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 Plays for Young Audiences

THE ANIMAL TALES

These plays for audiences 6-12 years old take on big subjects like grief, displacement and climate change through the lens of animals on big adventures finding family, saving home and protecting each other.

RAJPURR: TALE OF A TIGER

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Jaime Nebeker as Rajpurr. Photo by Julia Bennett.
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​1 W, 1 M, 1 Any Gender
65 Minutes.

When Rajpurr loses the world as she knows it, she heads out with her bunny friend Bhampo and tag-a-long caterpillar Carl to find her father so he can teach her how to hunt. This play about friendship, adventure and transformation asks big questions about loss on a quest to reunite this young tiger with her family.

Commissioned by
​Boise Contemporary Theater.


Staged Reading:

Children's Reading Series
Boise Contemporary Theater

2017, Boise, ID

Reading:

National Winter Playwrights Retreat
HBMG Foundation
2017, Creede, CO

SLAP! A BEAVER TALE

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Working on the play on the Smith-Corona at Bown Crossing Library Residency, 2018.
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3W, 2M
50 Minutes


When a construction company starts building on her family's pond, young beaver Thistle rallies her marshland friends to help her protest -- peacefully. But when everything gets out of paw, what will happen to her home and all the creatures who live there? A play about nature. About family. And our nature. About building walls, tearing them down…and beaver tails.

Commissioned by
​Boise Contemporary Theater.

Staged Reading:


Children's Reading Series
Boise Contemporary Theater

2018, Boise, ID

POLAR OPPOSITES: AN IMPOSSIBLE TALE

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Maria Tzompa, Tracy Sunderland and Jennifer Stockwell-Doner in rehearsal for the staged reading at Boise Contemporary Theater, 2019.
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3W, 1M, 1 NB
50 Minutes

About ice. And melting. And drowning. And saving. A play featuring animals of the Arctic and Antarctic trying to save their homes and two children much closer to the equator who help them – who are brave enough to try. If we all work together, do we have a chance at making it through?


Commissioned by Boise Contemporary Theater.

Staged Reading:

Children's Reading Series
Boise Contemporary Theater
2019, Boise, ID

​Reading:


National Winter Playwrights Retreat
HBMG Foundation
2019, Creede, CO

WOLF/GIRL

ARK

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Rehearsal for Wolf/Girl at BCT featuring Jaime Nebeker, John Wicks, Lex Gonzalez, Amela Karadza, Jayden Garrett, Rob Love, Jen Stockwell-Doner, 2022.
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​6 W, 6 M.
Transgender, non-binary and gender fluid identifying actors are welcome in any role.

50 Minutes.

Tired of being a misfit, Maddy runs away from her hometown bullies and joins up with a wolf pack. The longer she stays, the more she identifies with her new family, becoming a wolf at ease in her skin for the first time. But in order to find true peace, she must face her past and return home. Wolf/Girl reconstructs the werewolf story and explores how we find ourselves through difficult times.

Staged Reading:

Children's Reading Series
Boise Contemporary Theater
2022, Boise, ID

Excerpt Reading and Residency:

Surel's Place
2021, Boise, ID

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Photo by Jason Wong on Unsplash
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6-12 Actors
2F, 2M, 2-6 Chorus Any Gender.


Transgender, non-binary and gender fluid identifying actors are welcome in any role.

90 Minutes.

This adaptation of Elisabeth McKetta’s poetic book for middle grade audiences looks at the early days of Covid-19 through the eyes of a girl who lives in a tiny house and wants to do big things.

Arden’s year starts out terrible when her parents move the family into a tiny house, her best friend moves across the country and she has to let go of everything she loves about her life. When the pandemic hits, it’s all too much – until she finds renewed purpose by rescuing all the abandoned dogs in her neighborhood, squeezing the small space to its limits and pushing their home’s sanity to the brink. In this play about a girl finding herself through difficult times, Arden discovers what’s important in big and tiny ways.


Excerpt Reading and Residency:

Surel's Place
2021, Boise, ID

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