Plays

Wins Bay Area Critics Award for Outstanding Original Script 2009-2010.

Full-length play (3M, 4W). Surreal farce.

Published and performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

Monologues featured in Best Men’s Monologues 2012 and Best Women’s Monologues 2012.

Produced in San Francisco by SF Playhouse in fall of ’09.

• San Francisco Chronical review.
• SF Theater Blog review.
• Variety review.
• San Francisco Arts Monthly interview.

Produced in Philadelphia by 1812 Productions in fall of ’09.

• Delco Times Review.
• Medford Central Record review.
• Broad Street Review review
• Philadelphia Inquirer interview.
• 1812 Productions production photos.

Photographs by Mark Gavin. Cast: Karen Peakes, Pete Pryor, Chris Faith, Susan Riley Stevens, Jennifer Childs, Eileen Cella, and Michael Tomasetti.

Produced in Fort Worth by Amphibian Stage Productions in summer of ’10.

• Star Telegram review.
• Promotional video.
• Actors radio interview.

Produced in San Jose by City Lights Theater Company in fall of ’10.

• Stark Insider review.
• Artsopolis member reviews.
• CLTC director interview.

Awarded a commission from San Francisco’s Magic Theatre.

Featured in National New Play Network’s showcase ’07.

One-act play (2W) about a playwright and director who team up.

Online live performance featuring Ellen McLoughlin and Ellen Mareneck, directed by James Carpenter, produced by Remote Theater.

• San Francisco Examiner review.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

A children‘s television company blends sweetness with sadism.

One-act play (2M/3W) produced in Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2009.

• New York Times review.
• CurtainUp review.
• That Sounds Cool review.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

EST Production photos.

Long short play (4M, 4W).

Eight iconic characters from different Shakespeare plays wind up on an island. Comedy/tragedy/romance ensues.

Published in Best American Short Plays 2012-13.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

One-act play (2 M, 2 W), premiered in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon 2011.

Reviews.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

Karen has some really weird news. As people realize what it is they start acting really weird.

One-act play (2M/2W) produced in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon 2007.

• Village Voice Review.
• Theater Mania Review.
• Variety Review.

Produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Project in the West Coast Marathon 2004.

Published in Best American Short Plays 2004-2005.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Playscripts, Inc.

A mother and her teenage daughter become involved with the same man.

Graduates return to show off the incredible things they’ve become.

One-act play (2M/3W) produced in Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2002.

• Curtain Up review.
• New York Times review.

Published in Best American Short Plays 2002-2003 (Applause Books).

Monologue selected for publication in Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays, volume 2.

Selected for Vintage Books anthology Shorter, Faster, Funnier by Eric Lane & Nina Shengold.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

Four college students improvise identities.

Full-length play (2M/2W) produced at Playwrights Horizons in the fall of 2001.

Published by, and performance rights handled by Playscripts, Inc.

Scene featured in Best Stage Scenes 2003 (Smith and Kraus).

Playbill article.

Opening night photo.

One-act play (2M/2W) produced in Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000.

Published by, and performance rights handled by Playscripts, Inc.

Published in Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 (Applause Books), and in The Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000 (Faber and Faber).

Published in Funny Shorts.

New York Times review.

Curtain Up review.

Photos from Louisiana Tech production (taken by Michael Rasbury).

A Feydeau farce re-imagined in a mental ward.

Full-length play (3M/3W) first produced at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in the spring of 1999.

Subsequently produced at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre in the summer of 2003.

Published in Plays From the Woolly Mammoth.

Published in stand-alone volume, and performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

Three monologues featured in Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2013.

Nominated for Kesselring Award for Best New American Play, 1999.

Boston Globe review.

Photos from the Wellfleet production, taken by Ben Arons.

Playbill announcement

Harvard Crimson article.

Program note.

Young parents battle the forces of darkness.

One-act play (2M/2W) produced in Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2001.

Village Voice review.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

Someone is guilty of something.

One-act play (2M/2W) produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Take Ten Festival in the spring of 2003.

Published in Ten-Minute Plays From the Actors Theatre of Louisville: Volume 6 (Samuel French).

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

The classic fairytale, thoroughly bastardized.

One-act play (2M/3W) published in Best American Short Plays 1992-1993 (Applause Books).

Monologue selected for publication in Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays, volume 1.

Revised version published in Funny Shorts.

Also published by, and performance rights handled by Playscripts, Inc.

Frequently performed across the United States and overseas, the play has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Turkish, and Icelandic.

The first 50 theater groups to perform Little Red Riding Hood.

Photo from production of Little Red Riding Hood by The Armadillo Theatre Group, Fournos Theatre, Athens, Greece (2000).

An employer and a free-lancer try to settle on a fee, and a job, and a species.

Short play for 2 humans, premiered in U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado in 1997.

Online live performance featuring Chris McCann and Paul Lieber, directed by Evan Handler, produced by Remote Theater.

Featured in Plays for Two (Vintage Press). Jacqueline Lawton interview.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.

Four people who seem to be in a reality show seem to share certain basic values until they seem to start strangling one another.

One-act play (2M/2W) first performed at Earl Hamner Theater.

Published in Funny Shorts.

Performance rights handled by Broadway Play Publishing.