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Full Length Works

Solo-Written Plays for Stage, 75 Minutes or Longer

UNWIND: HINDSIGHT IS 2020

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Photo by Louis Maniquet on Unsplash
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Full length physical theater drama. 3W.
80 minutes


In the midst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, a research scientist races to uncover how stress impacts the human body in this moment and womxn’s bodies in particular, how that connects with the earth’s stress response throughout history and how all our anxiety is colliding while personal, national and global crises overpowers humanity’s consciousness. The scientist and her research participants connect across technology, dreamscape, starscape and future asking in light of all this, how we can stay strong, stay calm and heal in the face of disaster.
 
Based on survey responses from 90 individuals, this play explores how stress impacts the human body in this moment and women’s bodies in particular in this time where personal, national and global crises overpowers our consciousness, asking how we can stay calm and heal in the face of disaster.


Virtual Staged Reading:

West of Lenin
2021, Seattle, WA

Excerpt Readings:

Creation in the Time of Change
Covid Cultural Commissioning Showcase
2020, Boise, ID

Bloom Reading Series
Storyfort
2020, Boise, ID

Archived:

Covid Community Collection
Boise City Department of Arts & History
2021, Boise, ID

HOW TO HIDE YOUR MONSTER  

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Marie Markovic as Savannah, Photo by Paula H Junn, 2015.
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Full length drama. 3W.
90 minutes


Savannah answers a cry for help from her sister – who just met her grandfather and is taking care of him in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease. When their mom joins them, Savannah sees she was brought in as backup, in order to help her sister confront their mom about the truth of their life story. Within this reunion, they break through the secrets and lies that have distanced their family from each other their whole lives, only to discover that the biggest hidden monster is lodged within Savannah, and it’s bringing on a storm that will destroy everything that they’ve known, which will make them face themselves, each other and their personal histories in a whole new way.

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Workshop/Readings:

National Winter Playwrights Workshop
HBMG Foundation
2018, Creede/Pagosa Springs, CO

Readings:

Playwrights Festival
Thingamajig Theatre Company
​2019, Pagosa Springs, CO

NYC Sit In!
Seven Devils New Play Foundry
2017, NYC


​5X5 Reading Series
Boise Contemporary Theater

2016, Boise, ID


BLiP Reading Series
HomeGrown Theatre,

2015, Boise, ID

​Staged Readings:

MFA Festival
California Institute of Integral Studies

2016, San Francisco, CA

HomeGrown Theatre
2016, Boise, ID

KILGORE

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Kevin Geer as Tate, Photo by Sarah Jessup, 2011.
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Full length comedy. 2 M, 2 W. 
90 Minutes

Greg was raised by his grandfather Tate. Or maybe it's the other way around. On the run from yet another one of Tate's disastrous relationship choices, the two find themselves in small-town Texas...that is until Greg falls for Katie, his dedication is pushed to its limit and all three are forced to face their past.

Workshop/Staged Reading:

Seven Devils Playwright's Conference
Seven Devils New Play Foundry
2011, McCall, ID


Readings: 

Tealight Readings
BSU Theatre Majors Association
2014, Boise, ID

NYC Sit In!
Seven Devils New Play Foundry

2012, New York, NY

BLiP Reading Series
HomeGrown Theatre

2011, Boise, ID

Previously Published:

Independent Play(w)rights ​

see in the dark

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Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska, 2019.
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Full length mythic drama. 5W/2M/1 Non-Binary.
80 minutes


​When a young girl shows up in the desolate village that Juneau, Alaska has become, the surviving community embraces her as their new hope. That is, until a boy is found hunting her down with brutal accusations. Set in a future Juneau, Alaska, after all the glaciers have melted, the ice fields have vanished and nothing is recognizable, see in the dark is a mythic look at the value of compassion over suspicion. 


Virtual/Live Streamed Readings:

Workshop Series
The Bechdel Group
2021, NYC


Occupy The Stage 2020
Women's Theatre Festival
2020, Raleigh, NC

Workshop/Readings:


BLiP Reading Series
HomeGrown Theatre

2020, Boise, ID

Playwrights Festival
Thingamajig Theatre Company
2019, Pagosa Springs, CO

NEW EDEN

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Brian Quijada as Brian, Greg Paul as Michael, Photo by Sarah Jessup, 2014.
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​Full length drama. 2 M, 1 W.
90 Minutes

Lost in a blizzard, Brian stumbles upon Michael’s warm and welcoming cabin. Lost and longing to please God, Michael's chance for salvation stumbles in from the cold. One disciple is a good beginning...but Michael has his eye on disciple number two. With Brian's help, she’ll join them soon--the key to the New World, she can save us all. 


Staged Reading:

Campfire Theatre Festival
2017, Boise ID


Workshop/Reading:

Seven Devils Playwright's Conference,
Seven Devils New Play Foundry,
2014, McCall, ID


Readings:

5X5 Reading Series
Boise Contemporary Theater
2015, Boise, ID

5x5 West Reading Series
BCT & Flying "M" Coffeehouse
2015, Nampa, ID

As Heathens:

NYC Sit In!
Seven Devils New Play Foundry

2014, NYC

BLiP Reading Series
HomeGrown Theatre

2013, Boise, ID

ME AND MY SHADOW

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Sarah Ann Gardner as Marianne, Photo by John Glenn Hall, 2012.
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Full length drama. 4 M, 3 W.
100 Minutes

When Marianne’s father dies, she finds comfort in childhood imaginary friends. Absorbed in an invented reality, she cuts herself off from daily life to a catatonic degree. Forced into hospitalization, she expresses her mind through art and ends up saving herself by her own terms.

Production:

Boise Creative & Improvisational Music Festival
Visual Arts Collective
2012, ​Garden City, ID 
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