OF ALEXANDRIA (3M, 1W)
Three generations of Egyptians with uneasy relationships to each other embark on a road-trip to Cape Cod to see a dying aunt no one speaks to that has helped and wounded each of them in vastly different, but equally lasting ways.
QUALITY CELLULAR (4M, 3W)
During the height of the Great Recession in 2009, an Egyptian-American teenager is forced to work in his divorced parents’ failing cell phone shop the summer before college, coming of age as he sees the troublesome sides of his immigrant father, single mother, and their degenerate employees.
IN PLACE (3M, 3W)
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, six New Yorkers are forced to shelter in place together, forcing them to finally face the problems they’ve been avoiding and the toxic relationships they’ve formed with one another.
HEARTBEAT (1M, 1W)
A soon to be married couple in New Orleans embark on a road trip to Texas for an abortion as they struggle to keep their relationship together.
FASTER HORSES (2 W)
Full-length, 90min
Two women sick of male-dominated start-ups decide to rebel against the tech industry and create their own app.
THE WILD PARROTS OF CAMPBELL (3M, 2 W)
Full-length, 135min
In a rundown house in a California suburb, a group of loser twenty-something roommates, find their low rent, slacker existence threatened when their friend/landlord invites a strange girl he met online to move in, igniting tensions amongst the friends and digging up the home's past familial trauma.
*First production produced by NOW Collective at The Cherry Lane
THE FLOOR IS LAVA (3M, 1W)
Full-length, 90min
Held up in the basement of a friend's billion-dollar Silicon Valley start-up's New Years Eve Party with an endless supply of scotch, a technophobic twenty-something, whose successful life self-destructed spectacularly in New York, struggles to maintain normalcy, old friendships, and his sanity as her ponders where he fits in a world governed by social media and instant success.
*Won Best Play, Production, and Ensemble at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in 2017. First production, The Farm Theater.
IF YOU EVER COME BY HERE (1M, 1W)
Full-length, 60min
A socially isolated, early twenties, drug store clerk attempts suicide, but is unknowingly interrupted by his co-worker when she interrupts with a knock on his door late one night. What unfolds from that moment causes their friendship and lives to reach a breaking point from which neither can return.
*First production produced by Essential Theater Group at The Tank Theater
WHEN YOU GO (3M, 1F)
One-Act, 40min
Josh, Mike, Becca and Clark get together for one last night before one of them leaves their rural upstate town for New York City. A night of final goodbyes becomes a hotbed for expressing what's been boiling below the surface.
*First production produced by Essential Theater Group at The Tank Theater as part of "Zurich, NY"
STANDBYS (1M, 3W)
Full-length, 100min
Two executives who used to be close friends, but who despise each other now, are forced to confront the moment when it all went wrong, while sitting next to each other on a flight as they fight through a blizzard to get home for Christmas.
*Workshop production at the Thespis Festival at the Cabrini Repertory Theater
Three generations of Egyptians with uneasy relationships to each other embark on a road-trip to Cape Cod to see a dying aunt no one speaks to that has helped and wounded each of them in vastly different, but equally lasting ways.
QUALITY CELLULAR (4M, 3W)
During the height of the Great Recession in 2009, an Egyptian-American teenager is forced to work in his divorced parents’ failing cell phone shop the summer before college, coming of age as he sees the troublesome sides of his immigrant father, single mother, and their degenerate employees.
IN PLACE (3M, 3W)
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, six New Yorkers are forced to shelter in place together, forcing them to finally face the problems they’ve been avoiding and the toxic relationships they’ve formed with one another.
HEARTBEAT (1M, 1W)
A soon to be married couple in New Orleans embark on a road trip to Texas for an abortion as they struggle to keep their relationship together.
FASTER HORSES (2 W)
Full-length, 90min
Two women sick of male-dominated start-ups decide to rebel against the tech industry and create their own app.
THE WILD PARROTS OF CAMPBELL (3M, 2 W)
Full-length, 135min
In a rundown house in a California suburb, a group of loser twenty-something roommates, find their low rent, slacker existence threatened when their friend/landlord invites a strange girl he met online to move in, igniting tensions amongst the friends and digging up the home's past familial trauma.
*First production produced by NOW Collective at The Cherry Lane
THE FLOOR IS LAVA (3M, 1W)
Full-length, 90min
Held up in the basement of a friend's billion-dollar Silicon Valley start-up's New Years Eve Party with an endless supply of scotch, a technophobic twenty-something, whose successful life self-destructed spectacularly in New York, struggles to maintain normalcy, old friendships, and his sanity as her ponders where he fits in a world governed by social media and instant success.
*Won Best Play, Production, and Ensemble at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in 2017. First production, The Farm Theater.
IF YOU EVER COME BY HERE (1M, 1W)
Full-length, 60min
A socially isolated, early twenties, drug store clerk attempts suicide, but is unknowingly interrupted by his co-worker when she interrupts with a knock on his door late one night. What unfolds from that moment causes their friendship and lives to reach a breaking point from which neither can return.
*First production produced by Essential Theater Group at The Tank Theater
WHEN YOU GO (3M, 1F)
One-Act, 40min
Josh, Mike, Becca and Clark get together for one last night before one of them leaves their rural upstate town for New York City. A night of final goodbyes becomes a hotbed for expressing what's been boiling below the surface.
*First production produced by Essential Theater Group at The Tank Theater as part of "Zurich, NY"
STANDBYS (1M, 3W)
Full-length, 100min
Two executives who used to be close friends, but who despise each other now, are forced to confront the moment when it all went wrong, while sitting next to each other on a flight as they fight through a blizzard to get home for Christmas.
*Workshop production at the Thespis Festival at the Cabrini Repertory Theater