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- EASTWEST
- MOONS
- FLAPPERJACKY
- LIFE IN A WIND TUNNEL
- THE SCHOOLMASTER (screenplay)
EASTWEST
Live-action Slapstick Satire
4M
Unit Set
Our brave young battalions have been beckoned to arms. Gathering against
foes and fortifying garrisons, they prepare to engage with the enemy.
Fighting factions, they bunker hunker down in battlefield bowels.
Awaiting unknown extermination weapons and strategizing schematically,
the soldiers struggle to bear warfare wear and tear, hoping to know home
before the enemy lays their days flat-backed in a grave.
1998 New York Foundation for the
Arts Playwriting Fellowship. Finalist for 1999 Princess Grace Award.
MOONS
Dark Stylized Suspense
4M, 4W, 2 Misc
Multiple Sets, or Installation Set
(Screenplay also available)
On one lunar-eclipsed evening, a fly-by-night lunchtime fling between
two strangers causes eight people, three apartments, two murders, and a
bone named Billie to become intractably intertwined. Jack and Janis, a
hopelessly married couple, will fuck and forgive—but not each other.
Sharing memories and pain for a child that never was, they console each
other with mashed potatoes in an attempt to avoid their murderous
passion. Jonn and his friends face the possibility of a pot-less
night—someone pissed off the pusher—until a gunshot is heard from the
apartment above, and their miseries are momentarily waylaid. Sampson and
Gene meet for the first time. Sampson says he has come to relay a
message from Jonn who is in trouble and can’t make it, but the message
is a lie. Soon, they become aware how they are linked to a seemingly
removed crime of passion.
Workshopped at 2000 Australian
National Playwrights’ Conference. Read as a part of 2000 Adelaide
International Theater Festival. 1998 Princess Grace Award finalist. 1996
Weissberger semi-finalist.
FLAPPERJACKY
Transcendental Environmental Performance Play, 60 Minutes
1 Person
Minimal Set and Props; Specific Technical Requirements
Seconds before his plane crashes, Pilot finds himself drifting through a
world of memory, impulse, and imagination as he discovers his wife,
daughter, and love of flying binds his existence together. As he passes
into death, Pilot tries to make sense of what he was becoming.
LIFE IN A WIND TUNNEL
Dark Social Satire
2M, 2W
No Set
Four characters stuck in a no-world explore their self-indulgences in
order to achieve a new vision of themselves. When they realize this is
not possible, they view each other as impediments—there isn’t enough in
the world for them all to share. Discovering it comes down to survival,
they manipulate each other to get what it is they want.
THE SCHOOLMASTER
Screenplay
6M, 5W
A successful published elementary teacher, Dr. Reed Wright, moves to
deep rural Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to buy a retreat, where he
will tutor two local students for research. Buying a hidden and
forgotten 1850’s schoolhouse, Reed renovates the building. The human
presence awakens the ghost of Schoolmaster and his victims. While those
around Reed relive the past horrors of the Schoolmaster, Reed tries
repeatedly to save his friends. The local Sheriff come to the conclusion
Reed is responsible for the injured people, and decides to stop him. All
must be careful not to unknowingly do the bidding of the Schoolmaster.