Plays

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Lemuria

Professor Anabelle Katz-Carver, the greatest primatologist since Jane Goodall, runs her elite research lab as a strict matriarchy. After grooming potential successors for decades, she's finally ready to choose an heir — but in the animal kingdom and in our own, how does a queen pass the crown on to another queen? LEMURIA is an inheritance drama about dominance, queer Southern scientists, academic lineage, sex, and - yes - lemurs. (4 f / 1 m / 1 nonbinary) 

• Ensemble Studio Theatre / Sloan Commission ’20-’21

• EST’s First Light Festival Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, ’21

• JOOK MS’s Summer Spotlight Series Facilitated by Randy Redd, Taylor Newby, and Quinn Gilchrist, ‘21

• SETC Getchell New Play Contest Finalist, ‘22

• Sewanee Writers' Conference, Workshop ‘22

• Threshold Theater New Play Reading Series Directed by Denzel Belin, Spring ‘22

• EST Developmental Workshop Directed by Margot Bordelon, Winter ‘22

• Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Finalist, ‘23

• Premiere Stages’ Premiere Play Festival Semi-Finalist, ‘24

• North Carolina New Play Project’s Mark Gilbert Award Winner, ‘24-‘25

IDAHOE

"This is a story about vice, depravity, and how far some people will go to protect themselves — from themselves.” In the summer of 1863, a week after the Battle of Gettysburg, Union officials in Nashville raid the city’s brothels, force hundreds of sex workers onto the steamship IDAHOE, and banish them to Louisville. That’s all just history so far. But as a short river journey turns into a hellish trip to nowhere, the women go to war with old rivals, a hostile crew, and themselves. (Musical, 6 f / 4 m)

• Under Construction Digital Cohort In development through The Road Theatre Company’s resident playwrighting group, ‘22

• Under Construction Festival at The Tank NYC Developmental Reading, Summer ‘23

I TOLD YOU IT WOULD END LIKE THIS

For almost a hundred lifetimes, Cassandra has been able to see a grim future: the death of her brother and the collapse of her home. Inspired by the Trojan War’s most ignored visionary, I TOLD YOU IT WOULD END LIKE THIS follows a dystopian family's time-warping attempts to break their curses. Co-written with Avery Deutsch . (3 f / 4 m)

• American Shakespeare Center, Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Semi-finalist, ’21

Short Plays

CLUCK DELUXE

Isa is finally bringing her girlfriend home for a Mississippi Thanksgiving, and she absolutely did not expect their biggest problem to be fast food chicken. Also, who's that passed out in the back seat? (3 f)

• Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival Winner, directed by Molly Clifford, ‘19

• Published by Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 44th Edition

• Duluth Playhouse’s What She Said Festival Directed by Haley Methner, ‘20 **postponed

• City Theatre Miami Directed by Gladys Ramirez, ‘21

THE WILDERNESS NEEDS YOUR WHOLE ATTENTION

Here on the lonesome prairie, Zebedee and Analissa are trying to survive wolf attacks and the fearsome Milk Sickness. They’re trying to get through the winter with all of their limbs (and siblings) intact. Is real love too much to wish for in this doleful wilderness? (1 f / 1 m)

• Rule of 7 x 7 Directed by Michele O’Brien, ‘20

• OdysseyStage’s North Carolina 10by10 Directed by Grace Siplon, ‘21

PERSEPHONE AT THE RIVER

• Red Bull Short New Play Festival Finalist, ‘19