Graceful Living (full-length) 3W

On a July afternoon in 1981, three wives of Graceful Living (a small town housing community) make their way to a 5pm ladies’ hour.... Mrs. Noll and Mrs. Messmer haven’t spoken in a year and Mrs. Pliner is Hungarian and has trouble fitting in.

Can they come together on a day that has each one falling apart? 

About loss and its loneliness and about being a good neighbor, a friend.

A one-act version was part of the NYC Fringe, the Whole Story premiered in a workshop production at Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Ghosts of the Venice (full-length) 3W 2M

Doris is the superintendent of an apartment building called “The Venice.” Across the yard resides Roman, superintendent of “The Paris.” Paris is getting renovated. Venice is getting neglected. Doris navigates the challenges of her own life, The Venice’s violent past, Roman’s requests, tenant Margie’s anxieties, has to oversee an eviction, and encounter an old acquaintance… It’s all a little much.

What are we capable of under pressure?

First seen at Ensemble Studio Theater.

(Artwork by J. Jones)

Cheap Chicken (one-act) 1W

“Tell me about yourself? Tell me about your goals?”- if this is asked of a woman who hasn’t seen much except grocery stores and is never sure how freely she should share, then “Cheap Chicken” is the story she might tell.

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Premiered as part of Manhattan Theater Source’s Estrogenius Festival and is published in the Estorgenius 2012 Book. Revisited 2019 for Happy Hour at EST.

Illustration by J. Jones

In the Dolomites (Full-Length) 3W 1M

Before the start of the second World War, two sisters run a farm in the Dolomite Mountains together. Matilda has a 10 year old daughter out of wedlock and a melancholic nature and Lina is all about efficiency. They have very little money and even less help. The only man, a hired field hand, is about to move on and no-one, except the local knife-grinder Rosetta, will associate with them. When Matilda starts behaving strangely on summer solstice day, things breaks apart.

Can one sister live without the other?

Developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre.

As Lived (solo one act)

A 44 year case study of heterosexual marital space allocations in the form of a not-quite-right TED talk.

Premiered at The Tank.

No Table for Those Left Behind/ Stammtisch der Hinterbliebenen (full-length) (German) 7W 1M

Marie is looking for a new home for the monthly meeting

“Those Left Behind,” a club for those older and unfairly treated. Together with her friend Hemma, the Club’s Secretary, she lands at a nameless bar, which has no tables, chairs, or attentive service. Instead there is questionable artwork, supplied by questionable artists, a permanent and odd regular, and plenty of Gin.

A play about how to go on, when our comforts dissolve.

Produced by dieMonopol in Austria.