Kandide (full-length comedy-drama)

Kandide is a full-length play written as a darkly satirical way of updating Voltaire for the worst of times of the 20th Century. The play runs roughly 2 hrs, 45 min and can accommodate a large cast while also leaving room for much doubling and tripling of small roles.
Kandide won the Lee Korf Playwriting Award and, as part of that honor, was subsequently produced by The Original Theater Works (as directed by Robin Huber) at the Cerritos Arts Center in greater Los Angeles, CA.

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The Triple Wedding (full-length comedy)

The Triple Wedding is a drawing-room style farce in rhymed verse (yes, in rhymed verse) that’s an homage to Moliere but also tosses in anachronisms and some modern elements to keep things from ever feeling musty. The play served as my master’s thesis for my MFA from New York University. My mentor saw fit to grade me a “B” for the course, though I like to think that if she ever sees a production, she’d lift that to an A minus. The play has had a couple of readings (including one for my final project at NYU) but has not been professionally produced. Colleges, are you listening? I think the students would have a blast, it has two fun roles for young women and great, zany roles for several men. Play it for laughs, sure, but remember that just because they’re types, they don’t need to be stereotypes. This is a family, first and foremost, so the final moments will work so much better if we sense a genuine affection in the household.

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