Dramatic Monologues
Dramatic Monologues
Figure Out How to Live
5 minutes
Dramedy
1 w
A new mother tries to convince her baby that she's even got a clue about how to take care of her.
Upcoming publication in Frozen Women, Flowing Thoughts, editor Deborah Randall, Venus Theatre, 2024
Digital Dramatists (staged reading, streamed,) Chicago IL/Indianapolis, IN, March 2021
Writers Block Radio Hour, “Best of 2020 Part 1” (radio production,) SupersoundScotland, December 2020
Writer’s Block Radio Hour (radio production,) SuperSoundScotland.net, July 2020
Published at MonologueBank.com
The Mother Lode (staged reading), graymatters productions, New York, NY, October 2018
Selected for Production: Forked Theatre Motherlogues, London, UK, March 2017
Far North
15 minutes
Dramedy
1 w
At a cocktail party, urbane Phyllis speaks into a cell phone camera as she gives advice to a newborn on living a civilized life. But, as the party progresses, her proper veneer begins to crack, revealing a secret long ago buried in the Far North.
Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020
Full play and excerpt published on MonologueBank.com
Fly Center New Works Festival (staged reading), Fly Arts Center, Shelbyville, TN, August 2017
Berrie Center New Play Festival at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, April-May 2014
Old Library Theatre, Fair Lawn, NJ, February 2013.
- Nominated for the 2013 Perry Award for Best Production of an Original Play by the New Jersey Association of Community Theaters
Winner, Warner International Playwrights Festival, Torrington, CT, July 2012
Gallery Players Black Box New Play Festival, Brooklyn, NY, June 2012
What To Do About It (#AfterTheBans)
“There is not enough space to start racking up the merits of this ground breaking piece of theatre. I have had the pleasure of witnessing a live audience collectively squirm, gasp and then laugh all in the same breath. Dark, comic and utterly relevant.”
10-13 minutes
Black comedy
1 m
In the near future, after abortion bans have been instituted nationwide, a cop in your city gives a lecture-demo to a group of arrested women. His goal: to convince them they should not attempt abortions on themselves. But his audience isn't buying it.
Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020
Everyday Horrors (staged reading,) Core Artists Ensemble, New York, NY, November 2019
#AFTERTHEBANS (staged reading,) No Dominion Theater & Jersey City Theater Center, Jersey City, NJ, October 2019
Breaking the Law (staged reading,) The Rum Diaries Presents, Glasgow, UK, September 2019
Tina at Thirteen
3-4 minutes
Dramedy
1 w
All Tina wants, she tells the School Counselor, is to find a good recipe on Pinterest. But just thinking about her dead mother's stuffed cabbage is enough to send her around the bend.
Radio production, Writer’s Block Radio Hour, SuperSoundScotland, May 2020
The Big Bad Wolf
THE BIG BAD WOLF, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, AK (Marguerite Louise Scott)
“Theatre that reflects present day tensions and issues should make you uncomfortable. This play forces you to think about those stories, those lies, those myths about Others, the marginalized, including immigrants, told to children in homes across America at bedtime. It’s a conversation starter.”
1 minute
Political Satire/Dark Comedy
1 w
Roxanne tells her granddaughter a bedtime story colored by the current political moment.
Writers Block Radio Hour, “Best of 2020 Part 2” (radio production,) SupersoundScotland, January 2021
Writers Block Radio Hour, Super Sound Scotland (radio production,) Glasgow, UK, March 2020
Halloween Fright Write Night (staged reading, ) The Rum Diaries Presents, Glasgow, UK, October 2019
Creative Collisions, Bashir Productions, London, UK, November 2018
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK, June 2018
Published online at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference Monologue Workshop, June 2018
Joy
JOY, Strong Female Lead, Rum Diaries Presents, Glasgow, UK (Byrony Randall.)
5 minutes
Drama
1 w
A wife in a bad marriage fights to remember her greatest moment of joy, even if that moment involves tugging on internal organs and flopping like a fish.
Strong Female Lead (staged reading,) The Rum Diaries Presents, Glasgow, UK, June 2019