One-Act Plays
One-Act Plays
Invisible
40 minutes
Magical Realist/Absurdist Dramedy
3 w
When Suzanne, in her 60’s, starts to lose her looks and can't find work, her younger selves know exactly what she should do about it.
2 monologues published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023, edited by Debbie Lamedman, Smith and Kraus
Page to Stage: That's What She Said Playwrights Festival (staged reading,) Curtis Theatre, Brea, CA, August 2022
Last Frontier Theatre Conference (staged reading), Valdez, AK, June 2018
Fly Center New Works Festival (staged reading), Shelbyville, TN, August 2017
Far North
15 minutes, monologue
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 both published on MonologueBank.com
Fly Center New Works Festival (staged reading), 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.”
15 minutes, monologue
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.
Semi-finalist, The a Chronicles, New York, New York, April 2023
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
Rockaway Park (INTERACTIVE VERSION)
15 minutes
Drama
2 w/2 m
One audience member (the protagonist) and three "inter-actors" (trained in acting, improvisation and psychology) work their way through this interactive story.
In the Rockaways, ten days after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, neighbors Helen and Roxanne wait for the Red Cross and FEMA to help them clean up their basements and resume a normal life.
Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, Orlando, FLA. Directed by Jeff Wirth, August 2013
Quarry Heights
45 minutes
Drama
2w/2m
Sam, a doctor, and Renee, a secretary, meet on a blind date on a beach in Westchester County, N.Y.. But where are the other guests, and who, exactly, is doing the social climbing?
Staged Readings:
(Excerpt:) HB Playwrights Foundation Theater, New York, NY, April 2006
(Excerpt:) Red Room, New York, NY, May 2005.
WLRT, Goshen, CT, July 2004.