After her estranged parent’s phone line has been disconnected, Moira Lane begrudgingly returns to the home she abandoned eight years ago only to find things far worse than she could have feared. Her father, William, has taken to peeing in coffee mugs and her mother, Bonnie, claims to have had a miraculous birth. Believing the “baby” to be her youngest daughter reincarnated, Bonnie is convinced that Faeries in the woods have blessed the family with a second chance. As a terrible storm moves in, Moira must battle her family’s madness and navigate the years of guilt and grief feeding the storm if she has any hope of getting out alive.

Developed at The Hawthornden International Writer’s Retreat and Theatricum Botanicum

Conferences: Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2014

Finalist: Jerome Fellowship, 2010

Semi-Finalist: O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, 2010 and Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2010

Aura Bloom can’t sleep. She’s consumed with grief over our ever-warming planet and despaired over recent social/political events. So, when Aura seduces an unsuspecting Census Worker in a last ditch grab for consolation (who later mysteriously dies in her bed) and claims he’s impregnated her, it’s no wonder that her husband, Billy, thinks she’s gone over the edge. In the months that follow, Billy tries to navigate his anger over Aura’s infidelity, while Aura prepares to birth an extinction level plague; Mother Earth’s final punishment for mankind’s carelessness.

A play about crickets, politics, sex, unemployment, and… oh yeah, the end of the world.

*Boston Court New Play Reading Festival selection, 2017
*Finalist: O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, 2011

Jane Doe cannot explain how the frozen cod got in her briefcase, she cannot explain why she keeps dreaming about snow, and she certainly doesn’t understand why she is being kept awake night after night with dreams of a little man slicing her into bite-size pieces. What she does know, however, is that she needs to get to the bottom of things before these mysterious “Incidents” get in the way of the biggest promotion of her life! When the eccentric Dr. Snafu offers to clone her, she leaps at the opportunity. What she doesn’t realize though, is that by failing to disclose her multiple plastic surgeries she will come face to face with the “Jane-that-could-have-been”, thus forcing her to confront her own inner demons. What follows is a riotous, and fantastical, journey through one woman’s fight for self-discovery.

Developed with UCLA, and The Theatricum Botanicum

Productions: LA Theatre Ensemble – 2008, CAKE Productions (NY) – 2012

Winner:
New Works for Young Women, University of Tulsa
New Plays on Campus, The Playwrights’ Center
Dini Ostrov Stage Spirit Award
Hal Kanter Award in Comedy Writing
Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting

Finalist: Princess Grace Awards, 2006

FULL SCRIPT AVAILABLE AT INDIE THEATER NOW: http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/in-the-company-of-jane-doe

These plays have been written to be performed outside and from a distance. The actors do not get close to each other! Pieces range in tone and style: An epic battle between a couple of rowdy germs and hand sanitizer, friends exchanging bread and coping strategies, a pair of dinosaurs facing down the end of an era, a new couple's first (but socially-distant) non-Zoom date... In total, there are twelve fun, weird, short plays and monologues to choose from!

I originally envisioned these plays being performed in community neighborhoods like a parade - with the actors driving to selected stopping points where each short play/monologue has its moment. Then actors get back in their cars and move on to the next stopping point to perform for the audience on that street. People could watch from their lawns, all socially distant and safe! How fun! BUT - that's not the only creative way to get theatre out of the box and into your community. These pieces could be performed as drive-up theatre (like a drive-in movie) or in any other number of creative ways. The essential thing is: Have fun with a new performance space/style! Be safe! And select as many of the pieces in this collection as works for you. Also, don't be afraid to incorporate some dance numbers - socially distant of course - or other fun performances. Does someone in your company juggle? Eat fire? Are they a contortionist? Create as many non-acting acts as works for you/your company and have fun bringing theatre to your community!

**These are all brand new pieces. I am happy to workshop any of them as needed with your company!**

About a year ago Paul Brown returned to the family farm. He entered the house while no one was home, took off all his clothes and shot himself in the head. Now, a year later, Ginny Mae Brown has moved back to the family farm to take care of her ailing Mother and quick-tempered father, but things aren’t quite right in Ham Brown’s House. Ham is convinced his daughter is trying to kill him, his wife can’t speak, the nosy family physician keeps coming round to check on things, and his favored son John hasn’t been home since the funeral. All Ham wants is some peace and quiet , but that might be hard to do with Ginny poking around.

Left to put together pieces of an old family secret, hidden away for 33 years, Ginny starts to wonder, what is Opal hiding? Did she really suffer a stroke or was she the victim of some sort of attack? What does Doc Housman know that makes Ham bristle at his very name? Why hasn’t John come home, and what is on that old movie reel that has got Opal so terrified of Ham? Events unfold in a pressure cooker of emotion until the final scene, where the old projector is once again found and Ginny Mae serves up a final reckoning.

Finalist: Princess Grace Awards, 2008
Semi-Finalist: 2009 Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition

A woman thinks she's figured out a way to safely navigate the world by hiding her vagina in a box, but is surprised to find that her vagina has plans of its own!

A chicken tries to dispose an unplanned egg the best way she knows how, but her nosy neighbor can't keep his trunk out of her business.

A #TheatreActionGunControl play written in response to the Aztec, NM shooting in Dec 2017.

Skit and Doodle finally get to hang out after too long quarantining at home. Too bad their parents' paranoia has sunk into their own skulls and is coloring the moment...

A couple reunites (at a safe distance) after too much pandemic-prescribed time apart, but one of them can't resist a little manufactured drama.

A couple of forlorn T-Rexes mull the end of the world while cursing out their nemeses, the velociraptors.