Below are other works that have been or are currently in development.
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Full-Length Plays
stateless (3M, 1W)
Somewhere, three Brazilian-Americans are trapped with a locked chest. Each wants to return home but not without whatever’s in that chest. As they unlock the chest’s contents, they discover that their lives and legacies are connected in ways that may not make it safe to go back home. Or stay here.
tell me I can handle it (min. 3W, 1M)
Evie returns home from New York City to continue her recovery after suffering a complication in her cancer treatment. While she’s eager to return to her work-life in New York, everyone expects her to rest and respect her new body’s limits. And so her fight past cancer begins - not to remain scarred, but to make a life on her own terms rather than everyone else’s
The Sisters Campinas (6W, 4M)
Three sisters - Olga, Maria, and Iara - have been shackled to their father's Brazilian estate for forty years. When their neighbor dies, Olga suddenly becomes inspired to paint, while Maria and Iara experience rushes to rekindle lost romances, all in an effort to escape age, place and their sister-in-law's obsessive "improvements". But in this adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters, can they finally escape their home?
Chaos (3W, 2M, 1 NB)
Terrorists have launched an attack on a city, simultaneously stranding and banding together strangers from different locations and walks of life. Moving forward, they struggle to survive the day. Moving backward in time, they become separate entities, but more focused in the struggle to make sense of the growing madness. Fight or fly, stay or go, at what level do we make peace with the chaos around us?
Fall (4M)
A skydiving excursion gone horribly wrong leaves Gabe to pick up the pieces of his own life without his close friend, Ariel. Moving on without him proves difficult with constant reminders from students, ex-boyfriends, and strangers, forcing Gabe to look back at moments with Ariel to unearth the core of his grief. But is he letting go of an Ariel he merely liked? Loved? An Ariel he never knew? Or an Ariel that let him go?
A Taste of Rubies (2W, 2M, 3-6 Either)
Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's "Two Lovers Murdered by a Partridge", a sailor and a musician meet in a small fishing village. And then they disappear. The musician’s mother is clueless to where he is until she takes in an injured partridge several days later, desperately looking for her son. Deeply nested prejudices are confronted as mothers and sons struggle to move on and out amidst the bloodthirsty flock of people - and seagulls.
Take Care (3W)
An undocumented Brazilian woman, Selene, has taken Martinha, the daughter of a friend from Brazil, under her wing to take care of a widowed American billionairess. Selene teaches Martinha how to work and be a “perfect American”, much to Martinha’s resistance. But the pressure to survive throws their relationship in jeopardy as work grows more difficult and their widow grows more aware of their tenuous existence.
stray (2W, 3M, 1 NB)
An accident separates Telma and her son, Caio in a small Brazilian town. Caio is taken in by a stray dog, with no memory of his life beforehand. Telma takes in a stray cat to keep her company as she recovers. Both Telma and Caio move on from their accidents under new care, but are painfully drawn back to the hazy scene of the accident – and the dangerous conditions that precipitated it.
Passing Time in Animal Town (4W, 3M)
In the virtual community of Animal Town, sheepish Mari struggles to fit in with her younger, more experienced, seemingly picture-perfect villagers. The longer she gets to know her neighbors, the more she discovers her value in creating a community that has long felt like a lonesome pass-time. But what will the neighbors think when they slowly discover Mari’s real-life descent infiltrating her actions in Animal Town?
Nothing Bad Happens to Her (3W, 1M)
Lucy is in the hospital for the third time in her life. Yet she falls in love for the first time with a fellow patient who is a fallen boy-bander. Both of them want to escape this hospital, but every step she falls in love with him makes her sicker. Lucy's mother and doctor desperately rescue her from dangerous blood counts and other complications, but can they rescue her from the charming adolescent love that only she can hear?
The Rigel Event (1W, 2M)
A freak cosmic accident sends Rigel, a NASA explorer, aimlessly spinning in space while his friend, Tom, and fiancée, Cassie, gradually move on. When Rigel miraculously returns ten years later, he tries to rebuild his old life at the expense of the new family Tom and Cassie have created in his absence. All are forced to confront a new, deeper disaster – that perhaps their search for life on Earth and beyond is a more complicated and unforgiving endeavor than they previously figured out.
Short Plays
Distinguished Alumni of the Stanton School (3W)
At the 25th annual benefit for the Stanton School, a former alumna threatens to disturb the continued success of the school's programming.
Let Go. (2W, 1M)
A bedridden women is visited her best friend and her lost son - both struggling to get her to release her suffering…and others.
The Queers (TM) Present: A Gender Reveal Party
A group of queer folx parody a gender reveal party in the woods that goes very, very wrong… so apocalyptically wrong.
here (three elegies for a gay club) (2W, 4M)
Three people walk, dance, and meditate through their times at the same gay club before their lives are taken away by lights and sound.
Dogs in the Debris (2W, 1 Dog)
After a tornado has struck a town, a mother searches for her lost dog in the rubble, while her prodigal daughter presses her to return to shelter before another storm strikes.
The Winking Man (3W)
Three women are accused of burning a fraternity's “party barn” in Iowa. Interrogated, they talk of the Winking Man: a man they met that night...
Snow Girl (1W, 1M)
A drunk man tries to take home a beautiful girl he meets in a snowy clearing. She hopes to freeze him in place as vengeance for an act he committed upon her - but is he the right man?
Binary Care (1M, 1W, 1 Any)
Two scientists battle over what future their prized robot will have in the growing, yet controversial field of "compassionate care".
Portrait of the Socialite as a Young Woman (1M, 1W)
An artist is commissioned to paint a portrait of an eccentric socialite. But as he poses her for the perfect picture, is he posing as someone else?
Solo Works
Thank You For Calling American Medicine
When you’re a sick American, what do you do? Schedule an appointment with American Medicine, where Ryan plays patient, scheduler, and doctor to examine the United States’ health care system and successfully treat what might be plaguing its aging, ailing body.
Letters to My Unrequited Loves
Why are we obsessed with unrequited love? And why do we seek it if we hate it so much? One part burlesque and another part pop-star confessional, Ryan requites himself with romantic disappointments, missed connections, and desperate searches in order to cure himself (and perhaps us all) of the illness that is unrequited love.
Jellyfish Queer
After a drunk Brazilian-Bostonian country singer casts doubt on Ryan's heritage, Ryan explores moments from his past where he reconciles his Brazilian and American cultures. Complicated with his own sexuality and religious upbringing, will Ryan ever fit into what he has been born and raised into?