Playwriting

Readings and Productions

Selkie Woman

Layla and JJ navigate the complications of girlhood and friendship as they determine what it is to love and be loved. From age twelve to age eighteen, they hurt each other both physically and emotionally while clinging to the love they have for each other and the protection this friendship provides. (March 2025; production at Theatre @ Schapiro, Columbia University, Second-Year Studio Project)

Poster Design: Zoe Stanton-Savitz and Delia Dumont

Photographer: Delia Dumont

  • Layla: Pauline Lara
    JJ: Brianna DeMilio

  • Director — Delia Dumont
    Producer — Tatum Ludlam
    Production Stage Manager — Emily Wasenda
    Dramaturg/Choreographer — Sophia Parker
    Intimacy Coordinator — Lexi Orphanos

  • Scenic/Props — Andrea Sicoli
    Lighting — Willem Hinterhoff
    Sound — Zoe Stanton-Savitz
    Costumes — Brynn Oster-Bainnson

Rachel Berry Saved my Life

Poster Design: Octavia Washington

Rachel Berry struggles with addiction, Santana Lopez has lost her best friend, and Quinn Fabray wants out of the Glee club. The Glee squad we know and love has changed since the show went off the air in 2015, but they live on as a group of seven friends continue to re-enact their favorite characters in order to cope with their personal issues. When they reunite after years of not speaking, unresolved tension, deep longing, and shocking secrets begin to re-emerge within and outside of the Glee world, and they must decide if pretending can still offer them a way forward. (November 2024; production at Theatre @ Schapiro, Columbia University, commission for Director’s Materials Project)

Photographer: Kristina Fosmire

  • Liv (Rachel Berry): Kate Anderson-Song
    Kyla (Quinn Fabray): Olivia Reburn
    George (Santana Lopez): Delia Jules
    Salem (Noah “Puck” Puckerman): Abigail Duclos
    Eli (Finn Hudson/Blaine Anderson): JJ Wilks
    Rafi (Kurt Hummel/Sue Sylvester): Devren Bryant
    Dylan (Will Schuster): Ben Ranalli
    Announcer/Jacob Ben Israel: Pete Spasyk

  • Director — Brittany Vi-King
    Producer — Xiaoyan Zhu
    Production Stage Manager — Hera Jung
    Stage Manager — Hang Yin
    Dramaturg — Octavia Washington
    Choreographer — Sara Zigler

  • Scenic/Props — Jiaying Zhang
    Lighting — Emilio Cerci
    Sound — Zoe Stanton-Savitz
    Original Music — AJ Baldwin
    Costumes — Kristina Fosmire

Pennies for Forgotten Words

The summer after she graduates college, 22-year-old aspiring writer, Piper, moves in with eccentric 49-year-old Rebecca, a real estate broker, failed artist, and current psychic medium, and the two develop an unlikely friendship over their shared aimlessness, romantic trouble, and sense of humor. However, when Rebecca's nephew visits, Piper begins seeing Rebecca in a new light and, starting to feel stifled by their relationship, must decide whether or not to stay. (July 2022; development at La Mama International Playwriting Retreat in Umbria, Italy / March 2023; reading at La Mama Manifestation Reading Series)

  • Piper: Eryn Diehl
    Rebecca: Valeria Clayman
    Jesse: Gil Dominguez-Letelier
    Stage Directions: Oona Hutchman

  • Director — Michelle Cowles
    La MaMa Umbria Coordinator — David Diamond
    Teaching Artist — Todd London
    Reading Series Coordinator: Glory Kadigan
    Assistant. Reading Series Coordinators: Katherine Boorstein and Zoe Stanton-Savitz

Agatha

December 1926, acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days. The case remains unsolved. In this imagined re-telling, Christie’s own creation, detective Hercule Poirot, must solve her disappearance — and protect his own life — with the help of her husband, a haughty competitor, and her ditzy secretary. (September 2021; reading at Sarah Lawrence College, First-Look Reading Series; April 2022; production at Sarah Lawrence College, New Works Series)

Watch Full Reading Here: https://vimeo.com/638766581

  • FIRST-LOOK READING CAST:

    Archibald Christie — Harrison Dubroff
    Arthur Conan Doyle — Henrick Nielson
    Hercule Poirot — Rohan Padmakumar
    Charlotte Fisher — Zoe Fonck
    Madame Marilyn Egg — Sydney Sukaski
    Stage Directions — Maisy Moss

    NEW WORKS FESTIVAL PRODUCTION CAST:

    Archibald Christie — Ian Hubbard
    Arthur Conan Doyle — Will Tway
    Hercule Poirot — Rohan Padmakumar
    Charlotte Fisher — Anne Cavanagh
    Madame Marilyn Egg — Maura Pelczynski

  • FIRST-LOOK READING PRODUCTION TEAM:

    Director — Emily Aviles
    Playwriting Advisor — Stuart Spencer

    NEW WORKS FESTIVAL PRODUCTION TEAM:

    Director — Michele Carter-Cram
    Assistant Director — Hester Zheng
    Production Stage Manager — Holly Gregory
    Assistant Stage Manager — India Nycamp

  • Scenic Designer— Charlie Troke
    Assistant Scenic Designer — Milo Robbins-Zust
    Costume Designer — Caroline Kimbel
    Assistant Costume Designer — Julianna Day
    Lighting Designer — Sawyer Smith
    Assistant Lighting Designer — Evalin Pachman
    Sound Designer — Marisa Conroy

Good Numbers

Poster Design: Jared Harbour

Alice is a housewife. Benny is a cross-country truck driver. Somehow, they find each other over CB radio. (January 2024; one-act production at Theatre @ Schapiro, Columbia University, Collaboration Series)

  • Alice: Peyton Turowski
    Benny: Bryce Jones

  • Director — Brittany Vi-King
    Producer — Jared Harbour
    Production Stage Manager — Matt Valunes
    Dramaturg — Sophia Parker
    Sound Designer — Zoe Stanton-Savitz

Watch Production Here:

Twice Gone

Lucy is dead, or at least that’s what she believes. After a fraught childhood raised by her paranoid schizophrenic father, Abe, and her step sister, Sam, Lucy searches for love and she finds Wes. Twice Gone explores young psychological development and congenital trauma as well as the intersection between boundless death and inconstant love. (2021; residency and reading at Sarah Lawrence College)

  • Young Lucy — Mia Randers-Pehrson
    Lucy — Kivara De Luca 
    Abe — Ian Hubbard  
    Sam — Kaia Parnell
    Wes — Eli Gutierrez
    Stage Directions — Bridget Anne Cashman

  • Director — Rachel Saruski
    Playwriting Advisor — Sandra Daley

Radio Plays

Changeling

When Aoife’s infant daughter, Oona, dies, she becomes an agoraphobic recluse spending her time recording a series of audio tapes to Oona. She becomes convinced that Oona has been taken by fairies and she becomes determined to find her. (Self-produced; released in April 2023)

Listen Here:

  • Aiofe — Eryn Diehl
    Sophie — Rachel Saruski
    Adam — Rohan Padmakumar
    Additional Voices — Genevieve Chiapetta, Andie Yagher, Maura Pelczynski, Alessandro King, Fronia Kemper, Molly Blade Hatch, Bailey Connor, and Tristan Wolf Larsen

Paradise Valley

Listen Here:

Welcome to the a museum of hysterical women, its patrons men who look at the beautiful prisoners within. Can they escape? (Self-produced; released in December 2023)

  • Joe — Eric Savitz
    Ralph — Edison Hong
    Vita — Eryn Diehl
    Trudy — Kyri My-El Colson
    Mary — Flavie Philipon
    Lizzie — Rachel Saruski
    Additional Voices — Tim Lucey and Zachary Stanton-Savitz

Imogen Inside

Young Imogen’s fraught relationship with her mother becomes too much, she climbs through the walls encouraged by her imaginary friend Flossy. She finds a seemingly utopic world Inside, populated only by women. But what looks initially like a dream, soon turns into a nightmare. (Self-produced; released in December, 2024)

Listen Here:

  • Imogen — Zoe Stanton-Savitz
    Mama — Maria Mohajir
    Flossy — Elizabeth Williams
    June — Jaqui Byrne
    Mabel — Bethsabe Caballero
    Ara — Taylor Javens

In Development

FEMM

Welcome to the Feminine Emporium of Mysterious Madwomen or FEMM, a museum for its patrons but a prison for the relics that live within. Char is transferred to the exhibit of hysterical women with Ella, who suffers from strange life-altering dreams, Vita, who is beginning to re-learn what love is, Trudy, who feels forgotten, and Edie who yearns for more. This play developed from Paradise Valley (see above). (2024; Living room reading produced by Vick Liu)

Hazel and Bea in the In-Between

Hazel and Bea are both dying. When they're assigned as roommates in a senior nursing home, the two develop an unlikely relationship and perhaps they fall in love. (Discussed as a part of Athena’s Read and Rant Series)

Occupied

Charlie wakes up every morning as a different writer from canonical literature — one day he's Zelda Fitzgerald, the next day he’s Virginia Woolf, the next Alan Ginsburg, and the next Ernest Hemmingway. When Frankie discovers his secret, the two develop an unlikely friendship as she tries to coax the real Charlie out of him. (Unproduced)

Part by Part

Adeline is a cannibal. Fiona is a serial killer. When they begin to document their gruesome acts on TikTok, their love for each other is tested. (2024; reading at Columbia University. In development with Abigail Jones (producer))

Imogen Inside

When young Imogen climbs through the walls encouraged by her imaginary friend Flossy, she finds a seemingly utopic world Inside, populated only by women. But what looks initially like a dream, soon turns into a nightmare as Imogen learns of a cult-like group that utilizes beauty as currency and wishes to take power over the peaceful women who tend fields of flowers.

Bella Blue TM

Bella Blue is an internationally known pop-star, a household name analogous with fame and glamor but little do her fans know, she’s secretly five clones created and bred by CEO of eugenics and genetic manipulation company Progenex, Vera Wallace. The clones were specifically created for fame, talent, and skill. This pop musical is in development in collaboration with composer Sonya Hayden.

Awards & Recognition

  • Semi-finalist for 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival — Twice Gone, 2025

  • Chosen for Athena’s Read and Rand Series — Hazel and Bea in the In-Between, 2023

  • Semi-finalist for Normal Ave's NAPSeries playwriting festival — Twice Gone, 2023

  • Semi-finalist for Think Tank Theatre’s 2023 TYA Playwrights Festival — Agatha, 2023

  • Winner of the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Excellence in Playwriting — Sarah Lawrence College, 2023

  • Published in Fresh Words Contemporary One Minute Plays Volume 4 — “Flowers in the Snow,” 2023

  • Chosen as La Mama Umbria International Playwright Retreat Summer Intern — La Mama Umbria, 2022

  • Semi-finalist for the Fresh Fruit Festival playwriting series with All Out Arts — Letters from the Dead, 2022

  • Agatha chosen for a reading at Lakewood Playhouse New Voices Festival (October, 2025)

  • Femm — Columbia University Lenfest Center for the Arts (May, 2026)

Upcoming: