Full Length Play — 1960's Buffalo State University
Amidst growing civil unrest and distrust of the Nixon Administration, we follow four students at Buffalo State College, from different socio-economic backgrounds, as they try to find the right side of history. Throughout the 1969 -70 Academic year, we see Barry, Naomi, Sharon and Andy dealing with issues like misinformation and public manipulation, women’s rights, racial equality and inherent racism, abortion access, political corruption and federal agencies monitoring activist groups, all amidst a publicly unsupported war and draft to supply it.
As these students are confronted with a barrage of oppression and manipulation to further a corrupt administration, they are forced to examine their perspectives and look past what they’re told. How far are they willing to go for what they believe in?
Full Length Play — Present Day Altoona, PA
Andi is flourishing at her high school; Eleanor cannot wait to escape. A chance encounter between their mothers sets the girls on a collision course in this examination of friendship, betrayal, self-help society, and poverty.
Full Length Play — 1960’s Buffalo, NY
The story of a working-class family in 1960’s Buffalo, NY. The matriarch of the family - Mindy - is suffering from a mental illness which expresses itself in verbal abuse and physically-threatening behavior. The men of the family - father Van and brothers Ron and Mickey - devise a plan to get Mindy treatment, but when it backfires it sends the family - especially youngest brother, Mickey - into a deep psychological battle of determination vs. free will, family obligations vs. a happier life.
"...the most deeply felt, high-stakes, well-paced script I had read all year." - Nic Adams on Holy Name
Full Length Play — 1960’s Buffalo, NY
An elderly White man, going blind, returns to his boyhood home where he had suffered abuse. When he enters the seemingly abandoned and vacant home, he is held at gunpoint by Black drug dealers. Starting from the most negative stereotypical scenario imaginable, the play twists and turns to a surprising conclusion.
Fresh Mountain Air
Full Length Play — Present Day Washington
Fresh Mountain Air takes place at a rustic cabin, deep in the woods in the state of Washington. Three women in their twenties arrive as strangers, a rustic cabin, deep in the woods in the state of Washington. They grow closer, and then splinter, swept up in the chaos following a nearby prison break. The play runs the gamut from comic to dramatic, philosophical to heart-wrenching; it is both thoughtful and a "thriller."
Full Length Play — Present Day Pittsburgh, PA
Danny and his sister Janey inherit a working class bar after their parents die in a car crash. They decide to sell it to one of two competing couples, from New York and from Los Angeles, who are out to gentrify the neighborhood. The potential sale causes second thoughts and a reexamination of their family and neighborhood.
Heart of a Lion
Full Length Play — Present Day Pittsburgh, PA
Pete is widowed, retired and lonely, living in a single room occupancy hotel. With him is a tiny lion puppet, Leon, who comes alive through Pete’s imagination. He wants the young hotel desk clerk and coffee shop waitress to go on a date, and hopes to reform a young gang member by acting as his mentor. Leon and Pete are unstoppable until Pete meets a challenge he can’t overcome.
Small Little Safe World
Full Length Play — Present Day San Diego, CA
Dave is a lonely, middle-aged man with no living family and only one friend. He works as a motel desk clerk and eats his meals in a diner where Sammy, his only friend, works. When a young woman named Erin strikes up a conversation with him in the diner, Dave becomes immersed in the fantasies that Erin has created, but the line between fantasy and reality proves to be fragile.
Hepner Hall
One Act Play — Rooftop at San Diego State University
Three young female social work students climb to the roof of a campus building and threaten to jump if better efforts aren’t made to address poverty in inner city San Diego. Their professor is proud of their efforts until it appears they are actually going to jump.
SRO
One Act Play — Portland, Oregon
A brother in recovery wants his nephew to visit him at the SRO. His sister discovers the next door neighbor is a convicted child molester. The young boy visits and old family wounds surface.
"His characters are relatable and engaging, his stories are provocative and timely and working with him is always the best of experiences..." - Tiffany Tang, actor in SRO produced by New Village Arts and Playwrights Project