Maia e fa Sito
I wrote Maia e fa Sito inspired by stories from the small Italian town where my family is from.
Synopsis: It’s dinner time in a small Northern Italian mountainous town. A traditional-minded family. A fraught mother-daughter relationship boils to explosion: temperatures are at an extreme high at the dinner table. When a buon apettito is followed by a magna e fa sito which translates to eat and shut up in the Italian dialect Bergamasco. Insanity is on the menu. The hope is that this short play will wet your appetite for a taste of the absurd.
Produced: (Self with my Director Alexander Peña at) Vassar College. July 2024.
Photo by Buck Lewis
Clay: An Actors Confessional
A lot goes down during the “thank you 10” or the “thank you 5." Break room is where actors can release, reflect, and debrief. What is happening underneath; the process of the actor is what I’m interested in. Clay: An Actors Confessional follows three actors studying at a drama conservatory trying to understand how to be in this
world as an actor: how to thrive from it; survive from it.
Note: The hope is that the play will explore both the moments of intellectual examination of the craft and the building moments of true joy and struggle as a rising theater artist.
Produced: Powerhouse Theater 2024 New Works Festival. July 2024.
Photo by Buck Lewis
The Two Olives
Present day. A college campus. It’s dusk, the fireflies are out and so are the mosquitos. It’s itchy. It’s hot. It’s humid and stuffy. The eve of graduation. A mad scientist has created two paths post-grad for the same girl Olive/Olivia. They are half real, and half created. The girls meet these two versions of themselves for the first time. A regimented reality.
Produced: Powerhouse Theater 2024 Site Specific Play Festival. June 2024.
Photo by Buck Lewis
WHAT IF
This is a play about serendipity/synergy/fate. Two people cross paths and begin to converse on the subway in NYC. They are an "In Yun," - The Korean word inspired by the Buddhist concept of people sharing a past life with one another and are meant to meet.
Co-written with Alexander Peña.
Reading at the 938 Collective open mic. Brooklyn, NY. August 2024.