Plays
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Mother
Earth
Written 2006-2007
Cast of Six (Three female, three male)
During a hot New York summer, Leo stews on his stoop, obsessing over the fate
of the earth, yet entirely unable to come to terms with his mother's chronic
illness. Mother Earth is a comedy that explores neighborhood, activism,
community and family.
Round table reading at the Lark Theatre. Reading at Minneapolis' Illusion
Theatre. Reading with Page 73 Productions at MTC.
Food Porn
Written 2005-2006
Cast of Five (Three female, two male)
On a snowy night in Columbus, Ohio, aspiring gourmet Maggie Redd prepares
the meal of her life, and everything goes wrong. Food Porn is a brutal comedy about war,
doughnuts, and haute cuisine.
Received a workshop production in the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival
2006, under the artistic direction of Curt Columbus, Bonnie Metzgar and Paula
Vogel. The director of the production was Geordie Broadwater. Readings
with Minneapolis' Emigrant Theater, and Rattlestick Theater.
Lazy
Cast
of six (four male, two female)
Jack,
a male Aphrodite from somewhere else, lives with a rich family in New
York, while working at a pizza place. Cockeye, ugly, stocky and
awkward, from Jack's native land, comes to reclaim him.
10 minute version written
in 2002, performed at Tonic, and at the Dramatists Guild. Full-length
version included in Soho Think Tank's Sixth Floor Series in December
2004. Readings at the Vortex Theatre, in NYU's hotINK Festival, at the
Playwrights Center, and with Rattlestick Theater.
Sweet
Dreams of Paris
Written 2004-2005
Cast of six (four male, two female)
Living in a nowhere town, Red Jane dreams of Paris, and Leo promises
to take her there. Sweet Dreams of Paris is a dark comedy about
fantasies and lies and the desire for a fresh start.
Received a workshop production in the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival
2005, under the artistic direction of Oskar Eustis, Brighde Mullins
and Paula Vogel. The director of the production was Birgitta Victorson.
Cast
of four (Three male, one female)
Young
and underprivileged, faced with demanding relationships and difficult
ambitions, Buddy DuCroix and Lisa Martinez are struggling to keep
their heads above water. Their only hope, they soon find out, lies
in each other; but to keep this hope alive, both of them must come
to terms with their dangerous desires and appetites: appetites that
have come to define their identities, but that also threaten to tear
them apart.
"In
Spite of the Devil" (Formerly Spuyten Duyvil) will be produced
in July 2008 at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep. In 1998, it received
a reading at the Mint Space in New York City, directed by Jason
Moore. The cast included Abigail Lopez and Michael
Chernus. The script was a finalist for a Princess Grace Award in 1999.
More recently "Spuyten Duyvil" was developed at the 2004
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. In 2004, it received readings
with LAByrinth Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and the Underwood
Theater.
Cast
of seven (four male, three female)
243,
explores questions of race, class and gentrification on the Lower East Side
of Manhattan, where I grew up and still live. It is the story of a Puerto
Rican mother and her troubled son, and the mother's involvement with a white
man from across the street. Most of the play takes place on a city stoop,
and the context is that of a changing neighborhood
2003 New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre. Reading at EST,
November 2003, directed by Jamie Richards. Finalist for Nuestras Voces Competition
at Repertorio Espanol. Reading in October 2004, directed by James Abar.
Cast
of eight (four male, four female)
In Elmhurst, Queens,
the last Messapian family tries to find a bride for its only son before
he turns eighteen. Will he make it to altar or face a ritual beheading?
Is the next door neighbor truly out to erase the Messapians from the earth?
And can anyone make it across Roosevelt Avenue alive? A wild comedy about
assimilation and ethnic identity, Greater Messapia explores the immigrant
experience from an entirely unexpected angle.
In
August 2000, "Greater Messapia" received a reading at The Flea
Theatre in New York, directed
by Anne Kauffman. It was a finalist for
the 2002 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. It received a staged reading at
Queens Theatre in the Park, February 2003, directed by Davis McCallum. A
showcase production of "Greater Messapia", opened on March 18,
2004 at Queens Theatre in the Park. Jonathan Silverstein directed.
Cast
of seven (five male, two female)
Mosesville,
a black comedy, takes place in a crumbling vertical city-state run
by the aging autocrat Robert Moses. A rebellion brews in Mosesville’s
subterranean depths, with plagues bubbling up from down below. When
Robert Moses abdicates, Helen of Mosesville, Robert's long forgotten
daughter, is forced to choose between revolution and the mantle of
state, between her convictions and her family, between love and power.
Much of "Mosesville" was written
while Andy was part of the Lark Playwrights Workshop. The first
public reading was held at the Nagelberg Theatre, at Baruch College,
in May 2003. It was directed by Ron Orbach. Reading at NYU Tisch
as part of the hotINK festival, January 2004, directed by Davis
McCallum.
Cast
of five (three male, two female)
Formaldehyde
centers on Charlene, a precocious 12-year-old girl in Mississippi who is
captivated by her science experiment: the effects of formaldehyde on the
growth of bacteria and on the decay of dead tissue. Although she soon learns
that growing and dying are aspects of life that defy the controlled processes
of her experiment, she also finds that she can have some command over them:
by acting on her own talents and desires, she is able to transform the lives
of those around her and take hold of her own future.
"Formaldehyde",
written under the tutelage of the playwright Tina Howe at Hunter College,
was the winner of the John Golden Prize, and the Zarkower Award at Hunter,
and received a staged reading in 1996, directed by Nancy Rhodes. Subsequently,
it was a finalist at Trustus in South Carolina,at Theatrefest in New Jersey..
In 1998, it received a staged reading at the 14st Street Y in New York as
part of the "First Look Series". The reading was directed by Nancy
Rhodes, and had a cast that included Julia McIlvaine, Jason Katz and Joshua
Wolf Coleman.
SHORTER PLAYS INCLUDE:
Unfinished Business: 45 minutes (2w, 2m)
Game, Set, Match: 5 - 10 Minutes (there are shorter and longer
versions) (1m)
Oneonta: 10 minutes (2w)
Mooshu: 10 minutes (3m, 2w)
Homeless Earth: 10 minutes (1m, 1f)