UPCOMING
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UPCOMING:
My very new play MURDER PLAY (OR: THE ARISTOCRATS!) was part of Cleveland Playhouse’s New Ground Festival. Stay tuned for more!
My EMMA is next headed to Oregon Shakespeare Festival, directed by Meredith McDonough!
RECENTLY:
I was honored to be named the most produced playwright in the U.S. for the 24/25 season. That makes 8 seasons in a row being one of the most-produced playwrights in the country, and I’m super grateful.
My new adaptation of THE ODYSSEY premiered at American Repertory Theater (ART) in Feb. 2025; Shana Cooper directed. I played Circe. The play was nominated for an Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script and I was nominated for an Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Featured Performance.
My EMMA was produced by Ireland’s national theater, The Abbey! Irish-American child made good.
My new play THE LIGHT AND THE DARK (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi) premiered at Chautauqua Theatre Company in summer 2024 and then came off-Broadway to Primary Stages in Oct 2024; Jade King Carroll directed. I played Artemisia. TLATD is now published by TRW, and the play was nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play.
My SCARLET LETTER premiered at Two River Theater in Feb 2024; Check out Scarlet Letter reviews at the review page. Update as of 9/2024: SCARLET LETTER is now licensed through TRW!
My EMMA just closed at Denver Center, directed by Meredith McDonough. Check out Emma reviews at the review page.
I did a reading of DRESS OF FIRE (written by Nina Kethevan); Knud Adams directed.
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON headed to the Old Globe in summer 24, directed by James Vásquez. H&W reviews at the review page.
My play THE LITTLE FELLOW (or, THE QUEEN OF TARTS TELLS ALL) - about the real-life courtesan Harriette Wilson - premiered at Cygnet Theater in fall 2023, directed by Robby Lutfy; check out reviews here. It next had a production in Japan with Sheepdog Theater!
3 of my newest plays - DRACULA (a feminist revenge fantasy); MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON, APT. 2B; and EMMA are now all being published via TRW - check ‘em out here.
My SCARLET LETTER just had a reading featuring Gretchen Mol & Tim Blake Nelson.
The world premiere of my EMMA opened at the Guthrie Theater… directed by Meredith McDonough!
My play Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B - a modern-day, feminist, 4-person cheerful desecration of the famous detective stories -premiered at Kansas City Rep, directed by Jose Zayas; I played Watson in the world premiere. The play next went to Portland Center Stage, directed by Marissa Wolf.
My feminist revenge fantasy Dracula will once again coming to Actors Theater of Louisville, directed by Jennifer Pennington.
I have several projects in development, including:
The Light and The Dark
The Odyssey
The Scarlet Letter
Scrooge for Senate
The Jungle Project - an exploration of Upton Sinclair’s socialist classic - at Ojai Playwrights Conference.
A completely new play (title TBA) commissioned by Florida Studio Theater.
I’ve done two short plays with 24 Hour Plays; check out here!
LATELY:
I played Annie in The Play That Goes Wrong at Syracuse Stage.
My Sense and Sensibility came to Houston’s Alley Theater, directed by Adriana Bauer.
My silly, silly digital play BadAss GalBoss PowerHour MANDATORY MEETING: 11/18/2020 directed by Moritz Von Stuelpelnagel, produced by Primary Stages, premiered Sept 22nd, 2021.
My Little Women is now published by DPS.
I was Syracuse Stage’s Playwright in Residence at their new play festival with my play The Piper, directed by Meredith McDonough.
I was fortunate enough to be one of the few theater actors in the country who worked on an in-person play in 2020; in October, I played Sally in Talley’s Folly at Syracuse Stage. It was a WSJ Critic’s Pick and one of TheaterMania’s top productions of the year.
My Little Women - coming off of runs in New York, Dallas, and Minneapolis - is now my 4th play published with DPS. I played Meg March in the off-Broadway run with Primary Stages. Check it out here.
Several of my previous plays (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, and Little Women) are published with DPS - check out those scripts here.
Stay tuned for more updates!
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