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Horse Boy

Have you seen the new boy at the barn? Why does he get to ride Gemini? More importantly, how come Sarah and Ava don’t get to? A bittersweet comedy about gender, class, and who’s jumping highest that asks: Who will love the horse girls if they lose each other?

• Upcoming: Reading, Hunter MFA Thesis Festival, 2025 (dir. Sarah Hughes)

Swimmer

A fading, Esther Williams-esque movie star takes on an estranged friend’s orphan and starts to see that her career is ending. Two people terrified of taking on more to grieve but must decide whether to attach to each other or face life alone. High dives, glittering swimsuits, musical glasses, kazoos, figure-skating fugue states. A love letter to classic films like Auntie Mame and All About Eve, and to my mother’s stories of a childhood in nightclubs with a talent agent mother.

• Reading, Hunter First-Year Roundtable Readings, 2024 (dir. Taylor Reynolds)

Vanessa the Miracle Girl

A teenage Italian girl sees the David on a field trip and has an immediate sexual/artistic awakening -- just as an earthquake hits, killing all of her classmates and her teacher. She becomes an instant tragedy celebrity, worshipped by the Italian press. (References/influences include Funny Face, Giulietta Masina films, Caravaggio boys, and Party Girl.) It's a spectacle-laden, campy, art historical, gender-bendy coming-of-age story. It's also about bodies and the people who own them, and what happens when you realize you'll never be/create/possess a perfect piece.

• Semifinalist, Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire 2024

• Reading, First Kiss Theater Residency, 2023 (dir. Tara Ahmadinejad)

We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen

When 19-year-old professional athlete Skyler sustains a career-threatening injury, she’s forced to move back to her parents’ home - which they’re renovating with cash from Skyler’s endorsement deals. There’s a disembodied hand taking the kitchen apart as everyone tries to eat breakfast, there’s never any yogurt, and Barbara Walters isn’t even on the View anymore. The family tries to find things to cling to that aren’t each other as everything around them literally crumbles.

• Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, 2023

• Semifinalist, Playwrights Foundation’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2023

• Reading, INKubator New Play Development Program, 2021 (dir. Kat Yen)

this is not the reunion

You know when you're only a couple years out of college and you try to visit camp with your old camp friend group and it's just not the same, and you are just as scared as if not more scared than you were as a pre-teen of all the spooky things about it? And then your friends start to get picked off one by one by the ghost of a drowned girl from a ghost story someone wrote on the barn attic wall? It's so weird being in your twenties.

• Production, North Central College, 2024

• Reading, Historically Close Friends, 2023 (dir. Caitlin Durkin)

• Reading, Milwaukee Repertory Theater apprentice company, 2023 (dir. Emily Newmark)

• Commission (production canceled due to COVID), Stagefemmes at Kenyon College, 2020 (dir. Autumn Gomez-Tagle)