Plays
“A Cut Above”
Zeider’s American Dream Theater |First performed October 6, 2022
*Special Selection and Second Place Audience Favorite: Proteus New Plays Festival*
Description: Lizzie and Cassie are riding high as the finalists on this season of A Cut Above, but when the figurative backstabbing becomes literal, what will they do to make it to the end?
“This’ll Only Take a Second”
Zeider’s American Dream Theater | First Performed October 8, 2020
*Winner: Gail Davis Playwright Contest*
Script available from Blue Moon Plays
Description: Miranda, a high-functioning perfectionist with bipolar disorder type II, uses an app on her phone to journal her thoughts on the day. She tells herself “This’ll only take a second” to finish. Through imagined interactions with her Mom, Dad, and Dr. Stevens, Miranda tackles the intertwining of past and present on her mental health, hopefully allowing herself to be able to sleep.
Podcasts
“The Nightmare Protocol”
*Quarterfinalist: Screencraft Podcast Competition, 2020 – 2021*
Currently #16 on The Red List for Top Comedy Podcast Projects
Description: The Nightmare Division gather to discuss issues with their latest human, who has mysteriously begun handling his nightmares in a healthy, productive way.
Short Stories
“In the World”
Drunk Monkeys, 2020
It’s Another Pop Culture Issue!
Description: A former gumshoe comes out of retirement to finally bring to justice the greatest criminal mind of the century: Carmen Sandiego.
“Resignation”
Berkeley Fiction Review, 2019
Reprinted in The Collidescope, 2022
Description: An overworked corporate drone begins receiving two weeks’ notices from different parts of his body.
“Babyland”
Fluent, 2018
Description: On lunch break, a man walks through a cemetery and thinks about life, death, and burning calories.
“Hammer-Jack Lies in Wait
(An Imagining of Nightmares)”
Coffin Bell Journal, 2018
Description: The monster under a boy’s bed turns out to not be quite as scary as imagined and eager for conversation.
“Cooper Will Be Dead Soon”
Rabble Lit, 2018
Description: A man announces his impending death to his company, who try to deal with the inconvenience.
“Would Anyone Like to Say Grace?”
Five2One, 2016
Description: A dinner party descends into chaos as a dinner guest delivers a seemingly never-ending pre-meal prayer.
“From the Mouth of God”
Visual Verse, 2016
Description: Pilgrims climb high on a rocky slope to seek career advice from god.
“The Expiration Date of Affection”
Drunk Monkeys, 2016
Description: A priest and demon discuss the dissolution of their relationship during a routine exorcism.
“Connections”
Gravel, 2016
Description: A smart phone being traded in describes its relationship with its owner while its memory is copied over to its replacement.
“Where We Are Now”
Fluent, 2015
Description: A woman considers her relationship with her husband outside the emergency room after his latest attempt at suicide.
“What’s Inside You”
Finalist: West Virginia Fiction Competition
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume VII, 2015
Description: An elderly man in a nursing home recalls his life as best he can with fading memory.
“First Time for Everything”
Drunk Monkeys, 2014
Description: A Sunday night conversation in a bar between a slowly spiraling alcoholic and a mysterious stranger who claims to have lived many lives, returning to life 27 years after each death in a new body and the same soul.
“Dressing for the Wedding”
Drunk Monkeys, 2014
Description: A portrait of an unraveling mind preparing to attend a wedding.
“What’s Left Behind”
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume V, 2013
Description: A man tells the story of his boyhood search for his disappeared father.
“When It’s Over”
*Second Place Winner: West Virginia Fiction Competition 2013*
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume VI (under the title “Life After Death), 2014
Description: A woman recounts her youth in 60s Appalachia and her rebellion against societal norms.
“Existential Crisis on Boring-Ass Earth”
The First Line, 2013 (print edition); 2017 (recorded edition)
Description: A playful first-person account of an average person in a world of superheroes.
“Philip’s Experiences in Abnormal Psychology”
Carve, 2013
Description: A first-person survivor account of the events leading to, during, and after a mass shooting.
“Visitation”
Fluent, 2013
Description: A boy receives life lessons on relationships while visiting his father in prison.
“Double Fantasy”
Forty Ounce Bachelors, 2012
Description: A couple in a “traditional Republican marriage, referring to their shared political beliefs, but also to the older French definition of the term, in which two people are tied together at the waist, back-to-back, and then thrown into a river”, dream about affairs with famous musicians.
“In Silence Suffer Many Pains”
Bartleby Snopes, 2012
Description: A detective investigating the disappearance of a child visits the parents and discovers they are thrilled to not have to deal with a nightmare kid any longer.
“Breakfast”
The Fertile Source, 2010
Description: A man in a café thinks about work, love, fatherhood, and misery in a stream-of-consciousness.
“Candy”
Sans Merci, 2009
Description: A small boy barred from going outside dreams of a walk around the neighborhood and of playing with a neighbor’s dog, named Candy.