Selected Plays
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Absentia
After living in the secluded Florida woods for eight years with only her overprotective father and pet rabbit Robyn, 20-year-old Esther Harris longs to be reunited with her long-lost mother. Meanwhile, only miles away, Diana Baines gathers with her community to mourn the loss of her young daughter, Neoma. When Esther’s father kills her beloved Robyn, she flees from their cabin and returns to her hometown, turning Diana’s grief on its head. Soon, their lives collide as Esther learns more and more of how everyone around her has moved on in her absence. And as she is haunted by a mysterious figure from her past, Esther fights to reclaim her space and identity in her old home.
A play in four parts interwoven with a children’s fable, Absentia explores loss, trauma, motherhood, and the boundaries of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible situation.
Absentia is the winner of the 2020 Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award and a 2022 Wayward Voices Panel Favorite.
5 actors (3W, 2M)
I don’t drink at parties
Graduating senior and former life of the party "Solo Cup" Kira warns a first-year about the mysterious guest at their lacrosse party.
Monologue. (1W)
Here Lies
Vivienne Greene
In 1956, recently certified mortician Vivienne Greene is next in line to inherit the Jackson and Sons Funeral Home from her Uncle Zeke. Before she can take over, Vivienne is presented with one more test mortuary school never prepared her for. After a young Black boy is brutally attacked, Vivienne must smuggle him out of their small Georgia town before he is found by a local mob. Fearful of losing the funeral home and her own life, Vivienne must look to her past to find that death might be a second chance at life.
6 actors (3W, 3M)
Hashtag Jones
A short play about a hashtag that comes to life and embodies the tragic story of a young man trapped in a Twitter war.
3 actors (1W, 2M)
RIGHTS RESTORED
Gina tries to convince a voting precinct worker to take a full body pic of her with her new voting sticker so she can post it on Instagram… and Tinder, of course. ;)
Inspired by Florida’s passing of Amendment 4, or the Second Chances Act.
Monologue. (1W)