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Helt Texas
A full-length dramedy with a running time of 90 minutes. Cast: 3 men and 2 women
Sarah, an atmospheric scientist goes to Svalbard to continue her research and meets Torbjørn, a Norwegian businessman and Arthur, her old college boyfriend. The Arctic can be an unforgiving place and they all encounter more than they bargained for.  A timely play about climate disruption, contemporary discourse, and poor personal choices. 
  • Semi-Finalist for the 2020 New American Voices Playwriting Festival Semi-Finalist, Austin, 2020
  • Third Place Winner of the Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company Emerging Playwrights Contest, NYC, 2019
  • Finalist for the Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival, Burbank, 2019
  • Developmental Reading, Google Sustainability Team, Mountain View, April 2019
  • Developmental Reading Presented by FaultLine Theater, San Francisco, 2018
  • Created for The Arctic Circle Residency during the Summer Solstice Expedition, 2018

Transgress
One-act drama with a running time of 25 minutes Cast: 2 men, 1 woman, and 1 trans or non-gendered 
A play about the detention of Dora Ratjen, a Nazi Olympic athlete in the woman's high jump, who was arrested for impersonating a man.
  • Finalist for The Kenneth Branagh Award for New Dramatic Writing, Windsor Fringe, UK, 2020
  • Reading Presented by The Road Theatre Company’s Annual Summer Playwrights Festival 9, North Hollywood, 2018
  • Long-List Finalist for British Theatre Challenge, Blue Sky Theatre Company, London,  2018
  • Finalist for Segora One-Act Play Competition, St Andrè-sur-Sèvre, France 2018
  • ​​Reading Presented by The Bechdel Group, New York City,  2017
  • Reading Presented at the 36th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas, 2017

House/HOME
An immersive theatrical installation of four 3 minutes dramatic duologues that explore what makes a house, a home. 
Cast: 4 men and 4 women
  • ​Premiered with At Last Theatre at the 2017, 0+ Festival in Kingston NY 
  • Directed by Rik Lopes and Produced at the Fred J. Johnston Museum with the Friends of Historic Kingston 

Dominion
A full-length drama with a running time of 90 minutes. Cast: 3 men and 4 women 
(2015)
In a religious dystopia where questioning dogma is forbidden, three women learn the power of friendship, love,
and the dangers of sacrifice.
  • Premiered with At Last Theatre at Fort Mason Center, Young Performer Theatre, San Francisco, April 2016. ​
        Five Honorable Mention Plays of 2016
"At Last Theatre presents this world premiere in a tight, tense ninety minutes with a cast that embodies with great skills the play’s harsh contrasts – both shining and shadowy -- of what it means to be family and community." Eddie Reynolds 

Present Tense
A full-length drama, with running time of 85 minutes. Cast: 3 men and 3 women 
(2015)
Present Tense is a play of five unrelated vignettes, tied together thematically. It is a drama, a theatrical poem about Middle America. It’s about our dilemmas, failed expectations, difficult choices, and  unwillingness to live in the present. 
  • Premiered with At Last Productions and The Playwright Center of San Francisco  March 2015.
"Each takes place real-time for fifteen or so minutes, with the ‘present tense’ of each highly shadowed by histories of turbulent relationships and events and foreshadowed by uncertain futures.  In each, the tension is high, made so by revelations and remembrances and by fears of what may or may not happen next." Eddie Reynolds  

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Heaven and Earth
Co-written with Jeff Mattlin
A full-length drama, with running time of 140 minutes. Cast: 9 men and 3 women

Heaven and Earth is a drama and science play that explores the Galileo Affair. Is truth handed down by authority or can it be determined objectively? 
  • Second Round Finalist for the 2018 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition
"I found some moments to cry, some moments to laugh, and some moments to feel enlightened, which I personally think makes for a wonderful play." ​

Bloodline

Co-written with Jeff Mattlin
A full-length drama, with running time of 200 minutes. Cast: 10 men and 2 women (2013) 
Bloodline is a classically-styled play about how Alexander the Great became king.
  • ​Staged Reading Workshop in 2014 with Playwright Center of San Francisco. Directed by Laylah Muran De Asserto

Last Laughs
by Everett Mattlin, adapted from his book, Last Laughs: A Pocket Full of Wry for the Aging by Alan Olejniczak (2014)
One-act comedy with a running time of 24 minutes Cast: 3 men
Last Laughs has been re-worked into a comic reading. With humor, wit, and refreshing honesty, Everett Mattlin offers his reflections on the realities of aging.
  • ​Premiered with Theater West, Sun City West, Arizona, October 2014
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