Funeral Season
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
2ND PLACE (FEATURES) - SLAMDANCE SCREENWRITING COMPETITION (2020)
SEMIFINALIST - THE SCRIPT LAB SCREENWRITING COMPETITION (2020)
QUARTERFINALIST - THE RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (2021)
COVERFLY RED LIST - #1 FAITH FEATURES (APRIL 2021) SELECTED FOR NYU PRODUCTION LAB’S DEVELOPMENT STUDIO (2017)
Helen wants to live so she can redeem herself as a children’s book author, while Judy wants to die so she can join her husband in the afterlife. As their friends die around them, this elderly duo faces death directly on a funeral road trip.
The Matriarchs
FULL LENGTH PLAY
CHOSEN FOR THE ARTIST CO-OP’S FALL 2020 VIRTUAL COLD READ WORKSHOP (CONTACT JAKE FOR VIDEO LINK)
PART OF LSTC’S INAUGURAL SEASON
SELECTED BY DIXON PLACE THEATER
When Rachel, the traditionalist president of her Conservative synagogue, finds out that the decision for choosing a new rabbi has been done behind closed doors to reform the synagogue, she has to fight for the preservation of her shul and her values before the final decision is made on the most important and holy days of the year — the High Holidays.
Set during the High Holidays season of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, this play highlights the difficulty of being a Conservative Jew in an America that is reckoning with an ever-shifting identity in order to survive.
Diorama
ROOM 104 SPEC SCRIPT
Every week a naïve young man and a domineering older woman play a game of foreplay, which she pays for, set in the 1980’s. But when the young man says he is going to break off their weekly encounters, the power dynamic changes and she has to tactfully maneuver to get what she wants.
Strong Mayor
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
SELECTED FOR THE NYU SCREENWRITING IN LONDON PROGRAM
When an eighteen-year-old is elected mayor of his hometown and discovers his position is purely ceremonial, he tries to regain control from the corrupt city council and prove he is worthy of power, all while trying to balance his high school life along the way.