It's August in Bridgeport, NY, a cute, not terribly expensive town in Long Island's North Fork. Over 24 hours in a curious rented house with bright walls and no locks on the door, six 30-something friends and one special guest, a 17-year-old townie picked up near the town carousel, will drink too much, take too much of too many drugs, and go through a collective, premature mid-life crisis.

Two 16-year-olds meet at an artsy pre-college program, where they flirt, fight, but are unable to handle the love they’ve stumbled into. Sixteen years later, face-to-face again in a New York hotel suite, innocent nostalgia is turning into something far more difficult to handle, and they will have to discover whether half a lifetime ago is just too late.

--Winner of Sanguine Theatre Company's Project Playwright 2015, January 2015.
--World Premiere produced by Sanguine Theatre Company at the Chain Theater, Queens, NY, April 30-May 17, 2015, dir. Logan Reed

He’s been on an extended, barely-controlled bender ever since she left him, feeling the damage of his ways and a newfound emptiness as 30 approaches.

She’s alone upstate, not quite finding the peace she hoped for in the country, not quite free of the life she started to grow within her.

And as for his old man, well, his cancer’s in remission, but he’s not quite as content as he claims to be, drinking Mellow Corn, teaching in a Pennsylvania nowhere, mostly out of speaking terms with three ex-wives and five children.

In three interconnecting narratives with frequent interruption, these three will deal with the momentary, the eternal, and the singularity of their lives, broken and beautiful.

Over the course of a bizarre and hotly contested election, Democratic operative Mark Walker has his hands full keeping The Candidate, a Connecticut senator with the force of the party but the indifference of the people, on target, as her very real despair over the very nature of what Democracy requires, as well as the tiny matter of money missing from her charity, begins to build.

The Republican candidate may do nothing but spout and stomp, but under the thoroughly ethically unbound former governor Dominic Fortunato, he does, somehow, have a chance, and his fourth press secretary, journeywoman Sarah Jane Tyler, he might even have the appearance of a cohesive message. But will Sarah Jane, or what goodness there is in her, survive the unwanted attentions of Dominic, and a campaign designed to win at any cost?

It’s 1979. Sleight of Hand are a huge successful band at last, with a hit record, and all the time in the world to record the follow-up. But perfectionism, grandiosity, break-ups, make-ups, and a seemingly unlimited amount of cocaine may tear them apart even as they’re all trapped together, in their very own studio, as 1980 winds down. (Also, the new album’s a double album now.)

A divorced hedge fund manager, facing the emptiness of his own life and the marriage of his rock star best friend to the only woman he almost loved, will make deception an art as he tears their love, and their lives, apart. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello, and written in modern blank verse.

Amelia, a self-serious grad student, and Jack, a painter incapable of keeping a day job, are deeply in love, but when Jack loses his apartment and moves in with Amelia, one way or another the young couple’s relationship must change, and young love makes young mistakes.

Two college friends and Red Sox fans, three years removed from school and golden boys no more, find (and often lose) genuine love, employment, artistic inspiration, exceedingly cheap whiskey, Internet fame, and something close to enough to maturity, over the backdrop of the 2007 championship season.