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 One Acts and Shorts

Plays for Adults Around 15-60 Minutes


​The Marshlands Saga

This terror play triptych contains three shorts, one house and three different decades. Each short puppet play features a different girl at a different age, all set against a hidden force in a gorgeous landscape. These blips of psychological horror are set in upstate New York, each on a different level of this three-story farmhouse—a house that demands sacrifice, possession and entrapment. These girls have to grow up fast.

THE GOOD LIFE

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Chad Shohet, Erin Chancer and Erin Archambeault as the Family, 2013.
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One act puppet horror
1M, 2W (puppets)
20 Minutes

A young family moves into their dream house, striving to make everything perfect, only to discover the house is alive inside, hungry for a sacrifice—and eyeing their young daughter Annie. 

Production:


Horrific Puppet Affair 2, HomeGrown Theatre,
2013, ​Boise, ID

 THE POND

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Sam Lounsbury, Jon E Waters, Leah Reynolds and Jaime Nebeker as Greta and the Creatures, 2014.
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One act puppet horror
2W, 3Monsters
15 - 20 Minutes

Greta: new to school, deals with bullies for the first time. She takes respite in the pond out back and the marshland creatures she imagines there. They help her face her enemies at school—but some help is worse than the problem.

Production:

Horrific Puppet Affair 3
HomeGrown Theatre,
2014, 
Boise, ID

CUT HERE

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Jaime Nebeker, Sasha Allen-Grieve as Corey, The Wall, Photo Chaz Gentry, 2015.
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One act puppet horror
1W, 2+ Puppets
15-20 Minutes

Corey goes to the basement to retrieve her cat, stays for alone time, and gets ensnared by a voice in a little hole in the wall.  To get out, she has to lose part of herself.    

Production:

Horrific Puppet Affair 4

HomeGrown Theatre,
2015, ​Boise, ID


Reading:

BLiP, HomeGrown Theatre,
2015, Boise, ID

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CLOUDMELT

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Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash.
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One act dark comedy
3-4 W
35 Minutes.

When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But then the storm and the cold and in comes this teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This play about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference, across cosmos, across lifetimes and forgetting.

University Production:

Barnard College
Senior Thesis Festival
2021, NYC


Reading: 

HomeGrown Theatre
BLiP Reading Series
​2017, Boise, ID

​THE TOXIC EDGE
​AND THE PRECIPICE OF MEMORY 

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Photo by Shannon O'Neill-Creighton, 2015.
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Site Specific Mythic Drama
2W, 1M
15 Minutes.
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Jessie Rose is determined to get to the last drop of clean water on earth here at Islais Creek, with Savannah's help. She knows it will bring back her memory. Harry is determined to keep them here. But Savannah won't let her sister go.


Mixed-Media Performance:

California Institute of Integral Studies, Islais Creek, ​
2015, San Francisco, CA

HOARSE

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At Death Rattle Writers Festival. Photo by Chaz Gentry, 2015.
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One act comedy
1W, 1M
15 Minutes

Oh Janet. Her mom's losing it, she can't afford rent, her neighbors are loud and her son won't hear about it. When she loses her voice, it puts her over the edge--but what will listening teach her?


Production:

Holiday Play Festival, Trinity Street Players
2019, Austin, TX
Digital Streaming Rebroadcast
2020-2021, YouTube

Staged Reading:

Death Rattle Playwrights Festival

2015, Nampa, ID

Reading:

WORD, The Cabin, 
2014, Boise, ID

ROBOTS IN THE RING

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Jason Willford as Jacko, Photo by Aaron Davis, 2009.
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​One act comedy
3 M, 2-3 W
50 Minutes

This experimental comedy relies heavily on music, originally composed by Jared Hallock. Robots takes a close look at humanity's relationship with technology by putting a cassette tape deck against an iPhone 3G in a duel to the death. 

Production:

Boise Creative & Improvisational

Music Festival, El Korah Temple, 2009, Boise, ID
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