Selected Short Works

LIGHT THE MENORAH (ten minutes, drama/ romantic comedy)

(1F, 1M)

Mira, a Jewish woman, and Navid, her Persian boyfriend, navigate the complexities of cultural traditions and family expectations during an impromptu Hanukkah celebration on the winter solstice.

[2024] Workshop, Jewish Plays Project & Berkshire Theatre Group’s Ten-Minute Play Festival
[2024] Winner, On One Foot National Playwriting Competition

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THE STARFIRE DANCE (ten minutes, drama)

(2F, 2M)

At the Frank Sinatra Piano Lounge at Greenbriar, a retirement home, Frank,70, is reunited with Adele, 68, who he believes is an old flame. Frank tries desperately to remind Adele of the night they met. The only problem: it’s not that Adele doesn’t remember, it’s that she’d rather forget.

[2014] World Premiere as part of Fusion Theatre Festival’s “The Seven,” at the Cell Theater, Albuquerque, NM
[2013] Finalist for City Theater’s National Short Play Award
[2013] Reading, CityWrights Conference, Miami, FL

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HIS PEARS, OR LUSCIOUS BUTTS

(Two minutes, dark comedy) (FULL SCRIPT)
(1F, 1M)

Two star-crossed pears discover their horrific fate.

[2012-2013] Produced in Portland, Oregon and Ontario, Canada

PAINTED DESERT (ten minutes, drama)

(1F, 1M)

Cody, an unemployed guitarist, finds himself stuck in the middle of the desert with hundreds of hoodoos, a perpetually setting sun, a dozen orphan shoes and his ex-girlfriend, Eva.

[2012] Produced at The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival at the Beckett Theater
[2011] Produced at Theater Masters 2011 National MFA Playwright Festival (at the Wild Project, NYC) and in Aspen, Colorado
[2011] Finalist, The Heideman Award