Plays

The Creature

(expandable cast, 100 mins) Soon, a biomedically-engineered creature is grown in the body of a graduate student – and then soon becomes later. A speculative play about care, reproduction, bodies, and every wild thing.

Developed at Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writers Residency, directed by Galia Backal, 2024
Developed at Writing is Live at Brown, directed by Molly Rosa Houlahan, 2022

Runner-Up, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, New Dramatists, 2023
Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2023
Winner, Kernodle New Play Award, University of Arkansas, 2023
Finalist, Writing Fellow, The Playwrights Realm, 2023
Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2023
Nominee, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2023
Nominee, L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, 2023
Finalist, Starr Reading Series, 2022

Zionista Rising

(4w, 2m, 90 mins) At a Jewish American media organization, two Gen Z interns compete to rebrand Israel as a #girlboss #progressive #diversity-win via an AI-generated Instagram influencer. Somewhere, a Jewish American playwright is slowly losing her shit as her play is falling apart.

Developed at the Jewish Plays Project, directed by Will Steinberger, 2023
Developed at the Playwrights Center, directed by Leah Cooper, dramaturgy by Sarah Myers, 2023
Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2024
Winner, National Playwriting Contest, Jewish Plays Project, 2023
Long list, Theatre 503 International Playwriting Prize, 2023
Semi-Finalist, Irons in the Fire, Fault Line, 2023

Play House

(2m, 4f, 80 mins) Jo and Mona are married, Jo and Mona live in a beautiful house, Jo and Mona are having friends over this weekend, knock knock knock, who’s that at the door?

Reading, Clubbed Thumb, directed by Knud Adams, April 2023
Workshop Production at Brown, directed by Molly Rosa Houlahan, March 2023

I’ll be in my Hanukkah palace

(4w, 1w or nb, 70 mins) Five Jewish nine-year-olds LARP Christianity! Watch as they: role-play heterosexual marriage, don flame-throwing mech suits, stab each other to facilitate animal reincarnation and try to cross themselves. I’ll be in my Hanukkah palace is a feverish excursion back into the weirdo dreamscape of queer Jewish childhood.

Ars Nova ANT Fest, 2022, directed by Molly Rosa Houlahan
Finalist, Pegasus PlayLab, UCF School of Performing Arts, 2022
Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2022

PSYCHOPSYCHOTIC, or, everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath!!!

(3w or nb, 90 mins) Something is amiss at Yale University! Female students are disappearing at alarming rates, only to be later found stuffed in discount mini-fridges and hacked to pieces. Meanwhile, a new freshman is pretty sure there’s something up with the guy she met at the campus bar last night…

Honorable Mention, Relentless Award, 2018
Finalist, Writing Fellow, The Playwrights Realm, 2019
Winner, Marina Keegan Award for Excellence, Yale University, 2018
Finalist, In-Progress New Play Reading Series, Unicorn Theatre, 2018
Semi-Finalist, Downstage Left Residency, Stage Left Theatre, 2018
Finalist, Project Playwright, Sanguine Theatre Company, 2018
Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2018
Finalist, New Works Festival, Kitchen Dog Theater, 2018
Long list, Theatre 503 International Playwriting Prize, 2018

Girlish

(2w, 1m, 70 mins,) Windy loves painting her nails, being fifteen, goofing off with her BFF, and every one of her American Girl dolls. But loving AG is totally embarrassing until it leads you to Internet fame and sexting A Boy and then it’s -- what, exactly?

Premiered at Fresh Ink in Boston in 2019.
Winner, Marina Keegan Award for Excellence, Yale University Departments of English and Theatre Studies, 2018