| play title |
synopsis |
production history |
| Ees Story Uff Poor Sea Village Gerl |
Cast: 1F / 1 M
Running time: 90 minute
Can poor gerl from teenytiny sea village become verymuch faymoose, find
happiness, excitement, maybe even luff? Please to join thees gerl on
travels from village to mountain to brothel and beyond.
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Reading, Ethereal Mutt, Seattle
Reading, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Olympia, WA
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| Tales From The SaltMines |
Cast: 4F / 2M
Running time: 2 hours
On her first day in an anonymous office, an
artist-slash-temporary-secretary butts heads with American mass culture's rabid
aversion to creativity. A farce about art, sex, and the transmigration of souls. |
Staged Reading, Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles
Workshop / Staged Reading, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Ojai, CA
Staged Reading, New Plays 2001, The Prop Theatre, Chicago, IL
Staged Reading, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle
Finalist, 2000 National Playwrights Conference, Waterford, CT
FirstACT Commission, ACT Theatre, Seattle
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| The Six Basic Rules |
Cast 2F/1M
Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min
James and
Louise barely know each other when they elope after a whirlwind, week-long
courtship. Now they ve got their whole lives ahead of them to figure each other out.
A farce about marriage. |
Production, English Theatre of Rome (Scheduled for Sept., 2007)
Production, Union Garage, Seattle
Staged Reading, Mill MountainTheatre, Roanoke, VA
Semi-Finalist, McLaren Memorial Comedy Festival
Second Prize, Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition
Staged Reading, Empty Space Theatre, Seattle
Workshop, Seattle Playwrights Alliance
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| The Urn Of Drew |
Cast 3F/2M
Running Time: 1 hr 50 min
When everybody's favorite relative turns
up dead, the Fink family can't quite figure out how to let him go. How will they
ever come to terms with their loss, with themselves and with each other when
they can't even fiugre out what to do with the, er, um, ah ...ashes. A black
comedy about grief.
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Workshop, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, McCall, ID
Reading, Script Tease, Hollins College & Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke,
VA
Finalist, 1997 Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition
Staged Reading, Jane Doe Theatre Ensemble, Seattle, WA
Finalist, 1992 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Staged Reading, Powerhouse Theatre, Los Angeles
Staged Reading, Burbage Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
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| The Eighteenth Mitzvah |
Cast 4F/5M
Running time 2 hr, 40 min
A fable of the Old World, a story set
in a Ukrainian shtetl in the year 1820. The play weaves together the
journey of an itinerant scribe who is commissioned to hand write a copy of the
Torah, a tale about an orphan girl of fifteen married against her will to a much
older man, and stories from the Talmud which illustrate Jewish law and human
frailty.
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Workshop / Staged Readings, Freehold Studio Theatre, Seattle
Finalist, 1999 Dorothy Silver Prize,
Staged Reading, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA,
Workshop & Staged Readings, Cornish College & Hugo House, Seattle,
WA, September, 1999
Finalist, 1999 Studio Project, Theatrework, Santa Fe, NM
First Prize, The 1999 Richard Hugo House New Play Competition, Seattle
Reading, The Group Theatre, Seattle
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| The Visible Horse |
Cast 1F/1M
Running time 90 min
On the first anniversary of
his father's death in a car accident, Scott accidentally conjurs Dad back from
the great beyond. Unfortunately, Dad arrives as a monster who sets up shop under
the bed.
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Production, The Court Theatre, Los Angeles
Publication, Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001, Smith & Kraus
Production, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA
Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle
Staged Reading, On The Boards & Seattle Playwrights Alliance
Reading, Ensemble Studio Theatre Summer Institute,1997
Workshop / Staged Readings, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference,
Waterford,CT
Staged Reading, AHA! Theatre, Seattle
Reading, Bailliwick Theatre, Chicago
Reading, Primary Stages, New York
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| Hell On Wheels |
Cast 2F/4M
Running Time: 2 hrs
Marta & Greg have the perfect solution
for salvaging their crumbling marriage-pack up the kids and head out to discover
America in a used motor home. A comedy about children, divorce, and very large
vehicles.
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Commissioned by the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays
Production, Empty Space Theatre, Seattle, 1993
Reading, National Theatre Colony, Palenville, NY, 1992
Staged Reading, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, 1992
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| The Lily & Lou Show |
Cast: 2F / 1 M
Running Time: 2 hrs
In the ongoing battle for control over Allison's life, her parents Lily
and Lou know just how to play it when everything hits the fan. It's
uphill for Allison all the way in a comedy about the adult child of
...parents.
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Production, Mae West Fest, Settle
Adaptation, ITV (Thailand) television special
Reading, Paradise Theatre, Chimacum, WA
Reading, Live Girls!, Seattle
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| Dreams of Baby |
Cast: 2F/2M
Running Time 1 hr 40 min
As her
waters break and she goes into labor, it occurs to Anne that it might just be a
little too late to back out! A farce about labor & delivery. |
Best Medicine Productions, Toronto Fringe Festival
Production, Equity Library Theatre, Chicago
Production, Shattermask Theatre, St. Louis,
Best New Play 1993 Footlight Awards, The Seattle Times
Production, Jane Doe Theatre, Seattle,
Staged Reading, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays
Workshop Production, Seattle Actors Collective,
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