PLAYS:
The Turtletons Start Over
Wild Life
Esther (Frog Queen)
Commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre
(Was to be produced in 2020-2021 but cancelled)
Found! (formally titled Found on Pandora Avenue)
Commissioned by South Coast Repertory
Workshop, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, December 2015
Workshop with Deaf West Theatre, December 2017
Workshop with Deaf West Theatre, August, 2018
Continuing development process with Deaf West Theater
The Rescued
Written and developed at Hedgebrook Writing Retreat, Whidbey Island, WA,
May 2015
Florida Studio Theatre Company, New Play Reading Series, May, 2016
The Road Theatre, Summer Play Reading Series, August 2017
World Premiere Production, The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, CA
September – October, 2018
Little Lamb
John is a father
Reading, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, August, 2014
World Premiere Production, The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, CA,
May – June, 2016
LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award Nomination – Playwriting for an Original Play
Frank is a miracle
Developmental workshop and reading, New Dramatist, New York, NY, October,
2013
Birder
Commissioned by Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, CA
Developmental workshop and reading New Dramatists, PlayTime, December
2012
Developmental workshop and reading, Center Theatre Group, March, 2013
Staged Reading, The Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA, produced by
Center Theatre Group, April, 2014
World Premiere Production, The Road Theatre Company, North Hollywood, CA,
April – May, 2016 (Ran in repertory with John is a father)
Opium Den
Commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT
Developmental workshop and reading, Yale Rep in NYC, August, 2012
Developmental workshop and reading, Yale Rep in NYC, August 2013
Staged Reading, Dramatikkens Hus, Oslo, Norway, April, 2014
Staged Reading, First Look, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, August 2014
Staged Reading, NewScripts Reading Series, South Coast Repertory, October
2014
Wake Up, Mrs. Moore
Commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY
Reading, Black Swan Lab, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2011
Staged Reading, Festival of New Theatre, GEVA, Rochester, NY, October 2011
Staged Reading, Philadelphia Theatre Company New Works Festival, February
2013
Developmental workshop and reading, Roundabout Theatre, January 2104
Was to be produced at the 16th Street Theater in 2020-21 Season, but cancelled.
A Man Comes to Fowler
Commissioned and produced by Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles,
CA, in collaboration with the citizens of the farming community of Fowler, CA
World premiere, Fowler, CA, July, 2011
Flooded
Commissioned by Denver Theatre Center, Denver, CO
Developmental workshop and reading, Colorado New Play Summit, Denver
Theatre Center, 2009
Developmental workshop and reading, Denver Theatre Center at Perry
Mansfield, Steamboat Springs, CO, June, 2010
Reading, Black Swan Lab, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, March, 2011
The Happy Ones
Commissioned by South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA
World Premiere Production, South Coast Repertory, October-November, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Ted Schmitt Award for the World Premiere of an Outstanding
New Play - the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
Staged Reading, UT Austin, October, 2010
Production, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, March-April, 2013
Top Ten Best Plays of 2013, San Francisco Chronicle
Hell Leaves Odessa
Commissioned by ACT Seattle, Seattle, WA
Developmental workshop and reading, ACT Seattle, June, 2010
Staged Reading, Echo Theatre Co, Los Angeles, September, 2012
Someday, a play about Reproductive Rights
Commissioned by Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA
World Premiere Production, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA,
June, 2008
Staged Reading, Mirror Theatre, Seattle, WA, April, 2011
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
World Premiere Production, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR,
February-June, 2008
Production, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, July, 2008
Production, Pendragon Theatre, Saranac Lake, NY, July-August, 2008
Production, Synchronicity Performance Group, Atlanta, GA, September-October,
2008
Production, Company of Fools, Hailey, ID, July-August, 2009
Production, Sonoma County Repertory, Sebastopol, CA ,April-May, 2009
Production, Chance Theatre, Anaheim, CA, April-May, 2010,
Production, TheatreFirst, Berkeley, CA, April-May, 2011
Production, Spring Ensemble Theatre, Colorado Springs, CO, June-July, 2011
Production, Next Theatre Company, Evanston, IL, November-December 2012
Production, Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, September-October, 2014
College Productions:
California State University- Dominguez Hills March 12-21, 2010
California State University- Fresno Oct – Nov 2009
University of Maryland Feb 11th -19th 2011
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, Spring 2012
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, November 1-11, 2012
University of Montana April 2015
University of North Carolina - Asheville, March 2018
Santa Rosa Junior College, March 2018
High School Productions
Issaquah High School March 23-26, 2011
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild High School, CA, January 22-24, 2010
The King of Lonely
Commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis MN, and the Sloan
Foundation
Workshop and staged reading, The Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, MN, March,
2010
Workshop and staged reading, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, February,
2009
My Wandering Boy
Reading, Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, November,
2005
Developmental workshop and reading, Women’s Playwright Festival, Seattle
Repertory, 2006
World Premiere Production, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, March-
April 2007, The Pacific Playwrights Festival
Workshop Production, New York City Summer Play Festival, New York, NY, July
2007
Boats on a River
Commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Workshop Production, Co-Production Guthrie Theatre and Playwrights Center,
September, 2005
World Premiere Production, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, May-June, 2007
Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2007
Radio play, LA Theatreworks, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2009
Alice in the Badlands
The Sex Habits of American Women
Workshop production, PlayLabs, Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, MN, July,
2004
World Premiere Production, Magic Theatre, October-November, 2004
Production, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, November-December, 2005
Production, Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta, GA February-March, 2006
Production, Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, April-May, 2006
Production, Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR, April-May, 2006
Staged Reading, Tokyo International Arts Festival, February, 2006
Production, Union College, Schenectady, NY, November 2021
49 Days to the Sun
Staged Reading, Labyrinth Theatre Company Summer Intensive, Saratoga
Springs, NY, June, 2003
Staged Reading, Rattlestick Theatre Company, New York, NY, February, 2004
The Pink Factor
Seed the Storm, Eye of the Storm Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2000
Staged Reading, A.S.K. Theatre Reading Series, Los Angeles, CA, October,
2001
World Premiere Production, Quantum Theatre Co, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2002
Cowbird
Developmental Workshop and reading, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New York,
NY, July, 2001
World Premiere production, Eye of the Storm Theatre Co., Minneapolis, MN,
2002
August is a thin girl
Developmental workshop and reading, A.S.K. Spring Retreat, Los Angeles, CA,
2000
Reading, Labyrinth Theatre Company Summer Institute, Catskills, NY,
September 2001
Workshop production, Barn Series, Labyrinth Theatre Company, New York, NY,
June, 2002
Production, UC Irvine Theatre Department, Irvine, CA, 2008
Community-Based Projects/Plays
Found!
Deaf West – rewrite with theatre company and deaf community
On-going project
fellowship: a play for volunteers
Commissioned by Cornerstone Theatre Company
Play #8 in The Hunger Cycle
Theme: Scarcity and Abundance in Los Angeles. Story-circles with organizations
and individuals addressing hunger and scarcity in an affluent, abundant city.
An immersive theatre experience, and an invitation to volunteer. Audience
members make 120 sack lunches for homeless LA residents during the course of
the play.
Premiered January 21 – February 12, 2017
A Soda in Richmond
Commissioned and produced by Cornerstone Theatre Company, with The
California Endowment and Richmond, CA, January, 2013
A short play about the soda tax on the election ballot in Richmond, CA.
Willful
“Talk it Out” Series on School Discipline in California Schools
Commissioned and produced by Cornerstone Theatre Co, with The California
Endowment, The Black Parallel School Board, Sacramento, CA
A play based on story circles with students in high school and middle school on
“Willful Defiance” – an overused disciplinary action in the California schools to
suspend students.
Performed at the California State Capitol, June 2013
Zero
“Talk It Out” Series on School Discipline in California
Commissioned by Cornerstone Theatre Co, with The California Endowment, and
Black Parallel School Board, Sacramento, CA
3 plays on the “Zero Tolerance” rule in California schools. Based on stories
circles with middle school and high school students in Sacramento and the
research that minority children are often first to be suspended, and first expelled.
Breaking the school-to prison-pipeline.
Performed at the California State Capitol, and in the Sacramento Community,
June 2012
A Man Comes to Fowler
Commissioned and produced by Cornerstone Theatre Company with the town of
Fowler, CA
Cornerstone Summer Institute, 2011
The Wait
Commissioned and produced Cornerstone Theatre Company, for The Legal Aid
Foundation of Los Angeles, Torture Survivors Project
UN International Day for Victims of Torture, June, 2010
A short play based on a story circle with survivors of torture from various nations,
and their lawyers and advocates in Los Angeles.
Someday, a play about reproductive rights
Commissioned and produced by Cornerstone Theatre Company, June 2008
What does choice mean? Story-circles with egg donors, sperm donors, gay
couples who adopted, disabled women, abortion rights activities, the Feminist
Majority, women and men who are defining family by their own terms.