Plays
FROM THE AUTHOR OF (A REP Theater Commission in progress)
When a best-selling writer's book about her experience of voluntary homelessness gets panned as an elaborate publicity stunt, she goes to even more extreme measures to repair her reputation. It does not end well.
KIN
A man takes an ancestry test a part of his initiation into a white supremacist group gets an unsettling surprise.
THE FORGETTING PLACE
(puppet musical in progress)
A sad young girl discovers a mystical river with the power to make her forget the tragedy that brought her to it in the first place.
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY
(PTNJ/NJPAC Stage Exchange Commission)
An odd but brilliant little boy and a cantankerous old lunch lady help each other past the bullshit of inner-city living.
NEW WORLD DISORDER
In the aftermath of a devastating epidemic, the survivors have let a well-meaning egomaniac convince them to forgo all direct human contact. But a new generation with an inexplicable yearning is about to start a revolution.
BREAKING BREAD
part of the Working Theater's Five Boroughs/One City Project
You are welcome at the traditional Italian-American family reunion. The interloping black guy is not.
THE WEDDING GIFT
An ordinary dude named Doug finds himself at an other worldly wedding... as a gift.
DEAD & BREATHING
A cranky old broad who just wants to die already works to convince her in-home nurse to assist her suicide.
ALONDRA WAS HERE
A young woman loses her sister and finds courage in a police state.
THIS IS NOT THE PLAY
Distrust and stereotypes abound as a black playwright works to get a story out of reluctant white characters.
TUNDE'S TRUMPET (kids' musical)
A mischievous little boy finds focus (and magic) in music.
SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER
A Chinese-American guidance counselor helps a protege undo some damage caused by gender-bias
SEX ON SUNDAY
A dominatrix tries mighty hard to fit in with her ultra-conservative uptown neighbors.
THE SUBJECT
An upstart documentarian builds his success on the death of one of his subjects and faces the consequences.
DIRT RICH
Five kids from the projects learn what friendship and integrity are worth when they find a wad of cash buried near their playground.
MAMA'S GONNA BUY YOU
A wealthy white woman desperate to have a child steals one from a black teen mom.
SHE LIKE GIRLS
A love/hate story inspired by the murder of a 15 year-old lesbian in Newark, NJ.
Shorties
BLUE RIBBON
A man marking the tenth anniversary of his wife's death finds love in a tattoo parlor.
CHOOSING LOVE
A psychic sees love and tragedy coming.
#9
A bored white housewife tries to screw the system by--what else?--screwing a black guy.
Screenplays
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY (adaptation of the play )
THE SUBJECT (adaptation of the play )
CHANCE OF RAIN (adaptation of CHOOSING LOVE)
AYESHA COOK IS DYING FROM THE FEET UP (unoptioned)
A stubbornly independent woman juggles an increasingly serious romance, ridiculous family drama, and a spanking new diagnosis of MS
FROM THE AUTHOR OF (A REP Theater Commission in progress)
When a best-selling writer's book about her experience of voluntary homelessness gets panned as an elaborate publicity stunt, she goes to even more extreme measures to repair her reputation. It does not end well.
KIN
A man takes an ancestry test a part of his initiation into a white supremacist group gets an unsettling surprise.
THE FORGETTING PLACE
(puppet musical in progress)
A sad young girl discovers a mystical river with the power to make her forget the tragedy that brought her to it in the first place.
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY
(PTNJ/NJPAC Stage Exchange Commission)
An odd but brilliant little boy and a cantankerous old lunch lady help each other past the bullshit of inner-city living.
NEW WORLD DISORDER
In the aftermath of a devastating epidemic, the survivors have let a well-meaning egomaniac convince them to forgo all direct human contact. But a new generation with an inexplicable yearning is about to start a revolution.
BREAKING BREAD
part of the Working Theater's Five Boroughs/One City Project
You are welcome at the traditional Italian-American family reunion. The interloping black guy is not.
THE WEDDING GIFT
An ordinary dude named Doug finds himself at an other worldly wedding... as a gift.
DEAD & BREATHING
A cranky old broad who just wants to die already works to convince her in-home nurse to assist her suicide.
ALONDRA WAS HERE
A young woman loses her sister and finds courage in a police state.
THIS IS NOT THE PLAY
Distrust and stereotypes abound as a black playwright works to get a story out of reluctant white characters.
TUNDE'S TRUMPET (kids' musical)
A mischievous little boy finds focus (and magic) in music.
SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER
A Chinese-American guidance counselor helps a protege undo some damage caused by gender-bias
SEX ON SUNDAY
A dominatrix tries mighty hard to fit in with her ultra-conservative uptown neighbors.
THE SUBJECT
An upstart documentarian builds his success on the death of one of his subjects and faces the consequences.
DIRT RICH
Five kids from the projects learn what friendship and integrity are worth when they find a wad of cash buried near their playground.
MAMA'S GONNA BUY YOU
A wealthy white woman desperate to have a child steals one from a black teen mom.
SHE LIKE GIRLS
A love/hate story inspired by the murder of a 15 year-old lesbian in Newark, NJ.
Shorties
BLUE RIBBON
A man marking the tenth anniversary of his wife's death finds love in a tattoo parlor.
CHOOSING LOVE
A psychic sees love and tragedy coming.
#9
A bored white housewife tries to screw the system by--what else?--screwing a black guy.
Screenplays
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY (adaptation of the play )
THE SUBJECT (adaptation of the play )
CHANCE OF RAIN (adaptation of CHOOSING LOVE)
AYESHA COOK IS DYING FROM THE FEET UP (unoptioned)
A stubbornly independent woman juggles an increasingly serious romance, ridiculous family drama, and a spanking new diagnosis of MS
