THE ICE TREATMENT
The world's most infamous Olympic ice skater tries to reinvent her life story by turning it into a video-taped pitch for a blockbuster sports movie. And she's not going to let the facts get in the way. Winner 2017 Osborn New Play Award; Finalist 2017 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award; Great Plains Theatre Conference; Ingram New Works Lab
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
PRIMARY USER
Where do your posts go when you die? A cutting-edge chatbot unintentionally becomes a digital monument when one of its creators dies unexpectedly, leaving his loved ones to argue over ownership of the digital remains – and their own grief. A millennial ghost story and an examination of disconnection and grief in the age of loneliness. Winner 2018 Ashland New Play Festival; Semi-Finalist 2018 PlayPenn Theatre Conference
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
LONG WAY DOWN
Two southern women hatch a plan to kidnap babies from undeserving parents. Pretty soon, they run out of room for all the children- until one of the women decides there’s room enough for all of the babies in Heaven. Semi-Finalist 2011 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award; Ingram New Works Lab
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
Read it on the New Play Exchange.
THIS RED PLANET
A struggling artist puts her own work on hold to give painting lessons to a very wealthy and very unlikely student - former president George W. Bush. But the job comes with one condition from the former First Lady: The artist has to discourage W. A play about reinvention in retirement, male bumblers, and the high cost of failing upward. Finalist 2019 Blue Ink Playwriting Award American Blues Theatre
GOOD MONSTERS
An off-duty police officer moonlighting as a security guard at a Wal-Mart shoots an unarmed shoplifter in the parking lot. While he waits for the trial and the story becomes national news, the ghost of the dead girl haunts him every night. When she starts to make terrifying demands of him, the fireworks really begin. Finalist 2015 The Lark Playwrights' Week