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JOSIE AND DOLLY EXIT A BAR
"Bar settings work especially well in the short play format. It’s like a joke: Two strangers walk into a bar…but here, with a simple set-up title that makes more powerful sense afterwards, a twist ensues... that leaves us with much to think about." Peter Nason. Sept 23
A woman walks into the same bar she retreats to every night and encounters a strange woman never seen before, sitting at the bar writing in a large book. She approaches this stranger to get her to buy a drink since she is once again out of money. The woman at the bar agrees to pay for her drinks under one condition. That she orders the exact same drink as she has in front of her. Uncomfortable that the woman could be hitting on her, she changes her mind, returning to her tried and true tricks for getting men to buy her drinks, but this time with no success. She decides to agree with the woman’s condition and her world is forever changed.
LOVING MATHEW
When a brilliant young man struggles with addiction and mental illness, his vulnerable sister fights to keep him from harm over seemingly insurmountable odds.
CITY GARAGE
Santa Monica, Ca. July 2019
YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE FLOOR
Bill a retired executive in his 80’s with a gorgeous beauty queen wife Jessica, and resentful gay daughter, Sarah has his world flipped over when he is admitted back to the hospital post-surgery with no control over getting people to let him drink beer, smoke his pipe or go home. Sarah still resents his treatment of her growing up but agrees to give her stepmother a break from caretaking, except when she visits for 5 minutes to brush his hair and shave him. When Jessica refuses to let Bill come back home until he goes to another rehab, Sarah and Bill are forced to relinquish denial to discover unrecognized talents and assets.
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Rewrites and THEATRE 40 agrees to do a reading at artistic director's home with actors from Theatre 40.
Smith Scripts publishes
Loving Mathew!
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
I write plays because the stories compel me to make them heard. I start with a vision of one scene in my head and begin writing the story. My life experiences inform every word on the page and I find that my most earnest tableaus exist with themes surrounding the many forms of love. I find great joy by informing an audience of truths underneath the surface within a family playing with subjects such as sexuality, homophobia and mental illness. Throwing in splashes of dark humor.