Plays
The Garbologists
Production (Upcoming, 2023)
Production (upcoming, 2023) Production (2022) Production (2022) Production (Co-World Premiere, 2022) Production (Co-World Premiere, 2021) Reading (Liz Smith Series)
Reading (PlayPenn New Play Conference) Reading (Rough Reading Series) Reading (Momentum Festival) Reading (Monday Night Specials) Reading (NNPN Collaboration Grant) E.S.T./Sloan Science & Technology Commission
2019 Kilroys List Honorable Mention 2020 Kilroys List Finalist, PlayLab (1 of 4) Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, SPACE Creative Residency Finalist, Emerging Playwright Prize Finalist, BRIClab Residency Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest Second Round, Austin Film Festival Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nomination |
Forward Theater Company, WI
Dezart Performs, CA Northlight Theatre, IL Bulldog Ensemble, NC Philadelphia Theatre Company, PA City Theatre, PA Miranda Theatre Co. @ Cherry Lane, NY
PlayPenn, PA Playwrights Foundation, CA City Theatre, PA Marthas Vineyard Playhouse, MA Curious Theatre, CO Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY
The Kilroys List The Kilroys List Florida Repertory Theatre, FL Playwrights Foundation, CA SPACE on Ryder Farm, NY Leah Ryan's FEWW, NY BRIC, NY ScreenCraft, CA Austin Film Festival, TX |
TRAYF
Production (2023)
Production (2022) * LA Critics Circle Nomination for best writing * Robby Awards Nomination for best playwriting Production (2019) Production (2018, World Premiere) * NEA Grant recipient Production (2017) Reading
Reading Reading Reading Reading (Words @ Work Series) Reading Reading (New Moon Series) Rita Goldberg Award for Graduate Playwriting
2018 Kilroys List Honorable Mention L. Arnold Weissberger Award nomination Included in “Middle Eastern American Theatre” Finalist, Eugene O'Neill NPC Finalist, Blue Ink Award Finalist, Ingram New Works Lab Finalist, Jewish Plays Project Top Ten Finalist, Jaw Festival |
Six Points Theater, MN
The Geffen Playhouse, CA New Rep Theatre, MA Theater J, Washington, D.C. Penguin Rep, Stony Point, NY The Criterion Theater, London
RADA studios, London Hunter MFA, NY JW3, London Sabes JCC, MN JCC of Northern Virginia Luna Stage, NJ Hunter Playwriting MFA
The Kilroys Williamstown Theatre Festival Bloomsbury Critical Companions The Eugene O'Neill Center American Blues Theater, Chicago, IL Nashville Repertory Theatre, Nashville, TN Jewish Plays Project Portland Stage |
The Messengers
Recording (Audible Original Audioplay)
Reading (Ingram New Works Festival) Reading (Ground Floor Series) L. Arnold Weissberger Award Nomination Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nomination Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival |
Audible, Inc.
Nashville Repertory Theatre, TN Asolo Repertory Theatre, FL |
A Small History of Amal, Age 7
Production
Workshop Production |
Forward Flux & Pratidhwani, Seattle, WA
The New School Directing MFA |
Reading, Flux Salon
Reading, Primary Stages: ESPA*Drills |
Forward Flux, Seattle
The Duke on 42nd |
Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Finalist, Eugene O'Neill NPC |
Playwrights Foundation
The Eugene O'Neill Center |
Achilles 2.0
Reading (PlayLab)
Irving Zarkower Award, Best New Play Anne Freedman Grant Finalist, UMass New Play Lab (1 of 4) |
Great Plains Theatre Conference
Hunter College MFA Hunter College MFA UMass/Amherst |
The Princess of Riverside Drive (Libretto)
Production
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Vital Theatre Company, NY
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Everything About a Family, Almost (Contributing lyricist)
Production
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TADA Youth Theater, NY
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Commissions and Memberships
Commission: Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, "The Messengers," 2019-20
Commission: Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation, "The Garbologists," 2017-18
Commission: Vital Theatre Company, "The Princess of Riverside Drive," 2009
Affiliated Artist: National New Play Network, 2017-Present
Affiliated Artist: New Georges, 2016-2021
Affiliated Artist: The Lark, 2014-2021
Affiliated Artist: American Theatre Wing, SpringboardNYC, 2005-present
Residency: The Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Repertory Theatre, 2018-19
Residency: NNPN Writer-in-Residence at Curious Theatre Company, 2017-19
Commission: Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation, "The Garbologists," 2017-18
Commission: Vital Theatre Company, "The Princess of Riverside Drive," 2009
Affiliated Artist: National New Play Network, 2017-Present
Affiliated Artist: New Georges, 2016-2021
Affiliated Artist: The Lark, 2014-2021
Affiliated Artist: American Theatre Wing, SpringboardNYC, 2005-present
Residency: The Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Repertory Theatre, 2018-19
Residency: NNPN Writer-in-Residence at Curious Theatre Company, 2017-19
Education
Hunter College, NY (MFA in Playwriting)
Columbia University, NY (BA in English) The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, NY (Lyricist) The British American Drama Academy, London The American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, New York |
2014-2016
2001-2005 2006-2008 2005 2005 |