PLAYS

TELL THEM I'M STILL YOUNG

FULL LENGTH (2M, 2F)

Allen and Kay are approaching sixty-five when their only daughter is killed in a car crash. Now parents without children, the two struggle to renegotiate their identities and their marriage, as the entrance of two young people revives a painful longing for what’s been lost: their family and their futures.

UPCOMING WORKSHOP PRODUCTION Summer 2022

THE ABSENTEE

FULL LENGTH (3F, 1 M)

Far out in the Milky Way, “Beacons” serve as lighthouses for warping spaceships around the galaxy. When a U.S. Space Forces ship explodes near Beacon 44.AR.90, its Operator finds herself alone in deep space with only her ship’s A.I. for companionship. That is, until a persistent canvasser calls, desperate to convince her to vote absentee in the 2088 election.

most recently seen at know theatre, bloomington playwrights project

LOVE AND CONTRACTS

FULL LENGTH (4M, 4F)

Two 18th-century misfits share a passionate tryst in a boathouse. Will their illicit lust lead to a lifelong commitment? Sorry, that’s so 1791. But when they are thrust forward to the present day, they discover that love hasn’t gotten any easier.

Presented as part of South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival 2018.

Upcoming at Writers Theatre Chicago.

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FULL LENGTH (2M, 2F, 7Flex)

Nelson, the administrator of an illegally hacked MMORPG, is served a cease and desist, which threatens to disband the game's community permanently. To save his players, he's forced to break the law even further.

TV PILOTS

NEMESIS

(Crime Thiller/Drama)

Grad school rivals turned novelists tell conflicting narratives of the crime they both committed, but for which only one of them went to jail. A not-so-true-crime symphony of rivalry, conspiracy, and unreliable narrators.

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SHOCK

(Sci-Fi/Medical/Drama)

Night in and night out, Iris, an emergency trauma surgeon, saves patients whose lives hinge on split second decisions. But Iris has what no other doctor does – the power of premonition, activated every time she’s electrocuted. In order to control her power, she receives electroconvulsive therapy from a psychiatrist, and uses what she sees in order to try and change the future.

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THE EMMA PROJECT

(Sci-fi/Drama)

Every night, Emma dreams that she’s a soldier fighting through an army to reach specific coordinates. When she dies, she wakes, and lives life as a patient, or perhaps a prisoner, in a facility seemingly dedicated to finding a cure for her condition.

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Short Plays

Americana (n).: things associated with the culture and history of America, especially the United States. Sad Americana (n).: catfishing, birthday-princess tiaras, escape-the-room games, and Reddit.

In Julia Doolittle's "Sad Americana", Chekovian Vaudeville meets Judd Apatow in a series of hilarious and cringe-worthy vignettes. It'll be painful in a funny way.

Performed at The Tank February 2017, dir. Jacob Basri.

Ian has a son. Ian has a daughter-in-law. Ian has a drinking problem. Ian's just been fired.

And Ian has just purchased a giant shark costume.

Performed as part of Rogue Machine Theatre's Around-the-Clock Play Festival 2013.

CAJAGMO(Connor and Julia are Gonna Make Out)

(60 minutes, 1 M, 1 F)

Co-written/performed with Connor Miller.

Connor Miller and Julia Doolittle are "the funniest kids at this school" (The New York Times).

Two awkward, well-meaning and hopelessly lovestruck young adults try to navigate their crippling affection for one another as they put on a silly play in a dirty basement.

Performed at the Batesment Theatre in April of 2013.