Triplets Milo, Otis, and Della’s lives are very different from other kids. They’re too big for second grade,they don’t know when they’ll have food for lunch, and they don’t go home if their father is in a bad mood. They know their Mama spends more time in the hospital than other mothers. They know she is sad again. One afternoon, the triplets meet Calico, an odd boy with an odd name. They accept him quickly. As Daddy and Mama get worse, each child finds new ways to cope - some safer than others.
In Case of Bruising (2F,3M)
Development & Production History
Commissioned by Horizon Theatre Company
Reading, Boise Contemporary Theater - BIPOC Playwrights Festival, 2024
Recipient, Boise Contemporary Theater’s Inaugural Young Playwrights Initiative, 2024
Reading, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, 2024
Reading, The Road Theatre Company, 2024
Finalist: Boise Contemporary Theater - BIPOC Playwrights Festival, 2024
Finalist: The Road Theatre Company - Summer Playwrights Festival, 2024
Winner, Ruth & Loring Holmes Dodd Drama Prize, 2024
Recipient, Dartmouth College Department of Theater Robert H. Nutt ’49 Fund Award, 2024
Reading, Ojai Playwrights Conference “In Celebration,” 2023
Reading, Horizon Theatre Company, 2023
Marlo and Mazie’s mom died. Just died. Marlo has stopped eating and started scratching again, and Mazie is desperately trying to maintain a sense of normalcy. Marlo pays little attention to their estranged father who has just moved back in, while Mazie is doing everything she can to win his affections. As the funeral date looms ahead, both sisters begin to suffocate in unspoken words and unanswered questions: how did mom die? Whose fault was it? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
Flinch (4F)
Development & Production History
Reading, Dartmouth College, 2023
Winner, Eleanor Frost Playwriting Prize
Levi and Lennon are high school sweethearts. He’s a brooding and handsome understudy for the leading man in the school play, she’s a friendship-bracelet-making ray of sunshine in high top converse. They should be perfect together, but something has shifted. Levi’s insecurities are bubbling to the surface. Lennon is grasping for ways to stand up for herself and reasons to stay. After closing night of the school play, the two sit on an empty astroturf to talk about the future. Falling in love with each other, they may have lost who they really are, but pulling themselves apart again won’t be easy. There will be casualties.
Inflatable Heart (1F,1M)
Development & Production History
Production, Dartmouth College, 2023
The future looks like a snarling open mouth. As Theo and Aris try to claw their way back from disaster, a chance encounter causes their hearts to snag on one another.
Ways Out (1F,1M)
Development & Production History
Production, AnyWay Production Company - Emerging Voices Festival, 2024
Reading, Dartmouth College, 2021