About Me
Hi! I am a playwright/screenwriter (represented by Samadani/Tall). I like to use humor in my scripts, because...life is short!
My full-length satire "Big Yikes!" has been selected to be produced by the UP Theatre for their Dead of Winter Reading Series.
Partnering with the Hoboken Historical Museum on April 22nd to teach a Humor/Comedy Writing workshop.
My one-minute play "Teenage Wedding" was published in the horror anthology “Shhh Breathe Slow!" part of Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine in February, 2025.
My play "Curfew" was selected as a semi-finalist and awarded a Vinnytsia Citation from the Festival Producer and Ukrainian Jurors for their project "Uncovered Scenes from Ukraine."
"Melting" - my play about climate change - was selected to be produced this October at Siena College for their Climate Justice plays series and this December at the Tank Theatre for the 2024 International Human Rights Festival. "Melting" will also be published in Issue #12 of Feels Blind Literary Magazine.
My ten-minute play "Overdose" won 2nd place for BEST SHORT in the 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Playwrights Horizons.
My full length play "The Angel Manual" was selected to be read in the 2021 HB Studio Playwright's Reading Series.
"Dracula…in Denver!", my ten-minute play about Count Dracula’s misadventures on Hinge, has been produced in over six venues across the United States.
Playground-LA Writers pool bicoastal member (2021) and HBMG National Winter Playwright's Retreat Selectee (2019).
FILMS:
- Co-wrote the screenplay“Royal Flush” which was selected as a finalist to be screened on March 22, 2025 at Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands NJ.
- Co-wrote the screenplay "The Lure of Asbury Park" which was a finalist in the 2024 AP'N3 Film Challenge.
- Co-wrote the screenplay "I Can't Hear You" which won BEST COMEDY in the 2024 Jersey Shore Film Festival and 2nd place in the APin3 Film Contest in Asbury Park, NJ and was selected to be screened in the Bread & Roses Film Festival at the Showroom in Asbury Park (October, 2024).
TELEVISION:
- In 2019, my spec script for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “Shabbat Blessings for the Baguette,” gave me valuable insight into the world of LA/NYC talent agencies.
- 2024, submitted spec script for HBO's Industry entitled "Perpetuity Limbo"
- Original pilots include "Come Hither" and "Old Toaster City"