Though, technically, Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen has yet to officially premiere in New York City, we sold out a workshop production in 2023 as residents at IRT in Manhattan. The workshop was funded in part by a cash grant from Northwestern University and was produced and directed by me.

Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen is a thrilling, thoroughly contemporary 100 minute play which satisfies both audience members looking for a traditional stage play as well as those with a taste for formal experimentation.

Will You Lead Me to the Garden of Bees most recently enjoyed a staged reading at Northwestern University (2022), directed by Tor Campbell.

Will You Lead Me to the Garden of Bees? is a raucous play for a cast of 6—five of whom play “Chorusmembers,” who each play about 7 characters. It works by making abject horror and anxiety into a huge, loud, and funny theatrical experience. Think Inside Out combined with House combined with The 39 Steps.

I produced and directed Overnight for the 2nd Annual Pennington Alumni Theater Series. I wrote it after returning from Berlin, where I studied for a semester. It begins with a young married American couple, Paul and Susan, in 1983. Susan has been hearing an ominous moaning sound in her dreams. The couple invites the new neighbors over for dinner, a family of four from Germany who are defensive of their past. The dinner is funny and pleasant, but the neighbor’s son, Max, has a severe social difference, and his father, Karl, is rather rough with him. Late that night, Susan hears the moaning again. It’s Max, who barges through the door and bars it shut with furniture. Max tells a story of Karl’s abuse, which sparks sympathy in Susan and fear in Paul. The couple argues about what to do while they await the inevitable coming of Karl.

Under a Foreign Flag (2016)

Part one-man play, part living history event, Under a Foreign Flag tells the true story of Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot. I was commissioned to write the show by Art Collins and the Ebony Doughboys, an all-black WWI reenactment troupe. The story of Bullard is one of denial, retribution, and denial again. Because the US Air Force wanted nothing to do with him, Bullard joined the French Foreign Legion, and became a decorated French aviator. He then lived in Paris, running a jazz club. From then on, various (mostly racist) external forces dragged him down, and he died as an elevator operator in Manhattan. The US Air Force didn’t recognize him until 1996. Bullard was played by my dear friend and brilliant actor Chadd Gray at a WWI Centennial event on Governors Island and a Veteran’s Day event in Charlottesville, VA.

Charlie and Bruno (2016)

Charlie and Bruno follows two stories across time. In modern day, Kay, a 13 year-old girl, plays war games while waiting for her brother to come home from Afghanistan. Meanwhile, in 1918, Charlie, a Black American soldier, and Bruno, a Jewish German soldier, find that they are the only two living souls at the end of a battle. Through a series of tense-yet-tender conversations, they find that they have more in common than they thought. Kay, in the meantime, digs herself deeper and deeper into her war fantasy, eventually shocking her returning brother with the scene.

Dirt (2015)

Dirt is a 15 minute lyrical fantasy which explores the psychology of a particular one night stand. It’s comprised mostly of poetic monologues in which the characters battle with casual sex: its connotative power, its physical intimacy, and its psychic distance. When the female character discovers she has the power of telekinesis, she begins to toy with her partner, acting against her ethical timidity through her desire for power.