Playwright of the Year, 2017 - Wall Street Journal

The most-produced playwright in America this season (2024/2025); previously one of the most-produced playwrights in America for the last 7 seasons running (2017-2024).

"inventive" - Ben Brantley, New York Times

"ingenious" - Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal

“dauntless” - The New Yorker

"... one of the best things I've ever seen onstage. Save your Hamilton dollars and go see it." - Ira Glass on Kate’s Sense and Sensibility

My work has been produced 7 times off-Broadway (with Primary Stages, Classic Stage Company, Bedlam, and the Pearl); as well as at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival,  A.C.T., the Guthrie, Hartford Stage, The Alley, Two River Theater, Portland Center Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, Folger Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center, A.C.T.,  Trinity Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, Northlight Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre of D.C., Seattle Rep., the Alley, the Old Globe, and many many more. My plays have been produced in all 50 U.S. states and internationally - including productions in Canada, Indoneseia, Israel, Ireland, Finland, Japan, Kenya, Norway, the U.K., and Australia. 

To inquire about rights to unpublished plays, please see my CONTACT page to contact my literary agent, Beth Blickers. Sense and Sensibility; Vanity Fair; Little Women; and Pride and Prejudice are published plays licensed through DPS - links here;  here; here; and here. The Light and The Dark, The Scarlet Letter, Emma; Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. #2B; and Dracula (a feminist revenge fantasy) are also published and licensed through TRW; you can get them here.

Plays include:

Pride and Prejudice

• Nominee, Off Broadway Alliance Award - Best Unique Theatrical Experience

• One of 1o most-produced plays of 2018-2019 season nationally

• Premiered at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Summer 2017. Director, Amanda Dehnert.

• Premiered off-Broadway at Primary Stages.

• Extended 3 times.

• Best Theatre of 2017 - Huffington Post

• WSJ Critic's Pick

Sense and Sensibility

• Winner, Best Unique Theatrical Experience - Off-Broadway Alliance.

• Nominee, Drama League Award

• Top 10 Plays of 2014 - Ben Brantley, NY Times; 2x NY Times Critic's Pick (2014 and 2016)

• Top 10 Plays of 2014 - Huffington Post

• 265+ performances off-Broadway

• Nominee, 8 Helen Hayes Awards

• Top Theater of 2016 - Forbes, NYPost, Washington Post, amNY

• Nominee for IRNE, Best Visiting Play

• Winner, Best Play of 2016, Guthrie - BwayWorld

The Odyssey

• New play, commissioned by ART. World premiere at ART Feb 2025; Shana Cooper directing.

• 2X Eliot Norton nominee, for Outstanding New Script and Outstanding Featured Performance (playing Circe)

The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi)

• New play. Workshopped at the O’Neill. World premiere summer 2024 at Chautauqua Theater Company as a co-pro with Primary Stages; off-Broadway premiere Nov 2024. Jade King Carroll directing.

• Nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Best New Play, 2025

• Now published through TRW

Vanity Fair (an im-morality play)

• Premiered off-Broadway at Pearl Theater Company in Spring 2017.

• Nominee, Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Unique Theatrical Experience - 2017

• WSJ Critic's Pick

• Spring "Must-See Shows" - Vulture

• Extended 3 times

• Upcoming co-pro at Shakespeare Theatre of DC (as part of Michael Kahn's last season) and A.C.T. (as part of Pam MacKinnon's first season)

In The Mines

• Ghost play with traditional folk music, set in Appalachian coal mining territory. Semi-finalist, Sundance Theater Lab. Selected for Theater Latte Da's Next New Musical Festival, 2016. 

The Piper

• new play; in development.

• Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Finalist

• 2019 PlayPenn selection

• 2019 O’Neill Theater Conference Finalist

The Little Fellow (or, The Queen of Tarts Tells All)

• O'Neill Theater Conference Semi-finalist.

• Bill & Judy Garrett Commission.

• Premiered fall 2023 at Cygnet Theater; director Robby Lutfy.

Little Women

• Now published through DPS - purchase or apply for rights here.

• Premiered at the Jungle, dir. Sarah Rasmussen; NYC premiere at Primary Stages, dir. Sarna Lapine - all in 2018-2019.

• Best of 2018 - Minneapolis Post.

• Coming to Dallas Theater Center, Hangar Theater, and the Old Globe in 19/20.

Mansfield Park

• Premiered at Northlight Theatre, October of '18. Director Stuart Carden.

• Jeff Award-recommended.

Love Poem

• In development. 

The Scarlet Letter

• Premiered Feb 2024 at Two River Theater; director Shelley Butler.

• Published through TRW.

Emma

• Premiered at the Guthrie, 2022 ; director Meredith McDonough. Published through TRW.

• Winner, Best New Play, BroadwayWorld.

• Winner, Best Play, BroadwayWorld.

• Published through TRW

Dracula (a feminist revenge fantasy)

• Commissioned by Classic Stage Company; premiered Classic Stage Company, January 2020. Director, Sarna Lapine.

• Published through TRW.

• WSJ Critic’s Pick

• Vulture (NY Mag) “Highbrow Brilliant”

• TimeOut Critic’s Pick

• TheaterMania Critic’s Pick

• Upcoming regional premiere at Actors Theater of Louisville, fall 2021

Scrooge for Senate

• Available for development.

Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2b

• Brand-new play, commissioned by Kansas City Rep - world premiere, Jan. 2022; directed by Jose Zayas. Went on to Portland Center Stage and many others.

• Published by TRW.

BadAss GalBoss PowerHour (MANDATORY MEETING: 11/18/2020) - A Zoom Play

• Commissioned by Primary Stages. Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel - digital world premiere, September 2021.

Murder Play

• In development. Selected for Cleveland Playhouse’s 2025 New Play Festival.

Collaborations:

• Currently co-writing a screenplay with Elizabeth Nichols.

I'm also working on several (still-secret) new projects... check back in soon.

Select Ten-minute plays include:    

Magical Princess Pretty Party (2015)

 Sammy and NeeNee Do It All (2013)

Emma the Red (2012)

Shotz (fka Bachelorette) (2012)