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Party At DeeDee's

"I mean she thinks you're both gonna die in like a week so is she really being nice or just like a dumb fake idiot bitch or something I don't like that word I take it back but the point still stands...

Altruistic. That's the word you were looking for. Very altruistic of me."
Pictured: Eibhleann Clyne
​Photo by: Charlie Meegan
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A Pre-Apocalyptic Comedy about trying find someone who sees you as you are before that Giant Coyote everyone's talking about eats that world. Originally produced as part of the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Check out the script on New Play Exchange.

"My favorite Fringe performance this year ... made me feel something we may rarely get to feel, despite being inundated with our digital information age: I felt seen." - Broad Street Review

TOWN

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"Small-town life is
funny that way. I like patterns. You
know - rhythm. Something you can
really set your ear to and get a
familiarity with. Like a good book
you read over and over again. Or a
cow that never runs out of Harold
Milk’s Wonderdrink. Or TOWN. TOWN
never ends. And I wouldn’t have it
any other way."
Pictured: Jolie Darrow and Jack O'Keeffe
Photo by: Jason Taylor

What exactly are audiences asking for when they see classic texts pulled into the future and "modernized"? A loving parody of "Our Town" that seeks an answer to that questions before taking a turn for the horrific. Originally produced as part of the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

"T
he brilliance of performance is commendable ... Their chemistry and command of craft often has the audience rippling in laughter." - Phindie.com

Other Shows

  • Boy Problems — A one-man comedy sketch show about toxic masculinity, the rise of white supremacy, and how to be more like Mario and Luigi.
  • The Christmas Files – The FBI's best agent insists that the greatest threat to America's safety is Christmas magic.
  • A Brief Powerpoint About CBS' 'The Good Wife' — A Powerpoint presentation takes a turn for the worst when someone caught inside the presentation is being hunted by a Powerpoint-dwelling beast.
  • Orientation — A Dystopian College holds its college orientation seminar, during which the dean insists that the real problem is not the zombies on the perimeter but those "pesky" sexual harassment allegations.
  • Jack O'Keeffe Talks About Radiohead — Jack O'Keeffe invites you to his apartment to give a presentation about his favorite band. Ignore the fact that there's clearly a monster trying to escape his bedroom to eat you.

Work In Progress — There Is No Such Place As New Jersey (The Giant Robot Play)

"The soil of New Jersey is pourous. We’ll be the first to get swallowed by the sea. The water is already under us. We’re just waiting for it to reach up and pull us down."
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Four weirdos in and around a Taffy Shop on New Jersey's Ocean City Boardwalk, in a prospective future where Earth is trying to outrun climate change instead of confront it, try and schedule an appointment with God. What would be hard for the average taffy slinger is made easier with the help of a 125-foot Robot anchored in the Atlantic Ocean. A story about what it means to create and be created, to see and be seen, and how to stand up to shoddy management. 

Check out the script on New Play Exchange.
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