Playwright · Screenwriter · Professor · Queer Jester from Amish PA
(they/them/theirs/she/her/hers)
NYC/LA
SOME PILOTS
TAART
Inspired by my play Once on Rumspringa (and personal experience), Taart follows closeted-queer, 16-year-old, Amish anti-hero, Willa Stoltzfus, on her rite-of-passage Rumspringa. Crashing in a communal trailer in rural Lancaster, PA, she discovers sins including the underground meth trade, feelings for her childhood bestie, and gender identity. BYOBonnet!
Accolades: Filmmatic Screenplay Competition Semifinalist 2024, Austin Film Festival Comedy Teleplay 2nd Round Finalist 2023, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Semifinalist 2022, Filmmatic Screenplay Competition Semifinalist 2022
When college grad Sofie learns of her Jewish heritage, previously concealed by her mother behind a WASPy facade, she travels to Prague to track down her morally ambiguous maternal line. Living and working in an International Youth Hostel, where beer is served for breakfast and privacy doesn’t exist, she navigates messy relationships, picturesque adventures, and timeless Czech bohemia. Na zdraví [cheers]!
DISSOLUTES
To make ends meet, 25-year-old painter Mable moonlights as a luxurious Manhattan escort with one unique rule: no physical touch, just conversation. But when a past partner threatens to expose her identity and newly developing relationship with a client, Mable must bargain with her own boundaries of intimacy. This comedic, chaotic coming-of-age---and tell-all on NYC’s sugar bowl industry---comes from personal frickin’ experience.
INTIMATE
