Selected Works Performed for Audiences, 2019-2026
*note - designations of F/M for cast members indicate that characters identify as these genders. All roles are open to all genders.
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.
Development History:
- 2019: Partial reading with Playwrights’ Round Table
- 2021: Reading with audience, Clamour Theatre Company
- 2022: Reading with audience, Arts Garage
- 2022: Reading with audience, Threshold Theatre
Media:
- Trailer for Threshold Theatre reading
- Interview with Clamour Theatre
Nerd culture, horror, mystery, addiction, female-led, rural culture, family trauma.
Cast size: 2F, 2M
Run Time: 90 minutes
Pictured: Threshold Theatre reading featuring Maureen Bourgeois, Bailey Murphy, Braden Joseph, Duck Washington, and Ben Matthew A. Everett.
The Consciousness
A composer begins to steal ideas from the archived consciousness of a long-dead musical genius.
Development History:
- 2019: Reading with audience, Wild Goose Creative
- 2019: Production at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival
- 2019: Production at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival (Winner - Best Play)
- 2021: Production at the Orlando Fringe Festival (was filmed and shown at digital Fringe festivals across the country)
Media:
- Utah Theatre Bloggers review of digital show
Science fiction, AI, mystery, queer, LGBTQ+ led
Cast size: 1F, 3M
Run Time: 60 minutes
Pictured: Jason Pavlovich and Carlee Coulehan at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
Sword Art Real Life
Cosplayers battle literal men, the general patriarchy, and a growing sense that nerd conventions might never be welcoming to them.
Development History:
- 2021: Staged Reading with audience at Threshold Theatre
- 2023: Semifinalist for the Del Shores Foundation’s Writers Search
Nerd culture, anime, comedy, LGBTQ+ and female led
Cast size: 3F, 1NB, 4M
Run Time: 60 minutes
Evie & Loren
When a recently-divorced woman sees her ex-son-in-law on Tindr, they make the decision to reconnect over their shared love of coffee and anime. But what starts as a simple reunion turns into a 24-hour-long conversation about marriage, growing up, and the fact that (against all odds and the advice of everyone on Reddit) they might be falling in love.
Development History:
- 2022: Staged reading with audience at the Hippodrome Theatre
- 2022: Reading at Whiskey Theatre Factory
- 2021: Partial reading at Playwrights’ Round Table
Media:
- Interview with MARC Radio for Hippodrome reading
Comedy, romance, nerd culture, anime, female-led, family trauma
Cast size: 1F, 1M
Run Time: 75 minutes
Pictured, L-R: Thomas Vazquez, Rhonda Wilson (Director), Me!, and Laura Shatkus in rehearsal for the Hippodrome reading. Photo credit: Michelle Bellaver.
The Vast of Darkness
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?
Development History:
- 2022: Reading at Whiskey Theatre Factory
- 2023: Production at Orlando Fringe (Winner: Best Play-Drama)
- 2023: Production at Whiskey Theatre Factory
- 2024: Production at FestN4
Media:
- Announcement of Critics’ Choice Award, The Orlando Sentinel
- Review, The Orlando Performer
- Review, The Orlando Sentinel
Science fiction, horror, psychological thriller, open-gender characters
Cast size: 2 ANY
Run Time: 60 minutes
Pictured: Charis Watler at Orlando Fringe 2023. Photo Credit: Kate O’Claire.
How It Gets In
Rylan is from the middle-of-nowhere, Indiana, where nothing happens and all of her high school class is either gone to college or just…gone. But when the most popular guy - and her former crush - comes back apparently as a vampire, Rylan has to decide if she’ll help him and be his blood bag.
Development History:
- 2024: Reading at Whiskey Theatre Factory
- 2025: Workshop Production at Whiskey Theatre Factory
Horror, one-person show, female- or non-binary led, psychological, rural culture.
Cast size: 1 F or NB
Run Time: 60 minutes
Pictured: Charis Watler at the Whiskey Theatre Factory production. Photo Credit: Val Hernandez.
Slaymaker
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.
Development History:
- 2021: Reading at MadLab Theatre
- 2023: Reading for an audience, Hippodrome Theatre
- 2024: Production Grant from United Arts of Central Florida
- 2025: Production at Imagine Performing Arts
Media:
- Interview in Orlando Weekly
Nerd culture, Magic: The Gathering, domestic violence, rural culture, LGBTQ+
Cast size: 2F, 2M
Run Time: 110 minutes
Pictured: Cast of world premiere production; seated L-R: Reese Twilla, Komal Patel, and Miguel Antonio Algarin Flores; standing L-R: Bennett Morgan, Jena Rashid, and Bre Wells. Photo Credit: Val Hernandez.
Remains
Sasha and Alex are meeting for their umpteenth 'first date' following the death of their husband, to see if they can find a way for their relationship to work with just the two of them. But as the date quickly becomes a disaster, Alex begins to fear that Sasha has mentally moved on and Sasha begins to wonder if Alex ever can.
Development History:
- 2021: Reading at Whiskey Theatre Factory
- 2023: Reading and workshop with Whiskey Theatre Factory
- 2026: Production with Whiskey Theatre Factory
Media:
- Review in Orlando Theatre Review
- Article in The Orlando Sentinel
Relationship drama, grief and loss, classical music, video games, LGBTQ+ and female-led.
Cast size: 2F, 2M
Run Time: 65 minutes
Pictured: Roma Zizza and Joshua Lee Fulmer in the world premiere production.
The One Who Calls
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.
Development History:
- 2025: Private reading
- 2026: Production at Orlando Fringe, 2026 (Patron’s Pick)
Media:
- Review in Orlando Theatre Review
- Review in Orlando Weekly
- Review in The Orlando Sentinel
Science fiction, UFOs, psychological thriller, 1980s, LGBTQ+, female-led, ensemble
Cast size: 8F, 2M
Run Time: 55 minutes
Pictured: Jessica Aquino embracing Bre Wells in the Orlando Fringe production.
Short Plays
I have had over 100 short (10-30 minute) plays performed around the world! Most address topics of fandom and/or gender and play with speculative genres including science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
Selected Short Play Awards:
- “All I Want for Christmas is Pizza” - Winner, Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Go Try to PlayWrite Contest
- “American Love” - Best Script - Playwrights’ Round Table
- “American Love” - Best Play - Playwrights’ Round Table
- “Inevitable” - Andaluz Award, FUSION Theater
- “Inevitable” - Audience Choice Award, FUSION Theater
- “Inevitable” - Selection for the Breakfast Show at the Edinburgh Festival
- “Love All” - Best Writing, 2nd Place - Rooftop Productions
- “Over and Over” - Best Show - 24 Hour Play Festival, Beth Marshall Presents
Short Play Media:
- “All I Want for Christmas is Pizza” - Broadway World Announcement
- “American Love” - Interview for NextStage Theatre Company
- “Angel” - Interview for B3 Theatre
- “Inevitable” - Review
- “What’s in the Basement, Honey?” - Interview and audio play
Pictured: The cast of “A Squad of Our Own” at Theatre Odyssey in 2023.