Full Length

Broken by the Bay
2F 2M
A woman’s dream of a restful vacation evaporates as the needs of her multi-generational family demand all she can give. When stretched to the breaking point, she must decide which burdens she is still willing to bear.

Workshop: Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Baltimore MD

Waverly Hall
4F
Maureen’s sister is dead. She can’t stop thinking about her. This is understandable, but not altogether convenient. Especially not when you’re applying for the prestigious Head of School position at Waverly Hall Academy High School for Girls. How far is Maureen willing to go to be a leader of a historic institution? How far will she bend her values before they break?

Workshops: The Dramatist Guild, virtual; Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Baltimore MD; Artistic Synergy of Baltimore, Rosedale MD

Passport
2F 2M
It’s December 27th, 2007 and much of Kenya is protesting the questionable results of their presidential election. Jeff, a humanitarian worker burnt-out from his job and estranged from his wife, finds himself trapped in a hotel room due to the riot occurring outside his window. Hearing screams, he pulls in two Kenyan women who forever change his life.

Production: Theatrical Mining Company, Baltimore MD; Baltimore Playwrights Festival – Full Performance

Vigil
2F, 2M
David Franell returns home from his first year at college to be with his dying mother, but he soon finds that his relationship with his father, Ed, is in far worse condition.

Workshop: Theatrical Mining Company, Baltimore MD

Vacant
1F 2M
Vacant tells the story of Charlotte, a recent widow who fights loneliness by crusading to save the abandoned houses in her city. In order to get delinquent landlords to pay attention, she spray paints the owners’ social security numbers on the doors of their forgotten properties.

Scene Workshop: Theatrical Mining Company, Baltimore MD

The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border (co-author)
2F, 1M
Monologs developed from interviews with ranchers, migrants and others affected by U.S./Mexico border migration.

Productions: produced nationally in collaboration with CRS.

Musicals

Unraveled on the Gravel: a musical (music, book & lyrics)
1F, 3M
This show navigates the haunted relationship between a compulsive hitchhiker and his overly devoted girlfriend.

Production: Spotlighters Theatre, Baltimore MD; Baltimore Playwrights Festival

Cracking Columns: a musical (music, book & lyrics)
2F, 2M
Samantha and Ryan find themselves broke and stranded in a bus station in the middle of the night…holding two strangers hostage at gun point.

Workshop: University of Central Florida, Orlando FL

The Scofield Coda: a musical (music, book & lyrics)
4F, 4M
A successful U.S. Senator must choose between saving his legacy or his family.

Production: The Valley Playhouse, Harrisonburg VA

10 Minute Plays

The Coaching Session
1F, 1M
After a big career with a fortune 500 company, Ed is stuck selling TVs for a dingy electronics store. Although he’s rotten at his job, he can’t help but give coaching tips to his 20‐something boss who is trying her best to fire him.

Productions: Acme Theatre, Maynard MA; Short Play Lab, New York NY; Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore MD

Micro vs Macro
2M
It’s a sun-filled day. Bill is sitting on a bench, trying to clear his head. Unfortunately, he’s recent medical diagnosis keeps talking to him.

Reading: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Reading, Washington DC

Magic, Nebraska
1F, 1M, 3 Anyone
A small town couple discovers, loses and rediscovers each other. Just as their relationships goes up and down, so does the fate of the town.

Production: Rapid Lemons Productions Variations Festival, Baltimore MD

Your Traffic Report Hurts My Feelings
1F, 2M
Randy is stuck in an unending traffic jam. His frustration with life reaches the boiling point when his wife, a radio traffic reporter, reports on every traffic jam in the city except his own. As a mysterious homeless man rambles on nearby, Randy re-evaluates his marriage and his life.

Production: Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring MD, voted Best Script

Baltimore, 9:15pm
2F, 3M
Two couples, one black and one white, engage each other on a dark corner in Baltimore at 9:15pm. Once things become predictable in this “race play,” the cast turns on the playwright and demands more.

Readings: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Reading, Washington DC; Free Fall Baltimore, Baltimore MD

Smell the Blame
2F, 1M
A mother and daughter struggle across millennia with their unnaturally powerful sense of smell.

Production: Rapid Lemons Productions Variations Festival, Baltimore MD

Sorry I Can’t Give You My Attention
1F, 2M
DD, a fundraiser can’t get Sam and Chris’ attention, as they are too consumed with other matters. Sam is in awe of every cereal available at the grocery store, and Chris laments every animal that has goes extinct over the past 100 years. All together, no one hears a thing.

Reading: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Reading, Washington DC

CRABS!
2M
In this 1950’s creature-feature throwback, radioactive crabs have taken over Baltimore and kidnapped a local woman. The woman’s brother and her husband argue the best strategy to rescue her, by force with mallets or diplomacy with Old Bay.

Production: Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore MD

I’ve Got to Lay 300 Eggs
2F, 1M
Eve is a mosquito ready to lay her eggs, but she needs a big protein boost from some human blood. Her mate, Adam, wants her to dine away on an unsuspecting hotel guest, but Eve has second thoughts since she is carrying malaria. Is it right to destroy one species to advance another?

Production: Arena Players Variations Project, Baltimore MD

The Political Round Up
1F, 2M
Amanda and Bradbury are on complete opposite ends of the political spectrum. Jack is in the middle trying to keep things sane. Soon they all find out they have more in common than the love of a good argument.

Reading: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Reading, Washington DC

Battle of the Outlaws
2F, 5M
Bad Bart battles with Dutch over who’s the meanest outlaw.

Production: Baltimore Improv Group, Baltimore MD

The Tell Tale Cell
3F, 3M
John Scofield is about to announce to a large crowd that he’s running for Congress, but his wife does not have the guts to tell him it’s a big mistake. An annoying cell phone may be just the motivation she needs.

Readings: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Reading, Washington DC; Free Fall Baltimore, Baltimore MD

One Out of Five
1F, 1M
It’s Gary and Judith’s first night at home with their five newborns. Nutty from sleep deprivation, the couple goes over the deep end projecting the chances their kids will end up either as football stars or allergic to wheat gluten.

Productions: Run of the Mill Theatre, Baltimore MD; Salt Luck, Baltimore MD

^{(Photo from PASSPORT – Claire Bowerman, Ama Brown, Mike Ware, and Mahoghany Ayot Eerised. Photo by Robin Boyle. Directed by Barry Feinstein.)}