witches!? In salem?!
Playing at HERE ARTS march 2024
Welcome to Salem Village, 1692. A bad year to visit. Here, wealthy landowners want your land, local magistrates want your confession, unpopular reverends want your respect but more importantly your firewood, and everyone wants someone to be punished for something. Meanwhile, several local children try to make sense of a hysteria they find themselves at the center of. Oh! And the newest villagers, the Bloodkravens are here too. They are confused about it all.
A darkly comedic, yet (mostly) historically accurate take on the Salem Witch Trials and all the (mostly) historically accurate horrors which may occur when populism runs rampant, injustice is a day to day occurrence, and a rigid religious minority sets the laws of the land. You know, old timey problems. A companion, or an alternative, to a certain other Salem play you probably read in high school.
THE FERRET SHOW
An all-new musical about the weird and wondrous world of competitive Ferret pageants. Score by Dan Mills & Ben Thornewill (Jukebox the Ghost), book by myself and Stephen Stout.
COMING SOON...
GUY CHOICEMAN
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
Conceived in OCTOBER 2020 during social distancing, GUY CHOICEMAN DECIDES TO SAVE AMERICA! The Chooseical: Where YOU Do The Chooses is a live-streamed show wherein the audience... does the chooses. Will Guy Choiceman Save America? Will he even get out of bed? Will he hang up while the Important man is giving him instructions? Will he go down a random alleyway? Will he stop at a Chili’s? Will he ever leave the Chili’s?
All of this is in the power of the audience, a power called Chooses. And maybe giving people these chooses was a bad idea.
GUY CHOICEMAN has had several EXPANSIONS to it’s content over time: A Christmas Carol add-on was introduced in December of 2020. THE POWER OF LOVE EXPANSION was added in February 2021. Then the Spring Break/ April Fools / May The Fourth / TAX DAY special, HERE COMES THE SPRING was added later in 2024.
I occasionally will run this show again for free, usually during the above holidays. Keep an eye out and join us next time! One day I may figure out how to bring this to the stage.
THE MAGNIFICENT REVENGERS
“This Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Is Peak Immersive Theater”
Performed in 2017 at The University of Florida, and workshopped throughout 2019 at The People’s Improv theater,
The Magnificent Revengers was an ambitious project. Told with a BRANCHING NARRATIVE, the audience - through the use of an app on their phones - would make choices that shaped the revenge tragedy at the heart of the show. Characters live, die, and behave at the whims of these choices...
I intend to revisit The Magnificent Revengers one day, and see if it can find it’s way on a stage. If this kind of concept interests you (and you run a theater) - LET ME KNOW!
”Vengeance and mercy are choices, yes, but so is apathy, and it’s a choice that the world cannot afford now. If this is the next step in “immersive theater,” count me in.” - Ludus NYC
OUR CINEMATIC UNIVERSE or;
THE MARVENDALE COMMUNITY
ULTI-MATES
The small town of Marvendale has some of those super-hero types too. Here’s all 20+ of their short plays taking place in their own ever growing inter-connected universe. They’ve even got credit scenes.
Our Cinematic Universe has had one partial public reading and is a work in progress. If you’re interested in becoming a part of the development process of the play, let me know!
HAPPY LITTLE TREES: A BOBYSSEY
Solo show. Approx 45 minutes.
Bob is a painter. He paints happy little mountains, squirrels, & trees. But upon the appearance of a mysterious, foreboding sad tree, Bob must embark on an epic adventure through a land of canvas & oil to bring happiness back to a world of his own creation. And you, his new friend, are welcome to come along.
This was a solo show I performed myself several years back. I intend to revisit the script one day and make it a piece for a small cast. More soon!