Plays
The Windows, The Doors, The Flowers, The Floors
When Maggie arrives late to her sister Rose’s wedding in Knoxville, she already feels the distance between her and her family. After the loss of their father, they have grown apart, and all of her sisters have made families of their own. Over the course of the rehearsal dinner, Rose announces her pregnancy and Maggie, the only one choosing not to have them, feels herself permanently drifting away from them. When a sudden natural event throws the wedding into chaos, they all must find a way to realize they matter to each other in order to survive.
We Go When We’re Ready To Go
An adult woman is caring for her dying father in the last days of his life. Her sisters and her mother are there, trying to help but mostly making a mess of things. All the women are attempting to make sense of their life choices in the face of their millennial despair while the world falls apart around them.
Finalist for the 2023 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the 2022 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and 2022 Semifinalist for the Women’s Project Lab
The Little World
Elizabeth is a clinical trial coordinator and an expert on vaccine science, and does her best to inform her patients with humor, trying to combat the misinformation she’s hearing back from them regarding Covid. She has a strained relationship with her teenage daughter when one morning, she wakes up unable to see, a rare and terrifying symptom of the virus. Meanwhile, she has lost her mother into a world of conspiracy theories, compounding her sense of isolation as the situation with her daughter worsens. A monologue play written and performed over Zoom in 2020 for Northwestern scientists, this play serves as a portrait of the real life struggles of the pandemic, and how one scientist fights to maintain hope, professionally and personally, in a moment of great grief.
Commissioned and produced by Etopia and Northwestern University on Zoom, April 2021.
The Locusts
When a serial killer goes on a gruesome rampage in Ella’s small hometown of Vero Beach, Florida, she’s called up from her busy career in the FBI to help apprehend him. At home, she’s confronted with the life she left behind: her pregnant and struggling sister, her scared young niece, who like Ella, is desperate to find a life somewhere else, and the dark events of her childhood that she’s tried to forget. As the murders grow more horrific and the small community is frozen by fear, Ella realizes she has to confront the events of her dark past in order to stop him.
Commissioned and workshopped by the Gift Theatre Company. Produced in Fall 2022 at Theatre Wit, Chicago.
A Little Ghost Story
Lettie doesn’t believe in ghosts, but when her father Jake reports that strange things are happening in the middle of the night she drops everything and heads home; to the house in Florida she grew up in, the house her dad is renovating, the house where – ten months ago – her sister Mara died of an opioid overdose. Convinced her father is in denial, but unable to shake the haunted feeling at home, Lettie calls in her skeptic sister Claire to strengthen her resolve. With the holidays approaching, one family struggles to move forward in a home that, even gutted, holds tight to memories of the past.
Official Selection - Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2019. Workshopped and performed as part of the conference in McCall, Idaho in June 2019.
Night in Alachua County
Violet always knew she’d return to save her sister Lily from the clutches of their unrelenting and controlling mother Crystal one day. But when Lily calls her claiming to have seen a strange man in her bedroom, Violet knows that time is now. Crystal has other plans for Lily, however, and she's not about to let anyone -- not even her own daughter -- stand in her way.
Produced at the Wildclaw Theatre Company at the Den Theater, Chicago, October 2017. Recommended for ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, 2018. Official Selection - Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2014.
The Night Swimmers
On a dreary evening in early spring, Kate and Mamie find themselves stranded at a Radisson Hotel off a highway in Illinois after Kate's car breaks down on the way to Mamie's bachelorette weekend in Chicago. At the same time, Melissa, a traveling nurse, arrives at the hotel for a job interview with her reluctant niece, Neyla, in tow. The four women spend the weekend stranded at the hotel pool, along with the hotel maid, Willie, as they search for their paths as women in America today and confront the deep sense of loneliness that permeates each of their lives.
This play takes place in and around a hotel swimming pool.
Workshop - The Gift Theatre Company - Spring 2015 . Finalist - Ingram New Works, Nashville Rep, Fall 2015
Open Blue Sky
It’s early morning the day before Bailey Lawrence’s wedding in her faded family home. Natalie, Ansley, and Caroline are all there, helping with the preparations, when their estranged sister Abby arrives from New York. Old family tensions arise as the wedding gets closer, and Bailey tries to find out why Abby is truly there. As the weekend moves on and family secrets arise, the family hinges on breaking apart for good.
Production: Stella Adler/ Tisch School of the Arts - NYU - 2015. Semi Finalist - O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2014
Laura’s Party
On a summer night in Chicago, a party rages for Laura, who just got cast in SNL. On her apartment's back porch, her friends contemplate what this means for them as they try and figure out their paths towards the future.