Full Productions, Developmental Readings & Staged Readings
Short Plays
Shootout (2010)
Ray wants revenge from Elliott who won far too many baseball cards from him in yesterday’s shootout. Elliott wants to keep what he won. 2M
Will Dunne’s New Writers/New Works, Phoenix Theatre Annex, SF, CA. Developmental reading. (2010)
Because of You (2010)
What happens when a twist in a phrase leads to a dramatic misunderstanding in a relationship that seemed to be going along just fine. 1M, 1F
Will Dunne’s New Writers/New Works, 760 Mason St., SF. Staged reading. (2010)
Doggie Psychic (2010)
Adam and Geri are feeling the strain of financial worries. Adam suspects that Geri has begun to look elsewhere for comfort and has a meltdown while Geri is busy providing psychic services to Kate who has come to find her lost dog. 1M, 2F
Playwrights of Promise Showcase of New Works, Phoenix Theatre, SF. Staged reading. (2012)
Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, CA. Staged reading. (2011)
Alterain Theatre, Oakland, CA. Staged reading. (2010)
Wilted (2011)
The story of a relationship that is fading fast. 1M, 1F
Will Dunne’s New Writers/New Works, Phoenix Theatre, SF. Staged reading. (2011)
One Acts
AROUSAL (2010)
When Clifford’s mother dies the young man with Asperger’s goes online to find a special friend. He meets Albena, a Ukrainian illegal immigrant, who is running a one woman prostitution business out of her studio apt. in the Richmond district of San Francisco and also fleeing from her own problems. What gets aroused is much more than just the hormones as these two wildly different people stir up powerful emotions in each other. 1M, 1F
The RAW Festival of Plays, Ross Valley Players, Ross, CA. Full production. (2010)
SF Fringe Festival, SF, CA. Full production. (2010)
Virago Theatre Company, World Premier, Phoenix Theatre,SF,CA. Full production. (2013)
Virago Theatre Company, Theatre Asylum, Los Angeles, CA. Full production. (2014)
Virago Theatre Company, Flea Theatre, New York City, N.Y. Full production. (2014)
Currently a new full length version is being workshopped in NYC.
Full Length Plays Currently in Development or Recently Produced
The Brothers Khan, An American Story (2018)
Two brothers, Dzhabrail and Rustam, are Muslim immigrants to America. One embraces American values (D) and the other (R) is radicalized. Rustam comes to believe that in order to get to paradise he must find out if his brother has become a traitor to Islam and if so - he must kill him. A simple invitation to break the fast at Ramadan is the unaware setting. 2M, 2F
Playwrights of Promise Salon reading, SF, CA. Developmental reading. (2013)
Developmental reading, Blue Panther Productions. (2017)
Workshopped in NYC at the Dramatist Guild's Mary Roger's Theatre May 2018.
Production: The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival August 2018
New York.
Reckoning (2020)
A young man is trying to keep his father alive as a way to ward off unwanted memories. When his father falls and winds up in hospice, the son cannot accept this outcome and seeks to have his estranged brother and sister return home to help revive his father’s failing health. When they do show up they bring with them news that threatens to completely upend the family’s story. 1F, 3M. Undergoing major rewrite.
Pistachio Pier (2020)
Two boys meet unexpectedly on an abandoned pier, a meeting that will change their lives forever. Full reading in the Fall of 2020 with Michael Sommers (Ray) and Jackson Davis (Brian) with Alison Lustbader reading stage. 2M
The Unmooring (2020)
An average guy is scammed out of a considerable amount of money. What does this act set in motion and will he be able to retrieve the funds before it’s too late. 2M, 1F. Currently in development.
Nevermore (2020)
Edgar Allen Poe has been trying for years to find a way to correct all the lies and distortions that his nemesis, Rufus Griswold, has spread about him in that nasty biography. Poe settles on an out of work American Literature professor, who specializes in the works of Poe, to right these wrongs, so he sends The Raven, yes, the one from the poem of the same name, to convince Edgar to pitch to a local producer who is looking for someone to write and act in a one man show about Poe. What could possibly go wrong with such an idea? Does it matter at all that our hero, Edgar, has never written a play before and nor has he ever acted? And how do the worries and concerns of his family effect his efforts to put together a plan that he hopes will return him to some measure of self respect and save his family from financial ruin? 4M, 3F
Scene readings at the San Francisco Dramatists 2019-2020. Table reading in SF 2020. Dramaturge work with Eric Webb in NY 2019-2020. Currently in heavy rewrites.
The Promise (2020)
A short opera about a man who years earlier had promised his dying wife that he would not sell the family business but pass it on to his daughter is faced with a dilemma when he discovers that his daughter has other plans. Does he stay true to his promise and give up the dream of moving to the Coast with his new love, or somehow force his daughter to take over the business? 2F, 1M.Commissioned by Peter Allen. Selected by the West Edge Opera Company to be in their Snapshots Festival. World Premier May 15, 2021 at the Bruns Amphitheater.
The Passage (formerly An Unexpected Passage) (2021)
A woman dies suddenly and is offered the promise of passing from this life to the next but first she must reconcile the wrongs she has visited upon her family, especially her son. 2F, 3M. Commissioned by Peter Allen. Currently in development.