Full Length Works
Solo-Written Plays for Stage, 75 Minutes or Longer
UNWIND: HINDSIGHT IS 2020
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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
Marie Markovic as Savannah, Photo by Paula H Junn, 2015.
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. Learn more HERE. 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
Kevin Geer as Tate, Photo by Sarah Jessup, 2011.
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
Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska, 2019.
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
Brian Quijada as Brian, Greg Paul as Michael, Photo by Sarah Jessup, 2014.
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
Sarah Ann Gardner as Marianne, Photo by John Glenn Hall, 2012.
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 |