Harvey Fierstein
Eight years after Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," the adventurous Margaret Dashwood returns home to surprise her family for the holidays. The surprise is hers when her former love interest, Lavinia, arrives at the cottage. As family frivolity descends into jealousy and betrayal, Margaret is left to face her true feelings and decide what she's willing to do to save Christmas. Miss Margaret's Barton Cottage Christmas Surprise is a festive holiday romp complete with mistaken identity, singing, dancing, and lots of seasonal cheer. (5W, 1M - 75 minutes)
2023 Reading - Holiday Works in Progress, Drama Works Theatre
🎟️ for 2024 Production December 13-21 - Drama Works Theatre, Old Saybrook, CT
Blocked and writing on a deadline, Sera Keel has four hours to finish her manuscript. The trouble is her Inner Critic won't stop impersonating Rod Serling, and her Muse just arrived with an attitude; Sera doesn't think things can get any worse — that's when the dicks arrive. (3W, 1M - 75 minutes)
2024 – Development Workshop-Full Length, Shoreline Playwright
2023 – Fall Reading Series-One Act, The Bechdel GroupThe Tank, NYC
2021 — Fall Shorts Festival-Short, Drama Works Theatre
2020 — New Works Virtual Festival-10 min, Theatre Artists Workshop
Determined to visit the father she doesn't know, Maggie risks her troubled relationship with her mother and faces Mama erasing her—again. Working hard to heal and figure out who she is, Maggie wanders in and out of her past and present, searching for her future. When a stranger's words validate the importance of her struggles, she decides it's time to stand up to her mother and find the one thing she needs the most: herself. (2W, 2M - 90 minutes)
2022 Production — Drama Works Theatre
2021 Winner — Chestnut Street Playhouse Playwright's Festival
2021 Published— Next Stage Press
2018 Semi-Finalist —One Act Play Festival, Theatre Odyssey
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Writer Lilian Lamont is having a terrible time. Her boss just stole her work and is threatening to expose her biggest secret to her idol, Annabelle Jones, who already thinks she’s an impertinent child. Meanwhile, her roommate and probably the love of her life just stormed out after announcing she’d received a marriage proposal from Lily’s nemesis. And on top of all this, it’s 1895, and she has to wear a corset.
Yours in Words, is a play for those who don’t fit in, for those pursuing their dreams when others say they can’t or shouldn’t, and for those searching for their authentic selves — Because EVERYONE deserves an epic story. (4W, 3M - 120 minutes)
2023 Development Workshop & Public — GreenStage Guilford Live Arts Festival
Marley grew up in theatre, jealous of the ensemble with whom she had to share her beloved father, Rowan. Now that he's gone, she wants him all to herself, but Rowan's final wish is that Marley and the ensemble work together to give him a dramatic farewell. Can Marley and the Players work together? It'll take something big to help them begin to understand each other. Luckily, Rowan has a plan. (3W, 2M - 20 minutes)
Featured 2021- New Works Festival, Theatre Artists Workshop
Flossy Henshaw is convinced she's staying at the Savoy Hotel and believes her daily trips to a nearby museum and interactions with its guide are the keys to unlocking her past, present, and future. The only trouble is she can't remember what they talk about, though she knows it has something to do with chocolate. (1W, 1M - 20 minutes)
2024 Semi-Finalist — Playwrights Festival, Road Theatre Co.
2024 Production — Fractured Resilience, Drama Works Theatre
2022 Reading —Works in Progress, Drama Works Theatre
2018 Featured —New Works Festival, Drama Works Theatre
When Patrick refuses to help Melinda find her item on hold at the library, it's the last straw. She's tired of always being ignored. What starts out as a confrontation has the potential to end as a powerful albeit improbable connection if they're both willing to look past their own pain and preconceived notions. (1W, 1M -10 minutes)
2024 Reading — Valley Players Summer Staged Reading Series
2022 Production — Eden Prairie Annual Players Women's One-Act
2021 Production — Fall Shorts Festival, Drama Works Theatre
Samantha is struggling with losing her mother. She knows her life is about to change forever, and she’s not sure how she’ll handle it until she meets Seth and finds support in an unexpected place.
2023 Production — Micro Shorts, Drama Works Theatre
2022 Reading— Legacy Theatre's Festival of Plays
Honorable Mention Writer's Digest 2022—in the Script category of the 91st Annual Writing Competition
When Lily bumps into her idol A.B. Jones she has no idea they will enter a three week correspondence. (2 W, - 12 minutes)
2021 Short —Fall Shorts, Drama Works
2019 Short —New Works Festival, Theatre Artists Workshop
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