Theatre

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DECONSTRUCTING DINA

(two-act dramatic play)

A burgeoning yet brittle architect, walled up inside the memory of her dead father, finds her acoustic environment is out of whack. She’s hearing phones ringing at the strangest times. Not surprising either – everything’s squaring off in her life. Her beloved cat is dying. Her sidelined mother is jockeying for more involvement. Her patient boyfriend is pressing for a commitment. On top of this, she’s quit her job to prepare a design proposal for a game-changing competition. But it’s more than just her hopes on the line. Dina is also carrying the weight of her father’s unfulfilled architectural dreams — and she’s starting to buckle from this load most of all.

BIRD AT THE WINDOW

(two-act dramatic play)

A novelist smashes up her car on the anniversary of a tragic event. Rattled but not hurt, she opts to spend the weekend at the cottage she still shares with her long-separated husband – alone with her memories and a well-stocked bar. But her latest lover in a string of masochistic affairs drops by to check up on her, and then her husband and his young girlfriend arrive, believing the cottage to be empty. Too late to go elsewhere and hampered by an approaching major storm, this prickly foursome must stay the night together. But the notion of being safer in the cottage is quickly eroded and they soon discover there are some storms you can’t outride.

  • Zoom reading at Create Theater in New York (2020), produced by Merrie L. Davis and Create Theater (Cate Cammarata), directed by Steve Marsh and starring Catie Riggs, Ian Whitt, Ron Gallagher and Danielle Pafundi

  • Performance at Crystal Theatre in Norwalk, CT (2019), directed by Analisa Robertson, starring Linda Gilmore, Eric Dino, Nick Kaye and Analisa Robertson

  • Semi-finalist of Theatre Resources Unlimited Endowed Play Reading Series

ENTANGLEMENT

(two-act dramatic play)

A woman and a man “meet” on Facebook. Both are literary souls and innate travellers who now reside in cities new to them on opposite sides of the world. One is a translator who’s researching quantum mechanics; the other is an advisor to the Coast Guard. They are separated and linked by their experiences with fathers, lovers and water. Or are they? They begin an online friendship in their parallel universes that skirts romantic interest and dances around recent wounds and emotional transgressions – both determined to protect themselves from another dangerous entanglement. (The entire play is READ on laptops/tablets.)