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Ten Minutes or Less

The Divorcée Shower   (10 minutes)

Andrea is commemorating her divorce with a party to remember.

100 Monologues from New Plays – Women, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2019

Dixon Place, Manhattan, NY, August 2019

Equity Library Theater’s 2019 Summer Play Festival, Harry Belafonte-115th Street Library, Manhattan, NY, August 2019

Play-In-A-Day Festival, Grex Theatre Group, The Royal Theatre, Manhattan, NY, March 2019

divorce shower v1

Selfie      (1-3 minutes)

Headspace Theatre: Radical Thinking Inside a Box, Stage Wright and Wright College, Chicago, IL, 2021

2019 Fast & Furious Festival, Spokane Stage Left Theater, NYC, NY, March 2019

Monologues for Headspace Theatre:  Radical Thinking Inside a Box,  edited by Micheal Bigelow Dixon, published with Smith and Kraus, 2019

The Consumer Report Consultant     (10 Minutes)

In this short dystopian comedy, David must improve his Consumer Report score in order to land a job.

Premiere the Play Podcast, Dean Theatre Productions Company, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 2021

Podcast Plays Project: Tech Edition, Core Artist Ensemble, The Barrow Group Theatre, NYC, NY, July 2018

Olde Tyme Radio Hour, Hercules Radio Players, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 2018

Darn It!  Darla!     (10 Minutes)

A now grown up childhood sitcom star struggles to find meaningful work for women in Hollywood with little assistance from her talent manager.

10 Minute Play Festival, KCACTF, Region III, Madison, WI, December 2020

Midwest Dramatist Conference, Midwest Dramatists Center,  Kansas City, Kansas, Sept. 2018

Act One : One Act 2016, Secret Theatre’s Annual One Act Festival, Secret Theatre, New York City, Feb. 2016

Lady Plays Episode 4 Podcast, October 2015

Semi-Finalist, Pick of the Vine 2016, Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA, Jan./Feb. 2016

Third Annual One Act Festival, Phoenix Stage Company, Naugatuck, CT, June 2015

Rising Sun’s Theatre Mash Up: Plays Against Humanity, Rising Sun Performance Company, Manhattan, NY, Jan. 2015

After Dark  (10 Minutes)

Set in a farmhouse in Kansas, Judith, in her late sixties must process her grief with her teenage granddaughter, Annette.

Climate 10-Minute Play Festival, May 5, 2023, SUNY, Plattsburgh, NY, May 2023

Planet Earth Award, KCACTF, Region III, Madison, WI, 2020

Potluck Productions, First Sunday Reading, (reading),  Kansas City, KS, July 2018

Semi-Finalist, Planting the Seed 2014, Little Black Dress Ink, Sedona, AZ, March 2014

John Chatterton’s Short Play Lab, Roy Arias Theatre, Manhattan, NY,  Dec. 2012

University of Kansas, Big Tent Literary Readings, Lawrence, KS, July 2011

National Finalist, AwareFest 2010,  Bloomington Playwrights Project, Bloomington, IN, March 2010

Ad Adstra Theatre Ensemble, 24 Hour Play Festival, Topeka KS, July 2010

The Reason for Play  (10 Minutes)     

A young woman must choose between her ambition to be a nurse and her pregnancy.

Short Play Festival 2019: What Happened to the American Dream, Bismarck State College, Bismarck, ND, May 2019

Potluck Productions, Uptown Arts Bar, Kansas City, KS, June 2018

The One Act: One Act Festival, Secret Theatre, Long Island City, NY, Sept. 2013

The Disreputables,  SLUT; Work Inspired by the War on Women, Washington D.C., Oct. 2012

John Chatterton’s Short Play Lab,  Roy Arias Theatre, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 2012

Truant Arts, Manhattan, NY, Feb. 2013

Fresh Produced, The Arthur Seelen Theater, Manhattan, NY, May 2013

Fresh Produced Reason for Play

Eternal Flowers   (10 Minutes)

A young ghost hunter explores the home of a recently deceased old women, accompanied by his older sibling, recently returned from service in Iraq.

Horror Fest 2018, The Squeezebox Theatre, Kansas City, KS, Oct. 2018

Exhibition Soundscape, “The Moral Injury Project,” 914 Works at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 2015             

Forearmed Productions, Republican Theatre Festival, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 2012                        

John Chatterton’s Short Play Lab,  Roy Arias Theatre, Manhattan, NY, Sept. 2012

Grex Theatre Group, Player’s Theatre, Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival, Manhattan, NY,  July 2011

Chalk in the Pocket  (10 Minutes)

Mambo Mahalia, helps Eugene, move on from the loss of his mother.   

Queer Scare V,  Village Playwrights, LGBTQ Community Center, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 2018

Fresh Fruit Festival 2014, All Out Shorts I, The Wild Project, Manhattan, NY, July 2014

Slingshot Series, Episode One,  downSTAGE right, Seattle, WA, March 2014

Bare Knuckles Festival, Altruistic Theatre Company, Manhattan, NY, April 2013

John Chatterton’s Short Play Lab,   Roy Arias Theatre, Manhattan, NY, May 2013

Perchance to Dream Theatre Company, Joria Productions Main stage Theatre, Manhattan, NY,  Feb. 2013

Night of the Creeps   (10 Minutes)           

Two conceptual, performance artists contemplate the NYC art world and capitalism, all while performing as zombies.

Long Island City; One Act Play Festival, The Secret Theatre, Queens, NY, Feb. 2014

John Chatterton’s Short Play Lab, Roy Arias Theatre, Manhattan, NY,  Nov. 2013

Grex Theatre Group, Shelter Studio, Manhattan, NY, Feb. 2013

Missed Connections   (10 Minutes)    

SPF/Sex  Festival, The Players Theatre , Manhattan, NY, Feb. 2014                 

Comments on Work Series, Milk Can Theatre Company, Manhattan, NY, May 2013

Sin in the City, Galapagos Arts Space, Dirty Blondes Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 2013 

The Death of the Moon  (10 Minutes)

An adaptation of a folktale from Lincolnshire, England, using masks and movement.    

6X6; One Act Play Festival, The Brick Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 2013

The Death of the Moon

He is Gonna See Stars  (10 Minutes)

A mother and daughter move into a new home. As the boxes are unpacked, more is revealed about their lives and their startling predicament.

Midsummer Nights One Act Festival, Secret Theatre, Queens, NY, Aug. 2012

Subversive Theatre Collective, Subversive Shorts, Buffalo, NY, July 2012

Theatrix Play Festival, New York University, Manhattan, NY, March 2012

Occupy the Empty Space Festival, Occupy Wall Street Performance Guild, Judson Church, Manhattan, NY, March 2012

0 to 60: Longwood Play Festival, Longwood University, Farmville, VA, April 2011

Region V Winner, National Semi-Finalist, KCACTF, Region V   Ames, IA, Jan. 2011

4th Annual One Act Festival, Stone Soup Theatre, Seattle, WA, May 2010                                                        

He is Gonna See Stars

24 Hour Play Festivals;

11th Overnight Writing Challenge: TYA, The Bechdel Group, NYC, NY, Jan. 2021

The Divorcée Shower, Play-In-A-Day Festival, Grex Theatre Group, The Royal Theatre, Manhattan, NY, March 2019

Groomzilla, The Jack Bauer Theatre Festival, The Brooklyn Actors Troupe, The Wild Project, Manhattan, NY, July 2018

Clarte, Bi-annual 24 Hour Writing Challenge, The Bechdel Group, Back Room at Jimmy’s No. 43, Manhattan, NY, Feb. 2017

Pop Goes the Atom Smasher, Bi-annual 24 Hour Writing Challenge, The Bechdel Group, Back Room at Jimmy’s No. 43, Manhattan, NY, Aug. 2016

Illidge’s Ant-Blue Butterfly, Theatre Mash Up: Secrets, Rising Sun Performance Company, Manhattan, NY, March 2015

Darn It!  Darla!, Rising Sun’s Theatre Mash Up: Plays Against Humanity, Rising Sun Performance Company, Manhattan, NY, Jan. 2015

A Queen of Spades, Hourglass Festival, Open Tent Theatre Company, August 2014

No Time at All, F*** the Summit, The Dirty Blondes, The C.O.W. Theatre, Manhattan, NY, March 2014

Night of the Creeps, Grex Theatre Group, 2nd Annual Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival, Shelter Studios, Oct. 2013

Filler Product, Fresh Perspective; Play in a Day, Planet Connections, Manhattan, NY, June 2013

Don’t Touch, Emerging Voices Theatre Company,  Play in a Day; 24 Hour Play Festival, Manhattan, NY, April 2013

Cock Tales, Boomerang Theatre Company, Rock-in-Roles; 24 Hour Play Festival, Manhattan, NY, March 2013

Chalk in the Pocket, Perchance to Dream Theatre Company, Joria Productions Main stage Theatre, Manhattan, NY, Feb. 2013

Missed Connections, Sin in the City, The Dirty Blondes, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY,   Feb. 2013

Crumpled, Instant Gratification, New York University, Black Box Theatre, Manhattan, NY, Sept. 2012

Eternal Flowers, Grex Theatre Group, Player’s Theatre, Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival, Manhattan, NY, July 2011

 

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