Plays
Sublease
Sublease tracks a couple before and during the pandemic. Frankie is a middle school teacher, teaching online, Arlo is a frustrated revolutionary stuck editing a mental health podcast. Arlo has a vague Manhattan sublease from a guy named Jupiter. Frankie moves in with Arlo on the eve of 2020 at the precipice of the pandemic. We see a time lapse of their romance, radicalizations and paranoia, all in the contained space of a single apartment that holds a dark secret.
Sublease made its debut in the round at Von on Bleecker Street, offering a unique and immersive experience for the audience.
Watch select moments from the debut performance here.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
Vox Beta
Jeff upgrades his dating app to a paid version, eager to meet more exclusive people, however, he doesn’t read all the terms of agreements. Unwittingly, he unlocks a bizarre and unsettling feature - a voice that takes residence in his mind, narrating his inner thoughts and even ordering Ubers. To Jeff’s horror, he discovers he is one of four Beta Test Subjects selected for the experimental app known as Vox. The four subjects, locked in a digital love square, set out on to find the enigmatic CEO who created the app. The dark comedy offers a terrifying and hilarious exploration of human dialog in a digital age.
Vox Beta made its debut at Dixon Place as Vox in 2019.
Watch select moments from the debut performance here.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
July House
Set in a lavish North Carolina beach house living room belonging to Guthrie Thompson's grandparents, July House unfurls the story of five college students in 2011. Continuing their July 4th party to the next day, they bring every lamp into the house, blinding each other with the electric bulbs. Each of them writes a letter meant to remain sealed until their death. The play explores their experiences, forging a narrative that captures the essence of youth, friendship, and the weight of unspoken words.
July House made its debut at The Keenan Theater and was later featured in the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.
July House will be produced at Kingsport Theatre in Tennessee, March 2024.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
Score
Two adopted sisters reunite on the eve of their father's funeral in the familiar setting of their childhood New York apartment. Clarissa is engrossed in writing a score on the piano to a documentary about pronghorn sheep when Elle, her career-focused sister, appears in athleisure wear, to give her financial advice. The two sisters, finding it hard to connect with words, use the old piano to bring them back to a place of connection.
Score made its debut at The Tank Theatre in 2023.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
The Untied States of a Mirror
The Untied States of a Mirror is a trilogy of absurdist, psychedelic, comedic plays that incorporate live music. The stories examine the neo liberal fishbowl of New York through a bizarre dystopian lens. Each play can be done on its own or in rep with the others. The first play satirizes a wealthy middle aged couple in Manhattan, the second their thirty something children in Brooklyn, and the third brings them all together.
Pigeon Spikes
Ernest and Clare are a wealthy Upper East Side couple. Clare is fascinated with public art installation artist, Ashe Hatori Hummel, and encourages her husband to become the key investor in his new piece which involves capturing thousands of pigeons and painting them different vivid colors and releasing him in the city. Ernest grows suspicious when Clare is spending so much time at the artist's house, little does he know he is about to become part of the art installment too.
Pigeon Spikes made its debut at Dixon Place. Featuring live music by a full Jazz band.
Watch select moments from the debut performance here.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
Sleepy Eyed Kids
Becca, in the midst of a college hiatus, finds herself in the company of her sister, Haley, in hyper gentrified Brooklyn. Hipsters have attempted to appropriate Native American skin walking and have connected the practice with an environmentalist cult. Upon learning of Haley and her boyfriend's involvement in gatherings held at an abandoned aquarium, Becca's life takes a surreal turn. "Sleepy Eyed Kids'' serves as the second installment in The Untied States of a Mirror trilogy. It delves into the performative nature of activism and the falsity of modern movements in a consumer culture bubble.
Sleep Eyed Kids made its debut at Dixon Place. Featuring live music by Guacamole Racoon.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
The Festival
"The Festival'' centers on bringing the characters of Sleepy Eyed Kids and Pigeon Spikes together. After Mike dies live on social media, his father Ernest must perform in his place in his mediocre indie band at the government sponsored month-long music festival. If patrons of the festival don’t meet their social media post quota they are asked to leave. Meanwhile, a revolutionary movement that attempts to unite New York under the flag of the great sea turtle, is anonymously run by Becca and her rebel broadcast called The Untied States of a Mirror.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
In God We Trust on the Back of Quarters
Elizabeth is a former ballerina now ensnared in a corporate arts admin job. She grapples with lingering trauma of sexual abuse that she has trouble articulating to her college partner. Will, back from a failed attempt at becoming a park ranger in California, comes to visit her. During his stay, Will opens up to Elizabeth about his Uncle Curt, a Vietnam Vet. The play then navigates between two intertwining narratives: Will's renewed connection with his Uncle and Elizabeth’s struggle to find peace, creating an exploration of identity and sexuality.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
Where the Ocean Meets the Sky
The world is a desolate place, and two lone survivors, Abe and Jacob, embark on a journey toward a paradise. When circumstances force them apart, they stumble upon a dead body with an unfamiliar device – an AM/FM radio, a technological relic they've never encountered. Surprisingly, they manage to bring the radio to life, uncovering a bewildering soundscape filled with frequencies, advertisements, music, and the remnants of a long-lost consumer culture capitalist world.
Winner of the Sam Seldin playwright award.
For inquiries or to produce this work please contact patdplays@gmail.com
Red Wolf Moon
In a quiet eastern coastal North Carolina town, tensions flare when a farmer fatally shoots an endangered red wolf. A species bred in captivity and set free upon the Alligator River nature reserve. Meanwhile, Ginny Miranda Dare, an enigmatic figure in the community who operates the local doggy day care, sets loose all the town's dogs, encouraging them to unite with the wolves inhabiting the nearby swamp.
Red Wolf Moon is a musical production that weaves together elements of shadow puppetry and music.
This play is the result of a collaboration between the playwright and Wood Robinson, a prominent member of the North Carolina-based band, Mipso.
Please note that this play is currently in development.
Alloy Parakeets in the Sweatiest Winter
In a FiDi apartment, a crew of misfits grapples with the fallout from a drug deal gone awry. As the night unfolds, they make a chilling discovery, an unseen wealthy voyeur is livestreaming their every move and they are ghosts that perished in the September 11th attacks. Trapped in a paranormal porn of sadness, they must escape from the architecture of violence and entertainment.
Please note that this play is currently in development.
Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat (Acting)
Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat (2022)
Colonel Hayward
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, reading with Roundabout Theater
