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By Any Other Name (20 minutes)
In the far future, after a disaster that destroyed her home, Amaranth must decide who and how she needs to be in order to survive beneath the weight of others' expectations.
By Any Other Name premiered in May 2022 as part of New Repertory Theatre’s “New Rep New Voices” festival, featuring Essie Bertain as Amaranth and Scott Salley as the Captains. Design credits: Scenic design Janie Howland, Costume design Danielle Domingue Sumi, Lighting design Christopher Brusberg, Sound design Mackenzie Adamick.
Random Access Memory (10 minutes)
Ganymede Dawes, captain of the interstellar courier ship Minnow, has never been one to play by the rules. When her ship's AI (and her best friend) Mallard is ravaged by a memory-mixing virus, Ganymede has to convince a 14-year-old backup to help her get Mal back. But can Mal ever really be the same?
Random Access Memory was presented digitally as part of the 2020 Boston Theatre Marathon by Flat Earth Theatre, featuring Lindsay Eagle (Ganymede) and Elizabeth Ramirez (Mallard). It was remounted digitally and is available online here, with Cassandra Meyer now playing Mallard. RAM also received a digital reading as part of TC Squared’s VOLUME UP series in April 2020, directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden and featuring Alex Alexander (Ganymede) and Regine Vital (Mallard), viewable here.
Alex Alexander and Regine Vital in TC2’s VOLUME UP reading of RAM.
Brie Frame as Riley and Molly Heald as Abigail in Theatre@First’s festival, 2023
Don’t Look Back (10 minutes)
Monsters are much less frightening when you realize they have rules: bogeymen hide under beds, kelpies stick to fords and streams, and Black Dogs can only kill you if you look behind. But who made the rules? And when Abigail asks Riley to break them, will the monster be brave enough to do it?
Don’t Look Back was produced in Theatre@First’s Myths and Legends festival in 2023, Playwrights’ Round Table’s 2016 Summer Shorts Festival, in M.T. Pockets Theatre’s 4th Annual One Act Festival in January 2017, and in This is Water Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival in February 2017.
Event Horizon (10 minutes)
Isabel and Maya are orbiting a black hole and a dying star when the ship’s computer detects an anomaly on the edge of the accretion disk. At first, they think it's a ship, trapped in the gravity well and calling for help. But as they get closer, they begin to realize that something is watching, out there in the dark.
Event Horizon has been read as part of the Four Short Science Plays event at The Dome at Woods Hole in 2018, as well as read in the Slingshot: Sci Fi event with STAGEright in 2015.
