Full-Length Plays
The Good Boy Game
2024 Relentless Award Finalist
2023 Playwright's Center Venturous List
O'Neill 2020 Summer Conference Finalist
Normal Ave NAP Series 2019 Semi-Finalist
90 min - 2F - 2M
Upon discovering their 16-year-old son is about to commit an unthinkable atrocity, parents Mary-Beth and Sam decide to forgo calling the authorities and de-radicalize him on their own. After tying him up in the attic, they initiate a therapist-recommended rewards-based points system designed to defeat his nihilistic hatred and show him the benefit of being a "good boy." But as they chip away at his ideologies and attempt to bring him back to normal, they reckon with the evil that has lurked within their lives and the part they played in creating it.
Stand Your Ground
2025 Seven Devils Semi-Finalist
2024 Great Plains Theater Conference Selection
2023 Risk Theater Award Semi-Finalist
120 Min - 3F - 4M (Double Casting Possible)
In the extreme heat of a South Florida summer, Carson pulls a gun on cyclist Starlee during a road rage incident. To his surprise, Starlee was carrying a gun of her own and she shoots Carson in self-defense, putting him in a coma. Wracked with guilt over the incident, Starlee vows to help Carson get back on his feet no matter what. But when Carson wakes up, she's surprised to learn he only wants one thing: a rematch.
A play about what happens when individuals subsume the responsibility of the state and whether or not violence is inevitable.
Big Time Toppers
Theatre503 International Playwriting Award Shortlist
Produced as part of Theatre L’Acadie’s 2025 Season
110 Min - 1F - 3M - 1 Non-Binary
After a new juggling trick goes horrifically awry, aspiring professional clowns Harlow and Stubs must find a way to treat the severe wounds they’ve accidentally inflicted on each other before the most important audition of their fledgling careers. A farcical comedy about making that money no matter what it takes! Even if there's a tornado.
Reviews:
“Theatre L’Acadie once again serves Chicago something it needs—a taste of absurd, surreal, and over-the-top theater.” - Chicago Reader
“Everyone in Big Time Toppers is in a race against time, causing bizarre coincidences and slapstick antics. It's full of belly laughs and the right touch of pathos.” - Third Coast Review
“Glorious” - Stage and Cinema
Bezos N’ Me
2021 O’Neil Semi-Finalist
90 Min - 2F - 2M
In the early 2020s, Portsman and Lizbeth are aspiring television writers working as security guards for Jeff Bezos's mostly desolate mansion in Beverly Hills. On the eve of a major California wildfire and in the midst of a working class uprising, Mr. Bezos shows up at his mansion for the first time, seeking an escape from the protests at his headquarters in Washington. He offers to produce the pair's pilots as long as they keep him safe while things calm down. The two gladly accept, but as the fire gets closer and the revolutionaries approach, they must decide how far they are willing to go to make sure their stories are heard at the end of the world.
The Teddies
2022 Steep Theater Commission
2025 O’Neil Semi-Finalist
2025 Seven Devils Semi-Finalist
100 Min - 2F - 4M
In the era of post-covid anxiety and alienation, members of a small workout group find community in their weekly lifts. When a flash flood forces them to relocate to an old Catholic Church, the members start to become haunted by the ghosts of the Muscular Christian Cult that used to occupy it.
Unboxing
Produced Virtually as part of the 2021 Cincy Fringe
120 Min - 3F - 3M - 1 Non-Binary
Unboxing follows the lives of a small collective of YouTubers from 2011 to 2021. Presented in a collage of Youtube Uploads, FaceTime Conversations, and LiveStreams, the members of the Viral Squad do their best to make art and survive in a time of increasing political polarization and looming algorithmic inspired-radicalization. A play about the intersection of online content makers and politics.