In just a couple of weeks, a reading of my play The Tusk Hunters will be going up as part of Gloucester Stage's Water's Rising Festival, an annual showing of new plays that explore the climate crisis. For my money, it's a very important and unique festival that has some vital ties to the theatre company's community. Here's what Gloucester Stage has to say about it:

The theater’s home in Gloucester has more than 62 miles of shorelines, with the building itself located in FEMA’s high-risk flood zone. What makes this location a beautiful destination contains an equally foreboding future as we see sea levels rise year after year. We are excited to present WATER’S RISING for our second year. By pairing art with advocacy, we can deepen our connection to our earth’s future.

Developed extensively last year with The Civilians' R&D Group, The Tusk Hunters focuses on the morality of woolly mammoth de-extinction and its viability as a method to combat climate change. Sub-themes include masculinity over time and the toll scientifically revolutionary ideas take on those tasked with actually executing them. The reading is directed by Alex Lonati and takes place on Sunday, April 27th, at 7 p.m. Two other wonderful plays, TERRA FIRMA by Barbara Hammond and Mox Nox by Patrick Gabridge, will also be happening over the weekend. Each reading is followed by a talkback and discussion with a climate expert. Click here for tickets.

Enormous thanks to Gloucester Stage for developing my work and creating such a locally (and globally) potent festival. See you in Massachusetts!

It's been a minute! I'm coming out of hibernation to announce that my short play "Wound Woman" is being produced by Chicago's Otherworld Theatre as part of their 7th Annual Science Fiction & Fantasy Paragon Festival. The festival runs April 17th through 27th at Otherworld's bustling theatre space in Andersonville (3914 N Clark St) and features a ton of really cool genre plays.

"Wound Woman" is a short script I wrote over a decade ago for a play festival in Tallahassee, Florida, so I'm really excited to see it go up in Chicago—my favorite city in the world and the one that still feels the most like home. It runs as part of the festival's Fantasy & Fairytales program, with performances on April 19th, 24th, and 27th at 8:30 p.m. Click here for tickets, the full festival schedule, and more info.

Big thanks to Otherworld for supporting my work. And watch this space in the coming weeks for more announcements about a ton of exciting projects that are getting some new life. More soon!

Matawan, my play about the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916, is getting its New York premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company's Acting School!

Directed by Nicky Maggio, this will be the fourth production of the show and features conservatory students Josh Bloom Garrett Hannigan, David Najam Liskow, Zoe Loveless, Jack Lyme, Eli Nuss, Alfredo Reyes, Kate Sweitzer, Nhat Trinh, and Bar Zivlin. It runs October 3rd through 8th at the Atlantic's Stage 2 space (330 W 16th St).

I don't want to spoil anything here, but Nicky's concept for the shark and the humans she encounters is truly unique and evocative. I can't wait to see it. Click here for tickets, and come say hi after the show!

Last year, I was lucky enough to see my play The Amphibians selected by Think Tank Theatre down in Florida as part of their TYA Playwrights Festival. The script received a wonderful reading, and I got to spend a fun-filled week in Tampa, right near where I grew up.

Now, I'll be headed back in a few weeks for Think Tank's full production of the show, which is going up as the featured mainstage in this year's festival! I love everything about Think Tank, and can't wait to see the show fully realized in the community where I was raised—and where the play itself takes place.

The Amphibians runs August 22nd–25th at JCC On the Cohn Campus. You can find more info on showtimes, tickets, and the stellar production team here. I'll be down there all week, so if you're in the area, come on by and say hi. And be sure to check out the work from the other awesome playwrights in the festival, including Baylee Shlichtman (who I've written alongside at The Workshop Theater), Gwyneth Strope, and Larry Rinkel.

See you soon, Florida!

A couple big pieces of news for my play The Amphibians! 

First, the production at Sundown Collaborative Theatre in Denton, Texas, has been moved to July of 2025 due to unforeseen circumstances outside of the theatre company's control. They—and I!—very much look forward to bringing it to you next summer.

Second, the show is getting a third production from Cypress Productions in Lexington, Kentucky! They did a truly bang-up job with my short play "A Seed," and I can't wait to see what they do with one of my full-lengths. The puppet design really is something else, as is the below poster created by Claire Thompson. It miiight be my favorite marketing image from any of my shows, ever.

We run August 15th–17th at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center. Click here for tickets.

Big thanks to Joan and their team for treating my work with such care and ambition. And watch this space for some more amphibious news very soon...

I'm late on posting this, but tickets to The Civilians' staged reading of my play The Tusk Hunters are FREE and live on the company's website. You can reserve them using this form. We go up tomorrow, June 17th, at 7 p.m. at 520 8th Avenue (ART/NY's Leynse Studio on the third floor).

This is the culmination of my time developing the play through The Civilians' 2023/2024 R&D Group. It's been a blast, and colossally helpful for the script's growth. I feel like I have a solid draft to keep sharpening as the play hopefully finds a home.

Directed by Dina Vovsi, the reading features Pete Bradbury, Savidu Geevaratne, Michael Markham, Brooks Laney, and Evan Moore-Coll, with puppetry consultant Betsy Rosen.

Also, be sure to check out the other R&D projects from my incredible colleagues, presented through the Findings Series. Hope to see you there!

For the past seven months or so, I've been working on my play The Tusk Hunters with The Civilians as part of their 2023/2024 R&D Group. They asked me to write an article about the script's development for their online journal, Extended Play, and the post just went live. You can check it out here.

The journey to a coherent, completed draft of The Tusk Hunters has been a long one, so it felt good to look back on it and reflect how both my process and the script itself have changed. Enjoy, and be sure to check out the public reading of The Tusk Hunters ​during their Findings Series next month. Stay tuned for details on tickets, time, and location!

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to travel to Ogden, Utah, for the world premiere of my play The Amphibians at Weber State University. The production exceeded my expectations in every way imaginable—the acting, production values, dramaturgical support, all of it.

But equally as moving as the show itself was the students' passion for environmentalism, and how the themes of the show could extend to their rehearsal and production process. Everything—from the creature to the set to the costumes—was created through reused, upcycled, or in-stock materials, resulting in a zero-waste production that looked, sounded, and felt incredible.

Megan Swann of The Signpost wrote a wonderful, informative article on the entire process, and you can also check out the online program for more info on all the amazing artists behind the show. Lastly, head on over to the The Amphibians' page on my website for a look at some of the production photos, captured by David Daniels of dav.d photography. 

Huge thanks to all the good people at Weber State for bringing my work to such vivid life. And there's more in store for The Amphibians this year, including its next production from Sundown Collaborative Theatre in Denton, Texas this July, and a few other things I can't talk about just yet. Hope to see you at the theater!