I write plays. Here’s a selection:
Seashell Sweetie is in process.
“The Wife is groggy from her 22 hour nap. She hears splashing sounds coming from the locked bathroom. The Husband has kidnapped an octopus from the aquarium, and he’s keeping it in the bathtub. He believes the secret to happiness lies in eating it, but she’s learned to talk to it.”
It got a staged reading by Rose Bonczek and Voyage Theater Company in New York on December 12th, 2019: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Voyage-Theater-Company-Announces-Final-Reading-For-2019-20191202
Hot Cuts was produced at the 2018 SummerWorks Festival in Toronto, and then got a staged reading at Pearl Studios in New York, directed by Rose Bonczek.
“About Mikhail, a master hairstylist in an edgy salon in a non-edgy mall in an unexceptional city in 1985, Linda, who is in love with him and will let him do whatever to her hair, Anita, who wants to be just like Mikhail, and Romaine, who tortures them all.”
Press for Hot Cuts:
The Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/analysis/2018/08/21/at-summerworks-shows-can-learn-from-the-audience-at-an-early-stage.html
The Globe & Mail:
Now Magazine:
https://nowtoronto.com/culture/theatre/summerworks-review-hot-cuts-2
Even This Old Town Was a Forest was developed at Buddies in Bad Times with Birdtown & Swanville and produced at The Theatre Centre in October 2016.
“A narrative play set in England and Toronto, in Infinity and 1735. An Ojibwe woman, two British sisters, a Chinese poet, and a Cornish pig wrangler make friends with Death while trying to stay alive beside a forest full of resurrected wooly mammoths.”
Press for Even This Old Town Was a Forest:
The Toronto Star:
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/10/18/even-this-old-town-was-a-forest-kicks-off-canadas-birthday-conversation-review.html
Buy this play:
https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/even-old-town-was-forest
Family Story was developed with LaMama Experiential Theater in New York and Birdtown & Swanville in Toronto, produced at Double Double Land in February 2010, SummerWorks in 2013, and given a staged reading at Pearl Studios in New York in 2014 by Rose Bonczek.
“Gentle Rain travels back, forth, and diagonally across time, talking to various dead family members, trying to figure out why she’s such a loser. Nine actors explore ten generations of a Winnipeg family bent on self-destruction.”
Press for Family Story
The Torontoist: https://torontoist.com/2013/08/our-favourite-summerworks-2013-plays/
Mooney on Theatre: https://www.mooneyontheatre.com/2013/08/09/family-story-birdtown-and-swanville-2013-summerworks-review/
The Charlebois Post: http://charpo-canada.blogspot.com/2013/08/review-toronto-family-story-summerworks.html?m=0
Buy this play:
https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/family-story
Aurora Stewart de Peña 