Mission Purple, a Chicago nonprofit connecting urban and rural citizens, is falling apart. The Director disappeared to a retreat in Wisconsin months ago. The board fires friends Ros and Tommy. Single and unemployed, they decide to go up to Wisconsin for long weekend and to look for the Director, who happens to be Ros's mom.

In Wisconsin, the Mission Purple staff are missing, having abandoned their rental cabin. Ros and Tommy stay at an uncomfortable motel. Tommy can barely leave the room. A long weekend turns into a long winter. The local paper prints an anonymous love ode to Ros and the poet turns out to be Lando, a former coworker crush. Ros approaches him, but Lando mistakes her for a townie. Ros rolls with it.

Angry city and country lovers pile up. Mission Purple goes bankrupt, but a mysterious benefactor writes them a blank check. Wounds heal. Tommy weds a local dairy farmer. Ros reveals herself, and quits Mission Purple in order to find a new, honest place in the world. A modern update of Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT and its obsession with boundary-blurring, THE RETREAT asks, why do we so often yearn to be something other than what we are? How do our personal desires overlap and conflict with our professional and political selves?

Boyd is stuck in his head. He can't concentrate on his drone-piloting work, on his relationships, or even on sex. When his wife Monica issues him an ultimatum to work on his mental health, Boyd turns to a mad scientist to give his brain a literal out-of-body experience. Will it be enough to save Boyd and Monica's marriage? A dark sci-fi comedy about the mind-body problem.

From Unicorn Theatre's Semifinalist Rating for its In-Progress New Play Reading Series: "Our readers especially appreciated the exploration of the concept of isolation and how it affects one's relationships with others. They thought that the play asks us to consider how a sense of disconnect within the self affects our entire lives and whether embracing our internal chaos will help or make things even worse. Our readers enjoyed the script's magical realism feel and thought that it told an interesting, often melancholic story balanced with wit and absurdity."

At a small town high school's active shooter drill, the backdrop of blank shots and bullet hole makeup inspires two teens and two adults to explore what is real in their world. Written for The Appetizer Plays speed playwriting festival.

What if King Henry IV had followed his dream to lead a Crusade to the Holy Land? What if Falstaff went along? A companion piece to Shakespeare's HENRY IV PART TWO, FALSTAFF IN JERUSALEM is both a fun cross-continental romp and a sincere exploration of what history - particularly traumatic history like the Crusades - means to us hundreds of years after the fact.

Sibling rivalry, a circle of vengeance-wreaking, and a cat named Bongo with an unfortunate haircut. A ten-minute play for young actors, commissioned for the Piven Theatre Scene Study Class.

A professor desperate for tenure gets to share her work at a TED-esque Big Idea conference, but only after she makes a deal with someone suspect in this short comic take on the Faust myth.