Five Minutes with the Playwright

1. AN ARTIST’S LIFE is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? “An Artist’s Life” portrays a pivotal point in the career of Suzanne, a painter from Scranton who has settled in New York. At the opening Suzanne still believes that she can make a living by painting, […]

1. RV (A PLAY) is a recent play you’ve submitted to the The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about?RV is about what people can do when they have to. It’s about anger, resentment, and fear – and how love can make all of those things bearable. 2. What came easy in the writing of […]

1. SPEAK LINES ALL GARBLED is a recent play you’ve submitted to the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about?It’s about strangers who find themselves seated next to each other during the intermission of a play they’re watching. It’s about the things that come between us, and the things that bring us together. It’s about […]

1. MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS was your recent submission to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? The play is about two successful African-American young males who were raised in the Church. The play does a deep dive into how they view their relationship with God and the choices they make based on their own perceptions […]

1. DAYS OF RAGE is a recent play you’ve submitted to the The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? DAYS OF RAGE explores a young woman’s journey from a tradition of peaceful political protest to participating in armed conflict and how her choices affect those around her. The Weatherman, a real-life pro-violence group operating […]

1. DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME is a recent play that you’ve submitted to the The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? It’s a romantic comedy about two people whose lives intersect for a very short time, and about the terrifying choice that a person faces when she realizes that her dreams of loving and being […]

1. CHARM CITY is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? CHARM CITY is a shortie, a little piece that came to me while I was looking up something on UNESCO, for reasons I’ve long since forgotten. It’s about a conflict of cultures that occurs when a resident […]

1. SUICIDE WATCH: FOR THE ONES DEALING WITH DEPRESSION AND CONSIDERING SUICIDE is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? This is a play that deals the struggles of everyday life while having depression, or anxiety that could lead to suicide. I wanted to portray how mental health […]

1. THE SEARCH is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? It’s about two sisters. One’s dead and the other’s living. One’s applying for the top job at a fancy all girl high school and the other’s getting in the way. 2. What do you find particularly exciting […]

1.CROSS KEYS is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? Brendon Riordon, beloved professor from a local university, looks forward to a peaceful retirement with his long-time live-in girlfriend Mackenzie. Those plans are threatened when a non-binary student demands that Professor Riordon use his preferred pronoun to address […]

1. SHE WHISPERED VENOM is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? SHE WHISPERED VENOM is a horror play following teenager Devon Webb after her transfer to the Ambermorne School for Young Girls. With students disappearing and teachers encouraging abusive behavior, Devon sets out to investigate the school’s […]

1. ALTOONA is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? ALTOONA is about a diverse group on a cross country trip who are driven by a Latina who plays saxophone, each seeking a hunk of the American Dream. 2. Did you have a plan in place before you […]

1. DINNER WITH A GUEST is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? Dinner with a guest is a comedic play about an older married couple who are very old fashioned and set in their ways, living their lives like it’s still the 50’s. In an attempt to […]

1. TWO OF US is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? TWO OF US is a two act comedy focusing on how friendships and relationships can fray, about the disconnect that can set in, and how differently people react to similar experiences. In TWO OF US, these […]

1. WHITEY is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? As the title hints, WHITEY is a play about race. 2. Did you choose the theme of WHITEY or did it choose you? Did the theme change during the writing of the play? Race might be the most […]

1. IN THE SLUSH is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? The play is about two editorial assistants reading through their publishing house’s slush pile of manuscripts. One of them is newly married and newly pregnant, and she comes across one manuscript that claims she is not […]

1. GERTRUDE, QUEEN OF DENMARK is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? In my play GERTRUDE, QUEEN OF DENMARK, Gertrude is devastated to learn that her husband has died suddenly. She feels suicidal. Claudius acts sympathetic and, with the help of Polonius and Hamlet’s old nurse, persuades […]

1. BEQUEST OF WINGS: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? BEQUEST OF WINGS: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY by Nancy Arbuthnot and Le Pham Le, dramatizes the story of the Vietnamese refugee family of Mai Trương, her husband Minh, son Vinh, and American-born daughter Kim. […]

1. THE COUPONISTA is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? THE COUPONISTA is about Jane Parker, a millennial who is unemployed and has no permanent residence but is kept afloat by the support of friends and her passion for extreme couponing. Her best friend Lisa, irritant Sam […]

1. ALMOST OPPOSITES ATTRACT: A MUSICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? Almost Opposites Attract is a love story that spans over half a century. George Dwyer and Abigail Sorenson met during their first month as freshmen in college. They were an immediate and […]

1. OBLATION is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? Johnny Chromik is returning home to McKee’s Rocks, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, after having served five years in Florida for having tried to set up a meeting with a 13 year old girl. He, a now former English […]

1. 1959 is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? The play takes place in the spring of 1959. It is about a college freshman named Jane who has always worked hard in school and is looking forward to finishing college and having a career. But Jane is […]

1. FEEBLE-MINDED WHITE TRASH is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival What is it about? During the 1920s in southern Virginia, Hattie Clawson, an illiterate laundress with two illegitimate children, one of them black, hasn’t heard of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. But she will feel the devastating impact […]

1. CAMP MANNUPPIA: AN ALT MASC COMEDY is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? Camp Mannuppia is a slapstick comedy set in 2003(ish) at a summer camp that allegedly teaches teenage boys how to be more masculine. In reality, the camp is run by a drag queen […]

1. DEAD AIR is a recent play you’ve submitted to The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? It revolves around a beloved daytime talk show host who has worked her way up the media ladder from local radio personality to national treasure. One of her trademarks has been regaling her audience with the latest […]

1. ELLIE is a recent play you’ve submitted to the The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about?ELLIE presents two older men—brothers—whose love-hate relationship comes to a head while they are mourning the death of one of their wives. That, however, is only the plot, not what it’s about. It’s about how men kill the […]

1. GRAND UNION is a recent play you’ve submitted to the The Baltimore Playwrights Festival. What is it about? The patriarch of the leading Jewish family in a small central Pennsylvania railroad town has died, and his son and daughter confront their 40-year history with their Black housekeeper. The play’s 10 scenes and a coda […]