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The Caregivers
Reading at Luna Stage Company, June 14 & 20, 2018, starring Claire McClanahan as FRANCES, Noreen Farley as MARJORIE and Alzie Rejouis as ANNA, directed by Cheryl Katz. Thank you, New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for your support.
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Helene: Hitler’s Jewish Athlete
FEATURE FILM – IN PROGRESS FINALIST – AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2022 PITCH CONTEST Helene Mayer, fencing phenom and half-Jew, agreed to fence for Hitler to save the Berlin Olympics from a boycott. Her silver medal wasn’t enough, however, to save her brother from forced labor at the hands of the Nazis. This story follows Helene…
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The Fencers
FULL-LENGTH PLAY. Maddie is broke and unemployed, with a chronically ill kid who needs surgery. She has one thing going for her: she’s an extraordinary fencer, and she just turned 50, so she can try out for the Veterans’ World Championships. When Maddie makes the controversial decision to give custody of her son to his…
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The Incels
FULL-LENGTH PLAY. Nominated for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tom and Derrick are “incels:” lonely, angry, desperate, “involuntarily celibate” men stuck in Internet echo chambers and creeping towards the edge of violence. They stumble upon a self-help channel, “Voice of Hope,” where Pat, a MGTOW (“man going his own way”), teaches men how to…
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The Judge and His Daughter
A full-length play A fictional conservative Supreme Court Justice whisks his climate-radicalist teen to an isolated camp in the Adirondacks when she is suspended from school for destroying the air conditioning system with a sledgehammer. While she waits out her suspension, the two try to “work on their relationship” under the guidance of the family…
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The Amy Coney Barrett Babies
A POLITICAL SATIRE – IN PROGRESS. Ten dystopic stories about women who are forced to be pregnant, yet are determined to carry on with their dreams, their goals, their lives. This is possible because they merely have to drop the pup and hand it over to the Amy Coney Barrett Safe Haven after birth. Then…
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The Mischief Maker
FULL-LENGTH PLAY – IN PROGRESS. Jo, a 15-year-old Catholic school girl, rebels against her restrictive mother, Jane, by making mischief at school, at work, and behind the strip mall. When Jane catches Jo sneaking beers, Jo lashes back by seducing a 20-year-old man on an old mattress in the woods. Jane shows up with a…
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The Suspects: A Sustainability Murder Mystery
A FARCE. At a Green Party campaign meeting, Dave, the mayoral candidate, is found dead. The campaigners run for the door to get the police, but discover there has been a climate catastrophe and they are trapped under six feet of snow. Clark, the town traffic cop, takes it upon himself to lead the murder…
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The Caregivers
FULL-LENGTH PLAY. Frances hates seeing her mother, Marjorie, suffer from late-stage Alzheimer’s. She discovers that Anna, the 24/7 aide, is coaxing Marjorie’s mouth open and pouring in the food. Anna sees this as doing her job; Frances sees it as force-feeding, and starts showing up three times a day to do the feedings, herself. Sure…
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The Widow
FULL-LENGTH PLAY. Cece, a childless widow, finds memories and words slipping away, one by one. With limited funds and no safety net, she goes online to find a husband while she still has looks and wits. When the men she finds turn vile and abusive, she uses her chemistry skills to dispatch of them, one…
Ruth Apolonia Zamoyta 