As Straw Before the Wind
Drama • 3 M, 4 F
Run time: 85 minutes
A Filipina nurse and convalescent home owner survives the trauma of World War II, only to discover that the war is not really over.
Production, Ruby Theater, Hollywood.
Drama • 3 M, 4 F
Run time: 85 minutes
A Filipina nurse and convalescent home owner survives the trauma of World War II, only to discover that the war is not really over.
Production, Ruby Theater, Hollywood.
Fallen Comrade
Drama • 3M, 1F
Run time: 70 minutes
A librarian and self-professed World War II geek comes to terms with his most difficult patron, an unhoused Vietnam war vet, who happens to be his father.
Workshop Production, Skylight Theatre Company, Los Angeles.
Drama • 3M, 1F
Run time: 70 minutes
A librarian and self-professed World War II geek comes to terms with his most difficult patron, an unhoused Vietnam war vet, who happens to be his father.
Workshop Production, Skylight Theatre Company, Los Angeles.
Fault Lines
Comedy • 4 M
Run time: 90 minutes
Josh, a single gay Asian man, lives in a fabulous rent-controlled San Francisco apartment. But Josh's well-ordered existence is rocked after encountering museum enthusiast Victor, an attractive gay Latino - from LA. Can civic pride, HIV and 400 miles separate two men who are otherwise a great match?
Staged reading, Skylight Theatre Company, Los Angeles.
Comedy • 4 M
Run time: 90 minutes
Josh, a single gay Asian man, lives in a fabulous rent-controlled San Francisco apartment. But Josh's well-ordered existence is rocked after encountering museum enthusiast Victor, an attractive gay Latino - from LA. Can civic pride, HIV and 400 miles separate two men who are otherwise a great match?
Staged reading, Skylight Theatre Company, Los Angeles.
Fearless Bloodsuckers of Hollywood
Dramedy • 3 M, 3 F
Run time: 90 minutes
Zac, a young Hollywood actor stereotyped into playing vampires and ghouls, feels his acting work is meaningless. A chance encounter with Bertrand, an erudite homeless, unhoused man and former professor, presents Zac with an opportunity to redirect his career. He persuades a young homeless shelter director into letting him shoot a relative TV show at her facility with Bertrand as a central character. But things don’t proceed as planned.
Staged and zoom readings, First Stage-Los Angeles.
Production, Overtime Theater, San Antonio.
Dramedy • 3 M, 3 F
Run time: 90 minutes
Zac, a young Hollywood actor stereotyped into playing vampires and ghouls, feels his acting work is meaningless. A chance encounter with Bertrand, an erudite homeless, unhoused man and former professor, presents Zac with an opportunity to redirect his career. He persuades a young homeless shelter director into letting him shoot a relative TV show at her facility with Bertrand as a central character. But things don’t proceed as planned.
Staged and zoom readings, First Stage-Los Angeles.
Production, Overtime Theater, San Antonio.
Manimal Crackers
Dramedy
2 M, 3 F, 3 nonspeaking roles, any gender
Run time: 70 minutes
A dramedy about a Pilipina American zoo keeper, her Korean American partner who's undergoing gender-confirming surgery, and her narcissistic former fashion model mother who's going into politics. Just another American family Norman Rockwell forgot to paint.
Staged reading, Celebration Theater, Los Angeles
Reading of excerpts, Circa Pintig Theater, Chicago.
Dramedy
2 M, 3 F, 3 nonspeaking roles, any gender
Run time: 70 minutes
A dramedy about a Pilipina American zoo keeper, her Korean American partner who's undergoing gender-confirming surgery, and her narcissistic former fashion model mother who's going into politics. Just another American family Norman Rockwell forgot to paint.
Staged reading, Celebration Theater, Los Angeles
Reading of excerpts, Circa Pintig Theater, Chicago.
Motherload!
(evening of short plays)
Comedy and Drama
4 M, 9 F
Run time: 90 minutes
An evening of six short plays about that indispensable woman in all our lives – Mom!
Production, Missing Piece Theater, Burbank.
Suicide Interruptus
Dramedy/Dark Comedy
4 M, 3 F
Run time: 90 minutes
A severely obese wife shoots her unfaithful spouse and then tries to turn the gun on herself, but her dying husband thwarts her plans. While awaiting her trial we learn
answers to the riddles surround her life. The second act travels backward in time to uncover the darkest of her family’s secrets and an answer to the question,“Why?”.
Staged reading, First Stage-Los Angeles.
Staged reading, National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, NY Chapter.
Dramedy/Dark Comedy
4 M, 3 F
Run time: 90 minutes
A severely obese wife shoots her unfaithful spouse and then tries to turn the gun on herself, but her dying husband thwarts her plans. While awaiting her trial we learn
answers to the riddles surround her life. The second act travels backward in time to uncover the darkest of her family’s secrets and an answer to the question,“Why?”.
Staged reading, First Stage-Los Angeles.
Staged reading, National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, NY Chapter.
Winged Therapy
Dramedy • 3 M, 4 F
Run time: 75 minutes
The Pilipino American Rosales family has achieved the American dream: a home in the S.F. avenues, lots of envious friends and a son in a psychiatric hospital. A coming of age story set in the turbulent, sex-crazed world of 1970’s San Francisco.
Staged reading, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Writers Institute.
Staged reading, First Stage-Los Angeles.
Dramedy • 3 M, 4 F
Run time: 75 minutes
The Pilipino American Rosales family has achieved the American dream: a home in the S.F. avenues, lots of envious friends and a son in a psychiatric hospital. A coming of age story set in the turbulent, sex-crazed world of 1970’s San Francisco.
Staged reading, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Writers Institute.
Staged reading, First Stage-Los Angeles.