Plays

OBLAST

A Birthright Data Analysis Intern gives an end-of-quarter presentation. What begins as a Powerpoint on declining enrollment and political doubt grows stranger and stranger as it turns into a tale of the Intern’s relationship. Ever since the Intern’s partner learned about Birobidzhan - the USSR's Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the world’s first (semi)autonomous Jewish state – she’s become obsessed. She digs through books and online archives, and eventually travels to the remote province for a research project. But when she returns, the Intern notices some changes. She emits a constant hum, interferes with the WiFi, and is intent on convincing the Intern to send future Birthright participants to the Oblast. In this TED Talk gone awry, the Intern tests how propaganda, nation, and memory unravel when we set Israel and Birobidzhan side-by-side.

History

Developmental Residency, the cell theatre, 2024
Workshopped with Director Gabby Farrah and Actor Elyse Steingold

Osher & the Infinite Curtain

On his deathbed, Osher found spirit in autoplay—as he was hooked up to oxygen and lost the ability to speak, he watched hours and hours of Kabbalah YouTube. The Kabbalah of anger, forgiveness, of loss. He stopped acknowledging the presence of his daughter, Leye, and his husband, Sender. And then he died. Now, months after his passing, Leye visits the local Kabbalah Center, fueled by a desire to understand this change in her father. In this new adaptation of S. An-sky's The Dybbuk, we travel through time (and web servers) to witness whether Leye and Sender can grapple with the loss of a loved one turned stranger.

History

Online Reading, Jewish Plays Project, 2024
Developmental Residency, VoxLab, 2022
Workshopped with Director Gabby Farrah and Actors Liba Vaynberg and Dori Robinson

OTP

It’s 2015, and 15-year-old best friends Ceci and Michelle are taking the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own by storm. Michelle, a Junior Statesman of America, wants to author The Best Obama Fanfiction ever written. Can she read up on drone strikes, deportations, and Operation Neptune Spear and still find time to kiss Barack in front of the Jellyfish tank at the Chicago Aquarium? OTP is a story of political malaise, misplaced nostalgia, and what we do when we are incapable of reimagining our futures.

history

Academic Production, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, 2022, Directed by Enzo Gonzales

[cowboy face]

RidgeRock Tech seems like the perfect place to work: beer on tap, a flexible vacation policy, and at least 16 different employees named Matt, oragnized neatly in a chart called The Mattrix. But when the new customer support rep Greb joins the office, they sense something dire is coming. Corinne and Kayuri are slacking off, Diane is slipping into panic, and Greb’s mentor Julie is nowhere to be found. Something is lurking in the Meditation Room.

History

Workshop Production, Dixon Place, 2020, Directed by Deby Xiadani

craters, or the Making of the Making of the Moon Landing

Meet the film team responsible for staging the Apollo 11 moon landing. Or at least, partially responsible—until their lead actor Neil was whisked away at the last minute when NASA decided to go in a different direction. Now, director Sylvia and her crew are being held prisoner in a classified warehouse somewhere under Kansas, with nothing to do but make a documentary about their thwarted attempt at creating the footage that would inspire the world. Craters is an exercise in fact-finding, (re)enactment, and the power of simulation.

History

Academic Production, Smith College, 2022, Directed by Talia Natoli
Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival, 2018, Directed by Deby Xiadani