Short Plays
Baby Dyke Whisperer
Betty is on her first date with a woman and trying her best to figure out her sexuality. Fortunately for her, she's on a date with Erin, The Baby Dyke Whisperer. This play explores LGBT culture, figuring out one's sexuality, and the complicated relationship queer women have with the word 'dyke.'
Awards:
City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting (Finalist) | 2020
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Production History:
The Q Collective Coming Out Play Festival | 2019
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Development History:
Forge Theatre Lab's Pride Pieces | 2021
Theatre Kalamazoo New Play Festival (staged reading) | 2019
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Photo Credit: Photos by Elizabeth Rajchart. Director: Sean Michael, featuring Rachel Bailey and Lauren Dobbs.
Bev Playing Bev in "The Money Shot"
Bev is attempting to recover from a stage fight gone wrong when her scene partner Jim enters to try and make up for the injury he inflicted on her. Jim desperately wants to apologize, but Bev would rather spend her ten minute break recovering than accepting apologies.
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Awards:
Gary Garrison Award For Outstanding Ten-Minute Play (National Winner) | 2021
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Development History:
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival NPP (Reading) | 2021
Getting Attached
Max has traveled for miles to see the octopuses at a small marine lab in Florida, only to find that one of them has died. Sara, a lab technician, tries to explain that it’s natural and beautiful for female octopuses to die after laying their eggs. Max isn’t buying it. Together, the duo navigates questions of motherhood, biology, and gender through their mutual love and fascination with octopuses.
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Awards:
First Place in A is For's All It Takes is ONE ACT Festival | 2025​
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Development History:
All It Takes is ONE ACT Festival | Playwrights Horizons | 2025
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Publication History:
We/Ourselves: Twenty-Five 10-Minute Plays Celebrating Gender and Diversity edited by Debbie Lamedman (Smith & Kraus)
Miss Julie
Secret almost girlfriends Julie and Jean stumble back from their senior prom, staring down the barrel of college. Julie's hung up on a play she had to read for advanced drama, and Jean just wants to slide under the radar. A play about being left behind and functioning in an art form that's historically hated you.​
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Publication History:
​Lanford Wilson Festival Short Play Collection Anthology (forthcoming)
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Development History:
The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (reading) | 2025
Allegheny College (reading) | 2022
Theatre Kalamazoo New Play Festival (staged reading) | 2020
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 3 NPP (reading) | 2020
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The Speedy Gonzales Memorial Turtle Sanctuary
When Diana comes home from the trial, she expects to find Carmen in a heightened state. What she doesn't expect, however, is to find that she's made their backyard into a sanctuary for stray turtles. This play explores the extremes we will go to in order to cope and the understanding necessary for us to be there for the ones we love.
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Awards:
City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting (Finalist) | 2019
Sandbox Theatre Festival Second Place Winner | 2019
Gary Garrison 10 Minute Play Award (Region 3 Regional Finalist) | 2018
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Production History:
MadLab Theatre Roulette | 2021
Sandbox Play Festival at Tipping Point Theatre | 2019
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Development History:
City Theatre She Shorts Sneak Peek (Concert Reading) | 2019
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Photo Credit: MadLab. Photos by Steve Malone Photography. Director: Tay Lane, featuring Julia Cannell and Kyle Jepson.
Theresa's Breasts
Theresa wants to live one million lifetimes and believes the only way to do so is to leave their husband, but Husband wants to belong to Theresa, even if that means living forever. It's a reimagining the story as old as time, of wars waged over assassinations and the murder of constellations. A genderqueer love story based off of "The Breasts of Tiresias" by Guillaume Apollinaire.
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Awards:
John Cauble One Act Play Award (National Finalist) | 2021
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Production History:
StageQ's CapitalQ Theatre Festival | 2022
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Development History:
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival NPP (Reading) | 2021
Women's Theatre Festival Occupy The Stage 2020 (online staged reading) | 2020