Staged Reading
May 2023
Cross the Line at Chapman University, Orange CA
directed by Karli Jean Lonnquist
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World Premiere
May 2021
Jesuit High School Drama Department at the Marilyn Moyer Theatre, Beaverton OR
directed by Danny Zahariev
15-minute surrealist show
2M, 2W
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It's 1981 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, and Vic, Thom, Stuart and Ro are discovering that their safe, ordinary world isn't exactly as stable as it seems. When the ground beneath their feet collapses during their weekly chess game, the players fall through the floor, and find themselves in a cavern buried deep within the Earth. Everything real has been swallowed by the darkness encroaching on all sides. Everything, that is, except for the chess board and chess pieces, which remain in pristine condition. As emotional destruction accumulates alongside the ruination of the physical world, relationships begin to crumble and the lines of difference between each person begin to blur, the friends' innocent game of chess becomes their unfortunate reality.
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Archer, Archer is a claustrophobic exploration of teenage relationships and what happens when everything that informs our individual identities begins to show cracks...
"My head is splitting open like a broken jar of jam,
Everything inside is spilling out onto the ground. It is all red...red...red.
The light scalds me"
-- Ro from Archer, Archer
"I wish I could hold you, press my palms together and cup you in them.
You’d be safe"
-- Vic from Archer, Archer