PLAYS by ME


Right To Bear
Title: Right To Bear
Type: Full Length
Pages: 72
Genre: Drama
Characters : 4 total; 3m 1f


2024 Honorable Mention
2025 Semi-Finalist
Claire, a Yosemite National Park Ranger with a troubled past, is tasked to put down L-13, a “problem bear” who recently killed a park goer. But when she finds out the bear can talk to her and only her, Claire decides to help L-13 with a time sensitive request. With night quickly approaching and her determined partner on their heels, the unlikely pair must lift each other up, if they ever hope to release what’s been weighing them down.



*an artists' depiction of Joice Heth during a paid viewing in 1835
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*picture taken at TheatreSqaured in Northwest Arkansas
Title: Joice Heth Ain't Dead , or Barnum's Black Ballyhoo
Type: Full length
Pages: 70
Genre: Drama
Characters : 3m, 1w
In 1835, a young, brazen and unknown P.T. Barnum, buys and exploits a black slave woman named Joice Heth - believed to be 161 years old and the former mammy to George Washington. JOICE HETH AIN’T DEAD imagines the longtime buried history of how one black woman launched the career of one of the most well known celebrities of the 19th century, while raising the question - why was it buried to begin with.

Title: Buttering Toast
Type: Full length
Pages: 93
Genre: Comedy
Characters : 2m, 1f, 1non-specific


*picture taken at INTAR theater in Hell's Kitchen
Buttering Toast follows, Bob, a 30something down and out guy who is struggling to find a way forward after being dumped by his fiancé, and unexpectedly losing his father. While fighting thoughts of not existing, Bob seeks comfort in the only friend he has left...who happens to be his toaster.

* video archive from a performance at the Elektra theater in Times Square.
Title: Most Likely To
Type: One man show
Pages: 23
Genre: Drama
Characters : 1m
I wrote this solo performance play back in 2014
when I was feeling overwhelmed by all the injustice and police brutality inflicted upon my brothers and sisters.
It is semi-autobiographical and sadly still VERY relevant today.