plays

KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA

Winner of the 2024 Obie Award for Playwriting
Full-length, Comedy
4 W, 1 M

A play that intertwines the lives of four women from different generations and social strata in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kara wakes up to find her husband and children missing. Twenty-year-old Emma runs away with a married man. Barbara’s ex-lover breaks into her home in the middle of the night. And the pipes in Miranda’s house burst.

Through a tapestry of internal monologues and scenes, KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA follows the journey of four women whose major life crises collide on Christmas Eve, leading them to accidentally help each other find a way out. An occasionally off-kilter, and deeply honest play about isolation, resilience, and the healing power of community.

World Premiere at The Tank.

Score

Full-length, Drama
3 W, 4-7 M

A coming-of-age play about a teenage girl in Santa Fe, New Mexico, trying to get a boyfriend and "lose her virginity" while struggling with the competing values of her divorced parents.

The Last Class

4 W, 7 M
Full-length, Comedy

This play follows the lives of students, teachers, professors, lovers, and a stage manager as they find a way to cope in the aftermath of the great recession, an alt-right rally, and the global pandemic. Part riff on Our Town, part ode to the transformative power of community, this play tells the nonlinear story of students and teachers who help each other to survive, thrive, and re-establish their faith in humanity after that faith has been broken.

TRANQUILIZ(H)ER

Full-length, Western-tinged Drama
2 W, 3 M

Set against the stark backdrop of a small New Mexican desert town, TRANQUILIZ(H)ER follows a man living on the fringes — an alcoholic attempting (and failing) to care for dying horses while coasting through life in his ramshackle home. When his girlfriend tries to leave him, a mysterious late-night encounter with horse tranquilizers unravels their relationship in ways neither fully understands. The play then leaps forward in time: the man, having stolen his girlfriend’s recorded musings, finds literary success with “their” story, while she — once aspiring to be a writer — struggles with motherhood and a string of disappointing dates. At a book launch and later in a bittersweet coffee-shop reunion, the two confront the tangled, uneasy legacy of a tale that belongs to them both.

By turns gritty and wistful, TRANQUILIZ(H)ER raises questions about artistic appropriation, the consequences of broken intimacy, and the cruel ironies of success. A raw, complex, and quietly haunting play that captures the lonely echoes of the desert — and the persistent human need for meaning and connection.

HEARTBREAK

Full-length, Comedy
2 W, 5 M

A man's house is fragmented when his daughter arrives from the big city to ask him for relationship advice.

World premiere at The Bushwick Starr, co-produced by New Georges (Brooklyn).

I'M PRETTY FUCKED UP

Full-length, Comedy
4 W, 4 M

Ditching for the first time, Dan and his friends plan the ultimate day to remember. Back on campus, Bobby wants to kiss June, and June tries to be a good first-time girlfriend. Meanwhile, the principal and security guard attempt to lead the school through a campus-wide lockdown.

Set in a small town in New Mexico on April 20th, 2000, this play follows five teenagers' interlocking experiences on the day of a high school lockdown.

World premiere at Clubbed Thumb (NYC).

The Only Girl in the Hot Tub

Full-length, Comedy-Drama
4 W, 4 M

It's the day before Christmas Eve and all Annie wants is to make some new friends at the fitness club. Derek, maybe new friend material, wants to perform well on the first day of his after-school job. His buddy Gene just wants to make his dad, the owner of the club, proud. But, when heartthrob Ray shows up for his workout sesh, the fitness club and its operating policies get turned upside down. This dark comedy, about after-school jobs, hot-tubbing, and rape culture in a small affluent and not so affluent community in Northern New Mexico, tells the story of teens attempting to navigate the convoluted world of adults, while the adults wreak havoc on their sense of right and wrong.

He Ate Quietly Into the Wall

Short Play (45 mins.), Comedy-Drama
2 W, 2 M

Two strangers talk through the night about matters of consequence and matters of no importance. Meanwhile two children play in a fort in the desert, preparing for war.

World Premiere at Page Salon (NYC).