Theatre

     

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

America’s Brightest Star – The people of a small town pins their hopes on their librarian who has a gift that could land her on TV’s most popular talent competition.

  • World Premiere scheduled at Railroad Playhouse, October 2012
  • Staged reading, July 2011, Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, NY

It is Done – Three strangers trapped in a bar in the middle of nowhere fight off a windstorm and their own pasts.   2 male, 1 female – 85 minutes

  • West Coast premiere scheduled, May 2012, Hollywood, CA
  • World Premiere opened November 2011, produced by 22QEntertainment and GoAlleyCat Productions
  • Staged Reading, Dramatists Guild Friday Night Footlights Series, March 2011
  • Staged Reading, APAC The 15/20s staged reading series, February 2011

The Final Jew – A dark comedy about Marvin Black, the final survivor of the Holocaust, and the journey he takes after his death.  6 male, 3 female – 1 hour, 45 minutes

  
  • Staged reading December 10th, 2009, Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) The 15/20s: Staged Reading of New Works series
  • Semifinalist, The 2009 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference

Stock Home – A dark psychological comedy about a man, his girlfriend, and their new 14-year-old daughter.  1 male, 2 female – 90 minutes

Lauren Cook, Mather Zickel, and Megan Tusing in the FringeNYC production

  • World Premiere, 2007 New York International Fringe Festival, August 2007

I’m In Love With Your Wife – A comedy about multiple seductions where everybody’s getting some…except Gary.  3 male, 3 female – 90 minutes

MITF Production

From left: Katie Kreisler, Shane Jacobsen, Ean Sheehy,Marion Wood, Ron Palillo, and Monica Yudovich

  • World Premiere, 2007 Midtown International Theater Festival, July – August 2007.  Received six Best of the Fest Nominations and won Outstanding Playwriting of a New Script and Best Supporting Actress (Katie Kreisler)
  • Semifinalist, 2007 Trustus Playwrights Festival

Election Day (Musical) – Book by Alex Goldberg, Music by Joel Stein, Lyrics by Alex Goldberg and Joel Stein.  A liberal, womanizing president runs for re-election against a dim but charismatic conservative senator.  His campaign would be smooth if it wasn’t for his overly ambitious wife, his disgruntled son, a mysterious White House intern, a pantsless foreign dignitary, and three dead presidents as counsel.  6 male, 5 female – 2 hours, 10 minutes

  • World Premiere, American Theater of Actors, New York.  Produced by Jointed Stock Theater Alliance – February 2005

ONE ACT PLAYS

The Third Date – Bradley is getting ready for his third date with Angela, when he receives a surprise visit…from his father…who is dead.  2 male, 1 female – 28 minutes.  Available for purchase here.

  • World Premiere, Pittsburgh New Works Festival – September 2008
  • New York Premiere, The Goldberg Variations – Sticks and Stones Productions – October 2008

Lying Naked – It’s 4am.  The sex was great.  What could possibly go wrong?  1 male, 1 female – 30 minutes.   Available for purchase here.

 

  • Staged reading scheduled for November 2009, New Ground Theater Collective Reading Series
  • Produced in Clandestine: an Evening of One-Act Plays by New Ground Theater Collective in Planet Connection Festivity in June 2010.  Nominated for four awards: Outstanding Playwriting of a One-Act, Best Actor in a One-Act, Best Actress in a One-Act, and Outstanding Production of an evening of One-Acts.

TEN MINUTE PLAYS

Breakdown in Babel – An American, A French-Canadian and a Cuban gather in the safe house and try to figure out what went wrong  3 males.

 breakdown-in-babel-flyer-semifinals

  • World Premiere, Instant Theatre Festival – July 2008
  • The Goldberg Variations – Sticks and Stones Productions – October 2008
  • Semifinalist, The Network One Act Play Festival – March 2009

 

Broad Daylight – A mother, a son, a nice day, and a not so nice conversation.  1 male, 1 female.  

 
  • World Premiere, The Internationalists Directors Collective, Taiwan – October 2009
  • U.S. Premiere, Emerging Artists Theatre Spring EATFest, March 2010
  • Archived in the permanent holdings of the Eileen Heckart Drama for seniors archives, Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University
  • West Coast Premiere, Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA, January 2011