Published Plays

REALER THAN THAT
After being reunited at a friend’s wedding, a pair of high school sweethearts return to a hotel room for one last romp. But their reunion is complicated by unfinished business… and a secret that he recently chose to share with the world. Premiered at the Sounding Theatre’s Sound Bytes Festival, June 4, 2005. Directed by Jocelyn Sawyer. One act. Click here to read a sample.
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Winner – 2009 Samuel French New Play Festival

Produced Plays

[PWND]
There are certain things a guy doesn’t do with his best friend’s fiancée. Playstation and The Godfather are just the start. Game on. Commissioned by The Rising Sun Performance Company. Premiered in the Rising Sun’s Perceptions Festival, July 10, 2008. Directed by Kitt Lavoie. One act. Nominated – Best Original Short Script of the 2008-2009 New York Theater Season – 2009 NYIT Awards Click here to read a sample.

GOOD ENOUGH
Shortly after meeting her devoutly Christian future in-laws over Thanksgiving dinner, a Jewish college student receives a late-night visit from her fiancé’s younger sister, who is determined to prevent the marriage from taking place. Premiered at The CRY HAVOC Company's Road Test Festival, November 21, 2003. Directed by Kitt Lavoie. One act. Click here to read a sample.

PARTY GIRL
A young lawyer arrives at his cousin’s bachelor party to find his girlfriend, an Ivy League PhD student, working the party as an exotic dancer. How do you introduce your family to a girl they’ve had a lap dance from? Maybe you don’t. Premiered at The CRY HAVOC Company's Road Test Festival, November 21, 2003. Directed by Rachel Neuman. One act. Selected “Best in Fest” – 2008 Algonquin Theater One Act Festival Click here to read a sample.

KAT FOR SHORT
Following the opening night of his first show, a young playwright is confronted by his longtime girlfriend about the coded messages contained in his play regarding the true nature of his relationship with her best friend. Premiered at The CRY HAVOC Company's Road Test Festival, November 21, 2003. Directed by Kitt Lavoie. One act. Click here to read a sample.

SEVEN KEYS
An updated multi-media adaptation of George M. Cohan's 1913 comic mystery, Seven Keys to Baldpate. The story of a prolific television writer's attempt to win a bet that he can write a full-length screenplay in a single night while locked away in a secluded inn to which he has the only key. Or so he thinks. Commissioned by Ring of Fire Productions. Premiered at the La Tea Theater, November 6, 2001. Directed by Kitt Lavoie. Full length. Click here to read a sample.

...RULES
A drunken night of game-playing leads to a series of revelations that will forever change the relationship between three college friends. Premiered at Manhattan Theater Source’s Nutshell Festival, January 5, 2001. Directed by Chad Stutz. One act. Click here to read a sample.

NOT ENTIRELY PLATONIC: VARIATIONS ON A CONFESSION
Is there a way to tell your girlfriend you are in love with her best friend without losing them both? And if you could take it back, would you? Premiered at The CRY HAVOC Company's festival, a new way to say it... nine new plays by emerging artists, January 13, 2000. Directed by A.J. Cermak. One act. Click here to read a sample.

KNOWING HER
The study of a young man and the effect his relationships with the women in his life—from his first crush to his mother to his best friend to the woman he sees himself marrying—have had on him, the course his life has taken, and his relationships with the other women. Premiered at Fordham Experimental Theater, April 30, 1997. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. Co-directed by Kerry Flanagan. Full length. Click here to read a sample.

THE COMPASS OF MY CURSE
A consideration of the human fear and hurt that inspires actions often attributed to evil and villainy through an exchange of ideas between Iago, Edmund the Bastard, and Aaron the Moor. Adapted from the plays of William Shakespeare. Premiered at Fordham Experimental Theater, November 17, 1996. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. One act.

THE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERIOUS MISSING NOTEBOOK A farcical take on the detective genre and children’s plays revolving around the efforts of a young “detective” to discern which of his classmates is responsible for the disappearance of their history teacher’s grade book. Premiered at Riverview School, January 13, 1996. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. One act.

THE MEDIAN LINE
The story of a young man coming to terms with his promiscuous lifestyle and trying to find love, perhaps, with the girl next door… and the one he already shares a bed with. Premiered at Fordham Experimental Theater, November 30, 1995. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. One act.
Winner of the Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing, 1996. Click here to read a sample.

TWICE RATHER PERISH
Three plot lines—an innocent convict caught with a de facto hostage in the midst of a prison break, a group of Guardian Angels who have captured a serial rapist and fear turning him over to the police before he has given a full confession, and a married mother of two cajoled into returning to a life of crime by a visitor from her dark, secret past—collide in a finale that forces the audience to question the assumptions that have shaped their views of the characters and their actions. Co-written with Jennifer Reichert from a story by Kitt Lavoie. Premiered at Fordham Experimental Theatre, April 27, 1995. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. Full length.
Screenplay adaptation by Kitt Lavoie - winner of the Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing, 1997.

THE PRINCESS & THE GOBLIN
A musical version of the classic fairy tale about a young princess, shunned by her father after her mother died giving birth to her, who must use the power of music to save the kingdom from invading goblins and a sinister traitor. Book co-written with John Sullivan. Music and lyrics by S. Andrew Rapo. Premiered at the Barnstable Summer Theater, July 2, 1995. Directed by S. Andrew Rapo and Kitt Lavoie. Full length musical.

CRISPIAN DESERTERS
A twisted series of comedic monologues from such diverse characters as a scientist taking a newscast hostage to warn of impending world destruction, transcendental naturalist Henry David Thoreau rediscovering his early writings, a young man recounting his day spent saving the life of a ninety-eight-year-old waterskier, and a young high school class presidential candidate explaining his plans to lead his school to world domination. All this is narrated by a classic thespian-type locked in a battle with an audience member who has wrestled control of the show from him. Premiered at Fordham Experimental Theater, April 21, 1994. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. One act.

THE HOBBIT
A rock musical version of the classic J.R.R. Tolkien tale of Bilbo Baggins’ reluctant journey through Middle Earth, becoming a hero along the way. Book co-written with John Sullivan and Jim Hill. Music and lyrics by S. Andrew Rapo, John Sullivan, Kris Lariviere, and Scott Lariviere. Sanctioned by the Tolkien Society. Premiered at the Barnstable Summer Theater, May 20, 1993. Directed and designed by Frederick Sullivan, Jr. and John Sullivan. Full length musical.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children’s book about Max’s adventures in a dreamland of ferocious and friendly magical beasts. Premiered at Riverside School, March 12, 1992. Directed and designed by Kitt Lavoie. One act.

Produced Screenplays

RAINBOW RABBIT RELIANT
In the swirl of press coverage and the wake of an attempted assassination, the daughter of a newly elected president is dispatched to convince her long-estranged sister to join the family at the upcoming inauguration. And to leave her girlfriend at home. Produced by LeosPlayground, 2009. Directed by Kitt Lavoie.

Selected Unproduced Plays & Screenplays

A WRITER FOR CHILDREN
The story of two lonely people who meet while on a short stint in Baltimore – and the havoc that is unleashed after they negotiate a price. Full length. Click here to read a sample.

*A TRULY MARVELOUS PROOF
Advanced mathematics, world-class art, human molecular genetics, the five-four-three double play – and four generations of fathers and sons. Full length. Click here to read a sample.

BANK & TRUST
In the midst of a free-falling economy, two old friends – a construction loan officer and the wife of a building contractor – have no one to blame but each other. One act. Click here to read a sample.

THE DRIVEN SNOW
After working a party on a snowy Christmas Eve, a teenage runaway-turned-stripper encounters an unexpected visitor who forces her to decide what, exactly, family means to her. Short screenplay. Click here to read a sample.

MAKES THREE
A young man and his new wife arrive unannounced on the doorstep of his former girlfriend to celebrate the second birthday of the daughter he has never met. When they discover that the child is not there, one woman reveals how far she is willing to go to start a family of her own, and the other is forced to demonstrate how far she is willing to go to protect the one she has already begun. Full length play and feature-length screenplay. Click here to read a sample.

SUNSHINE
After waking up next to each other for the first time in two years, Grace and Davey have to decide if they ever want to wake up next to each other again. One act. Click here to read a sample.

Play Production History

Awards

Winner of the 2009 Samuel French New Play Festival for the play realer than that.

2009 NYIT Awards – Nomination for Best Original Short Script of the New York 2008-2009 Theater Season for the play [pwnd].

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observer Fellowship to work with director Lonny Price on the Roundabout Theater Company’s 2007 Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade (starring Audra McDonald & John Cullum).

Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing for the screenplay Twice Rather Perish.

Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing for the play The Median Line (only two-time winner).

Davenport Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate studies in directing at The Actors Studio Drama School.