4 females, 1 male
full-length play
When 70s film character Carrie is your role model, your adolescence must really suck. Will Lanny grow into a well-adjusted adult who can forgive her mother's many faults? Or will she burn the whole town to the ground with telekinetic powers? A girl can dream, can't she? A play full of good music, bad memories, and the hope for a better Scott Baio.
World Premiere
Playwrights' Arena Theatre (Los Angeles)
August 25 - Sept. 17, 2018 + remount January 12 - 27, 2019
directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
full-length play
When 70s film character Carrie is your role model, your adolescence must really suck. Will Lanny grow into a well-adjusted adult who can forgive her mother's many faults? Or will she burn the whole town to the ground with telekinetic powers? A girl can dream, can't she? A play full of good music, bad memories, and the hope for a better Scott Baio.
World Premiere
Playwrights' Arena Theatre (Los Angeles)
August 25 - Sept. 17, 2018 + remount January 12 - 27, 2019
directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
3 females, 5 males
full-length play
Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of her son by a White cop. Rather than herald the Black Lives Matter movement, Sabrina retreats inward, living out a comic book superhero fantasy, played out on stage. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?
World Premiere
The Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles)
March 5 - April 14, 2019
directed by Robert O'Hara
full-length play
Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of her son by a White cop. Rather than herald the Black Lives Matter movement, Sabrina retreats inward, living out a comic book superhero fantasy, played out on stage. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?
World Premiere
The Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles)
March 5 - April 14, 2019
directed by Robert O'Hara
Developed at Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
2019 Kesselring Prize
2017 Kilroys List
Kennedy Center National College Theatre Festival Rosa Parks Playwriting Award
Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award
2017 Princess Grace Award Runner-up
2019 Kesselring Prize
2017 Kilroys List
Kennedy Center National College Theatre Festival Rosa Parks Playwriting Award
Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award
2017 Princess Grace Award Runner-up
2 females, 2 males
full-length play
A suburban couple hosts a welcome-to-the-neighborhood dinner party for their new neighbors — a couple recently (forcibly) relocated from Chicago's roughest housing project — and it's anything but welcoming. A dark comedy about reverse gentrification and how we deal with the other when the other looks just like us.
Developed at Ojai Playwrights Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan New Play Lab
2019 Jeffry Melnick Playwright Award
2018 Blue Ink Playwriting Award
full-length play
A suburban couple hosts a welcome-to-the-neighborhood dinner party for their new neighbors — a couple recently (forcibly) relocated from Chicago's roughest housing project — and it's anything but welcoming. A dark comedy about reverse gentrification and how we deal with the other when the other looks just like us.
Developed at Ojai Playwrights Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan New Play Lab
2019 Jeffry Melnick Playwright Award
2018 Blue Ink Playwriting Award
2 females
full-length play
A popular political & social commentator is forced to examine her own legitimacy when agoraphobia prevents her from physically engaging in the very activism she boasts online. When a boots-on-the-ground community organizer invades her space, they must both deal with manifestations of fear arising from existing in America while Black.
World Premiere
Playwrights' Arena (Los Angeles)
May 2020
directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
Developed as part of Humanitas Prize Play LA 2017-18 playwriting workshop
full-length play
A popular political & social commentator is forced to examine her own legitimacy when agoraphobia prevents her from physically engaging in the very activism she boasts online. When a boots-on-the-ground community organizer invades her space, they must both deal with manifestations of fear arising from existing in America while Black.
World Premiere
Playwrights' Arena (Los Angeles)
May 2020
directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
Developed as part of Humanitas Prize Play LA 2017-18 playwriting workshop
4 females, 11 males, 3 gender neutral
full-length play
An adaptation of The Danton Case by Stanislawa Przybyszewska's. Set in the dystopian ninth year of Trump's office... yes, ninth. Corey, leader of the New American Revolution, questions his own tactics and what it means to be a martyr when executive orders and even higher powers constantly change the rules of the fight.
Developed in a joint project of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Krakow), Playwrights' Arena Theatre (Los Angeles), and University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts (Los Angeles)
full-length play
An adaptation of The Danton Case by Stanislawa Przybyszewska's. Set in the dystopian ninth year of Trump's office... yes, ninth. Corey, leader of the New American Revolution, questions his own tactics and what it means to be a martyr when executive orders and even higher powers constantly change the rules of the fight.
Developed in a joint project of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Krakow), Playwrights' Arena Theatre (Los Angeles), and University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts (Los Angeles)
3 males
one-act play for young/teen audiences
Inspired by Paul Robeson's teenaged years, two best friends must face off in a dangerous high school debate with life-or-death stakes.
Official Selection of the Paul Robeson Theatre Festival, Robey Theatre Company (Los Angeles)
one-act play for young/teen audiences
Inspired by Paul Robeson's teenaged years, two best friends must face off in a dangerous high school debate with life-or-death stakes.
Official Selection of the Paul Robeson Theatre Festival, Robey Theatre Company (Los Angeles)
4-5 females, 1-2 males (6 total)
one-act play for young audiences
The one time Travis needs people to believe one of his wild stories, might be the one time he’s actually telling the truth.
Published by YouthPLAYS
one-act play for young audiences
The one time Travis needs people to believe one of his wild stories, might be the one time he’s actually telling the truth.
Published by YouthPLAYS