Michael Quinn

Following the death of her girlfriend, a Philadelphia woman seeks shelter with her cousin, an aspiring actress living in Brooklyn, but discovers an adversary and romance in the man of the house, a harsh and moneyed tech bro. Shortlisted for the 2024 Yale Drama Prize.

Mary Hewitt, an aspiring poet from Philadelphia on the cusp of her life, falls for and rages against Harold Kruger, her Main Line paramour she just can't figure out. Set across two nights two years apart, the comedy follows the pair through heartbreak, grief, and anxious desire as they question: What the hell is wrong with my family? Do cheaters ever quit? And who will understand me, if not you?

Note: The first act of this play was workshopped and produced by the Boston College Theatre Department. It functions as a stand-alone one-act, running about an hour.

After her brother tracks her down to announce the passing of their father, a transphobic heroin addict living in a North Philadelphia hovel fights with speech, claw, and firearm to prove that her dad is alive –– and waiting for her in an abandoned coal town that’s been burning for sixty years.

Bobby O’Neill hasn’t been around. After he skips out on the Thanksgiving meal, his sister Lena comes over to his apartment in Fishtown, Philadelphia, to investigate. She confronts her brother about the life he’s made for himself –– and the family that was rocked by his years-long heroin addiction. A painful reconciliation for the current American moment.

In a South Philly rowhome, a middle-aged woman grapples with her former partner's murder-suicide. She swears she didn't see the warning signs. But her nephew, a strange and intrepid art museum security guard, is determined to get to the bottom of things -- even if it means tearing the family apart. Shortlisted for the Druid Theatre New Writing 2024.

In a climate-dystopia America, a young woman travels across the drying, dusty continent to save her future. Emery is a woman fighting to keep moving, pitted against a nation in the midst of total collapse, decay, and hopelessness. A verse play written under the guidance of the poet Allison Adair.

Jules Schafer just realized she can’t go home anymore. But when she gets back to the Philly apartment she splits with a couple friends, she finds herself drifting evermore away from the hard-living ways of Carmen Uveges and the bullshit adolescence she endured.