Play.
The best thing we humans do.
Plays.
The best of the arts, combined.
Playwrights.
The best alchemists:
We turn shit into fertilizer.
I was born playful. It took fifty years to also become honest. Now I can get out of the way and let the characters speak. They chose me because I understand them—and love them, even at their worst.
My work takes audiences on journeys they might avoid in real life. By going through hell in the safety of a theater, they come out the other side changed for the better.
I write plays to restore that sacred exchange between audience and actors—to make the space between us feel electric again.
Good Luck, Chuck
Think: "The Odd Couple Waits for Godot."
Good Luck, Chuck is a comedy about the unpredictable nature of luck and the enduring, if complicated, bonds that hold us together.
Good luck? Bad luck? Who's to say. Each scene is a year later when their luck has inevitably changed.
From penthouse to house arrest, two best friends discover that "luck" isn't about what you have, but who you're stuck with.
In the end friendship is the ultimate lucky charm.
In "The Land of Milt and Honey," Milt is an accountant with a little cooking show on the web called "The way to a man's heart." Honey's an out-of-work marketing moven who sees his show as her opportunity to go viral.
Work becomes romance and they tie the knot, Then Honey comes up with a stunt to literally tie a knot around each other—with rope. It goes viral. Always chasing more viewers and “likes” Honey adds more and more physical ropes until they’re codependent to the point of being conjoined and cannot move independently. At the same time, she takes more control of Milt, and the show, cnow retitled “Joined at the hip."
The play features onstage cooking, with the audience getting fed. On Zoom that could involve anything from preset Postmates menus, to scratch-n-sniff...
Cast: 3 (1 non-speaking)
Genre: Dark comedy
Keywords: Codependency, cooking, surreal, social media
In Rules for Fucking Around, four gay men of different ages and ethnicities change partners and... do what gay men do in open relationships.
As in life, chance is integral to the play's structure--only the first and last two scenes are set. The order of the other scenes is determined in the lobby before the show.
Audience members take turns spinning a wheel of fortune with scene names on it to set the order of that performance. No two performances are the same.
The gives both the audience, and the actors, a unique experience. This is further enhanced by the fact that there are more scenes than can fit into a single performance. So seeing the show multiple times reveals new material as well as new structure.
Cast: 4, 20-60
Genre: comedy, romantic comedy, drama
Keyword: gay, love, open relationships, gender, sex,