Full-Length Plays for Adults
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The story of a mother and son reunion after the apparent suicide of the child’s father. .
Reading in the New Works Festival at Three Cat Productions in June 2015.
Gruoch or Lady Macbeth
Follow the future Lady Macbeth and her child as they escape the conflagration which kills her first husband, through her residence at a shelter for homeless families (run by three other witches), her marriage to Macbeth and to her subsequent death.
Produced by Death and Pretzels Theatre Company in March 2015.
Table read in the First Draft Series at Chicago Dramatists.
Selected in competition for workshop and reading at Three Cat Productions; January 2014.
The Tempest Within
The troubled history and redemption of five actors who are brought together to audition for the mysterious and world famous Mr. Director.
Staged partial reading with Deadline Workshop at Chicago Dramatists.
Staged reading scheduled with Writers Bloc August 7, 2017.
The Snow Queen (Adults only)
An adult rendition of the Hans Christian Anderson story in which Gerda sets off on a fantastic journey to rescue her childhood friend from the death-like land of his drug experience.
Table read in the First Draft Series at Chicago Dramatists.
Skin for Skin
Skin for Skin finds the Biblical Job as a detainee in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.
Producedwith The Agency Collective, directed by Mike Menendian, with choreography by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and Actors Gymnasium; Rivendell Theatre, February - April 2017.
Table read in the First Draft Series at Chicago Dramatists.
Go Boom!
GoBoom! depicts a romance between an actor and the therapist of an autistic child, in the midst of a lawsuit against the company that makes vaccinations.
Staged reading with Deadline Workshop at Chicago Dramatists.
Anna O.
Bertha Pappenheim’s treatment with Dr. Josef Breuer; the birth of psychoanalysis; and her courageous efforts to combat her symptoms, the treatments, and the abuse of women and children. Freud is merely a footnote.
Selected scenes read as part of Untold Stories of Jewish Woman at The Museum of Jewish Heritage; February 2018.
Table read in the First Draft Series at Chicago Dramatists.
Staged reading at The Agency Collective in Jan. 2016.
Into The River
Two men meet on a bridge over a river; one is contemplating suicide. Chance or karma?
To The Great Egress
PT Barnum is at the gates of heaven. He wants in. The two strangers who arrive after him have another idea.
Table read in the First Draft Series at Chicago Dramatists.
When the Levee Breaks
A young hot-shot corporate lawyer meets the girl of his dreams. The earth moves. Literally.
The first scene was performed at Chicago Dramatists in the Best of the Ten Festival and The Second City Chicago.
La Maestra
The story of seventeenth century artist, Artemisia Gentileschi. And or twenty-first century drama student, Jennifer Hartnett. And of Biblical Judith.