Full-Length (2021). Squaring off for the soul of Mexican immigrant Lucia Beltran, Star Spangle and Santa Lucia punch it out as Lucia makes her way in her new country, the United States. Spangle pushes assimilation, Santa Lucia counsels integrity, and Lucia’s ensnared between them. Only Lucia can determine who will prevail.

One-Act. (2018) Immigration courtrooms hidden away in detention centers throughout the United States decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year. Immigration judges, appointed as employees of the federal government’s Department of Justice, are the sole decision-makers for the detained, eighty-four percent of whom don’t have lawyers to represent them or explain the process to them. The public is definitely not welcome to observe. Outcomes vary wildly depending on the judge assigned to the case, and the most recent Administration-mandated interpretations of the law.

The Detention Lottery, written by an immigration attorney, provides a first-hand look inside one such courtroom, as audience members are detained upon entry, assigned identities as immigrants, and must defend themselves against deportation as best they can in court, without preparation. The real-time immersive experience is followed by a question and comment period and is best conducted by experienced immigration attorneys.

The script and all production materials are freely-licensed in Creative Commons: http://globallawadvocates.com/immigration-in-the-arts/the-detention-lottery-2/.

Full-Length. (2016) A brush with police spins out of control for undocumented immigrant Fredy Lopez, when he’s arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and detained in immigration jail. The life he’s built after more than a decade in the U.S. shatters, and friends, social workers, lawyers, employers, pastor, immigration judge, and guards flood into the formerly private life he lived with his wife and daughter. What happens next depends on factors no one seems to control.

Full-Length. (2017) How deep are the divisions between the working class and elites in Appalachia? Between men and women? Between blacks and whites? It is 1939, the waning years of the Great Depression. Samuel Lowe has died in a mine collapse, and his rudderless widow and two nearly grown children must vacate the company cabin and find a home and work in a land ravaged by a decade of poverty. The family’s secrets unearth fissures no one seems to be able to bridge.

10 minutes. (2020) Things are looking grim at the face mask factory. Long-timer Kel refuses to help the new kid learn the ropes, and the factory cat seems to have some serious delusions of grandeur. Productivity quotas most definitely won't be met. This is a situation only a local deity can save. But first, you have to believe...

One Act. (2020) Cherry’s beloved Woodhaven is a nationally-celebrated sanctuary for rare and endangered plants and animals. But she’s getting older, and there’s no one to take on the sanctuary. A hungry housing developer is waiting to bulldoze it. When a young woman running from the law stumbles into the sanctuary and Cherry’s life, her desperation collides with Cherry’s hopes. She may be the answer to Cherry’s dilemma. Then again, she might blow the sanctuary apart. A modern retelling of the universal myth of the Earth goddess and her lost daughter.

10 minute radio play. (2020). Lyle and Kerry are software engineers and work friends at the Healthy and Fresh Table company. They have lunch together every day. But when a promotion opportunity for one of them comes their way, it’s time to test the meaning of ‘work friends.’

10 min. (2020) Two migrants, strangers to each other, sit on the side of the road, waiting for the smuggler they each hired to pick them up and take them from Mexico to the US. When one gets hit by a car, what level of care is the other called upon to provide? Especially when they both will miss their one, expensive chance to cross the border?