Plays & Publications
Dead Girls Club
a new play inspired by true crime
A full-length play (6 characters - female or femme presenting) inspired by the real lives (and deaths) of six teenage girls from metro-Detroit, who went missing during the 1970's and 80’s.
While waiting to discover their souls’ destination in a purgatory recreation room, the girls play Dungeons and Dragons while intermittently using one another to tell stories about their messy, beautiful, rebellious, mundane, and imperfect adolescence.
Dead Girls Club was developed in part at the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (Kitt Lavoie, Artistic Director; Kenneth L. Stilson, Executive Director), as one of their Official Selection plays in 2024.
Nora’s Dragon
a fictional podcast, streaming now
A cross between an audio book and an audio play, this eight-episode series is a heart-wrenching romance for adults.
Inspired by the cult classic Disney movie Pete's Dragon, the story follows Nora, a lighthouse keeper who refuses to extinguish the torch she still carries for her lost-at-sea fiancée. With themes of codependency, alcoholism, and fantasy, this nine-episode story takes you on an adventure of feminine self-actualization at the turn of the 20th century on the coast of Maine.
• Listen on all podcast platforms including iTunes & Spotify
• Access the scripts on Substack
I Won’t Be That Person
a short play published in Chaotic Merge Magazine
A ten-minute play (2 characters - 1 female, 1 female or non-binary) about two lovers who attempt to have a perfect night, despite the circumstances that will drive them apart.
A heartbroken Sam time travels from present day to the fall of 2020, when her relationship to Annie was at its best. When Annie realizes this isn’t the Sam she knows, she is confronted with a personal prophecy that completely betrays her present day desires.
First published in Chaotic Merge Magazine in April 2023.
• Chaotic Merge Magazine - Winter 2023 edition
The Regime is Female
a dystopian play about violent “feminism”
In this full-length play (4 characters - 2M, 1F, 1 GNB) the year is 2028 and America is a New Country. It’s been two years since the American dictatorship was overthrown and over half of American males died due to the “XY” virus. River Flynn is a Specialist: the executioner for any person caught performing a white supremacist or patriarchal act. When she’s not killing with her bare hands, River Flynn fills her time indoctrinating her ex-Congressman father, training her hungry young non-binary assistant, and zoning out to old anti-establishment music. But when a cis man is introduced as her new assistant, River starts to question her role, her country, and her humanity.
Premiered in November 2019 at the Tank theater in New York City. Directed by Andi Villa Stover, fight choreography by Frank Alfano Jr. Featuring Sarah Elizabeth Grace, Ryan Desaulniers, Don Carter, and Kian Johnson.
• Read review of the 2019 Tank production on Theater Hub
• Featured on The Brooklyn Rail
Implied Consent
a time traveling play about power dynamics
A play (6 characters - 3F, 3M) that examines unbalanced power dynamics across two centuries, illuminating how our society has changed for women, and how it has stayed the same. Writer Tara Rose seeks to reclaim the feminist glory of an ancestor's lost narrative. But when she returns to her Michigan hometown and reconnects with childhood mentor Nick Genovese, both her subject matter and her own story begin to slip out of her control. The action jumps between mid- nineteenth-century Saginaw, early 2000's suburban Detroit, and the present.
Premiered in October 2018 at the Access Theater in New York City. Directed by Emily Hartford, featuring performances by Sarah Elizabeth Grace, Matt W. Cody, Morgan McGuire, Adriana Jones, Ryan Desaulniers, and Brendan Patrick Connor.
• Read review at OnStage Blog
Crush
a ten minute play
A ten minute play (3 characters - all female) about adolescent ignorance and grooming, set in a high school hallway in 2004. A freshman theater geek catches her best friend up on a recent “first” with her community theater co-star, but an egotistical senior interrupts the sexual conquest gigglefest with a healthy dose of reality.
First performed by the Alternative Theater Company as a part of their “Me Too” reading series.
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a play about addiction
A full length play (3 characters - 1F 2M) about addiction in unexpected places. Laura Wells, an actress and recovering alcoholic, has been living responsibly with her stable college sweetheart Gabe. Doubting her worth and craving excitement, she embarks on an affair with her free-thinking co-star, Myles.
First staged at the Secret Theater’s UNFringed Festival in 2017. Directed by Lacy Riley, featuring Sarah Elizabeth Grace, Heinley Gaspard, and Will Phelps.
The Process
a zoom play
A ten minute play for zoom format (2 characters - 1F, 1M) shows there is life after death: infinite afterlives, all designed on a person's wants and needs, in addition to what they deserve. As a man gets taken through his after-life intake interview by an afterlife professional, the truth of his life and the relationship between the two characters unfolds in this comedic beginning with a devastating twist.
First performed by Sarah Elizabeth Grace and Ryan Feyk.
Watch on YouTube
Period Piece
a short film
A short film created over a weekend, the absurdist three minute film was created to showcase living with endometriosis.
Period Piece has been screen at the Sick N’ Wrong Festival and the Bridgeport Film Festival.