Jenn Schell, Taylor Byerly, and Marisa Davis in The One Who Calls, Orlando Fringe, 2026. Photo Credit Val Hernandez.
Genre-forward
Feminist
LGBTQ+ plays
Intersecting gender and fandom
“Marvelous [theatre]...a tour de force...I suspect we will be hearing a lot more about this young woman in the coming years.”
FEATURED PLAYS
The One Who Calls
- Production, Orlando Fringe, 2026
- Patron’s Pick, Orlando Fringe, 2026
On the public-access show "Sightings, " burned-out ufologist Shawn fields calls late into the night from Believers - until a strange caller sparks mass UFO sightings headed straight for her location.
“A triumph of a psychological thriller” - Orlando Theatre Review
”an unexpectedly emotion-packed sci-fi drama…[the] plotting is propulsive…highly recommended for fans of thought-provoking classics like Close Encounters and The Outer Limits” - Orlando Weekly
Bre Wells at Orlando Fringe, 2026. Photo credit Val Hernandez.
Slaymaker
- Production - Self-Produced at Imagine Performing Arts, 2025
- Recipient of a United Arts Individual Artist Grant
- New Works Theatre Festival, The Hippodrome, 2024
A divorcing couple use a Magic: The Gathering Tournament to decide whether or not the wife can keep using her husband’s badass last name.
“Our selection committee responded to play’s thoughtful, complex presentation of topics such as emotional abuse, toxic masculinity, and how gender functions in male-dominated spaces. The characters, setting, and dialogue showed a high degree of creative excellence and reflected Ms. Dickens Assaf’s strong storytelling voice.” - Michelle Bellaver, New Works Producer at The Hippodrome
L-R, Reese Twilla, Bennett Morgan, Komal Patel at Imagine Performing Arts. Photo Credit: Val Hernandez.
The Vast of Darkness
- Production, FestN4, 2024
- Production, Orlando Fringe, 2023
- Winner, Best Play-Drama, Orlando Fringe, 2023
Two astronauts from enemy countries are orbiting on the dark side of a distant planet when they begin to experience strange events. Is this supernatural or is one of the astronauts trying to destroy the other?
“Every so often I have the pleasure of experiencing a piece of theatre that draws me in so completely that I find myself hanging on every beat, every breath and every moment. THE VAST OF DARKNESS is such a show. It is a riveting futuristic drama that succeeds at every turn.” - The Orlando Performer
Charis Watler, Orlando Fringe 2023. Photo credit Kate O’Claire.
Featured Plays Currently in Development
Science Fiction
- Rapture. It’s hard to be queer in 2005 when you’re also attending a Christian youth conference and are worried about the rapture. But if it actually happens, what do you have left to lose? (Readings at Whiskey Theatre Factory and 24 Hour Play Fest)
- Concordia. A female separatist colony in space deals with fracturing ideals and a decaying ship. (Reading at the Bechdel Group)
- Hardline. A professor finds purpose teaching a piloting language at a fascist school for pilots. But when she begins to fall in love, she begins longing for a more expressive - and more dangerous - language. (Staged reading upcoming in 2027)
Horror
- Ashes. Faye returns to her rural, small town to deliver a reckoning to a man who may have hurt her sister. But the horror of what he’s done goes deeper than she could ever imagine. (Readings at Whiskey Theatre Factory)
- Infestation. In this play set on the Marco Polo messaging app, a separated couple begins experiencing the same, strange phenomenon, despite being separated by thousands of miles. (Readings at Whiskey Theatre Factory)
- East Florida Zombies. A woman desperate to leave behind her burnout friends and ex-husband finds herself emmeshed with them during the zombie apocalypse. (Readings at Whiskey Theatre Factory, staged reading upcoming in 2027)
- Mother’s Little Helper. Being the ‘perfect mother’ is hellishly difficult. Maybe summoning a demon could help! (Finalist for Seattle Repertory New Works, readings at Whiskey Theatre Factory, staged reading upcoming in 2027)
- 10:42-59. A young, married and pregnant couple fight an evil presence - and rigid gender norms - with swords. (Finalist Amphibian Stage, readings with the 24 Hour Plays and Whiskey Theatre Factory)
Nerd Culture
- Rooftop. Two female urbex-ers try to climb the highest building in a major city. Sometimes being honest about your feelings is scarier than the highest heights. (Readings at Whiskey Theatre Factory and Playwrights’ Thriving)
- Leviathan. A couple arrive at a cabin in the woods to try and overcome an addiction. But fighting a monster in the lake doesn’t make things easy. (Staged readings at Arts Garage, Clamour Theatre Company, and Threshold Theatre)
- Discography. Every time a new Bon Jovi album comes out, Barb visits Lena at the local record store to pick it up. And, every time - even though Lena hates Bon Jovi and Barb doesn’t understand half of Lena’s Led Zeppelin references - they get a little closer to falling in love. (Readings in 2025/2026)
- Parlor Games. Violet - 'Vee' - is in desperate need of money, as usual (she's one of those 'destitute rich' you've heard so much about from Edith Wharton novels). In dire straights and strait-laced into a corset, she travels to her Aunt Beryl's rural estate to secure some ready cash. On the way she meets Alice, a potential Great Love, but how can she hope to impress this young woman in her impoverished state and with all these needy relatives around, looking for a handout? (Staged reading at Playwrights’ Round Table, Staged reading, upcoming, at Threshold Theatre)
Fantasy
- Kingdom. A female warrior finds she has attained her goal of becoming ‘just like a man’ in every respect - but she is still haunted by voices driving her toward a separatist society of witches. (Workshops forthcoming in 2026-2027)