Plays

Full-Length Drama

Cast of 5 - 3Women 3Men 

(2 deaf, 3 hearing)

Martha's Vineyard Playhouse 2018

Anne Lambert, a recent graduate of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, dreams of building a school in Chilmark for all the children, hearing and deaf. Through a recommendation, Anne contacts Miss Sarah Hall, a woman in Boston who has experience in starting schools and boasts of being a colleague of the famous Alexander Graham Bell. Miss Hall arrives on the island to speak at the town meeting and work out a plan for the future. But that night at the meeting Miss Hall reveals a plan so far from what Anne and the town expected, it throws the meeting into chaos. In an attempt to garner support from the hearing parents with deaf children, Miss Hall suggests that it is illegal in the State of Massachusetts for deaf men to vote. Uncovering the truth of this supposed law brings Mr. Lambert, the town council president and his best friend Nate Smith, the secretary, to fight as never before; Anne to question her own worth as a deaf woman; and a town once unaware of who could and couldn’t hear, now intensely focused on the difference.

Full-length Comedy 

Cast of 4 - 2Women 2Men 

(1 deaf, 3 hearing)

 S.F. Chronicle - Top Ten Plays 0f 2013  Edgerton New American Play Awardee 

World Premiere: TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley

 Originally commissioned by Philadelphia Theatre Workshop 

Development:

 New York Theatre Workshop New York City and Dartmouth College  

TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley's Festival of New Works 

Jordan Weiss was born deaf. A maverick theater director and staunch non-conformist, Jordan's got his life pretty well mapped out. Until he meets Haylee Masters - a quirky, independent journalist, unfazed by his screams to get off the stage during a rehearsal. Their temperaments draw them together, but neither are prepared for the road ahead. Haylee sees the world as a place where everyone should get along, whereas Jordan is a loner; Haylee comes from a close-knit family of Protestant bluebloods, while Jordan is a Brooklyn Jew who has rejected his past; And of course, there's the fact that Haylee can hear and Jordan can't. Together they must maneuver around a police bust, Haylee's senile grandmother, painful brunches with idiotic references to Koko the signing gorilla, and other real world insanity. Is it possible for each to change to be the couple they want to be? The Loudest Man on Earth is an unconventional comedy about navigating the terrain of opposites and oppositions on the road of love.

Full-Length Drama

Cast of 6 - 4Women 2Men 

Production: Bainbridge Island Studio Series, Bainbridge Island, WA 2025

Winner: Attic Salt  New Play Festival , Asheville, NC New American Voices, Landing Theater, Houston, TX

Workshop: Fullerton College New Play Festival, Fullerton, CA

The year is 1978. The Sixties are over and Reaganomics is moments away. It’s a time in-between. At the Pierson School, a private girls boarding school in New York State, the students share responsibility with the faculty for their education and their school community. Maggie Guthrie and Peggy Norris are roommates and best friends. In their senior year at Pierson, they have the added responsibility of being dorm proctors, charged to take care of the younger students. Unwittingly, Peggy finds herself in the middle of a tug-of-war between the past and the future when a lecherous music teacher, two well-meaning counselors, a change-obsessed new dean of students and a 12-year old Iranian student dealing converge and explode. Peggy is pulled in all directions and each one is not the direction she wants. How much say does a young woman have in determining her future? 

Full-Length drama

Cast of 4 - 2Women 2Men (1m voice only)

Bainbridge Performing Arts/bitLAB co-production

World renowned scientist Dr. Kendra Swope is just days away from achieving her most cherished goal: escaping her own species. In an underwater habitat she designed, Kendra works with her only friend, marine biologist Dr. Mike Coleman, finishing up her work for Robertson Oceanographic Technologies (ROT). But the waters are far from calm – a young ecoterrorist is slowing the work, Mike is talking to fish, and the CEO of ROT doesn’t want to cut Kendra loose.  As events compound, Kendra is confronted by her own limited ideas of love and the unquenchable human need for connection.

Full-Length Drama

Cast of 5 -  3Women 2Men 

Commissioned by BCKSEET Production  Production: BCKSEET Productions

Everyone has secrets - and in 1953 there are plenty. The Russians have spies, the Congress has hidden Communists, and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are willing to die to keep theirs. On the SS President Wilson ocean liner, five well-to-do passengers sailing from San Francisco to Hawaii are no different. From Adlai Stevenson, recently defeated in his bid for President and his married “friend” Alicia Patterson to the ship owner’s daughter, Ruth, and her best friend, Hortense, everyone is hiding something. But no one seems to have more secrets than the odd and compelling Stuyvesant Baird. Five lives brought together on a six-day Pacific cruise are changed forever by the time they finally dock in the Hawaiian Islands. 

Full Length Plays

Tall Poppies

Double Helix

Winner: 2003 American Theater Co-op Full-Length play award

Woodside 

Reading and workshop directed by Libby Lyman

      Family Belongings 

Reading and workshop directed by Leigh Silverman

      Main Line 

Winner: North American Voices, AAUK, West End, London

Tall Poppies

English/American Sign Language plays:

This Island Alone

Martha's Vineyard Playhouse

       Ben the Mute 

Winner: Festival of Ten, SUNY Brockton

       A Nice Place to Live 

Produced 2004 Wheelock Family Theater, Boston

Rocked in the Bosom of the Dead: A Trilogy of One-Acts        

   To the Power of Two, The Dead Age,        The Sum of Me 

Winner: Arts and Letters Prize for Drama, Georgia College and State University

Winner: Playwrights' Forum Festival, Spokane Civic Theatre