Full Length Plays
Miss American Pie
2018. Jilline Ringle Developmental Residency
1812 Productions (Philadelphia, PA)
The Bargain I Have Made
2018. Winner, New American Voices Play Reading Series
The Landing Theatre Company (Houston, TX)
2018. Semi-Finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference (Waterford, CT)
The BED
2017. One of several writers/collaborators, professional production, Theatre LILA (Madison, WI)
Sleight of Hand
2016. Winner, reading, Nova Theater FreshWorks Series (Indianapolis, IN)
Trash
2015. One of five writers/collaborators, professional production, Theatre LILA (Madison, WI)
The Suitcase Dreams
2015. American High School Theatre Festival production, (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2014. One of five writers/collaborators, professional production, Theatre LILA (Madison, WI)
The Griots
2017. Staged Reading, Civic Theatre of LaFayette (LaFayette, IN)
2017. Winner, Life Jacket Theater Proof of Concept Play Reading Series (New York, NY)
2016. Winner, Workshop and Reading, Henley Rose Playwriting Award (Knoxville, TN)
2016. Finalist, FutureFest, (Dayton, OH)
2016. Semi-Finalist, Orlando Shakespeare Theater PlayFest! (Orlando, FL)
2015. Workshop and reading, Great Plains Theater Conference (Omaha, NE)
2014. Workshop and reading, Renaissance Theaterworks (Milwaukee, WI)
2014. Finalist, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company New Generations Play Contest (Boulder, CO)
2014. Semi-Finalist, American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Competition, (Chicago, IL)
Silent
2014. Workshop and reading, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Milwaukee, WI)
2013. Finalist, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company New Generations Play Contest (Boulder, CO)
Queen of the Nile
2015. Finalist, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company New Generations Play Contest (Boulder, CO)
2015. Finalist, Strange Sun Theater’s Greenhouse Project (New York, NY)
2012. Reading, Edenfred Arts Residency (Madison, WI)
Sign of the Times
2012. Workshop and reading, Polarity Ensemble (Chicago, IL)
2011. Finalist, Wisconsin Wrights Playwriting Contest (Madison, WI)
A Thousand Words
2013. Reading, Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, MA)
2012. Full professional production, Forward Theater (Madison, WI)
2012. Full professional production, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Milwaukee, WI)
2009. Workshop and reading, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Milwaukee, WI)
2008. Workshop and reading, Wisconsin Wrights Playwriting Contest Winner (Madison, WI)
The Theory of Evolution
2007. Finalist, Wisconsin Wrights Playwriting Contest (Madison, WI)
Emily’s Shadow
2003. Full student production, commissioned by Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL)
One Act Plays
A Beautiful Bride
2009. Finalist, Drury University One Act Play Competition (Springfield, MO)
Lucky Numbers
2016. Full professional production, Milwaukee Fringe Fest (Milwaukee, WI)
2015. Full professional production, Samuel French Off- Off-Broadway Short Play Festival (New York, NY)
2006. Full production, Mercury Players’ Mercury Rising New Play Festival (Madison, WI)
Superheroes Float
2004. Workshop and reading, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre New Play Festival (Arlington Heights, IL)
Wilkommen to Wisconsin
1998. Commissioned by First Stage Milwaukee Children’s Theater, full professional production at the Marcus Center, toured to more than 40 schools in the Milwaukee area
Ten Minute Plays
Pockets
2017. Professional production, Barrington Stage Company 10x10 Play Festival (Pittsfield, MA)
A Whole Other Shade of Blue
2017. Minifest 2017, Acadia University (Nova Scotia, CANADA)
2017. Winner, Susan Glaspell Playwriting Contest, Staged Reading, Quad Cities Theater Workshop, (Davenport, IA)
Ticket to Nowhere
2008. Full production, Mercury Players’ Blitz (Madison, WI)
Just a Bit Dim
2007. Full production, Mercury Players’ Blitz (Madison, WI)
Laughing at the Waves
2005. Full production, Mercury Players’ Blitz (Madison, WI)
Monologues
Choosing Freedom: Remembrances of Andrew Pratt
2018. Full production of a historically based monlogue,
Milton House Museum, Civil War Living History Days (Milton, WI)
Talking Spirits
2017. Full production of four historically based monologues, Wisconsin Veterans Museum/Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, WI)
2016. Full production of four historically based monologues, Wisconsin Veterans Museum/Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, WI)
Sorting the Trash
2016. Full production, Bellarmine International 10 Minute Play Festival (Louisville, KY)
Shaken, Not Stirred
2015. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
The Devil Fish
2014. Finalist, Barrington Stage Company 10 x 10 Play Festival (Pittsfield, MA)
Like Father, Like Daughter
2016. Staged Reading, Festival 56 (Princeton, IL)
2016. Finalist, 10x10 in the Triangle, The ArtsCenter (Carrborough, NC)
2014. Professional production, Barrington Stage Company 10x10 Play Festival (Pittsfield, MA)
Recalculating
2014. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
Cliché
2013. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
Top Secret Recipes
2012. Professional production, Forward Theater Company Monologue Festival (Madison, WI)
Toots
2018. Full production, Broom Street Theater "Unpresidented" Festival (Madison, WI)
2012. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
Something Real
2011. Professional production, Forward Theater Company Monologue Festival (Madison, WI)
The Sweetest Sound
2017. Professional production, Br!nk Briefs Ten Minute Play Festival, Reniassance Theaterworks, (Milwaukee, WI)
2011. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
A Taste of Home
2009. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
I’m Not Ready to Make Nice
2007. Professional production, Riverside Theatre “Walking the Wire” Festival (Iowa City, IA)
Other Writing Experience
Participant, Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive, 2019
Instructor, Playwriting 410 Course, UW Madison, 2019
Playwriting Symposium Respondent, Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2018
Participant, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute led by Chris Jones, 2017
Teaching Artist, Greater Madison Writing Project Young Writers Camp, 2017
Teaching Artist, Br!nk Playwriting Workshops, Renaissance Theaterworks, 2016
Teaching Artist/Playwriting Instructor, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, 2015, 2016
Young Playwrights Program Playwriting Instructor, Children’s Theater of Madison, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Young Playwrights Program Script Evaluator, Children’s Theater of Madison, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Edenfred Arts Residency Day Fellow, 2012
Young Playwrights Program Script Evaluator, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, 2011
One of five Midwestern playwrights selected for the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Intensive Workshop at Northwestern University, 2011
Edenfred Arts Residency Fellow, 2009
Theater reviewer, OnMilwaukee.com, The Capital Times, Isthmus and Coreweekly newspapers (Madison, WI)
Hardcover book, The Coronado: Rockford’s Wonder Theater documenting the theater’s long history in the community and the subsequent renovation efforts
Awards
2014. Short fiction “A Taste of Home” published in the Midwest Prairie Review
2011. Winner, short fiction, Jennifer Weiner Good In Bed Anniversary Contest
2009. Second place, short fiction for “Secret Recipe,” Wisconsin People and Ideas Magazine
2007. Finalist, short fiction for “Transparent,” Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, Mid American Review
2006. Fourth place, short fiction for “Lady of the House” Madison Magazine Short Story Contest
2004. Second place, short fiction for “A Matter of Semantics” Madison Magazine Short Story Contest
2000. First place, short fiction for “True Colors” Rockford Writers’ Guild
Education
1995. MA in Literature, History and Criticism of the Theater. University of Wisconsin, Madison
1992. BA (highest honors), English and Theater. University of Iowa. Phi Beta Kappa