In Israel and Palestine, not all children’s television is like Sesame Street... black comedy and human tragedy meet in the war-torn Gaza Strip. (Click here to see press photos from the FringeNYC show.)
(4 men, 2-3 women)
Loss and longing turn to prophecies and dreams as three people in Los Angeles wait for the end of the world, and for someone who may never come back.
(2 women, 1 man)
An intricate, lyrical adaptation of Le Ton beau de Marot: In praise of the music of language, Douglas R. Hofstadter’s monumental book on translation and thought.
(2 women, 2 men)
One survivor of a murdered generation struggles to remain whole in a cruel, distorted landscape inspired by a number of sources, including Antonin Artaud, Hieronymus Bosch, Robert Browning, and the Mabinogion. “Don’t act as if things were in the habit of making sense.”
(8 actors minimum; gender irrelevant)
A modern-day setting of The Bacchae. “What are you made of?” “My body and my secrets.”
(2 women, 1 man)
A pissed-off bridesmaid and a semi-automatic: bad news. A black comedy about weddings and marriage.
(2 women)
A screwball musical about sex, sexuality, and the inevitable complications. Winner of the Peter Matz/Martin Sosin Award for Writing for the Musical Theater.
(3 actors -- what other number would do? 2 women, 1 man)
A fairy tale about a woman who is also a seal, done in the style of South Indian folk theater.
(2 men, 1 woman)
Free-standing fragment of Lines in Code. Nothing to eat, and no touching allowed. Someone is calling someone else. (Click here to read the whole play.)
(1 man, 1 woman)
Free-standing fragment of Lines in Code. In the cold, two people invent machines to do what needs to be done. It can be hard to admit what you need. (Click here to read the whole play.)
(1 man, 1 woman)
Full-length plays
Short plays
Taken roughly from Euripides’s Bacchae. Civilization, responsibility, and history meet a god who can do whatever he likes. It could end well, but it won’t. Original music by Angelique Mouyis.
(4 women, 2 men, and a chorus)
AK-47 Sing-Along
Fortunes 405 ’06
Touch/tones: Rhapsody on Some Themes by D.R.H.
The Waking Edge: A Nightmare Play
The Dealer’s Mysteries
Engines
Starvation Games, or, Ada Makes the Rules and Babbage Keeps Them
Forget the City
Current-Caught
Dina and the Bride
The Kinsey Three
Seal Woman Story
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Lines in Code
(formerly Program)
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace meet at a party. Hilarity, misery, and light bondage ensue. The jokes are strange, but then, so is everything else. (For pictures of the play in production, please click here.)
(1 woman, 1 man)
In the light and darkness of a violent act, language, sense, and the private mind move in and out of sight. Written for a project with the NYU Humanities Initiative. (Click here to read the whole play.)
(3 men, 1 woman)
Lucrece from the Dark
A very short play about complicated, dirty, unstoppable, living rivers, and the things people maybe shouldn’t be doing on the banks. (Click here to read the whole play.)
(1 man, 1 woman)
Downstream
Foreign Wars
(work in progress)
Intelligence failures. Unconventional tactics. War crimes. Athens invades Megara, and Phaedra and Hippolytus fight their own brutal battles.
(3 men, 2 women)
Dirt
(work in progress)
The neighbors come from somewhere else. Their language is incomprehensible; their names are unpronounceable. What they do to their daughter is unforgivable. Some cultural differences are irreconcilable.
(6 women, 3 men)