Plays
WHITELISTED (a revenge-horror play commissioned by South Coast Rep)
Rebecca Burgess is just living her life when weird, supernatural shit starts happening to her for no reason she can think of. Of course, the fact that she can't think of the reason is probably why it's happening.
PROOF OF LOVE (a one-woman play commissioned by Audible)
Written as both a radio and a stage play, this single-hander centers on a woman who encounters some complex and unexpected questions surrounding her comatose husband and discovers the subtler horrors of classism along the way.
MARION (in partnership with composer Creighton Irons, ever in progress)
A musical inspired by the rise and controversial fall of track star Marion Jones.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF (A Delaware REP Theater Commission)
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.
AMERIKIN
A man takes an ancestry test a part of his initiation into a white supremacist group and 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.
Screenplays
UNTITLED FILM PROJECT
commissioned by Walt Disney Studios
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (a total reboot of the original screenplay)
commissioned and in pre-production with Paramount Pictures
directed by Lee Daniels
THE SUBJECT (adaptation of the play )
optioned and produced by Prochaine Films
directed by Lanie Zipoy
TAKING LIBERTIES
commissioned by Lifetime
The story of how Sojourner Truth was recruited into the suffrage movement.
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY (adaptation of the play )
CHANCE OF RAIN (adaptation of CHOOSING LOVE)
AYESHA COOK IS DYING FROM THE FEET UP
A stubbornly independent woman juggles an increasingly serious romance, ridiculous family drama, and a spanking new diagnosis of MS.
Photo Cred: Seth Freeman
WHITELISTED (a revenge-horror play commissioned by South Coast Rep)
Rebecca Burgess is just living her life when weird, supernatural shit starts happening to her for no reason she can think of. Of course, the fact that she can't think of the reason is probably why it's happening.
PROOF OF LOVE (a one-woman play commissioned by Audible)
Written as both a radio and a stage play, this single-hander centers on a woman who encounters some complex and unexpected questions surrounding her comatose husband and discovers the subtler horrors of classism along the way.
MARION (in partnership with composer Creighton Irons, ever in progress)
A musical inspired by the rise and controversial fall of track star Marion Jones.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF (A Delaware REP Theater Commission)
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.
AMERIKIN
A man takes an ancestry test a part of his initiation into a white supremacist group and 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.
Screenplays
UNTITLED FILM PROJECT
commissioned by Walt Disney Studios
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (a total reboot of the original screenplay)
commissioned and in pre-production with Paramount Pictures
directed by Lee Daniels
THE SUBJECT (adaptation of the play )
optioned and produced by Prochaine Films
directed by Lanie Zipoy
TAKING LIBERTIES
commissioned by Lifetime
The story of how Sojourner Truth was recruited into the suffrage movement.
SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY (adaptation of the play )
CHANCE OF RAIN (adaptation of CHOOSING LOVE)
AYESHA COOK IS DYING FROM THE FEET UP
A stubbornly independent woman juggles an increasingly serious romance, ridiculous family drama, and a spanking new diagnosis of MS.
Photo Cred: Seth Freeman
