Emerging Playwright and Award-winning writer on OWN’s Queen Sugar.
See the list of finalists HERE.
12/17/19 - The Campiest Movies on Disney Plus (That Aren’t Hocus Pocus)
My psychic told me to blog more, so I posted this very niche guide over on Medium.
10/1/19 - Crimes of Passion for The Parcast Network
I wrote this week's brutal episode of "Crimes of Passion" for the Parcast Network. Check it out on Spotify or your favorite podcasting app! Part 2 drops Wednesday, October 2nd. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TC6yunVCPyz1YscwwQp8E
10/1/19 - Sloan Launch Party at Carnegie Mellon University
I just got back from my beloved Pittsburgh, where I spoke with the current Dramatic Writing MFA students about my experience writing a science-based screenplay. That script, "Capturing the Stars," won the Alfred P. Sloan Student Screenwriting Award in 2012 and received an Honorable Mention for the Sloan/Tribeca Grand Jury Prize in 2013. I was joined by Michael Wood-Vasey, a professor of Physics & Astronomy at The University of Pittsburgh, who served as my brilliant advisor during that writing process.
6/21/19 - “A Banshee Killed My Boyfriend” at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Last week, a reading of my play, A BANSHEE KILLED MY BOYFRIEND, was presented at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. I still can't believe how lucky I was to basically spend a week in "Adult Theatre Camp" in a place filled with such astounding beauty.
You can read the latest draft of Banshee on The New Play Exchange!
5/22/19 - FEMALE CRIMINALS for The Parcast Nework
I wrote this week's episode of Female Criminals for The Parcast Network. Check it out on Spotify!
5/3/19 - Nurse Cadden Reading @ Lyric Hyperion on 5/19!
Pleased to announce that The Vagrancy is presenting a reading of my new play, Nurse Cadden as part of their Blossoming New Readings Festival. For more info, visit their website.
