Sarah Jae Leiber

A frenetic short in three voices. An act of pop culture idolatry attempting to uncover what exactly made the late, great River Phoenix (1970-1993) so compelling onscreen. A play about weird girls and the troubled boys they need to make sense of themselves. Also, a play about what exactly Jake Gyllenhaal's mom was fantasizing about when she wrote The Most "River Phoenix" River Phoenix Movie, Running On Empty (1988, dir. Sidney Lumet).

"River Phoenix is about a boy who is as emotionally complicated as you, as smart as you, as articulate as you."

A romantic comedy in ten minutes about two gambling ladies and the man who won't stop hitting on them at a poker table in Atlantic City.

a game show play.

TAKE MY WIFE! is a nightmare you'd have while falling asleep watching the Game Show Network. Two couples answer intimate questions about their marriage and compete to win a prize picked especially for them. Situations escalate into the absurd, words are exchanged, deep secrets are revealed, and someone pulls a gun.

THE 1975 CHEVY SILVERADO WILL CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO TRUCKS
THE 1975 CHEVY SILVERADO WILL FULFILL YOUR DEEPEST CAR FANTASIES
THE 1975 CHEVY SILVERADO WILL FIX YOUR MARRIAGE!!!

a one-act songfic about folk singers who resemble joan baez and bob dylan

also, a play with music about heartbreak, history, and two people who don't know how to talk about what they did to each other.

Welcome to SOMEONE'S UP LATE!, this universe's answer to THE TONIGHT SHOW or THE LATE LATE SHOW! Anything can happen here — celebrity interviews! Games! Ego trips! Murder! Stand-up comedy!

On the set of a late night comedy show, a team of industry sycophants and major stars manages the emotions and whims of the violent, volatile Host in an absurd peek behind the curtain at the natural consequences of failing upwards. PLEASE LAUGH is about power (and who can wield it) and what becomes of the soul of the underdog when they become the top dog. It's also about the power an audience has to shape a narrative.

A semifinalist for the 2024 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.

Enter the seedy underbelly of an early-2010s Jewish day school and meet mafiosos Freddie, Donna, Sylvia, and Jane — members of an exclusive after school fan club that serves as a front for a successful fan fiction laundering ring. They'll write anything for you, for a price.

i can fix him is about being a fan, being an uncool girl, and navigating befriending your fellow uncool girls.

As Jewish banker Ephraim Stein prepares to meet his maker, he's visited by three ghosts — Shylock, Scrooge, and Mrs. Maisel — who've come to warn him about how he'll be remembered to history, immortalized by Dickens.

Written as part of the 2021 McCarter Theatre Center's Paula Vogel Christmas Carol Bake-Off.

Three Philadelphian teenage girls try to find evidence of the boy who wronged them - he moved away, and he doesn't exist on Facebook. In Boston, the boy who wronged them sits. Prepares. Plans. This play is about connection, growing up online, and how we make friends.

The Repair Man centers around a young, depressed, Jewish woman named Nick who is visited on Yom Kippur by a Golem masquerading as a dishwasher repairman. Hilarity and a hard conversation ensues.

Teddy and Olivia just finished a really good first date. Will they kiss or not? Depends on whether or not Teddy is ready to commit to the Herpes Simplex Virus.

Freudian Oops is a Jewish family dramedy about grief, French onion soup, and cold sores. Kara recently lost her dad, and it turns out her mom has been accidentally dating her psychiatrist. Family therapy gets more personal than ever.

While reviewing a symphony for work, Sal gets a call from the police—their ex-girlfriend, Kerry, has been arrested for the attempted theft of Revolutionary-era tea leaves from the local university museum.

a monologue.

a woman shares a dream about 9 stillborn jelly beans.

A dog makes his owners an offer they can't refuse.