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SMOKING LESSON
Two-act Drama, 90 Minutes
1M, 3W
One-set
Three girls have turned the violent death of their friend Pearl into a
religion. The young man implicated in the tragedy stumbles onto the ritual
on the banks on the Mississippi. The girls are more fascinated than afraid
of him. And what he doesn’t know is that one of them knows even more about
what happened on the day Pearl died than even he.
Workshopped at Sundance Theater Institute and The Juilliard School.
ST. SCARLET
Two-act Tragicomedy, 90 Minutes
2M, 2F, and one dead mother
One-set
Two sisters and a brother are stuck in a northern Minnesota snowstorm with
their Mother dying upstairs. A stranger from New York breaks in and says
the oldest daughter is in love with him. She says she has no idea who he
is. He refuses to leave without her. The younger sister refuses to let him
leave without her. The brother wishes he’d taken both of them and left
right away.
Produced by WET at the Ontological, NYC (2003).
TATJANA IN COLOR
Two-act Drama, 100 Minutes
2M, 3W
Flexible Set
A story loosely based on the life of Egon Schiele, the Austrian painter,
but told through the eyes of the twelve-year-old-girl he was accused of
raping. Tatjana Von Mossig refused to testify against him. All that was
proven was that she saw his paintings, and for that he was convicted of
corruption of morals.
Workshopped at The Actor’s Studio Free Theater, produced by
Contemporary American Theater Festival in 2000 and The Culture Project in
2003.
BOY
Two-act Drama, 100 Minutes
3M, 2W
Flexible Set
A teenage boy with a brutal past comes to the relatively urban twin cities
of Minneapolis and St. Paul from rural Iowa. He is a storyteller but holds
his truest story close to his chest, parceling out details in exchange for
friendship and ultimately, he hopes, a new home, a different future, a
different ending to the story.
Premiere, Primary Stages 2004.