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SELECTED PRODUCTIONS, AWARDS, and DEVELOPMENT HISTORY


Queen of Sad Mischance (full-length drama)
Gloucester Stage NeverDark Series, 2021
New American Voices Festival Winner, 2020
Clauder Competition Gold Prize Winner, 2019
The Landing Theatre (reading), 2020
Polaris North, NYC (reading), 2020
Portland Stage Company (workshop reading), ME 2019
Great Plains Theatre Conference, PlayLab selection, NE 2019
Urban Stages (reading), NYC 2019
Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2018
The Lark, Finalist, 2018
Kitchen Dog New Works Festival Finalist, 2018
Dayton FutureFest (workshop), 2018
​Boston Podcast Players, featured play, 2018
New Repertory Theatre (reading), Boston/Watertown, June 2017
Firehouse Center for the Arts (reading), Newburyport, MA, January 2017
First Place/Pestalozzi Prize, New Works Festival, Newburyport, MA, 2017
Next Voices Fellowship, New Repertory Theatre, Boston, September 2016-June 2017
​Playwrights' Reading Room (reading), Boston/Watertown, 2015


Noir Hamlet (full-length comedy)
Pegasus Theatre, Dallas TX, 2021
Advice to the Players, Sandwich NH, 2020
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, YASPLZ, LLC, 2019
Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Outstanding New Script, Boston, 2019
EDGEMedia "Best of Boston Theatre" 2018
The Congregation (reading), NYC, 2018
Boston Premiere, Centastage, 2018 (EDGEMedia Best of Boston 2018!)
Urban Stages (reading), NYC , 2018
Actors Studio of Newburyport, reading, May 2017

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A Dateless Bargain with Engrossing Death (ten-minute comedy)
Barrington Stage Company 10x10 Festival, MA, 2021
Massasoit New Works Festival, MA, 2019
Hey Jonte! Productions, Lincoln Center, NY, 2015
City Theater of Independence, Kansas City, MO, 2015
culture*park marathon, reading, MA, 2014


The Maltese Walter (ten-minute comedy)
Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre, 2022
Greenhouse Ensemble, NYC, 2021
Theatre Nerd Podcast, 2020
Raven Short Play Festival, CA, 2020
Shorts @ The Canal, London, 2018
Western Texas College, 2018
Theatre@First, MA, 2018
Funhouse III, Seattle, 2018
Wittenberg University, Columbus, OH, 2017
Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, 2017
Panhandle Community Theatre, Pensacola, FL, 2017
Short Attention Span Theatre, Prince Theatre, MD, 2017
Published in 
Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2016, Smith & Kraus
Best of BARE Essentials, London's West End, 2016
Short + Sweet Festival, Los Angeles, 2016
​Greenhouse Ensemble, NYC, 2016
Winner, Actor's Theatre Playhouse Regional Competition, NH/VT, 2016
First Place, Seoul Players Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2015
Samuel French OOB Festival, NYC, 2015
Short + Sweet Festival, Delhi, India, 2015
​Short + Sweet Festival, Queensland, Australia, 2015
Optioned for film production, Asylum Giant, London, 2015
Theatre Workshop of Owensboro Summer Shorts, Owensboro, KY, 2015
Rover Dramawerks, Plano, TX, 2015
Longwood University, Virginia, 2015
Short + Sweet Festival, Dubai, 2015
BARE Essentials, Encompass Productions, London, 2015
Little Fish Theatre, Pick of the Vine, San Pedro, CA, 2015
The Open Tent Theater Company, NYC, 2015
Acme Theater New Works Festival, MA, 2015
Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2014
Winner, Longwood 0-60 Play Contest, Longwood University, 2014
Orange Tea Theatre, Amsterdam, 2014
First Place, Rover Dramawerks Competition, 2014
Play of the Month, Boston Play Cafe, reading, December 2014
Spokane Stage Left, Hit & Run VII Festival, reading, 2014
Suffield Players, CT 2014
F.A.C.T. Words and Wine, reading, New York City, 2014
Argos Productions, Boston Theatre Marathon XVI, 2014
Snowdance Comedy Festival, 2014
Image, above center: by Kate Snodgrass at Boston Theatre Marathon 2014

                  
Closing Doors  (ten-minute drama)
Publication in Best 10-Minute Plays 2021, Smith & Kraus
Finalist, National Short Playwriting Competition, City Theatre Miami, 2020
City Theatre, Miami (reading), Miami, 2020
Samuel French OOB Festival, 2020
Barrington Stage Company 10x10 Festival, MA, 2020
Little Fish Pick of the Vine Festival, San Pedro CA, 2020
Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival, Newburyport MA, 2020
Open Fist Political Pop-Up Theatre, 2020
Orange Players (streaming), CT 2020
Vokes Players (streaming), MA 2020
Theatre One Productions, MA, 2020
Best Play, North Park Playwrights Festival, CA 2019
Winner, Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts, 2019
The Denizens Theater Company, NYC 2019
Boston Theater Marathon, pr. by Northeastern University, 2019
Orange Players, CT 2019


No Regrets (ten-minute comedy)
Left Edge Theatre, streaming, 2021
Theatre Three, NY, streaming, 2020
New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, 2019


Lois Returns (ten-minute comedy)
Urban Stages, NYC, streaming, 2021


Thank You, Two (ten-minute comedy)
Crossroads Theatre Shed/Chickenshed Theatre, Israel/UK, streaming 2021
Heralds of Hope Theater Company, Silver Spring MD, 2019
New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, 2019
                                    

A Monogamy of Swans (ten-minute comedy)
Triangle Rainbow Gay Short Play Festival, streaming, 2021
Almost Adults LGBTQ Festival (streaming), 2020
Vokes Players (streaming), MA 2020
Cold Comfort Theater, Belfast Pride Plays, ME, 2019
Arlington Friends of the Drama, ArlingTEN Short Play Festival, MA 2019
Far East Drama and Performing Arts Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2019
Sandwich Arts, Sandwich, MA, 2019
Lee Strasberg Institute, NYC, 2018
Seoul Players Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2017
Gary Garrison Playwriting Festival, Beaumont TX, 2017
AlphaNYC's Women's Eight-udes, New York, 2017
​New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, 2017
Hovey Players, MA, 2016
​Bad Habit Productions, Boston Theater Marathon XVIII, 2016
Funky Little Theater, Colorado, 2016
culture*park marathon, reading, MA 2015


Rising Sophomore (ten-minute play for streaming)

Published by YouthPLAYS, 2020
Theatre Three, streaming, 2020
Taphouse Theatre, streaming, 2020
Quaranstream Festival, streaming, 2020


Breaking the Shakespeare Code (full-length serio-comic)
tiny_theatre, streaming reading, FL 2020
MMAS Black Box, MA, 2020
Hey Jonte! Productions, NYC 2019
Wellesley College, reading, 2019
Advice to the Players, reading, NH 2019
Shetler Studios, NYC, October, reading, 2016
Clockwise Theatre, Illinois, 2015
NY International Fringe Festival (Hey Jonte! Productions), 2014
Greenhouse Theater, Chicago (Hey Jonte! Productions), 2014
Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Outstanding New Script, Boston, 2014
Vagabond Theatre Group, Boston, 2014
Good Company Theatre, Ogden, Utah, 2013
Wasatch Theater, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008
New American Playwrights Project, Utah Shakespearean Festival, workshop production, 2007
Runner-up, Arthur Stone Prize, 2007
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, workshop production, 2006
Nominee, Weissberger Award, 2006
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, staged reading (as Codes), 2005


Concordance (full-length serio-comic)
The Depot New Play Series (reading), CT 2019
SoBe Arts (reading), Miami, 2014
Vagabond Theatre Group at Trident Booksellers and Cafe (reading), Boston 2013
Munroe Saturday Nights (reading, dir. by Patrick Swanson), MA 2013
New American Playwrights Project, Finalist, Utah Shakespearean Festival, 2013
PlayPenn, Semifinalist, Philadelphia, 2013
                        Orfeo Group (readings, dir. by Bill Barclay), MA 2011-2012



The Opposite of Monday (ten-minute drama)
Core Artist Ensemble (reading), NYC, 2019


 Noise (experimental five-minute comedy)
La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, CA, 2019
Oracle Performing Arts, San Diego, 2018
Published in Five-Minute Play Anthology, Smith & Kraus, 2016
Generic Theater, Portsmouth, 1992
Slippery Rock University, PA, 1991
Shelter West/Theater 22, New York City, 1987
Smith and Hampshire Colleges, MA, 1987


Family Planning (ten-minute drama)
The #metoo Plays, The Alternative Theater, NYC, 2018
Ixion Ensemble, Lansing Michigan, 2018


Easter at the Entrée Gold (one-act drama)
Published in Best American Short Plays, Applause Books, 2017
Published in It's Academic, New World Theatre Press, 2017
Published in the New England New Play Anthology, Volume 1, 2017
Hatbox Theatre, Concord, NH, 2018
Artists from Suburbia, South Shore, MA (reading), 2017
Samuel French OOB Festival, NYC, 2016
Winner, Nor'Eastern Playwrights Contest, Actors' Rep of Vermont, 2015
Finalist, Gary Garrison Competition, 2015
Playwrights' Round Table, Orlando Shakespeare Center, 2014
Nantucket Short Play Festival, reading, 2014
Award of Excellence, Shakespeare in the 'Burg One-Act Competition, 2014
  Third Place Winner, Nantucket Short Play Contest and Festival, 2014
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, January 2011
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Contest, 2011


Necktie (monologue play)
Published in A Solitary Voice, New World Theatre Press, 2018
1:One Theatre Festival, Dubai, 2018
Redgates Theatre Gateways, London, 2018
​Winner, Extremely Short New Play Festival, New Theatre of Ottawa, 2016
Flashfest, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2014
Boston Theater Marathon XVI, "Sprints," 2014
Fast and Furious, Spokane Stage Left, 2014


It’s the Jews (ten-minute comedy)
Winner, Actor's Theatre Playhouse Regional Competition, NH/VT, 2017
​Lama Theatre, Monday Questions series, NYC, 2016
Seoul Players Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
​Playwrights' Round Table, Orlando Shakespeare Center, 2016
​Hey Jonte! Productions, Lincoln Center, NYC, 2015
Suffield Players, CT, 2015
City Theatre Summer Shorts, Miami, 2014             
Play of the Month, Boston Play Cafe, November 2013
National Finalist, American Short Play Contest, City Theater, 2013
Best Playwright of 2011 Award, 8-Minute Madness Festival, NYC, 2011
Published by Smith & Kraus, 2011
Turtle Shell Productions, New York City, 2011
First Place, KNOCK International Short Play Competition, 2010
Published in KNOCK Magazine, 2010
Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Theater Marathon, 2010
Freehold Theater/Bit Part Festival, Seattle, 2010
culture*park marathon, reading, MA, 2010
Mountain Stage, North Carolina, 2010


Thank You, Two (ten-minute comedy)
Heralds of Hope Theater Company, Silver Spring MD, 2019
New Works Festival, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, 2019
                                     

Little Ant Renovation (full-length drama)
Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, 2015
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Second Sunday Reading Series, 2014



Genuine Cashmere (ten-minute serio-comic)
Odenbear Theatre, Taos, NM, 2016
Asphalt Jungle XII and Impact 15 International Festival, Ontario, 2015
Cary Playwrights Forum, Cary NC, 2015
Suffield Players, CT, 2014
Hot from the Oven--Smorgasbord, Ohio, 2014
Image, above right: Kathy Sandham, photographer


Moving On (ten-minute drama)
 Community College of Rhode Island, 2016
Salem Theater Company, Boston Theatre Marathon XVII, 2015


  In My Corrupted Blood (ten-minute comedy, with Kevin Mullins)
Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers, Mad Dash 2015


The Long Christmas Journey to Wellesley and Weston (one-act comic drama in the style of Thornton Wilder)
Play With Your Food 4C Reading Series, Barnstable, MA, 2015
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, reading, January 2015
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival, 2015

       
Till That Lucky Day (one-act serio-comic)
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, 2013
Play With Your Food Reading Series, Cape Cod Community College, 2013
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival, 2013


Away in a Manger (ten-minute comedy)
Dover Little Theatre, NJ, 2019
Quannapowitt Playhouse, Suburban Holidays Memories, MA, 2018
Quannapowitt Playhouse, Suburban Holidays, MA, 2013
Hovey Players, Waltham, MA, 2011
Image, above left: Quannapowitt Players

                            
Prestidigitation (experimental work)      
Menagerie Theater, Cambridge, England, 2012

                                            
The Castle of Otranto (full-length adaptation of gothic novel by Horace Walpole)
Bluffton University, 2011
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, workshop production, 2008

  

Isaac in Flux aka The Secret Dream of Professor Isaac (one-act comedy)
Circle Repertory Company, New York City, 1989
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, New York City, 1986
Your Theater, New Bedford, MA, 1986
First Place, Playwrights Collaborative Contest, 1986
Shelter West, New York City, 1986
Quaigh Theater, New York City, 1986


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