ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS

**world premiere at MCC Theater in 2020

*workshopped at 2018 Sundance Theatre Lab in Marrakech, Morocco

Keyonna and her older brother Samuel are much more than siblings; they’re best friends. So when they suddenly find themselves on the brink of eviction, this brother/sister pair harness everything from their fleeting trust in an alcoholic mother to an imagined friendship with a certain Hollywood starlet in their endless pursuit of happiness at the poverty line.

THIRST

**world premiere at the 2018 Contemporary American Theater Festival

*2017 Kilroys List | 2017 PlayPenn Conference | Winner 2016 DVRF/OHenry Productions Prize | Finalist 2017 Goldberg Play Prize

Samira and Greta lead a peaceful life. They have their own clearing in the woods, their own hut, and their son Kalil to keep them laughing. When Kalil returns home one day without their water rations, however, Samira and Greta find themselves in conflict with their local political leader. Set in a tense segregated society, Thirst is a complex look at race and love in war-time.

THE CLIMB

**workshop production in Cherry Lane Mentor Project 2019

**world premiere at Interact Theatre Company May-June 2024

Marge is a photographer, and her wife Tiffany has been her sole photographic subject for seven years. When Tiffany goes on a month-long hiking trip to get away from it all, both women are forced to question everything from their professional and personal past to the true meaning of a moment captured in time.

Untitled, Ken Gonzales-Day, 2009. Photograph. (Portrait of a child, AD 150-200, Roman. Marble, J Paul Getty Museum). Courtesy of the artist and Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles

SOMEBODY’S BODY

Iris is an artist. Iris dates Tanya. Tanya is a lawyer. Tanya dates Iris. Anthony is a curator who wants Tanya and Iris to breakup. Mar, an anthropolgist, is just happy to be included, or maybe she loves Iris too. Either way, Iris's mother Anna is coming to town and everbody's gonna need to figure their shit out or else.

TELL ME YOU’RE DYING

*commissioned by Chautauqua Theater Company

**world premiere upcoming at Chautauqua in Summer 2025

When Millicent, Emmanuelle, John, Caleb, and Tori unite in their weekly support group, they do more than count down the days of the plague beyond their walls. They laugh, cry, and keep each other afloat in this play about illness, mortality, and whether change is as possible as we all imagine.

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW

features original songs by Kathryn Gallagher

*workshopped in MCC Theater’s Fall 2019 PlayLabs

When Zoe’s wife goes missing (again), her lifelong best friends join her on the island off the coast of Virginia where they spent childhood summers. A play about women, friendship, wild ponies, and love that lasts forever. (Which is to say it is also a play about betrayal…betrayal again and again and again).

AN AMERICAN FEAST

**workshop production at NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School

Developed with The Civilians in residence at NYU, this play blends verbatim interviews of everyday Americans with the invented narrative of a American family grappling with the results of the 2016 election. Can they forgive one another for the choices they've made and/or the people they've become as a result of those choices? Can any of us?

PLAYING HOT

Written by Kevin Armento and C.A. Johnson
Directed by Jaki Bradley
Music Supervision by Marcus Miller
Created by Kevin Armento and Jaki Bradley

**Produced by Pipeline Theatre Company in 2019

The story of Buddy Bolden, a key figure in the development of jazz music. A play slash brass band concert slash explosive theatrical dance party that’ll leave you sweaty and hot and feelin’ them feels, as we riff on Buddy’s story just like he riffed on dem notes!