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Faith

Comedy

2M, 2F

Two acts/intermission

 

SYNOPSIS: Elaine is a historical novelist, stymied as she attempts to explore the complex relationship between playwright Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler, his protégé and the real-life model for Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House. The issues of religion, honor, and forgiveness that inform Elaine’s research find present-day parallels when she accidentally reunites with a former boyfriend, Kyle, who is now a Christian fundamentalist about to buy her home.

 

 


Tuesday Morning

Drama

1M, 1F

Short

 

SYNOPSIS: An ordinary day, until everything two parents thought they knew about each other -- and their son -- comes to a violent end.

 

 


Distance Learning

Comedy

1M, 1F

Short

 

SYNOPSIS: The tale of a professor, his doctoral student, and the elderly, reclusive author on whom she's an expert -- or is it the other way around?

 

 


 

Other:

 

Late Transitional Man (full length)

Semi-finalist, L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition

 

Skylark (full length)

Finalist, New Plays in America Festival

Public reading, Westbrook College in association with Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine

 

Zero Hour (short)

Public reading, New Georges, New York, New York

 

Pine (10-minute)

Finalist, Lamia Ink! competition

 

Ibsen in Ten Minutes (comedy)

Reading, Goddard College

 


 

 

SCREENPLAYS


Skylark

Drama

 

Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition

Public reading, New York Women in Film & Video, New York, New York

Finalist, Sundance Filmmakers Lab

 


Playing for China

Based on the autobiography, Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro

Drama

 


 

 

 

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