writing
one act:
anagnorisis (written for 2m)
jimmy and leo are two university students madly in lust with each other, going strong into the tenth month of their relationship. nothing could tear them apart - that is, until a devastating revelation comes to light during one fateful weekend. as their lives turn upside down, their once lock-tight bond morphs into a raunchy, tragicomic deconstruction of how neoliberalism and respectability politics seeps into our relationships - romantic, familial, and in-between.
- 2021: development at queen’s university
mirror ball (written for 2m or more, flexible casting)
an intimate chamber piece and an odyssey all at once, mirror ball tells one story - of missed opportunity - belonging to many people, stitching together fragmented generations to examine the shame and loneliness that gay men experience in their attempts to connect with each other. jumping between radical activists in the 2020s, shakespearean actors in the 1590s, astronauts in the 3000s, and so forth, this at one raucously satirical and mercurially tender play of longing asks how much has truly changed in the fight that we face today.
- 2023: workshop at house + body theatre
- 2021-2022: development at queen’s university
two act:
good boy (written for 4m)
good boy started growing a tail - a real, actual, non-metaphorical tail - when he was eighteen, but he won’t tell you how. now, as a regular gay guy in his twenties, he’s got canines: just in time for the divorce of the long-married couple he hooks up with, for his best friend with benefits to call their relationship into question, and for his new therapist to pry his catastrophic past open. taking the concept of the body keeping the score to it’s extreme, good boy unleashes a pitch black bite on power, trauma, and the difficulty of nurturing intimacy when you have a tail.
- 2025: development and workshop at tarragon theatre
• direction by gregory prest + intimacy direction by leslie mcbay + featuring justin eddy, stephen jackman-torkoff, thom nyhuus and sergio di zio
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what’s next:
overhand/underhand (written for 2m, 1w)
when brian’s boyfriend dumps him at the same time as his estranged mother is institutionalized after her divorce, he temporarily returns to his childhood home to take care of his shy 11-year-old brother, danny. however, an unsettling discovery leads brian to realize how unequipped he is for the month ahead of him... which may include rescuing danny from fascist demonic possession. with unruly incision and urgency, overhand/underhand takes a supercharged look at how young boys are radicalized in the disinformation age, queer men's role in striking the patriarchy, and the lengths we’d go to for our loved ones.