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DRIVING IN CIRCLES

Winner of the 2022 Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith & Musical Theatre Awards from The Kennedy Center

additional support from New England Foundation for the Arts, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Yaddo, New Harmony, Dragon’s Egg, Improv Acadia Presents, and the New Jewish Culture Fellowship

DRIVING IN CIRCLES is a new hybrid solo-ish show for solo performer and live band traversing the highway between confessional monologue, stand-up comedy, and rock concert. Set to a sometimes whispering, sometimes screaming folktronica score, DRIVING traces the aftermath of intimate violence—mapping our hero’s darkly funny, deeply felt, defiantly hopeful journey through the bodymind-altering landscapes of trauma towards something like happiness.

Other works for music theater include:

ALLIGATOR-A-PHOBIA IN 3D!

Workshop production April 6-16, 2023, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (tickets here)

Happy and Sweetness are a happy couple! Until they move to Swamp-land and Happy's ever-intensifying obsession with the local alligators threatens to eat them alive. One part door farce, one part monster movie: ALLIGATOR-A-PHOBIA IN 3D! is an absurd horror-comedy about alligators, swamps, isolation, and the fear of stepping outside your house.

THE GULL

Winner of the Musical Theatre Awards from The Kennedy Center

A freak-folk scored, heteroglossic (English, Russian, Yiddish) adaptation of Chekov’s ЧАЙКА (THE SEAGULL) emceed by Masha and set just before the end of the world.

DEVILFISH

A retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s dark and punishing LITTLE MERMAID set between the bioluminescent sea and a Florida freak show just before the birth of Disney World.

HOLLER, AN APPALACHIAN TRAGEDY

Riffing on MACBETH, HOLLER is a punishing fairy tale set in the Appalachia of the American imagination. Through the banjo-picking, bass-thumping, washboard-tapping, mandolin-trilling, guitar-strumming, fiddle-shrieking ballads that have echoed through the mountains for centuries, HOLLER asks: how far would you go to leave your mark on the world? and what happens when you can't turn back?

BEACHED, AN ISLAND TRAGEDY

Riffing on KING LEAR, BEACHED is set on a tiny island in Downeast Maine—the kind of island you can only reach by mailboat. Set to a rollicking score of shanties old and new, BEACHED is the story of one man's legacy and the children who must inherit it.