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PLAYS by ME

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Right To Bear

Title: Right To Bear

Type: Full Length

Pages: 72

Genre: Drama

Characters : 4 total; 3m 1f

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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.

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*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. 

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Title: Buttering Toast

Type: Full length 

Pages: 93

Genre: Comedy

Characters : 2m, 1f, 1non-specific

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*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.

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*picture taken at the Dramatist Guild Foundation Music Hall

Title: Brick Thieves

Type: Full length 

Pages: 101

Genre: Drama

Characters : 7m, 2w

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In a town that is being erased brick by brick, a grieving widower struggles to keep his family together, while his son yearns for his own path in life.

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* 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. 

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