In the Game
The hot one.
The one who lies about her age.
The man of faith.
The career chick.
The bisexual.
In the game of love, who are you? What archetypes have shaped your desires? And what lies beyond? In the Game takes us inside a sinister Bachelor-esque reality tv show to examine the ways we’ve been taught that love = winning, and what happens when we try to get out.
9 characters ages 15-75, 100 mins
In the Game received a reading at the BRIC in Brooklyn as part of the Brooklyn College New Play Lab in 2021.When the Lights Go Out
Fourteen-year-old Cami is deep into zero-waste blogs, solar-panel Kickstarters, and homemade laundry detergent. Cami’s moms are activist-y types themselves and proud of their daughter’s passion. But when they discover what she has been doing with all the trash she can’t recycle, the line between passion and compulsion starts to blur. Then someone from the family’s past shows up, seeking refuge from her own world coming to an end, and calling into question how we juggle multiple crises, how far we extend our care, and who we consider kin.
When the Lights Go Out is a play about our loyalty to various lineages—blood family, queer family, good people/people who “change the world”—and asks: how much of our life’s meaning do we derive from believing that we are part of a lineage that continues?
5 characters ages 15-45, 120 minutes
When the Lights Go Out received a workshop at TheatreFirst in Berkeley, CA in 2023.How to Fill It
A play about a box that comes in the mail.
A play for you and a companion.
A play about a color, or the absence of–—
absence of what? are you telling me there’s something missing? are you telling me I am less than whole?
How to Fill It is a mail subscription play designed to be performed at home. It is a play for self-identified white people, an interrogation of the ways that white supremacy continues to both harm and seduce us, even those of us who already recognize the structures of racism. It is a play without answers, a space to consider the roadblocks that continue to arise in our efforts to make antiracist values manifest in our lives, a container for journeying to the places inside us we have not yet named.
2 characters
six installments delivered over six weeks
Circus Trick
Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old-fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else? Circus Trick is the story of a clown who stages a rebellion against the commodification of entertainment in an on-demand world, and in doing so, explores some of the stranger possible benefits of live performance.
one performer, 30-60 minutes
Circus Trick has received two productions, one at The Tank (NYC) as Part of Weasel Fest, featuring Sagan Chen, and one at The Brick (Brooklyn) as part of Exponential Festival, featuring KP Sgarro. Both productions were directed by Lauren Zeftel. See photo gallery.