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Full-Length Plays

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CONTROL OF THE DIRT

Staged Reading (dir. Andrea Andresakis): TRU Voices New Play Reading Series,

Sanford Silver Productions at SoHo Playhouse, August 2025, NYC

Production (dir. Jac LeDoux): Playwrights' Round Table, March-April 2024

Reading (dir. Carolyn Nielsen): Hudson Valley Theatre Festival, Spring 2024

Reading (dir. Jac LeDoux): Playwrights' Round Table 2023, Orlando, FL

Winner: Best Stage Play, Chicago Script Awards 2023

Finalist: Ashland New Play Festival

Official Selection: New York Script Awards

Semifinalist: Austin Film Festival 2023 Script Competition

Semifinalist: 2023 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

Quarterfinalist: Screencraft Stage Play Competition

Nominee: Script Awards Los Angeles

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THE FAIR HOPE MEMORIAL

Workshop Production (dir. Morgan McCabe): Stage Left Theatre, Chicago

Workshop/Staged Reading (dir. David Lee): Mark Taper Forum, New Works Festival, Los Angeles
Workshop/Staged Reading: Horizon Theatre, 
New South for the New Century Festival, Atlanta
Staged Reading: Pandora’s Box Theatre, Buffalo
Staged Reading (dir. Ariel Nazryan): Trilogy Theatre, NYC

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AFTER WEDNESDAY
Production (dir. Seth Soloway): Trilogy Theatre, NYC
Production (dir. Ariel Nazryan): New York International Fringe Festival, Theater for the New City

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AUGUST NOVEMBER
Production: Pulse Ensemble Theatre, NYC

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THIS IS NOT A PROJECT
Staged Reading (dir. Seth Soloway): Producers Club, NYC
Staged Reading (dir. Seth Soloway): Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh, NY

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NEXT TIME ON SPRING VALLEY
Staged Reading (dir. May Adrales): ESPA-Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, NYC

​Virtual Reading: Just Write! Lakeland

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FLOOR SHOW IN THE SWEET LIFE
Recipient of the 2000 John Golden Award

Reading: Women's Work Series, New Perspectives Theatre, NYC
Production (dir. Eduardo Machado): Oscar Hammerstein Center, Columbia University
Reading (dir. Ariel Nazryan): Cherry Lane Alternative Mentor Program, NYC

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WHY SUMMER IS A LIE
Reading (dir. Melisa Annis): Dramatists Guild, December 2019, NYC

Official Selection: Voices Rising Film Festival Stage Play Category

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TIME AND THIS NIGHT FOREVER
Production (dir. Jacob Gentry): University of Georgia
Reading: New Dramatists, NYC
Reading: Oscar Hammerstein Center, Columbia University

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TO HEAL

Production: University of Georgia​​

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One-Act & Ten-Minute Plays

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CAN I GO NOW?

Production: Café Plays 2023, Zena Group at Buunni, NYC

Production: Authentic 10 Festival 2024, Atlanta

Production: 17th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, Parish Players, Thetford, VT

Published in Smith & Kraus's Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2025 anthology (avail. 10/25)

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PAST CREEP

Production: Writers-A-Go-Go 2025, Hudson Classical Theater Company, NYC

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THE CHILDREN'S AFTER-HOUR

Production: Fresh Fruit Festival 2025, Theater for the New City, NYC

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AN INVESTMENT IN YOUR FUTURE

Production: 2025 New York Theater Festival, Hudson Guild Theater, NYC

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PLUSES & MINUSES

Production: Playwrights Round Table Summer Shorts, Orlando, FL

Production: ANDTheatre's Eclectics Festival, NYC

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SPRINGS ETERNAL

Reading: Tiger's Heart Players (virtual), June 2025

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THE NOSTALGIA CURE
Production: Jimmy’s No. 43, NYC
Production: Railroad Playhouse Annual One-Act Festival, Newburgh, NY

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BETTER THAN GOSLING

(or THE TRAGICOMEDIE OF ANTONY AND CLEO)
Production: Jimmy’s No. 43, NYC
Staged Reading: Shakespeare on the Sound Short Play Festival

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LIKE A GLOVE
Production: RAL Productions, Museum of Sex, NYC

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A LITTLE BIT VACANT

Production: CapitalQ Theatre Festival at Bartell Theatre, June 2024, Madison, WI

PProduction: Playwrights Round Table Launch 2023, Orlando, FL

Production: Glass Ceiling Breakers 3, Theatre Revolution, Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison, NY

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SHE'S GOT A NICE ONE

Virtual Production: Rainy Day Artistic Collective

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VERONICA’S LEGACY
Production: Womens’ Project and Productions Directors Lab, NYC

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THE JOURNALIST’S MANIFESTO
Production: PussyFest, NYC

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MA & PA KETTLE
Production: 14th Street Theater, Atlanta

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Original Plays for Youth/Educational Theatre

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WAITING FOR GLORY

Production: Columbia School District High School 2025 (Hunters, WA)

Production: Camp Ballibay, Summer 2024 (Wyalusing, PA)

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GOAT COASTER

Winner: Scribe Playwriting Competition 2023, 

Marsha A. Croyle Award for Achievement in Playwriting

Published and available for purchase and/or licensing at Next Stage Press

BEAUTY PAGEANT MASSACRE

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)

Wesleyan College (Middletown, CT)


HARRIET THE MUSICAL (adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet)

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)

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LAST LICKS IN THE BRONX

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)


AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)

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HOUSE OF USHER (adapted from Edgar Allan Poe)

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)

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LAST SCREAM OF THE BROKEN HOME

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)

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SECRETARIES DAY

Appel Farm Arts and Music Center (Elmer, NJ)​

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Check out Louise's page at New Play Exchange.

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