With his research into ammonia, Nobel-prize winning chemist Fritz Haber prevented mass starvation, saving billions of lives. Then the Great War broke out and he got into the really freaky stuff.
On the night the Father of Chemical Warfare throws a (very real) launch party for his chlorine gas, 1915’s hottest war criminal f*cking peaks. In this frenetic Faustian tragedy with pop-punk music, an ever-more-paranoid Fritz Haber loses himself chasing drugs and approval and Phantoms in the shadows. All the while, his wife Clara reaches the end of her rope, and the insidious Party threatens to consume Fritz’s house and his mind.
This play will be presented as a reading in NYC in 2024. Contact Me if you’re interested in reading.
Glass Cannon
(the ultimate konfessions of chemical warfare’s bad dad)
The Sun Never Rises in Harding, Missouri
The sun hasn’t risen over Benjamin’s hometown in a generation, and he’s planned his whole life for what he’ll do when he finally gets out. But one morning the sun creeps over the horizon- just for a moment- and a Prophet whirls into town, with a sinister message for Benjamin: he must cut out his own heart, or bring doom upon the people of Harding, Missouri. (4M, 5W)
Finalist, Columbia @ Roundabout Series, Roundabout Theatre Company
Semi-Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Developed at The Tank (with the support of the New York City Artist Corps) and Columbia University School of the Arts (under supervision from Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang, and Anne Bogart)
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Listen to a demo of the track “Scream” on SoundCloud! Music by James Smart, lyrics by Jack Towhey Calk.
The Ghosts of Patriot Park
In this half-hour drama, a suicidal dropout inches her way to recovery while struggling to hold down a job at the amusement park haunted by her dead dad.
Coverfly Red List
Finalist, Chicago Screenplay Awards
Finalist, ISA FastTrack Fellowship
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Big St. Germain
After years estranged, young father Marshall warily agrees to spend a long weekend with his sister Kasey at a cabin once owned by their late grandfather. As they and their partners settle in for three days of drinking, dancing, nostalgia, and singing novelty fish, Marshall finally begins to relax- maybe he and his sister can have a relationship after all. But Kasey begins talking about visions she’s been having, Marshall’s wife and Kasey’s boyfriend each disappear in the middle of the night, and finally Kasey asks her brother for something he cannot give- sending the ground beneath their reunion crumbling. (2M, 2W)
Developed at Columbia University School of the Arts (under supervision from Jon Robin Baitz and David Henry Hwang).
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Pictured: Niall Powderly* and Caroline Amos*. Rehearsal photo by Annie Jin Wang.
Blood by Law
A year after his daughter’s untimely death, an erratic Irish Catholic patriarch struggling with Parkinson’s invites her estranged fiancée and the rest of his fractured multiracial family to a dinner at his home. When his daughter’s ghost joins them at the table, playing the upright bass she left behind, everyone’s wounds bleed afresh in ways they could not have predicted. (4M, 3W)
Finalist, Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
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