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Scripts 1996-2018
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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writing manager, Ryan Jacobson
all scripts registered with WGA