Logline A grandmother, mother and daughter come to live together in a country house where their lives are forever changed as these strong-willed women wrestle with various levels of grief, incredible love, difficult partings, new romances, newborns and gardening! Synopsis WAVES centres around three generations of wildly different, engaging women – a grandmother, mother and […]
A Promise I Made to Mr. Bagels
April 11, 2022 by Leave a Comment
A reclusive children’s author with OCD tendencies and dysfunctional family, has lost the will to write when one of his fictional characters, Mr. Bagels, comes to life and demands the writer kill him in his next book like he promised.
That’s How It Goes Sometimes
July 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
A Short One-Act Play A Male and Female are having dinner. It’s uncomfortably quiet. The tension between them is obvious. Once they start talking, their true feelings explode in vicious and uncompromising ways. But is it really their feelings…or someone else trying to control their every thought and action? That’s How It Goes Sometimes […]
Animal
July 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Logline Everything is not what it seems in Raina Shepherd’s world. When her parents leave for the day and her brother and son seemingly show up out of nowhere, what unfolds is a number of searing revelations from the Shepherds’ collective pasts that rock this already fragmented family to the breaking point. Synopsis Raina […]
After Alex – A One-Act Play
June 27, 2019 by Leave a Comment
AFTER ALEX is about a woman named Gloria Luca who is forced to reflect upon the life she’s lived and the life she imagined after a tense confrontation with her daughter Alex. She accuses Alex of being selfish and irresponsible because of her plans to drop out of school and sail around the world. AFTER […]
ANIMAL Reading @ Alumnae
February 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Saturday March 24 2018 – 12 NOON The Alumnae Theatre Pay What You Can at the door (suggestive price: $10 CASH ONLY) SYNOPSIS Raina Shepherd, a mentally unstable woman, has lost her grip on reality following a recent tragedy. When her brother Daniel and son Griffin come to her aid, what unfolds is a number […]
Break Away
January 2, 2018 by Leave a Comment
When demons from his past come back to haunt an artistic father, his life-long struggle with mental illness resurfaces and throws his family into turmoil, threatening his son’s burgeoning hockey career.
Let It Shine
December 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Logline A sprawling tale of love, faith and sacrifice that spans years in the life of one family as seen through the eyes of its youngest member – a precocious child whose extraordinary bond with her unpredictable, compassionate older brother teaches her that in order to stand out, one must not be afraid to shine. […]
The Living Water
September 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Logline: A 75 year black man living his final days in a not-so-nice retirement home and a 20-something white woman with a chip on her shoulder, form an unlikely bond over their shared loneliness and loss which leads them to the banks of the Mississippi River. Synopsis: 1966. Mississippi. George Bloom, a 26 year-old black […]
The Great Surrender
December 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Logline: A disillusioned former high school football star’s life is left in ruins after a tornado puts his mother in a coma, which in turn, awakens his purpose, but it may not be enough to overcome a tragic past he’s lied about. Synopsis: Zackary Foley grew up in Oklahoma where he played high school football […]