plays

 

A Queens Style Hobo Story

 

Full-Length

1M

 

A young man from outer borough NYC heads south on freight trains the summer after he graduates high school and just before the World Trade Center is attacked. This is a one-person, multi-character play examining intersections of race, class, animosity and generosity in the lands east of the Mississippi River at the turn of the millennium. 

 

 

 

the downtown loop

 

Full-Length

4M, 2W

 

At the intersection of tour and play, The Downtown Loop is a love letter to the city of New York on infinite repeat, with frequent interruption.  

 

 

 

Botte di Ferro

 

Full-length

2W, 2M

& An Accordion Player

 

Friendship. Pizza. Desire. Pizza. Anger. Pizza. Desire. Pizza. An on again off again couple try to make sense of themselves and each other across twenty slip-sliding years, a medley of new communication tools, and one night in Naples where it all seems right. 

 

 

 

Tunneling

 

Full-length

6M, 3W

 

In a subway tunnel under the Jewish Daily Forward Building and Wu's Wonton King, misdemeanor plans are sidelined by mystical interruptions. 

 

 

 

Purimacolo

 

Short Play (35 minutes)

2W, 3Any

 

The biblical Esther encounters Margharita Sarfatti, Mussolini's Jewish mistress, just as racial laws are about to be passed in fascist Italy in 1938. 

 

 

 

Yap Yap

 

Short Play (25 minutes)

4 Actors (Any Gender)

1 Percussionist

 

Year 57 of the Revolution. Year 56 of the Embargo. 

Street hustle, geopolitics, and pressed sandwiches.

 

 

 

Haircuts For Men & Boys

 

Full-Length

10-17M (There is room for some double and triple casting)

 

A new place called Social Club is about to open up next to the barbershop, but nobody can figure out whose social club it is. Fair prices, close shaves and complicated syntax in a changing Queens neighborhood.