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      <image:caption>Instead of creating a literal monster, Michelle (played in the 2017 world premiere by Shannon Dorsey, left) creates her spoken word poetry persona, with Tia Shearer providing the beat.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fragmented Play Festival in Cincinnati, October, 2019. That’s a good group of humans L-R: McLane Nagy, Stephen Woosley, Zoe Peterson, Robyn Rae Stype, Carlee Coulehan, and Leonard Peterson III, reading a play by Ryan Steffen.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Consciousness - Winner of Best Play at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival, 2018. (pictured l-r: Elena Scarringe-Peene, Nic Stelter) The Consciousness also went to the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, the Orlando Festival DigiFringe, and 10+ digital festivals around the country in 2021-2022. In the play, a music student visits the digitally archived consciousness of a dead composer, presumably to find inspiration - until he starts to steal his ideas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click here to watch Theatre Odyssey’s production of my short play: “A Squad of Our Own.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Vast of Darkness - winner of Best Play (Drama) at the Orlando Fringe Festival, 2023 (produced by Whiskey Theatre Factory). Two astronauts from enemy countries are orbiting on the dark side of a distant planet. Suddenly, they experience a cascade of strange events. Alarms go off. Strange entities appear on the monitors. Are these events actually happening? Are they symptoms of isolation? Or is one of the astronauts trying to destroy the other?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A poster featuring my short play, “Next Year,” from Birdhouse Theatre’s “Edge Fest”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A promotional image for an audio version of my play “What’s in the Basement, Honey?” Click to hear the trailer (link to the full production is in the video description!).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click to watch a conversation on my full-length play, Leviathan, with Elaine Smith of Clamour Theatre Company during their 2021 development workshop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I’ve really enjoyed working with Threshold Theatre in the past few years! This is a promotional postcard for a reading they did of my full-length play “Sword Art Real Life.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click to listen to an interview of me discussing my 60-minute one-act, Evie &amp; Loren, at the Hippodrome Theatre’s New Works Festival.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click to read the full press release about my short play, “All I Want for Christmas is Pizza,” which won the Kumu Kahua Theatre And Bamboo Ridge Press’ Go Try PlayWrite Contest.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click to listen to “Bird Girl and the Hammer’ - an audio production by the good folks at the Stories Found Podcast. They do amazing work!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click the image to watch “The More You Know…” one of my many short-play collaborations with OG Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Love this group! My most recent play they produced was “Big Night Out,” which premiered in July 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click on the image to read an interview about my 10-minute play, “Angel,” which was recently produced by B Street Theatre, Carollwood Players, and students at the University of Texas. The interview was conducted by Ilana Lydia of B Street Theatre.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A promotional image for a production of my most-performed short play, “Inevitable,” at the Road Theatre. The play also won the Andaluz and Audience Choice Awards at FUSION Theatre’s Festival, “The Seven,” and was a part of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. In 2023, it will make its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Click on the image to see an interview with me about “American Love,” as part of a production by NextStage Theatre Company.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A promotional image for “Jigsaw: An Inverted Murder Mystery,” which I contributed to along with some other amazing local Orlando talent. “Jigsaw” was produced at Orlando Fringe’s DigiFest in 2022 and then in-person at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>(Most of) The team at Whiskey Theatre Factory, the collective I co-founded in Orlando, Florida! (from l-r) Katye Thayer, Liz Bernstein, Meghan Pratt, Kate O’Claire, Charis Watler, and also a photo of Jodi Antenor lurking in the back! We’ve produced dozens of plays since our founding in February 2021, including several of mine! Learn more: WhiskeyTheatreFactory.com.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Actors performing my play, “Once Upon a Dream,” at Valencia College - my second time at this terrific student-led festival.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The cast of “American Love,” at the dress rehearsal for Playwrights’ Round Table’s 2018 production, which won the Audience Awards for Best Script and Best Show and went on to have several more productions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Early table reading for Evie &amp; Loren at the Hippodrome in Gainesville. I clearly had zero idea a photo was being taken! Busy with rewrites! :D Click HERE to read the article on the new works festival in The Independent Florida Alligator.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Slaymaker Program - Dramaturgy Note: Gabriella Headley</image:title>
      <image:caption>Slaymaker, a play by Bethany Dickens Assaf, welcomes you to a suburban card shop located in Akron Ohio in 2019, as well as the mystical world of the collectable trading card game, Magic: The Gathering. Magic involves playing cards with beautiful artwork of magical creatures, spells, and lands, but the beauty of the game exists in a sharp dichotomy to the dull, masculine aura of the card shop. In this play, the card shop is visited by Cory, an employee of the shop, his friend Jay, Jay’s ex-wife, Meghan, and Meghan’s friend Ori. What do these four characters have in common? Deep roots in Akron, old friendships, and unique relationships with Magic the Gathering.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Slaymaker Program - Here in the card shop, Magic tournaments are played, cards are bought and sold, and underneath all that, complex social dynamics are at play…</image:title>
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      <image:caption>- 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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>- 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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>- 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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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. (Readings forthcoming in 2026/2027) 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) - Call Up. In this play set on the Marco Polo messaging app, a separated couple begins experiencing 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) - 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) - 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) 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. (Readings forthcoming in 2026-2027)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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