Full-Length Plays
36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations
90 minutes. Cast of 6
Cameron is a hopeless romantic trying to turn online dates into real relationships to no avail until a chance second encounter with Parker. Newlyweds Morgan and Terry want to "spice things up" when they get a lot more spice than they bargained for. With a script designed such that every character can be played by an actor of any gender without changing a single line of dialogue, six actors trade roles each night to present a series of conversations about making babies, getting STDs, meeting parents, singing pop songs, and propositioning strangers for that weird stuff your spouse won’t do.
Recognition:
1st Place Selection, Page to Stage V, Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre
George Burns and Gracie Allen Scholarship and Fellowship in Comedy
Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Finalist, KCACTF/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop
Development:
Workshop, Theatre 33
Workshop, Fertile Ground Festival
Reading, Lewis & Clark College (Gender Studies Symposium)
Community Theater Production, Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre
High School Production, Albuquerque High School
90 minutes. Cast of 5
Marigold is having a baby. Francine is just in commercials. One of their moms is trying to hold it together while the other creates an artificial intelligence algorithm to write her a masterpiece before she dies because surely by now she doesn't have enough time. The family reckons with what it means to honor someone's legacy.
Recognition:
Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting
Finalist, Portland Civic Theatre Guild's New Play Award
Finalist, Pegasus PlayLab
Finalist, Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival
Development:
Production, The New Stage
Workshop, Theatre 33
Reading, Naked Angels LA
Reading, Vivid Stage
90 minutes. Cast of 6
A classic body swap comedy is turned on its head when Evan (a cancer patient) and Harvey (his drug-addict best friend) swap bodies during a stem-cell transplant gone awry.
Recognition:
Finalist, Portland Civic Theatre Guild's New Play Award
Development:
MFA Thesis Production, UCLA
Reading, 21Ten Theatre
Florence Fane in San Francisco
2 hours. Cast of 11-13
A Civil War Era romantic comedy inspired by real columns from the city's most popular weekly newspaper: The Golden Era.A serious young woman enters the Lick House Hotel Saloon, looking for a job as a journalist -- she begrudgingly agrees to write a gossip column in the persona of a young single lady out on the town. What she finds is a new side of herself she didn't know she had, and a chance at a life she didn't know she wanted. Battles rage between North and South, between rival publishing companies, and between her relationship with her own alter ego.
Recognition:
Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant
Semi-Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Development:
Reading, Artists Repertory Theatre produced by LineStorm Playwrights
Reading, Seattle Playwrights Salon
Reading, Echo Theatre's "First Draft" produced by Over the Bridge Arts
Adapted for radio on the NYTimes recommended "Storybound" Podcast, sponsored by Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, 2020. Hear it here!
90 minutes. Cast of 8-30+
Rae is diagnosed with cancer during her senior year in high school. Her sister Margo stays home from college to care for her. TV shows and social media posts become their main outlets to the world outside, as Rae copes with isolation in a highly-connected digital world.
Recognition:
Kenneth Macgowan Family Playwriting Award
Finalist, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
Monologue published in The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays 2020 (Applause Books)
Development:
Commissioned by Camas High School / Leukemia Lymphoma Society
Production, Camas High School
Production, Springfield High School
Workshop, Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference
Reading, Fertile Ground Festival produced by LineStorm Playwrights
Reading, Seattle Playwrights Salon
60 minutes. Cast of 6
Abe Lincoln wants to leave a legacy. Helen Sparrow wants to shut down all the saloons in Portland, Oregon. Three women in prison after a protest consider what women might accomplish if only they can take power not afforded to them in the 1870s.
Development:
University Production, UCLA
Solo Shows
True Love and Other Noncommunicable Diseases
80 minutes.
The first person perspective of a 24-year-old diagnosed with cancer, dealing with all the normal stuff: online dating, finding love, going bald, making awkward YouTube videos and ... oh, you know, trying not to die or whatever. Brianna stands on stage with a laptop, editing together footage of her real life, seen by the audience via projector. From childhood to the person in front you, her life flashes before your eyes.
Recognition:
Oregonian Art Pick
Willamette Week "Favorite Moments From Fertile Ground"
Twice named "Portland's Best Storyteller" in Willamette Week
Development:
Performance at Artists Repertory Theatre produced by LineStorm Playwrights
Performance at SOLOFEST produced by Bag & Baggage Productions
Performance at Art of the Story Festival
Performance at Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference
Performance at Portland Storytellers' Guild
Performance at ROAR
Performance at The Yarn
Performance at Funhouse Lounge
Performance of Notes of Hope at Alberta Rose Theater
Adapted into 5-part miniseries for KBNB podcast.
Can My Imaginary Friends Come Too?
60 minutes.
From childhood betrayals to imaginary friends to learning how to interface with real humans to discovering the "acceptable grown-up version" of her wild imagination, Brianna charts her creative journey in this coming-of-age tale.
Development:
Performance at Pickathon
Performance at Art of the Story Festival
Performance at Story People of Clallam County
Performance at Portland Storytellers
Shorts
A Temporary Funeral for Darren McDuffy.
10 minutes.
A funeral in purgatory for someone who just had a near-death experience.
Recognition:
Theater Masters Take Ten Selection
Publication by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals
Development:
Reading, Naked Angels LA
Reading, Fertile Ground Festival produced by LineStorm Playwrights
Reading, Theater Masters Take Ten Festival
10 minutes.
A fraud investigator is caught by the person he's investigating. She has some questions
Recognition:
Publication in Go Play Outside (Applause Books)
Featured on KeppelFM 91.3 in Queensland, Australia
10 minutes.
Noted Oregon historian Frances Fuller Victor is known to have spent most of her life as a
struggling artist, selling beauty products door to door when she was unable to afford publishing
costs for her books. She arrives at the home of Judge Matthew Deady and convinces him to help her
with research for her book on the early history of Oregon. Based on a true story.
Development:
Reading, Artists Repertory Theater produced by LineStorm Playwrights
10 minutes.
Cinderella isn't into guys.
Development:
Production at Otherworld Theatre for Femslash Fest
Production at UCLA produced by Hooligan Theater
Reading, Naked Angels LA
Featured on KeppelFM 91.3 in Queensland, Australia
10 minutes.
At first they appear to be two young strangers waiting for the bus. A young couple confronts questions of gender, sexuality, and who they really are.
Development:
Reading, Artists Repertory Theater produced by LineStorm Playwrights
20 minutes.
Liz is taking every pregnancy test she's ever taken in her life as her memories blur from one moment to the next.
Recognition:
Runner-up, Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival
Development:
Reading, Stomping Grounds Arthouse
Reading, Jakespeare Virtual Theater Company (as "Bed Hopper")