"Words, words, words.." ~ hamlet

PLAYS by ME

Title: Right To Bear
Type: Full Length
Pages: 72
Genre: Drama
Characters : 4 total; 3m 1f

2024 Honorable Mention
Right To Bear follows Claire, a Yosemite National Park Ranger who is up for a promotion. But when she is tasked to put down the problem bear, L-13, who recently killed a park goer, she is faced with a moral dilemma after finding out what prompted the bear’s savage act. Only she didn’t expect to hear it directly from the bear, who can speak only to her. While her determined partner hunts after them and the day draws nearer to an end, the unlikely pair must lean on each other in order to reach salvation, before the clear moon rises. But who is really saving who?

* video archive from a performance at the Elektra theater in Times Square.
Title: Most Likely To
Type: One man show
Pages: 23
Genre: Drama
Characters : 1m
I wrote this solo performance play back in 2014
when I was feeling overwhelmed by all the injustice and police brutality inflicted upon my brothers and sisters.
It is semi-autobiographical and sadly still VERY relevant today.

Title: Buttering Toast
Type: Full length
Pages: 93
Genre: Comedy
Characters : 2m, 1f, 1non-specific


*picture taken at INTAR theater in Hell's Kitchen
My first completed full length play was born from it's title, which I randomly wrote down one day and thought "hm, imagine a play with a talking toaster".
Although it is a comedy it deals with themes like, depression, death, suicide, and heartache.


*picture taken at the Dramatist Guild Foundation Music Hall
Title: Brick Thieves
Type: Full length
Pages: 101
Genre: Drama
Characters : 7m, 2w
Although the town in my play is fictional, this play was born from an article I read once about a small district in St.Louis where people were stealing bricks off of houses.
It centers around a father and son relationship in need of repair.
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*an artists' depiction of Joice Heth during a paid viewing in 1835
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*picture taken at TheatreSqaured in Northwest Arkansas
Title: Joice Heth Ain't Dead
Type: Full length
Pages: 70
Genre: Drama
Characters : 3m, 1w
In 1835, a young, brazen and unknown P.T. Barnum, buys and exploits a black slave woman named Joice Heth - believed to be 161 years old and the former mammy to George Washington. JOICE HETH AIN’T DEAD imagines the longtime buried history of how one black woman launched the career of one of the most well known celebrities of the 19th century, while raising the question - why was it buried to begin with.