Selected Plays

In 1815 a British navy ship encounters an alien spaceship in the South Pacific. Its captain, Pandora, demands a dialog with both the “highest” and the “lowest”—meaning the British ship’s captain, James Arkwright, and its chicken-keeper, a freedman called Jemmy Ducks. Pandora intends to negotiate the surrender of Earth in order to establish an age of liberty and equality among humans. Meanwhile, in an altered present day, the same Pandora meets with Jemison Arkwright, captain of a spacefaring vessel on the planet Jupiter. Pandora wants this Arkwright to capture the leader of an underground movement seeking to free Earth from the aliens’ dominion. The action moves between time periods, as two generations of humans test the limits of freedom and resistance. Full length, 7 actors.

The commander and crew of a remote terraforming station are just three days away from pressing “the big red button”, turning their desert planet into a tropical paradise—a new home for the desperate people of an over-crowded Earth. Their world is suddenly complicated by the arrival of a documentarian more interested in creating the drama of a reality TV show, and an inspector with her own doubts about the project and a troubled personal history with the station commander. When a crewmember is mysteriously killed, this isolated group must determine the cause before it’s too late. Is it a mere accident? Or the beginning of the end for humanity’s last best hope? Full length, 7 actors

A contemporary man struggling with loss and a Civil War general dying from a bullet wound to the head meet in a dream-like landscape that might or might not be the battlefield at Shiloh, Tennessee. Together they must come to terms with the deep divisions tearing their country, and their families, apart. One act, 4 actors.

​Twenty-something Zoe drifts aimlessly through today’s high tech gig economy, supporting her boyfriend Noah as he tries to publish “Ghost Girl”, his new superhero webcomic. But her latest gig, processing random training data for a secret artificial intelligence project, threatens to tear the fragments of her life apart when she begins to see strange patterns in the data, patterns somehow connected both to Ghost Girl, and to the tragic story of the Radium Girls, a group of young industrial workers from a century ago killed by radium poisoning on the job. Is Zoe losing her mind? Or are these lost spirits from the past somehow reaching out to her through the web of time, calling for justice? Full length, 6 actors.

In a future where Earth stands on the verge of ecological collapse, all hope was pinned on “Icarus”, a terraforming project with the aim of creating a new home for humanity on a distant planet. But something went horribly wrong, and Doctor Susan Reach barely escaped the disaster with her life. She now finds herself in a mysterious garden under the care of the Elysians, genetically enhanced humans who departed Earth for their own utopia centuries before. But is she in a hospital? Or a prison? After meeting Lyla, a traumatized young woman whose ravings hint that all is not as it seems, Susan must work out what’s really going on while the fate of humanity hangs in the balance in this standalone sequel to Red Planet Blue. Full length, 6 actors.

On a snowy Christmas Eve in 1945, in a small town in upstate New York, a cab driver and a police officer find themselves waiting together in a taxi garage. But what or whom are they waiting for, and what is their purpose in being there? When a mysterious visitor arrives and informs them that their mutual friend is in terrible trouble and needs to raise $8000 immediately, the cop and the cabbie must figure out what roles they are destined to play that night, and what it means to be a part of someone else’s story, especially at Christmas. It’s a Wonderful Life meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in this comedic holiday mashup. Full length, 3 actors.