Joshua Piper

A young screenwriter and actor has moved to Paris after the premature death of his husband as he tries to write his first feature film. A barista has moved to Paris following her husband. Their lives intertwine as they sort through grief one journal entry at a time. "Cafe Americano" is a play that examines how grief throws us through the wringer as we try to find our way to the surface and how sometimes our biggest life preserver can be a stranger we meet.

Apollo and Hyacinthus work at the same coffeeshop on their college campus. They're total opposites, but through a set of events they find themselves wrapped up in a colligate scandal when Apollo's baseball coach kicks him off the team due to his dating Hyacinthus. Apparently, the student. athlete handbook, follows "Biblical standards". Through the retelling of two Greek myths, "In The Beginning" is about the power we give to private institutions and the queer people searching for a place in Christianity in a world where people's prejudices have seeped into not just our day to day life, but into the Bible as well. However, at the end of the day the love we pour onto others and the love we find will always reign victorious.

Two siblings sit next to a fire pit outside of their childhood home. They've spent their whole life here as they try to figure out whether or not a house can hold anger or if God loves them through the fireflies in their backyard. Tobias and Emma, Toby and Em to each other, try to keep themselves warm and keep the fire going so they can answer one question: what happens to a boy made of wheat and a girl made of flowers when winter tries to separate them?

Originally called "Too Early To Be An Antique In Round Top", this play is about a young couple dealing with unfortunate news outside a bar in the antique capital of Texas, a small town called Round Top.

Orion, a young astronaut on the international space station, is on a video call with his sister Ashton, who has news she is attempting to withhold from him. Orion and Ashton discover what's beyond a blackhole.

Can be done on zoom, as a radio play, or on stage.

A young King rules over a paper castle. A monster threatens his kingdom and those he loves. Missy, royal friend of King Will, tells his story in a book reading. It's the story of King Will, his mother, Melody, and his fight with the Chimera. As Missy tells this fairy tale of King Will it becomes understood that underneath the guise of "once upon a time" there is a boy who is scared of what might happen to him. However, it's the love that bonds us all that can give us the strength of thousands. It's a tale of paper flowers, bells ringing, stars, swords of fire, blue jello, a ceiling made of book pages, and a young man fighting for those he loves.

Leo is a saxophone player in a fictional gay club, The Triangle, situated in Greenwich Village, NYC in the 1960s, pre-Stonewall. Jack is the undercover cop meant to entrap and arrest him. As Jack gets to know Leo in this club he falls in love with Leo despite his job. After a raid set up by a New York mafia family Jack and Leo are arrested and interrogated, ending up with them both in the same jail cell. The final scene is their reconciliation after it had been revealed to Leo that Jack was an undercover cop. The scene displays their hope that one day things might be different for them.

Man A meets Man B. They start a conversation and over the course of several minutes, hours, days, or months they fall in love in this terminal between their separate destinations. “Place of Departure or (The Airport Play)” is about a serendipitous moment where two people lose track of time talking to each other while also tackling the issues of homophobia, body dysmorphia, and racism, specifically to Asian gay men. Above all it’s a story about love and how taking a step forward can be the hardest thing to do.

A part of "The Vehicles That Brought Me Here" Trilogy.

A high schooler draws a penis on a bathroom stall, a man watches his memories run from him, three girls sit the bench, and a brother and sister speak where sound can't be heard. "In The Middle Of Nowhere, Texas" is a collection of four short plays that have the common theme of setting, either being in the middle of nowhere, Texas, or both.

Married couple, Grant and Michaela are going on the road trip they've been dreaming of for years. Their son, Easton, has moved out and is planning to get engaged to his boyfriend Dean. It seems like the perfect time to go on this trip. They've sold their house, bought a RV, and travel across the U.S.

An adaptation of the myth of Calypso and Odysseus, we watch a couple live out their daily routine in the East Village of New York, until they can't continue anymore.

Another early draft. A play about a family grieving a suicide in the family, as well as a brother going through every "what if" to think up a world where his brother is still alive.

An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's short story "A Day Goes By". A young man buys a young woman the moon. It was published in Volume 35 of the Pirandello Society of America's Journal. Note, there is sign language used in the show. In the case that it were to be done there should be deaf people working on the production. I have a version of the script in ASL gloss, but it feels more important to allow deaf people to create within the piece.

When I was 16 Hurricane Harvey flooded my families house and the houses around me with close to two feet of water. This is a documentary play of two families, one being my family, and their evacuation and recovery from Hurricane Harvey. It is also a play about climate change and the uncertain future ahead of us. THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT. NOT ALL THE INTERVIEWS ARE DONE.