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The Fatal Gift of Beauty & Other Plays

available for purchase on Amazon

Five short plays, ranging in playing time from ten minutes to an hour. The plays include The Fatal Gift of Beauty, The Broken Museum, Dirt, Zero Wun Niner Tango Copy, and My Dear America.


publisher: neoNumaARTS


The Best of Days

Take a trip from Ancient Europe to the Middle Ages as we tell the tales of the sinister side of Christmas lore.

producer: Voice of the City, performers: Zoë Sapienza, Dezhané Didi,

photo: Julie Dworkin


Story Attic

A mixed-media theatre experience about the mystery artist Magdalena Cervenka and her unfinished installation inspired by old letters she found in her attic.

producer: Voice of the City, A Day in Avondale, artists: Alva Nelms, Lynn Basa


House of Flo

The story of a woman married to a gay man in the 1950's.

A sorrowful love story told in a photograph.

producer: Voice of the City, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival


My-Gration

Stories from the great migration to Chicago, then and now.

producer: Voice of the City, Chicago Home Theater Festival

The Way of Things

Money means never having to say you're sorry.

producer: Voice of the City, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival


Happy Go-Lucky

A day like any day on St. Charles Avenue until a woman on a bicycle hits a man. Then his life begins or ends depending on your point of view.

producer: Voice of the City, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival

Zero Wun Niner Tango Copy

Theatre/Dance ballet about falling in love, getting married, having a child, speaking in tongues, and two tours in Vietnam leading to divorce. India. Lima. Oscar. Victor. Echo. Yankee. Oscar. Uniform. Delta. Oscar. November. Tango. Lima. Echo. Alpha. Victor. Echo. Mike. Echo.

producer: Voice of the City, Circle in the Square Dance/Theatre,

Ruth Page Dance Center


The Fatal Gift of Beauty

On the coldest day of the year, a small-town South Dakota teenager runs away from home in an attempt to find her mother in New Orleans. First, she must convince her only friend for a ride to the bus station, but his feelings for her may complicate matters.

producer: Voice of the City, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival

Dirt.

Desperate for cash, a young homeless man attempts to break into an older woman's house who had once taken him in. She attempts to break through to him to come back home. How many times and at what cost can one forgive?

invited to Edward Albee Playwriting Festival, producer: Wheaton College


Descent of the Condemned

In 1873, an English anthropologist is tasked with concluding that the last known living indigenous person from a small island off of New Zealand is "the missing link." Before he can conclude his findings he's is mysteriously kidnapped. What follows is a battle for the soul of European humanity.

producer: Stage Left New Plays Festival

The Broken Museum

New Orleans is a city of ghosts. Three such ghosts are doomed to play out the horrors they had inflicted on one another in life. Over and over again, like a skipping record, like an anctient ritual, like three actors on stage never able to break character in a play that never ends.

producer: Mary-Arrchie Theater

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312.576.7236

writing manager, Ryan Jacobson

all scripts registered with WGA