Monologue AMARILIS at "Claiming the Space," Newburyport, Massachusetts in March 2015

In celebration of Women's History Month, "Claiming the Space" takes place March 13th-15th and 20th-22nd at the Actors Studio of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

My monologue AMARILIS, included in the series, is about an elderly Dominican woman remembering her Haitian husband's murder during the Parsley Massacre of the 1930s.

BROTHERLY LOVE to be read at DC Black Theatre Festival in June, 2015

My short drama BROTHERLY LOVE has been chosen for the DC Black Theatre Festival's New Words Reading Series in June 2015 in Washington, D.C. (This is a big festival, which they expect more than 25,000 people to attend.)

The play is based on the Harvard professor Gates and Sargeant Crowley racism debacle in Cambridge, Massachusetts in July 2009, where a Harvard professor was arrested for trying to enter his own home. BROTHERLY LOVE is about this African-American man and his wife, and a white brother and sister, coming to terms with their relationships and current events taking place in Massachusetts.

Monologue from THE BIG HAT to be produced in New Jersey in April

Monologue "Marnie" from THE BIG HAT will be produced by Lady Bits: Unsolicited Comments on Womanhood, to be sponsored by Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in April 2015.  Produced by Justice Hehir.   

SYNOPSIS: In a bar in Kansas City, Marnie talks about being known as "a slut."

Two kids' monologues to be published by Applause Books

For One on One: Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15, to be published Dec. 2015 by Smith & Kraus / Applause Books, two children's monologues: ALISON, and PUBLIC SPEAKING & THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. 

IN A GARDEN, a short play for children, to be published by Applause Books

IN A GARDEN, a short children's play with a moral ending, will appear in Applause Theatre & Cinema Books' The Best Scenes for Kids Ages 7-15 in 2015.

SYNOPSIS: Stevie and Tomasina, both around age eight, learn lessons about friendship.

Short comedy CHRISTMAS EVE, MANY YEARS FROM NOW to be produced in London, England in January 2015

Short comedy CHRISTMAS EVE, MANY YEARS FROM NOW will be produced by Bread & Roses, South London (Clapham), England, on Jan. 23rd & 24th, 2015.  The venue is a pub and the series is known as "The Platform." 

SYNOPSIS:  Two-and-a-half thousand years after the Apocalypse, three cave people celebrate Christmas Eve. 

Short drama A STATION IN LIFE to be produced in Marietta, Georgia in November 2014

My short drama A STATION IN LIFE will be produced at the Good Works Festival (an intimate black box theatre) in Marietta, Georgia during the first two weekends of November.  

SYNOPSIS:  What does rock & roll mean ten years later to a survivor of The Station nightclub fire in Warwick, Rhode Island in 2003?