Upcoming Productions:
Ransom, Texas
A dying town. A company on the brink. A family's treachery. One long night... Is
there any hope for Ransom, Texas?
Vern and Bruce, father and son, get together after work in Vern's office to toast the sale of the family's West Texas manufacturing business. But when Bruce makes a remark that triggers Vern's suspicions, Vern shreds the sale contract, and what started as a celebration devolves into an evening of psychic warfare. Determined to get his father to sign a fresh copy, Bruce locks them both in. During a long night fueled by bourbon, dog kibble and testosterone, Bruce gradually pieces together a pattern of monstrous betrayal going back two generations. Can he break the cycle, or is he doomed to play out the family curse?
Winner of Pacific Repertory's HYPERION PROJECT III
Opens November 4th 2010
Vern and Bruce, father and son, get together after work in Vern's office to toast the sale of the family's West Texas manufacturing business. But when Bruce makes a remark that triggers Vern's suspicions, Vern shreds the sale contract, and what started as a celebration devolves into an evening of psychic warfare. Determined to get his father to sign a fresh copy, Bruce locks them both in. During a long night fueled by bourbon, dog kibble and testosterone, Bruce gradually pieces together a pattern of monstrous betrayal going back two generations. Can he break the cycle, or is he doomed to play out the family curse?
Winner of Pacific Repertory's HYPERION PROJECT III
Opens November 4th 2010
Full-Length Plays:
The Apotheosis of Pig Husbandry
A woman in a slip handcuffed to a bed. A bar that only serves one drink. Windows that are duck-taped to keep out the smell. Welcome to the Lazy Eight Motel, where sex, revenge, social theory and pig farming mix in an explosive cocktail.
Philosopher and social theorist Asuncion "Assy" Boyle drifts into town, buys the derelict motel downwind of the biggest pig farm in the state, and seduces the pig farmer's wife Lola. His plan? To put Charles, the farmer, out of business and clean up the pig shit that's destroying the community and polluting the groundwater. But since Assy blames Charles for his mother's death is this really social justice... or naked revenge? By the startling end of the play, Assy learns what happens when you take justice into your own hands.
Premiered at SF Playhouse, May 22nd.
Philosopher and social theorist Asuncion "Assy" Boyle drifts into town, buys the derelict motel downwind of the biggest pig farm in the state, and seduces the pig farmer's wife Lola. His plan? To put Charles, the farmer, out of business and clean up the pig shit that's destroying the community and polluting the groundwater. But since Assy blames Charles for his mother's death is this really social justice... or naked revenge? By the startling end of the play, Assy learns what happens when you take justice into your own hands.
Premiered at SF Playhouse, May 22nd.
THE POSITION
WANTED: Six finalists for The Position. Must be willing to relinquish clothing and identity, be recorded around the clock, and engage in dangerous psychological games. Survival not guaranteed.
So exactly what is The Position? It's not just a job; in a world ravaged by 80% unemployment and mass social chaos, The Position represents security and fulfillment. The Concern has selected six finalists from more than half-a-million job applicants, flown them to a remote compound, and provided them with every luxury and diversion-- including golf, paragliding and skeet shooting. When they arrive, the six candidates are stripped of their clothing and identities, informed that the laws of The Nation have been suspended and that they will be recorded around the clock while they compete for the one job that they believe can give them hope in a hopeless world.
Premiered at Off-Market Theater, February 2010. Commissioned and produced by PianoFight Productions.
So exactly what is The Position? It's not just a job; in a world ravaged by 80% unemployment and mass social chaos, The Position represents security and fulfillment. The Concern has selected six finalists from more than half-a-million job applicants, flown them to a remote compound, and provided them with every luxury and diversion-- including golf, paragliding and skeet shooting. When they arrive, the six candidates are stripped of their clothing and identities, informed that the laws of The Nation have been suspended and that they will be recorded around the clock while they compete for the one job that they believe can give them hope in a hopeless world.
Premiered at Off-Market Theater, February 2010. Commissioned and produced by PianoFight Productions.
The Afterlife of the Mind
Can Lydia find a body for Harry's brain? Can she use her body to get Todd to donate his body? Is there such thing as sex without a body? The Afterlife of the Mind: a hilarious and shocking comedy about neuroscience, metaphysics and sex. The most talked-about reading of the 2008 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska.
Lydia's husband, noted philosopher Harry Pengrove, is dying of a rare illness. Unwilling to accept his fate, Lydia enlists the help of Ulrich Hoffsteadler, a brilliant but illegal neurosurgeon who operates out of the back of a bar and who, medical legend has it, once transplanted a human brain. After a botched transplant, Lydia embarks on a journey pushing the limits of love, the human body and medical science to save Harry's extraordinary mind.
Premiered October 23rd 2010 @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA. Produced by Virago Theatre Company
Ran January, 2010, Anchorage, Alaska @ Out North Theatre. Produced by TAO Productions.
Lydia's husband, noted philosopher Harry Pengrove, is dying of a rare illness. Unwilling to accept his fate, Lydia enlists the help of Ulrich Hoffsteadler, a brilliant but illegal neurosurgeon who operates out of the back of a bar and who, medical legend has it, once transplanted a human brain. After a botched transplant, Lydia embarks on a journey pushing the limits of love, the human body and medical science to save Harry's extraordinary mind.
Premiered October 23rd 2010 @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA. Produced by Virago Theatre Company
Ran January, 2010, Anchorage, Alaska @ Out North Theatre. Produced by TAO Productions.
Pulp Scripture
Winner of 2009 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for ORIGINAL SCRIPT.
Winner of 8 San Francisco Fringe Awards: Best New Comedy, Best Box Office, and 6 Sold Out awards.
Sisters get Dad Drunk, have Sex with him!... Human Sacrifice at Father-son Camping Trip!... Widow Becomes Hooker, Tricks Father-in-law into Getting her Pregnant!... Strongman Sold to Rival Gang by Girlfriend, Eyes Gouged Out!... Crowd of Horny Sodomites Demand Sex with House Guests!...
Ripped from the tabloids? Try the Good Book.
Pulp Scripture: Bible stories they didn't teach you in Sunday school.
Premiered September 10, San Francisco Fringe Festival produced by Original Sin Productions; and @ Off-Market Theaters, produced by Original Sin Productions & PianoFight.
Winner of 8 San Francisco Fringe Awards: Best New Comedy, Best Box Office, and 6 Sold Out awards.
Sisters get Dad Drunk, have Sex with him!... Human Sacrifice at Father-son Camping Trip!... Widow Becomes Hooker, Tricks Father-in-law into Getting her Pregnant!... Strongman Sold to Rival Gang by Girlfriend, Eyes Gouged Out!... Crowd of Horny Sodomites Demand Sex with House Guests!...
Ripped from the tabloids? Try the Good Book.
Pulp Scripture: Bible stories they didn't teach you in Sunday school.
Premiered September 10, San Francisco Fringe Festival produced by Original Sin Productions; and @ Off-Market Theaters, produced by Original Sin Productions & PianoFight.
Short Plays:
Altered Landscape
Frank and Lena canoe out to the river island where they spent their honeymoon. When they wake to find the river choked with logs, they are forced to confront their entrapment--both on the island and in their lives.
Premiered in the Bay One Acts Festival Febuary 18 - March 13. Produced by Three Wise Monkeys.
Premiered in the Bay One Acts Festival Febuary 18 - March 13. Produced by Three Wise Monkeys.
Grunion Run
A man, a woman, the full moon and thousands of spawning fish....
Winner, PianoFight's ShortLived 2.0 audience-vote play competition (2009).
Winner, PianoFight's ShortLived 2.0 audience-vote play competition (2009).
September 12
Did Sarge's dreams predict the terrorist attacks? Did they also reveal how to make a killing on the tragedy?... Finalist for the Heideman Award in the National Ten Minute play contest (2003).
Myopic Viscosity
A middle-aged superhero with an embarrassing power and a chip on his shoulder faces having his superhero license revoked.... Premiere: 2006 in the San Francisco Fringe Festival.
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