selected plays
Photo Credit: Maria Baranova
Cold War Choir Practice
8 actors + 1 musician/actor
It’s twilight in Ronald Reagan’s America and the specter of nuclear war hangs over the country – but rent is still due on the 1st. When a prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, the unplanned (and unwelcome) reunion sets long simmering political tensions within the family to boil – and throws each member into a bizarre maze of Reaganomics, Cold War espionage, capitalist cult predation, and… choir practice. Cold War Choir Practice is a dark comedic thriller (with music!) – just in time for the holiday season.
Development History: Cold War Choir Practice was developed and originally produced by Clubbed Thumb and Page 73 as part of Summerworks 2025 (dir. Knud Adams). Cold War Choir Practice was also developed and will be produced in September 2025 at Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI. Curt Columbus, Artistic Director, Kate Liberman, Executive Director, (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).
2024 Writing is Live Festival/Brown University; Finalist, O’ Neill 2025; Nomination, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2025
Throwback Island
8 actors + 1 audience member
Six “sexy singles” go to a secluded island for true love, nostalgia soaked #goodvibes, and a chance to win $100K. But when a strongman bachelor enters the villa there’s a lot more at stake than a pot of money… Throwback Island is a dark and eerie satire that explores good old fashioned American fascism through a bonkers reality dating show. It's a play interested in how a nation constructs its identity through the performance of reality; It is an invitation to question our roles in building the narratives that power the performance.
Development History: 2023 The Ground Floor, 2023 O’ Neill Finalist, 2023 Venturous Fellowship Nomination, 2022 Bushwick Starr Reading Series, 2022 Writing is Live Festival/Brown University