Selected from 850 submissions, Elise Wien’s FREESTYLE HAND ENTRY will published and licensed by Concord Theatricals in the 48th edition of the Off Off Broadway Festival Plays series along with 5 other short plays presented this week at the Samuel French OOB Broadway Festival. I was honored to direct the festival performance, featuring Gabby Policano. For more info about the festival, you can visit this website. Congratulations to all the winners, finalists, and semi-finalists!

I’m excited to return to Elise Wien’s beautiful short play FREESTYLE HAND ENTRY for the 48th Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival on Wednesday August at 6:30pm at the Vineyard Theater. FREESTYLE HAND ENTRY is one of 30 semi-finalists to perform in the festival. The play features Ches, a genderqueer young adult, as they recount their attempts to get to a bag of Bugles stuck in the vending machine in the JCC rec room. Starring Gabby Policano. Tickets are available here.

This summer, I will be directing scenes from Robert Leverett’s new musical TRACY TRICERATOPS AND THE END OF HISTORY at Vox Lab. We’ll be working with current Dartmouth students and alums for a week long workshop in beautiful Hanover, NH. More about the musical and how to get tickets here.

It’s the end of the Cretaceous period and Tracy is an eight-year-old triceratops who lives with her newly-divorced mother and her younger brother. She also happens to be the most successful girl detective in town. Having solved the case of the mystery lunch meat and the missing backpack, Tracy turns her attention to a much darker case: a deceased neighbor pulled out of the tar pits. Meanwhile, a new light in the night sky is getting brighter and brighter every day. TRACY TRICERATOPS is a new musical about the 1990s, growing up, and how things end. 

This spring I will be directing Elise Wien’s short play FREESTYLE HAND ENTRY for Irvington Theater’s Arts Incubator Short Play Fest on Saturday, March 25 at 2pm. The play features Cy, a genderqueer young adult, as they recount their attempts to get to a bag of Bugles stuck in the vending machine in the JCC rec room. The play is starring Gabby Policano. Check us out here, or follow Irvington Theater’s instagram for more info!