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"He gives us a sordid world, without painting a superficial, exploitative, or oversimplified picture..." 
​– Arts Atl

new play exchange
 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)
Pinch n’ Ouch Theatre                                   
Staged Reading (Atlanta, 2015)

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)
Pinch n’ Ouch Theatre
Production (Atlanta, 2013)



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)


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