Pair

Workshop production at Lenfest Center for the Arts

“You’re amazing” - “You’re amazing”
“You’re amazing” - “You’re amazing”

Two au pairs in a tiny room in the eaves of a Swiss chalet.

A chance to see the world before their “real lives” of middle class conformity begin.

There’s something that happens when you’re trapped in a place with someone. There’s something that happens when you’re the only two people on earth that matter. There’s something that happens when the place you’re trapped in doesn’t see you.

That tension creates pressure.
That pressure finds a release.

Based loosely on the 1933 murders committed by Christine and Léa Papin - the murders that inspired Jean Genet’s The Maids, Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, and a century of films, novels, songs, and Law and Order episodes in between - Pair explores the subtle tyranny of care work, the longing of the powerless for empire, and the tiny twisted pocket world a relationship creates.

3F

Twenty-Six Seconds

Presented at The Park Avenue Armory as part of the Culture in a Changing America Symposium, 2/2019

Workshop production at Shapiro Theatre, 1/2019

The Zapruder film is a Greek tragedy: a procession of impossibly beautiful, mythic royals toward their inevitable destruction. Our culture's relationship to the footage is an existentialist play: replayed over and over, hundreds of thousands of times a day, a compulsive search for answers that never emerge. Twenty-Six Seconds is a stage adaptation of the film through the lens of the cultural obsession. Frame by frame, the characters in the tragedy play out the myth (the lie?) of our twentieth century Camelot as it existed on November 22, 1963, while being constantly compelled to assume their positions from the historical record. 

3F/6M

Marta Nesspek Presents…

A Melodrama! A Creature! A Femme Fatale! And More!

A live performance by live actors with hand-drawn pen-and-ink cinematic puppetry, presenting pop-up shows to small audiences in apartments and back rooms across NYC.

3 M/F

Piano for Four Hands

Nat and Lia are conjoined twins. They’re young, sheltered and home-schooled, lonely and bored, and interested in everything and never really alone. They're rising concert pianists and complete audiophiles, but when Lia starts talking to one of her fans they're forced to face the desire for and fear of separateness in their shared life.

2F/2M

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Adwin has a clockwork heart and a pediatrician he barely trusts. Theres a girl in his building who fixes watches and who doesn't believe in magic, but hangs out with a psychic. He leaves recordings of his heart on her answering machine and she tries to understand them. Eventually they make contact.

2F/2M

Etc.

ask me about my unproduced pilots

CANCER ROOMMATE - half hour single camera comedy. The lives of three Brooklyn roommates are upended when one of them is diagnosed with testicular cancer. Loosely based on the events of 2017.

THE EDITH TATE SCHOOL COVEN - hour long teen drama. A small group of teenagers at an all girls boarding school discover that they’re witches. Even more loosely based on the events of my adolescence.