Plays and Musicals
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MONTAG
A play with music.
Faith and Novella are fun-loving, thirty-something besties living in a tiny German town near a U.S. military base. Typically they spend their nights clubbing, but tonight, in Novella’s basement apartment, they’re practicing some unusual combat drills–armed with wine, potato chips, and the very best speakers they can afford.
Montag is a domestic thriller, a sleep deprivation comedy, and a rebellion celebration under threat of annihilation.
Premiered at Soho Rep.
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LAURA AND THE SEA
A play.
It’s company outing day, and Laura, one of the top travel agents of her generation, is quite possibly having both the best and worst day of her life. So much so that she decides to end it all. Afterwards, her colleagues try to piece things together on a memorial blog, but how do you mourn someone you really didn’t know that well?
A darkly funny but also emotional drama about trying to connect in the age of digital intimacy.
Premiered at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.
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GOD IS DEAD, LET'S MAKE LOVE
A play.
Nina reallllly likes Scott. Scott reallllly likes Nina. Scott is super happily married to Meg. Meg is super happily seeing other people. There’s a Google Document with some simple rules to keep everyone sane. Nina doesn’t have permission to edit it.
A wild romp through the power dynamics and deepest yearnings of three clueless explorers of distinctly American non-monogamy.
Unproduced.
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DIONYSUS WAS SUCH A NICE MAN
A play.
When a far-out family of shepherds on the outskirts of the Corinthian suburbs learn their adopted son Oedipus has ascended the throne of Thebes, they plan a bender to end all benders. But who’s on cleanup after the party’s over?
Equal parts irreverent comedy and emotional journey into family and societal dysfunction, this play examines with horror and humor the lasting effects of buried trauma.
Premiered at The Wilma Theater.
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THUNDERBODIES
A play.
The war is finally over. General Michail proposes to Grotilde—so she skips ahead and plans the inevitable, but festive, divorce. Meanwhile, the weather is playing tricks on people, as is the President, and Grotilde's son won't accept the armistice.
In this comedy of no manners, everyone is normible (both normal and terrible all at once).
Premiered at Soho Rep.
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THE COUNTERFEIT OPERA
A musical.
A new take on the legendary satire - The Beggar's Opera - that has criticized corruption and picked on politicians for centuries.
The Counterfeit Opera sets the antihero robber Macheath in the streets of 1850s Manhattan, where grifting gangs and working women find themselves too poor to win, but too smart to fail.
Premiered at Little Island. Created with director Dustin Wills and composer Dan Schlosberg.
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AWFUL EVENT!
A vaudevillian music-theater piece.
Come, my love, to the theater, take a break from divisive partisan politics, watch a delightful escapist British comedy <BANG!> ..... oh no.
A work-in-progress showing was presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Created with director Dustin Wills and composer Dan Schlosberg.