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
Chad Shohet, Erin Chancer and Erin Archambeault as the Family, 2013.
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
Sam Lounsbury, Jon E Waters, Leah Reynolds and Jaime Nebeker as Greta and the Creatures, 2014.
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
Jaime Nebeker, Sasha Allen-Grieve as Corey, The Wall, Photo Chaz Gentry, 2015.
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 |
one acts
CLOUDMELT
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash.
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
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HOARSE
At Death Rattle Writers Festival. Photo by Chaz Gentry, 2015.
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
Jason Willford as Jacko, Photo by Aaron Davis, 2009.
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 |