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?

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.

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.

In this short play inspired by "Kodak Shirleys," the models whose faces were used to calibrate color film printers, an African-American artist attempts to get a white friend's help with her photography project critiquing racism in technology. Skipping back to 1970, the original Kodak Shirley model struggles with the unglamorous truths of her job. Commissioned for Broken Nose Theatre's Bechdel Fest.

In the first century, an idealistic Jewish priest named Joseph travels to Rome to negotiate the release of his imprisoned friend. As he navigates the corrupted politics of Rome's insane emperors, crafty empresses, cranky writers, and out-of-work actors, will Joseph preserve his cherished Jewish faith or lose his way? Inspired by the historical writings of Titus Flavius Josephus, THE ROMAN AND THE JEW is a dark historical comedy about finding a middle way through extreme times.