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The Coalcracker Plays
Below you'll find a list of the Coalcracker plays - an evolving cycle of plays focusing on toxic families in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. If you'd like to peruse a script, head on over to my New Play Exchange (linked at the bottom of the page) or email me via my contact page!
Metrosexual Coalcracker
(4m/2f)
METROSEXUAL COALCRACKER struggles with the reality of living with a toxic family in small town Pennsylvania. Moss is not out to his family and lives in plain sight with his husband, Link. Link comes home one night to find that Moss has been shot by his drunken, homophobic twin. Moss, unable to upset his family, will not seek medical attention and the young men's apartment becomes a revolving door of family members, distant friends, and unconcerned parties. Moss must decide what he is willing to take - other than bullets, of course.
hair of the dog
(2m/3f)
A dark comedy on family, binge grieving, what we hold onto, and the things we leave unresolved.
Oh, and check your chest freezer. There may be a body inside.
Last Rites
(1m/5f)
A mother dying of lung cancer but still smoking like a chimney grapples with maintaining control over her world. Her daughters struggle against her and one another for their own autonomy. In this viper's nest, no one is free of venom.
where the canary dies.
(2f)
WHERE THE CANARY DIES is the story of two sisters who venture down into an abandoned mine to wrestle with a traumatic past… only to wrestle the supernatural, too.