My Plays
I write about bodies—fat bodies, and the ways fatness collides with capitalism in America. I’m drawn to the messy, unspoken tensions within families, especially the deep, complicated pain woven into mother-daughter relationships. My characters are queer, loud, imperfect, and stumbling toward something true. I love watching them try to figure it out.
My plays have been developed and produced with The Tank, Breaking and Entering Theater Collective, Broadway Bods, Simpatico Theater Company, GhostLit Rep Theater Company, The Playwrights Center, Lincoln Center, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival, 54 Below, and the Women’s Playwriting Cooperative.
To learn more about my work or to inquire about licensing, please head to my New Play Exchange page.
2w, 2nb
Mae is attempting to write a book about fat positivity. Her skinny mother comes to visit her apartment moments before the first deadline. Chaos ensues. Oscillating between a choreographed dream world and reality, Swallow Me Whole explores how we learn to love our bodies when we have been taught to hate them.
Swallow Me Whole
2w, 2m
Juno and Win share a father, but little else. Win built a life for herself in Brooklyn, while Juno remained in Tulsa—until their father’s sudden disappearance forces them back into each other’s orbit. When Juno arrives on Win’s doorstep, the sisters must navigate the vast distance between who they are, what they believe, and what it truly means to be family.
seven of swords
3 any
Saint MonicAA, a newly sober drag queen is attempting to perform her sold out one-woman show for the first time without the assistance of drugs or alcohol. Accompanied onstage by the playwright and a musician, Baby Can't Speak explores what it means to be a performer (and writer and musician and human being) without a facade.
baby can’t speak
body negative
4w, 2m, 1any
A local weight loss support group gathers every Saturday in the high school gym. But when a visit from corporate—and a sentient talking scale throws their routine into disarray, the group finds themselves spiraling into something far more sinister. As weigh-ins become theatrical, infomercials interrupt reality, and a strange new soup begins to change people, Body Negative spirals into a surreal takedown of diet culture. Blending absurdity with stark realism, the play asks what it means to reclaim your body in a world that keeps trying to sell it back to you.
3w, 2m
Abortions have been outlawed across all 50 states. Emily Dickinson (yes - that Emily Dickinson) has just landed a job at the drive-thru that plops abortion pills into the straws of strawberry milkshakes. A play that explores how to find control in a world hell bent on taking it away.
the drive thru
8w
In 1974, a group of radical fat dykes came together to dismantle their own internalized fatphobia and confront the oppressive forces of diet culture, medical malpractice, and manufactured self-loathing in America. Their fight for liberation led to the creation of a manifesto—and the birth of the Fat Underground. This is (a little bit of) their story.