Meet Aura Bloom - unemployed, inconsolable, and probably pregnant with the apocalypse.  A play about crickets, census workers, sex, unemployment, the BP oil spill and… oh yeah, the end of the world.  

*Brand Spankin' New*

After her estranged parent’s phone line has been disconnected, Moira Lane begrudgingly returns to the home she abandoned eight years ago only to find things far worse than she could have feared.  Her father, William, has taken to peeing in coffee mugs and her mother, Bonnie, claims to have had a miraculous birth.  Believing the “baby” to be her youngest daughter reincarnated, Bonnie is convinced that Faeries in the woods have blessed the family with a second chance.  As a terrible storm moves in, Moira must battle her family’s madness and navigate the years of guilt and grief feeding the storm if she has any hope of getting out alive.

Developed at The Hawthornden International Writer's Retreat and Theatricum Botanicum

Finalist:

Jerome Fellowship, 2010

Semi-Finalist:

O'Neill Playwright's Conference, 2010

Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2010

Ana’s life finally seems to be getting back to normal.  She has a loving husband, good credit, and she just found the perfect dress, one that practically sings when she puts it on.  So it’s no surprise really that things are about to get messy.  See, Ana’s first husband, David, didn’t die in a military crash after all.  He’s been a prisoner of war for the past 3 years, and the army just called to let her know he’s back.  Now Ana has to decide how much her heart can take.  And if that weren’t enough, David brought back something with him.  Something dark, and dangerous, and it lives in the closet.

Part surrealistic comedy, part romantic odyssey, Ana and  the Closet, is a simple story  set amidst  today's confusing times.

Winner:

Tim Robbins Award 

Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting

Finalist:

Jerome Fellowship, 2009

Semi-Finalist:

O'Neill Playwright's Conference, 2009

Ham Brown's House
Full Length- 2 W, 3 M

About a year ago Paul Brown returned to the family farm.  He entered the house while no one was home, went into his parent’s bedroom and took out his mother’s pearls.  Fastening them around his neck he walked up to the attic for the old family projector.  Then he walked into the living room, took off all his clothes and directed the projector towards his naked body.  He turned the machine on, letting images from an old home movie he and his father had made when Paul was only 7 years old, play on his skin, and shot himself in the head. 

Now, a year later, Ginny Mae Brown has moved back home to take care of her ailing Mother and quick-tempered father, but things aren’t quite right in Ham Brown’s House.  Ham is convinced his daughter is trying to kill him, his wife can’t speak, the nosy family physician keeps coming round to check on things, and his favored son John hasn’t been home since the funeral.  All Ham wants is some peace and quiet , but that might be hard to do with Ginny poking around.

Left to put together pieces of an old family secret, hidden away for 33 years, Ginny starts to wonder, what is Opal hiding?  Did she really suffer a stroke or was she the victim of some sort of attack?  What does Doc Housman know that makes Ham bristle at his very name?  Why hasn’t John come home, and what is on that old movie reel that has got Opal so terrified of Ham?   Events unfold in a pressure cooker of emotion until the final scene, where the old projector is once again found and Ginny Mae serves up a final reckoning.