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Cricket Woman Mother Earth (or) A Nasty Comeuppance
Full Length - 1 W, 3 M
Meet Aura Bloom – unemployed, inconsolable, and probably pregnant with the apocalypse. A play about crickets, census workers, sex, unemployment, the BP oil spill and… oh yeah, the end of the world.
*Brand Spankin’ New*
Finalist:
O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, 2010
Twigs and Bone
Full Length - 2 W, 1 M
After her estranged parent’s phone line has been disconnected, Moira Lane begrudgingly returns to the home she abandoned eight years ago only to find things far worse than she could have feared. Her father, William, has taken to peeing in coffee mugs and her mother, Bonnie, claims to have had a miraculous birth. Believing the “baby” to be her youngest daughter reincarnated, Bonnie is convinced that Faeries in the woods have blessed the family with a second chance. As a terrible storm moves in, Moira must battle her family’s madness and navigate the years of guilt and grief feeding the storm if she has any hope of getting out alive.
Developed at The Hawthornden International Writer’s Retreat and Theatricum Botanicum
Finalist:
Jerome Fellowship, 2010
Semi-Finalist:
O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, 2010
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2010
Ana and the Closet
Full Length - 2 W, 3 M
Ana’s life finally seems to be getting back to normal. She has a loving husband, good credit, and she just found the perfect dress, one that practically sings when she puts it on. So it’s no surprise really that things are about to get messy. See, Ana’s first husband, David, didn’t die in a military crash after all. He’s been a prisoner of war for the past 3 years, and the army just called to let her know he’s back. Now Ana has to decide how much her heart can take. And if that weren’t enough, David brought back something with him. Something dark, and dangerous, and it lives in the closet.
Part surrealistic comedy, part romantic odyssey, Ana and the Closet, is a simple story set amidst today’s confusing times.
Winner:
Tim Robbins Award
Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting
Finalist:
Jerome Fellowship, 2009
Semi-Finalist:
O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, 2009
In The Company of Jane Doe
Full Length- 5 W, 3 M
Jane Doe cannot explain how the frozen cod got in her briefcase, she cannot explain why she keeps dreaming about snow, and she certainly doesn’t understand why she is being kept awake night after night with dreams of a little man slicing her into bite-size pieces. What she does know, however, is that she needs to get to the bottom of things before these mysterious “Incidents” get in the way of the biggest promotion of her life! When the eccentric Dr. Snafu offers to clone her, she leaps at the opportunity. What she doesn’t realize though, is that by failing to disclose her multiple plastic surgeries she will come face to face with the “Jane-that-could-have-been”, thus forcing her to confront her own inner demons. What follows is a riotous, and fantastical, journey through one woman’s fight for self-discovery.
Developed with UCLA, and The Theatricum Botanicum
Winner:
New Works for Young Women, University of Tulsa
New Plays on Campus, The Playwrights’ Center
Dini Ostrov Stage Spirit Award
Hal Kanter Award in Comedy Writing
Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting
Finalist:
Princess Grace Awards, 2006
Ham Brown’s House
Full Length- 2 W, 3 M
About a year ago Paul Brown returned to the family farm. He entered the house while no one was home, took off all his clothes and shot himself in the head. Now, a year later, Ginny Mae Brown has moved back to the family farm to take care of her ailing Mother and quick-tempered father, but things aren’t quite right in Ham Brown’s House. Ham is convinced his daughter is trying to kill him, his wife can’t speak, the nosy family physician keeps coming round to check on things, and his favored son John hasn’t been home since the funeral. All Ham wants is some peace and quiet , but that might be hard to do with Ginny poking around.
Left to put together pieces of an old family secret, hidden away for 33 years, Ginny starts to wonder, what is Opal hiding? Did she really suffer a stroke or was she the victim of some sort of attack? What does Doc Housman know that makes Ham bristle at his very name? Why hasn’t John come home, and what is on that old movie reel that has got Opal so terrified of Ham? Events unfold in a pressure cooker of emotion until the final scene, where the old projector is once again found and Ginny Mae serves up a final reckoning.
Finalist:
Princess Grace Awards, 2008
From the Rubble
Full Length*- 2W, 1 m
When the end of the world interrupts Jack’s busy day at the office, he is more then a little depressed at the prospect of spending his final moments with Pete, his pet rock. Not long after his office caves in however, Tori, a free spirited accountant from down the hall, hammers her way through his office wall with her high heel. He is looking for salvation; she’s just looking for the bathroom. Together they find the answers, but not in the forms they expect. You see, God has a little plan of her own, and it requires a higher commitment than either Jack, or Tori, have ever had to make before.
*This play may be performed as a 1-act utilizing the first act of the script only. In this case, the script will call for 1 W, and 1 M.
Developed with NEW Plays NEW Voices at UCLA Playreading Series
Winner:
Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting