Plays

 

PULLING LEATHER: A QUEER RODEO FANTASIA

After failing to make it in New York, Glen moves back home to Kansas, but he feels even further away from his family than before—until he discovers that his Uncle Darby was the 1990 International Gay Rodeo Champion. Hopeful that a blood relative could also be a kindred spirit, Glen heads to Oklahoma to learn the art of six seconds and becomes an unexpected part of his uncle’s late-in-life family return. A kaleidoscopic desert road trip about the myths of masculinity and cowboys, Pulling Leather is etched in the iconography of the American West.

 

THE CLINIC

  • 2019 Semi-Finalist - Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference

  • The Clinic Reading Series (20 Readings, Over $15,000 Raised for Reproductive Rights)

The Clinic is an ensemble piece depicting abortion providers lives over the course of nine months in Wichita, Kansas. Lorrie Daniels, a meticulous transient abortionist, flies in each Saturday to Wichita Women’s Health, one of the last clinics in the state and a battleground for reproductive freedom since the notorious 1991 Summer of Mercy protests. Recently nominated for an Ethical Humanist Award, Lorrie’s perfect career as provider and medical researcher is at its height. She has learned, along with the clinic’s multi-generational staff, to contend with the escalating conflict from outside forces, including hostile protesters, state legislature/TRAP laws, and even respite from the local authorities. However, seemingly stupid pranks escalate as a Crisis Pregnancy Center sets up shop across the street. When Lorrie’s identity becomes public knowledge, the threats grow more personal until the entire staff’s lives are turned upside down one day and they are faced with providing services under impossible conditions.

 

TINY FEMINIST

Ali Goode is fifteen, small for his age, and a gay male feminist. He knows more about Judith Butler and feminist theory than anyone else in his family. His weatherworn single mother, Shelley, barely holds down her three part-time jobs as she supports her aging mother, Ali, and his sisters, body builder Trina and sex worker Treasure. When Ali forms an extra-curricular feminist group at school, new conflicts arise within the family as all struggle to survive the forces of patriarchy dominating their lives.

 

DOLLAR STORE JESUS

* 2020 Semi-Finalist - Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference

The battle between good and evil is sparked when the employees of a dollar store in Topeka, Kansas believe the face of Jesus has appeared on a mirror for sale in the store.