Kindergrad
Length/genre: One act (30 min.); comedy
Cast: 4W/4M
Synopsis: It's Kindergarten graduation day, there's a tight race for valedictorian, and all H-E-double hockey sticks is about to break loose.
Production status: Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Sept. 2024 -- (top 3 finalist for Outstanding Playwright!)
Submission review: "This is hilarious. Quick and witty and well thought out. I was nervous about the amount of characters but
it's perfect. Everyone gets their arc, their story, and it wraps up very nicely. Well done."
Length/genre: One act (30 min.); comedy
Cast: 4W/4M
Synopsis: It's Kindergarten graduation day, there's a tight race for valedictorian, and all H-E-double hockey sticks is about to break loose.
Production status: Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Sept. 2024 -- (top 3 finalist for Outstanding Playwright!)
Submission review: "This is hilarious. Quick and witty and well thought out. I was nervous about the amount of characters but
it's perfect. Everyone gets their arc, their story, and it wraps up very nicely. Well done."
| kindergrad_writing_sample.pdf |
Mr. Bob Cratchit's Merry Christmas Carol Sing-along & Variety Show!
Book & Lyrics: Deanna Sparrow
Music & Lyrics: Ken Smith
Length/genre: One act (60 min.); musical theatre; farce
Cast: 2M/1W
Synopsis: Bob & Emily are still a gift and a gander shy of a proper Christmas for the Cratchit clan. So, with the help of aspiring actor and actual barman, Ralph – and his keys to the Nimble Goose pub – they’re throwing together a Christmas Eve show to try and raise a pence or two!
Production status: hobnob theatre co., Dec. 2023
Review: "Plot points are solid, dialogue is hilarious, familiar faces are further fleshed out, and lyrics are equally silly and ingenious. Clocking in at around an hour, this show breezes by and leaves audiences wanting to see it again. It could easily continue to be staged every year after this until it becomes a tradition in its own right." - 'Burgh Vivant
Book & Lyrics: Deanna Sparrow
Music & Lyrics: Ken Smith
Length/genre: One act (60 min.); musical theatre; farce
Cast: 2M/1W
Synopsis: Bob & Emily are still a gift and a gander shy of a proper Christmas for the Cratchit clan. So, with the help of aspiring actor and actual barman, Ralph – and his keys to the Nimble Goose pub – they’re throwing together a Christmas Eve show to try and raise a pence or two!
Production status: hobnob theatre co., Dec. 2023
Review: "Plot points are solid, dialogue is hilarious, familiar faces are further fleshed out, and lyrics are equally silly and ingenious. Clocking in at around an hour, this show breezes by and leaves audiences wanting to see it again. It could easily continue to be staged every year after this until it becomes a tradition in its own right." - 'Burgh Vivant
| bob_cratchit..._writing_sample.pdf |
December Things
Length/genre: Full length in two acts; romantic tragicomedy
Cast: 3M/2W
Synopsis: Molly and Mason work at The Warehouse – selling meaningless things to rich people – under the tyranny of their boss, Crawford. Also, Molly’s mom’s dead and Mason’s in the middle of a quarter-life crisis. Enter Nell and Kit – a pair of otherworldly guardians who’ve been kept apart for a handful of decades. Also, they’re not invisible anymore. These four good guys need to defeat existential angst, crippling depression, rampant materialism, and a literal villain, like, today... because December doesn’t last forever.
Production status: Old Schoolhouse Players, Feb. 2023; Slippery Rock University, Oct. 2016
Length/genre: Full length in two acts; romantic tragicomedy
Cast: 3M/2W
Synopsis: Molly and Mason work at The Warehouse – selling meaningless things to rich people – under the tyranny of their boss, Crawford. Also, Molly’s mom’s dead and Mason’s in the middle of a quarter-life crisis. Enter Nell and Kit – a pair of otherworldly guardians who’ve been kept apart for a handful of decades. Also, they’re not invisible anymore. These four good guys need to defeat existential angst, crippling depression, rampant materialism, and a literal villain, like, today... because December doesn’t last forever.
Production status: Old Schoolhouse Players, Feb. 2023; Slippery Rock University, Oct. 2016
| december_things_writing_sample.pdf |
The Perennials
Length/genre: Full length in one act; dark comedy; coming-of-age
Cast: 2M/2W/1GN
Synopsis: It's the year 3000 and America's spiraling into darkness. Aspiring writer, Graham, spends his summer days working at a post-truth “bookstore” and the nights drinking away his sorrows with his frequently depressed bartender pal, Jamie, and ambitious techno-babies, Brax and East. When mysterious new girl, Sully, arrives, her sights set on academia, Graham finds a kindred. But as the country’s decay races on at full speed, they’re all forced to reckon with the same question: how can you grow up in a world that doesn’t want you to?
Production status: Staged reading - Slippery Rock University, Oct. 2019
Length/genre: Full length in one act; dark comedy; coming-of-age
Cast: 2M/2W/1GN
Synopsis: It's the year 3000 and America's spiraling into darkness. Aspiring writer, Graham, spends his summer days working at a post-truth “bookstore” and the nights drinking away his sorrows with his frequently depressed bartender pal, Jamie, and ambitious techno-babies, Brax and East. When mysterious new girl, Sully, arrives, her sights set on academia, Graham finds a kindred. But as the country’s decay races on at full speed, they’re all forced to reckon with the same question: how can you grow up in a world that doesn’t want you to?
Production status: Staged reading - Slippery Rock University, Oct. 2019
| the_perennials_writing_sample.pdf |
R.I.P.
Length/genre: 10-minute; dark comedy; supernatural
Cast: 2W/1M
Synopsis: It's time for the nightly tour of Martha Jo Kennedy's grave. On this night in 1889, she died... one year after a better-known murder. Laugh it up, visitors... if you dare. Thunder! Lightning!
Production status: hobnob theatre co., 24-hour play project, Aug. 2024
Length/genre: 10-minute; dark comedy; supernatural
Cast: 2W/1M
Synopsis: It's time for the nightly tour of Martha Jo Kennedy's grave. On this night in 1889, she died... one year after a better-known murder. Laugh it up, visitors... if you dare. Thunder! Lightning!
Production status: hobnob theatre co., 24-hour play project, Aug. 2024
| r.i.p._writing_sample.pdf |
