Plays
“So Sorry” in the 12th Annual St. James’ Tavern Valentine’s Day Theatre Shorts Festival from OG Productions, St. James Tavern, Columbus, OH, February 14, 2023 and Spires Social, Columbus, OH, February 16, 2023.
“Snickerdoodle” (five minutes/production) St. James Tavern Theatre Shorts Festival, OG Productions, St. James Tavern, Columbus, OH, July 2, 2022 and Spires Social, Columbus, OH, July 8, 2022.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARh1iYJPNy4
“Bestie Bat Signal” (five minutes/production) 11th Annual St James Tavern Valentine’s Day Theatre Shorts Festival from OG Productions (online) on February 14, 2022 and Social Spires Taproom Takeover, Columbus, OH, February 18, 2022.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4f_gW0Flpc
“The Man from Illinois” (five minutes/production) The 11th Annual St. James Tavern Shorts Festival from OGP, Columbus, OH/(still online because of covid), July 3, 2021. Theme “Baby It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over, Over There!”
Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ta1A_KMnfI
“Spaghetti” (ten-minute/production) NW10: Into the Cybersphere! from NW10/Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, (livestream Zoom/YouTube) February 11, 19 and (on demand YouTube) February 25–28, 2021
“Love Torments” (five-minute/production) 10th Annual St. James Tavern Valentine's Day Theatre Shorts Festival from OG Productions, Columbus, OH/online, February 14, 2021.
Watch online www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYzX9KiNFw8.
“The Holiday Curse” (ten-minute/production) in A Very Covid Christmas from MadLab, Columbus, OH/online, December 2020
“Life Goes Splat!” (monologue/reading) Reading Roulette (theme: WTF!?) / 5th Annual Celebration Provocation, foolsFURY, San Francisco, CA / online CrowdCast, December 6, 2020 5pm PST
“Terry’s Wedding Was the Worst” (ten–minute/production) The OGP Social Distancing Festival, OG Productions and MadLab, August 14 & 21, 2020.
Festival featured 11 plays specifically written to include Covid–19 safety precautions, including but not limited to: characters remaining 6+ feet apart at all times, characters wearing masks, characters with barriers between them, etc.
Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i7qJAvG8LE
“Chicken Burger with a Side of Awkward” (ten-minute/production) NW10, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, August 18 & 27–30, 2020 (Zoom/YouTube).
“Red, White and ... WTF ...!?” (five-minute/production) The 10th Annual St. James Tavern Shorts Festival: America Eve, O.G. Productions, July 3, 2020, 7 pm (Eastern Time), facebook live event www.facebook.com/events/585853085684025/.
Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqslKLnsJc
Toledo (five-minute/production) 9th Annual St. James’ Valentine’s Day Theatre Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, February 14, 2020. Theme: “A love like ours could never die...”
Watch it online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQJIz2i3DM or read the script.
See all the night's plays at www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxlR8X4g0_q0bpVILH7knA.
(In)security in Perpetuity (one-act/production) 23rd Annual Black Box New Play Festival, Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY, Week 2, January 16-19, 2020
Someday, Never (one-act/production) WriteHer New Play Festival, Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, December 14-15, 2019
“Pink or Blue? At Least the Cupcakes Were Good” (five-minute/production) The 9th Annual St. James Tavern Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, July 3, 2019
“It All Started With a Bang” (five-minute/production) The 9th Annual St. James Tavern Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, July 3, 2019
“The Purple J and X-Ray Vision” (ten-minute/production) NW10, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, March 1-10, 2019
“The Best Thing to Happen to Me Since You” (five-minute/production) in the 8th Annual St. James’ Valentine’ Day Theatre Shorts Festival, OG Productions’ Columbus, OH, February 14, 2019. (Theme: You're the worst thing that ever happened to me.)
Watch it online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8DGMX5KoY
“The Morning After the Rage: Bitch and Pussy Through the Trumpocalypse” (ten-minute/published) in the anthology Hashtag Queer, Volume 2, Qommunity, 2018.
Here's the Amazon link.
“F---ing Thanks Obama! Now, Where's My Drink?” (five minute/production) in 8th Annual St. James' Tavern Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, July 3, 2018.
Watch it online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikRyzljqFo
“Family Space” (ten-minute/production) in Queer Shorts: Unity, StageQ, Madison, WI, June 8-23, 2018
Watch the trailer here!
“Bowling in the After-Party” (short play/production) in Black Box New Play Festival, The Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY, May 31 - June 3, 2018.
“Seven Year Email” (five minute/production) in 7th Annual St. James' Valentine's Day Theatre Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, February 14, 2018.
Watch it online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pVr2btItLM
“The TV Thief” (ten minute/podcast reading) on Episode 12 of the Best of All Possible Podcast from Panglossian Productions, December 6, 2017.
Free on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-all-possible-podcast/id1271552828
“Fleas” (five minute/production) in the West Grandview Fringe Festival 2017 hosted by OG Productions, Columbus, OH, August 5, 2017
“This Is the Start of Something” (five minute/production) in 7th Annual St. James' Tavern Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, July 2, 2017.
Watch it online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVEyYfsWEUY
“This Teddy Bear is My Valentine” (five minute/production) in 6th Annual St. James' Valentine's Day Theatre Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, February 14, 2017.
Watch it online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJztiU1Epo
“You Are Not Connected” (ten minute/production) in Queer Shorts 2.0 The Reboot, StageQ, Madison, WI, June 10-18, 2016.
“Ava’s Visit” (ten minute/production) in Indie Boots Theatre Festival 2016: The Ava Plays, Indie Boots / Mudgeonsoul Productions, Chicago, IL, May 16-18, 2016.
“The Red Rose” (five minute/production) in 5th Annual St. James Tavern Valentine's Day Theatre Shorts Festival, OG Productions, Columbus, OH, February 14, 2016.
Watch it online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFj3uEwCdLk
“Sweet Bitter” (short short/production) in 20 Erotic Shorts: Trois, The Working Theatre Collective, Portland, OR, February 9, 10, 11, and 14, 2012.
“The First Good-bye” (one-act/production) in Queer Shorts 4 Annual One-Act Play Festival, StageQ, Madison, WI, May 28 - June 6, 2009.
“He Sees You When You’re Sleeping” (one-act/production) in Almost-Has-a-Witty-Title (we really mean it this time) Chicago Christmas Spectacular, A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Co., Chicago, IL, November 21 - December 27, 2008.
“Sweet Night, Last Morning” (ten-minute/reading) in Ten-Minute Play Slam, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK, June 30, 2007.
“Reading the Numbers” (one-act/play lab) Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK, June 28, 2007.
“California” (one-minute/production) in A Pageant of the 50 States (and more), Clubbed Thumb Inc., New York, NY, May 30, 2007.
“A Fantasy and a Dare” (one act/staged reading) in An Evening of Sex, Angst, Love and Misery: A Post-Holiday Show, CherryFire/PornoBoy Productions, staged in the auditorium of the North County Center, San Marcos, CA, December 26- 27, 1998, January 2-3, 1999.
Grants
Hidden Potential,
or The Straight Gene
(full length/unproduced)
Recipient of a 2012 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) grant from Artist Trust.
Brief synopsis: In the near future, people look to their genes for guidance in exercise regimens, employment, romance, and even what hobbies to pursue. Charlie, a gay man in a committed relationship, is told that according to his genes he's straight. Charlie must decide if his genes really are his destiny, or if he should go against science, and follow his heart.
In Print
“The Morning After the Rage: Bitch and Pussy Through the Trumpocalypse” in Hashtag Queer, Volume 2 from Qommunity. Amazon link.
“California” is included in a new collection of poems: Geography of Ghosts. (Find out more here.)
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Descriptions of some of my plays with lgbt content are available at On the Purple Circuit.