THE WILTING POINT
Full-length, 3 WOMEN, 2 MEN, 1 NON-BINARY youth
synopsis
Podcast producer Mina Melo returns to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Southern Colorado to reluctantly adapt her award-winning podcast for a new streaming entertainment series. Mina’s producer wants her to pick up with an unsolved murder investigation, but Mina is determined to tell a story about how climate-related water shortages and drought are threatening the community’s way of life.
Performances & readings
2022-2023 Season, full production, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 13-30, 2023
Boiler Room Series, second staged reading, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C., February 6, 2023
Boiler Room Series, first staged reading, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2022)
media
April Theater in Bloom, DCist (April 2023)
12 Local Theater Performances We’re Excited For, DCist (January 2023)
little wars
Full-length, 2 women
synopsis
Two ambitious women at an advertising agency have twenty-four hours to pitch and win a marquee client in order to save their jobs and the agency. As they attempt to develop a campaign for the largest women's shapewear company, they find themselves absorbed in conflicts of power, feminism, sexuality, and commerce.
Performances & readings
WomXn On Fire Festival, full production, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2020) - full run canceled due to COVID
Boiler Room Series staged reading, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2019)
Playwright's Forum staged reading, Washington, D.C. (2014)
after eleven
Full-Length, 1 woman
voiceover may be cast
as a chorus
synopsis
Jude Temper has watched her son, Matty, transform from a tender, imaginative child into a boy struggling with uncontrollable violence and mental illness. Jude is resolved to protect Matty — at any cost — from himself and the harsh, unsympathetic world.
Performances & readings
Capital Fringe Festival, Dance Place, Washington, D.C. (2015)
media
what it means
to choke
10-minute, 2 women
SYNOPSIS
What It Means to Choke is a play about the healing power of love in the aftermath of trauma. The story follows two sisters, Mariana and Lucia, as Mariana struggles to recover from a school shooting that tragically took the lives of half her kindergarten class.
Performances & readings
WomXn on Fire Festival, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2019)
ten
10-minute, 3 women,
1 non-gender-specified
SYNOPSIS
Ten is a play about the fragility of choice in a world where formal and informal power structures increasingly govern our choices, our experiences, our bodies, and our lives. The story follows applicant Carter Dean as she struggles to meet the minimum requirements for motherhood as mandated by the laws of a totalitarian regime.
Performances & readings
WomXn on Fire Festival, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2018)
the timberman and the yule
10-minute, 3 women, 1 man
synopsis
On the eve of the winter solstice festival, Loki, the god of mischief, has stolen the harvest sun and hidden it in the forest bordering a nearby village. Disguised as a timberman, he tricks three village sisters into invoking his name in order to bring back the sun. Written in iambic pentameter.
Performances & readings
Klecksography, Rorschach Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2016)
palm
10-minute, 2 women, 1 man
synopsis
A young woman whose family was tragically killed when she was an infant, struggles to say goodbye to her grandmother — her last living relative — and to deal with the unwanted media attention that often accompanies highly publicized loss.
Performances & readings
Source Festival, Source Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2015)
loggerheads
10-minute, 1 woman, 1 man
synopsis
A young couple struggles to hold on to their love while the dream of that love is diminishing.
Performances & readings
5x5 — Love Sucks staged reading, Theater J, Washington, D.C. (2015)
terminated
1-minute, 2 women
synopsis
A brief exploration of how technology can enable those in power to remain distanced from the consequences of their actions.
Performances & readings
One Minute Play Festival (1MPF), Round House Theatre, Bethesda, Md. (2017)
naming
1-minute, 2 women, 1 man
synopsis
A short play examining the structural inequalities of race.
Performances & readings
One Minute Play Festival (1MPF), Round House Theatre, Bethesda, Md. (2016)
Hyperconscious
1-minute, 2 non-gender-specified
synopsis
A short satire that explores how wellbeing is becoming increasingly commoditized.
Performances & readings
One Minute Play Festival (1MPF), Round House Theatre, Bethesda, Md. (2016)
Placement
1-minute, 2 non-gender-specified
synopsis
An ensemble piece about finding meaning through shared human values, rather than through superficial or external means.
Performances & readings
One Minute Play Festival (1MPF), Round House Theatre, Bethesda, Md. (2015)
I, and Swarm
1-minute, 6+ non-gender-specified
synopsis
An ensemble piece about using the power of community to help overcome the burdens of isolation.
Performances & readings
N/A
Dearest Love (for Goodbye/Hello)
experimental
synopsis
A love letter written in open verse commissioned to accompany the movement piece Goodbye/Hello.
Performances & readings
Chambers of the Heart, Word Dance Theatre, Washington, D.C. (2016)