Prize Fight
Harlem, 2020. Matt, a public-school English teacher on the road to marriage, takes boxing lessons from Amir, an ex-champion fighting for custody of his daughter, during the height of the racial justice protests. A movement play staged in twelve rounds, showing two men facing the demands of fatherhood, marriage, and pregnancy loss.
Development:
Drama Guild Writer’s Group (2023)
The Weigh-In
"A Southern-gothic tragedy about two high school wrestlers who grapple with family, friendship, sexuality, and the ghosts of the past, as they vie to become Georgia state champions. "
AWARDS:
2017 The Nick Darke Award, (short-list)
STAGED:
DUNE Arts Foundation
Staged Reading (Indiana, 2020)
ART / NY
Staged Reading (New York, 2017)
DEVELOPMENT:
The New School for Drama
Mentor: Nicole Burdette (New York, 2015)
Naked Angels
Tuesdays @9 (New York, 2015)
Scratching
"After he washes out of the New York Arts scene, a painter returns to his Georgia backwater to work as an unlicensed tattoo artist. Life with his girlfriend, a truck-stop exotic-dancer, is blown apart when his ex-flame blows into town, along with his estranged brother and a bag of pure MDMA. "
STAGED:
Fringe NYC,
Production (New York, 2016)
The Flea Theatre
Staged-Reading (New York, 2015)
HERE Arts
Staged Reading (New York, 2014)
Knives for Girls
"An alcoholic teacher, two sisters, and a foul-mouthed dead cat walk into an Appalachian bar... with bloody repercussions."
STAGED:
Wide Eyed Productions
Staged Reading (New York, 2018)
DEVELOPMENT:
2016 Sewanee Writers Conference
Mentor: Naomi Izuka
Temporal
"During the height of the early-2000s Atlanta rock scene, two teenage epileptics find a thread of connection by inducing seizures together."
STAGED
The New School
Production, MFA Thesis (New York, 2015)
DEVELOPMENT:
The New School
Mentor: Jill Rachel Morris
Juggalicious
"Told through the surreal mythology of the Insane Clown Posse, a family of "juggalos" journey to The Gathering, where they enter the heart of the Dark Carnival to save their dying grandmother."
STAGED:
NYC Fringe Festival
Production, (New York, 2014)
DEVELOPMENT:
Naked Angels
Tuesdays @9 (New York, 2014)
The New School
Mentor: Jon Robin Baitz
Harlem, 2020. Matt, a public-school English teacher on the road to marriage, takes boxing lessons from Amir, an ex-champion fighting for custody of his daughter, during the height of the racial justice protests. A movement play staged in twelve rounds, showing two men facing the demands of fatherhood, marriage, and pregnancy loss.
Development:
Drama Guild Writer’s Group (2023)
The Weigh-In
"A Southern-gothic tragedy about two high school wrestlers who grapple with family, friendship, sexuality, and the ghosts of the past, as they vie to become Georgia state champions. "
AWARDS:
2017 The Nick Darke Award, (short-list)
STAGED:
DUNE Arts Foundation
Staged Reading (Indiana, 2020)
ART / NY
Staged Reading (New York, 2017)
DEVELOPMENT:
The New School for Drama
Mentor: Nicole Burdette (New York, 2015)
Naked Angels
Tuesdays @9 (New York, 2015)
Scratching
"After he washes out of the New York Arts scene, a painter returns to his Georgia backwater to work as an unlicensed tattoo artist. Life with his girlfriend, a truck-stop exotic-dancer, is blown apart when his ex-flame blows into town, along with his estranged brother and a bag of pure MDMA. "
STAGED:
Fringe NYC,
Production (New York, 2016)
The Flea Theatre
Staged-Reading (New York, 2015)
HERE Arts
Staged Reading (New York, 2014)
Knives for Girls
"An alcoholic teacher, two sisters, and a foul-mouthed dead cat walk into an Appalachian bar... with bloody repercussions."
STAGED:
Wide Eyed Productions
Staged Reading (New York, 2018)
DEVELOPMENT:
2016 Sewanee Writers Conference
Mentor: Naomi Izuka
Temporal
"During the height of the early-2000s Atlanta rock scene, two teenage epileptics find a thread of connection by inducing seizures together."
STAGED
The New School
Production, MFA Thesis (New York, 2015)
DEVELOPMENT:
The New School
Mentor: Jill Rachel Morris
Juggalicious
"Told through the surreal mythology of the Insane Clown Posse, a family of "juggalos" journey to The Gathering, where they enter the heart of the Dark Carnival to save their dying grandmother."
STAGED:
NYC Fringe Festival
Production, (New York, 2014)
DEVELOPMENT:
Naked Angels
Tuesdays @9 (New York, 2014)
The New School
Mentor: Jon Robin Baitz
Selected One-Act Plays
"My Rabbit, Reagan"
ESPA: Primary Stages short play festival, (NYC, 2016)
"The Saint Marteen Series"
Midtown International Theater Festival, (NYC, 2014)
"Iris"
Ego Actus (NYC, 2013)
Midtown International Theater Festival (NYC, 2013)
"Uffizi"
The Riant Theater, (NYC, 2012)
Atlanta Fringe Festival, (Atlanta, 2012)
"I Would've Rather Had Orchids"
Horizon Theatre, (Atlanta, 2011)
"My Rabbit, Reagan"
ESPA: Primary Stages short play festival, (NYC, 2016)
"The Saint Marteen Series"
Midtown International Theater Festival, (NYC, 2014)
"Iris"
Ego Actus (NYC, 2013)
Midtown International Theater Festival (NYC, 2013)
"Uffizi"
The Riant Theater, (NYC, 2012)
Atlanta Fringe Festival, (Atlanta, 2012)
"I Would've Rather Had Orchids"
Horizon Theatre, (Atlanta, 2011)