Beat
March 2020, SMTD Playfest
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
It's 2020 in middle America, where gun reform has yet to be instituted but new policy criminalizing abortion has come to reign. BEAT follows the story of two girls coming of age in a dangerous and restrictive time at the intersection of gun violence and sexual violence. Together, they must navigate the politics of friends' deaths and overcome challenges to autonomy. Meanwhile, their teacher aspires for gun reform and longs to be a mother, while a neighborhood woman must confront an unwanted pregnancy. Trauma and its politicization is explored in this story of families, sisterhoods, and police domination. It forces us to ask, what is the value of a heartbeat? And what lives do we protect under the guise of "the right to life?"
BEAT is a full-length drama workshopped and produced at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
Fire and Ice
February 2019, Blank Space Workshop
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
This ten-minute play approaches the subject of paradox on the Icelandic landscape. When an American traveler disrupts the routine of an Icelandic nature-lover, she learns how to live beyond her comfort zone with the culturally relative advice she finds.
Contact for downloadable script.
Georgia Washington
January 2018, Residential College Players
This comic ten-minute play is a satirical re-telling of the country's origin by political leaders Georgia Washington, Alexandra Hamilton, Tonya Jefferson, and Jane Madison.
Viewable here, beginning at 2:40.
Contact for downloadable script.
Stalling
October 2017, Residential College Players
This ten-minute comedy details the story of a time-traveling archaeologist who stumbles upon the cave paintings of the 21st century: bathroom stall graffiti. The friendship that ensues between a futurist optimist and contemporary nihilist will leave viewers laughing.
Viewable here, beginning at 19:00.
Contact for downloadable script.
PRESS
See Broadway World press release for the opening of Fire and Ice!
See Arts at Michigan review for the public response to Fire and Ice!