Michael Perrie, Jr.

Henry wants Todd and he also wants Joanie. Henry is a liar. Joanie wants Todd and Henry to suffer. Joanie is vindictive. Todd wants Henry and Joanie to get what they want. Todd is an idiot. In what starts out as a love letter to Pinter, quickly spirals into a problematic threesome with three very selfish people trying have the last laugh...but in the end, will anyone really get what they want?

When Raven and her son, Cal, return to the family home where her daughter, Alice, was killed around Christmas a year and a half earlier, the two try their best to move forward despite the looming darkness. But as the lines between past and present begin to blur it becomes clear that Raven may not be ready to face the future...at least, not alone. A surprisingly funny, honest, and heartfelt examination of grief and what it takes to move forward.

It's World War 3 and two young civilians (Marie, the pessimist and Adam, the optimist) are sent to an underground missile silo to await instructions about launching the last missile. Inspired by the song, "The Temptation of Adam" by Josh Ritter, "Big Red Button" is a funny little play about two very different people learning to connect as human beings during a terrible circumstance.

Full Production, Matrix Theatre Company (Feb. 2 - 26, 2018) Detroit, MI
Development: Workshop Production, Him & Her Theatre Co. 2016

The Paulson family is fortunate, if you consider rich adult orphans with odd quirks and secrets fortunate. When Missy and Daisy's brother, Paul, returns from across the country with hardly any notice the family must re-unite and attempt to get along. However with the looming possibility of inheritance on the horizon, Paul is up to something strange, Missy has perpetual drama wrapped in secrets long forgotten, and Daisy is just attempting to hold it all together because NOBODY ELSE IS EVEN TRYING! Also Grandpa may be senile, there's a mouse under the bucket, and where is Paul's wife?

Rosie Kott's great-great-grandfather Harry Johnson opened the first black owned hotel in America in the late 1800's and now that it's 2019...it's on the edge of forclosure. Rosie wants to give up, but doesn't want to forsake her family legacy. Balancing a strange but supportive staff, a cavalcade of absurd guests, a fake haunting, a rich real estate mogul, youtubers, the incoming historical society, and a mysterious but troubling diary...Rosie must try her best to keep the hotel afloat as she decides what's most important: making money or securing a legacy.

Jazz is having a hard time lately. She works part time as a law secretary, and full time as a depressed comedian. Her best friend, Poppy, is on the verge of curing cancer, getting married, and buying a new brownstone. As Jazz is about to give up, she receives a mysterious gift from the Sea Turtle who lives in her dreams—a notebook with the cure for cancer scribbled inside.
“An Unexpected Thing Happens” is not a play about Cancer, it’s a comedy about what happens when someone with very little self-worth is given the opportunity to change the world.

This play was developed and presented at NYC Fresh Grind New Play Festival in 2017.

An immersive ensemble comedy about weddings, romance, trauma, and the culture of American Traditional Marriage. Join the reception and watch as a poor couple battles their past, present, and future in an effort to tie the knot - all the while balancing the watchful eyes of a DJ that feels like a lot like some kind of god.

Honesty, cruelty, heartbreak and love are some of the many things you can find, when you don’t know what it is you’re searching for. A semi-psychotic and brazenly silly search to find what really matters in life, “Chinashop, Meet Bulls” is a dark-comedy following the antics of best friends/treasure hunters King and Rabbit, as they search ravenously for a mysterious item, in a mysterious place, neither of which they know anything about but have been looking for their entire lives. When it appears they’ll never find the unknown thing, two lovely young sisters (Ace and Sophie) stumble upon their campsite and wreak havoc of their own in an effort to find common ground…but that common ground belongs to King and Rabbit.

After the loss of her husband, Diane decides to fulfill his last wishes by dragging his ashes, and her daughter (Rachel) to Sicily to the Necropolis D’Pantalica. But Rachel is in a complicated place; her book deal is on the rocks, her wedding is a month away, and she’s still not ready to say goodbye to her father. While these two women do their best to navigate their new relationship in the close quarters of Giacomo and his son Dominic’s failing bed and breakfast, sparks begin to fly, both dangerously and romantically. As the two pairs fight to be honest with themselves and their loved ones, absurdity takes over and miscommunication becomes a tool for truth. Everyone handles loss differently, there is no right way to grieve, no easy way to move on.

On a rainy March night in 1842, Edgar Allan Poe has a meeting with the great Charles Dickens in a quiet Philadelphia Bar. That much we know. What we don’t know is; what really happened that night? What did they say to one another? Is the Old Man at the bar insane, or just a drunk? Is the Young Woman who keeps coming through, forgetful or a ghost? Is the Raven talking when we know it doesn’t know how? What’s in the back room? And, where is the bartender!? One incredible meeting between two literary greats in their prime, slowly becomes a fantastical, dark, and comedic adventure of what’s real and what isn’t, that would change the course of their lives forever.

A Lamb, a Shark, a Fox, and a Panda all have very specific places in the food chain, but when Lamb, dreams of changing her place in the chain, Fox steps in to help. This change leads to an all out war in the animal kingdom as animals vie for a new place in the food chain; and Shark and Panda are left picking up the pieces. The Food Chain is an absurd and poetic political commentary on financial displacement, Fame, Social media, and The American Dream.

2005. A basement in the suburbs. Two best friends on the verge of graduation come to realize their seemingly boring middle class lives are far more complicated than they possibly imagined, and that adulthood can be a dangerous and unpredictable place.

Watch as this poor melodramatic southern family handles today's headlines.