Arnie Louis and Bob

Premiered at Trinity Repertory Theater, April 2016. Cast: 3 m, 2 w

69-year-old Louis is a life-long depressive and failed writer. His younger brother Arnie is a lawn-mowing devotee of the spiritual guru Maharaji. Their cousin Bob is obsessed with beautiful blonde pop stars. When these three bachelors end up as roommates in Arnie and Louis’s childhood home, Louis becomes convinced he is being visited by Peter Pan while Bob believes just as passionately the same visitor is Taylor Swift. Arnie attempts to maintain the status quo while their playwright niece jumps in to help, enlisting an unwitting stage-hand along the way. A painful and hilarious family drama about the impossibility of helping those you love and the complex reality of getting what you want. Watch the trailer here.

You are the Circus

A performance experiment written for undergraduate women and their audiences.  Premiere: Brown/Trinity Consortium Writing is Live Festival. Cast: 6 w, 1 m

YOU ARE THE CIRCUS: can a play actually be a conversation? To conduct this experiment, the play text is peppered with questions and prompts for conversations that the actors will initiate with the audience throughout the play itself. At times scenes will be based entirely on questions the actors ask the audience. These conversations— their paths and scopes impossible to predict— become a major part of each audience member’s narrative experience of the play. An audience member may find herself watching a scene, conversing with a character, or even hanging out talking with the friend they came with or a stranger they don’t know while the “play” goes on in another room.

Ok, Ok

TAKE BACK HISTORY! The narratives we are fed as school kids have harmed us all.  OK, OK is a performance reckoning with the racism of today through the lens of what Katie learned—and didn’t learn—about Oklahoma history while growing up in Tulsa, OK.

OK, OK is performed with a local ensemble of four who read their parts off laptops and use google searches to provide sound and visuals. The piece requires 4 laptop computers, 5 music stands, one table, a white board, and a bucket of object puppets and small props. In accompanying multi-day workshops, local participants unlace their own town’s histories using personal story in short pieces performed for their communities.

short works

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Scanning Reaching Dreaming

A brief 3 acts for 2 lonely people.

Play for 5 Windows

A confection of abbreviated longing and intellectual ennui, performed in the windows of a house during a party thrown by a combination of art grad students and PhD candidates.

Today is a Good Day (After Orlando)

In memory of the Pulse Nightclub murders, Orlando FL 2016. A curated piece in the After Orlando collection of short plays, produced and edited by No Passport and Missing Bolts Productions and performed in cities including Orlando, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and London.

Today is a Good Day (After Station Nightclub fire)

In memory of the people who died in the Station Nightclub fire, Warwick New Jersey 2002. Performed in Providence, RI in a community event produced by Erik Ehn.

Our Prom

A participatory monologue and couples dance to the soundtrack of Madonna’s “Crazy for You.”