Nuclear family members, Katie, Hal, and their daughter, Jenny, reveal the feelings they can't share with each other in this ten-minute musical.   

Casting:  2W, 1M

Production:  Best of PlayGround Festival, 2010,  Dir. Barbara Oliver.  Music by Joshua Brody.

Staged Reading:  Monday Night PlayGround, 2010,  Dir.  Ryan Rilette.  Music by Joshua Brody. 

Publication:  Best of PlayGround, 2010

Award:  People’s Choice Award Winner, PlayGround

Photo:  Courtesy of PlayGround.  Back To Earth with Stacy Ross, Brian Herndon, & Elena Wright. 

Video:  Courtesy of PlayGround.  Back to Earth directed by Barbara Oliver.  Brian Herndon as Hal, Stacy Ross as Katie. 

As Daphne and Gary make love, they spar over the power of mind vs. body, thought vs. feeling, cat vs. mouse. 

". . .wittily blends aesthetics with sexual tease. A scantily clad beauty ruminates on John Berger's theories on nudes while pointedly ignoring her naked lover . When he responds in song, she turns the tables in a comically devastating twist." -- Robert Hurwitt, 

". . . intimate and nuanced as they deal with the complications of love, vulnerability and loneliness."  -- Sonia Fernandez

Casting:  1W, 1M                                             

Production:   Best of PlayGround Festival, 2009, directed by Amy Mueller

Staged Reading:   Monday Night PlayGround, 2009, directed by Delia McDougall

Publication:  Best of PlayGround 2009

Photo:  Courtesy of PlayGround.  Michael Phillis as Gary, Danielle Levin as Daphne. 

Video:  Courtesy of PlayGround.  Directed by Amy Mueller. Michael Phillis as Gary, Danielle Levin as Daphne. 

Synopsis:  When Melanie's husband returns from a tour of duty in Iraq, she doesn't recognize him. 

Casting:  3W, 2M

Production:                  Best of PlayGround Festival, 2005, Dir. Jonathan Moscone

Staged Reading:       Monday Night PlayGround, 2005, Dir. Jonathan Moscone

Publication:              Best of PlayGround, 2005

"In this gritty, unsentimental, and strangely magical piece, two street-dwelling down-and-outers clash over conflicting versions of the future."  -- Laura Brueckner

Casting:  2 actors, any gender, any age, any background

Productions:  Double XX Festival, Seattle, WA, 2012 Dir. Katie Haster

Best of PlayGround Festival, 2011, Dir. Raelle Myrick-Hodges                                

Staged Reading:  Monday Night PlayGround, 2010  Dir. Molly Noble

Publication:   Best of PlayGround, 2011

Award:   People’s Choice Award Winner, PlayGround

"A new legend is created in Evelyn Jean Pine's Simple and Elegant.  With the style and feel of a favorite childhood storybook, Evy tells us a story of two sisters who live in a magical world where fish possess the power of speech.   Though resembling the shape and sound of a fairy tale, Evy's play provokes further thought with an unconventional happily-ever-after." -- Celine Delcayre

Casting:  2W, 1M

Length:  10 minutes

Production:  PlayGround Festival of New Works, 2013, Dir. Tracy Ward.

Staged reading:  Monday Night PlayGround, Berkeley Rep, 2012, Dir. Nancy Carlin.

Publication:  Best of PlayGround, 2013, Cass Brayton, Editor. 

Read me:  Read Simple & Elegant here at the New Play Exchange. 

Cleaning out their dead mother's bedroom, two sisters live out their old rivalry when  they discover a forgotten weapon. 

Casting:  2W  

Length:  10 minutes             

Productions:  Tapas Festival, Pegasus Theatre Co., Monte Rio, CA, 2009, directed by Darlene Kersnar

SFSU Brown Bag Theatre, 2007, directed by  Terry Beswick                

Pacifica Table Readers, 2007, directed by Ann Thomas & Ian Fink 

Offstage Theatre Co., Charlottesville, VA, 2007, directed by Elizabeth Whittemore 

Staged Reading:  Monday Night PlayGround, 2004, directed by Tom Ross        

Awards: 6th Street Playhouse, New Works Festival, Honorable Mention, 2005

Quickies Festival, Actors Theatre of Santa Rosa, Honorable Mention, 2005

Read Me:  You can read Cleaning Out on the New Play Exchange.  

Photo Credit:  Elizabeth Simmons    

Coeus and Creos, old, infirm, and forgotten, can agree on only one thing: old age is hell, but it does endow one with that most potent of all superpowers — invisibility. Can the twins collaborate to use their superpower to outsmart the magnificent Hades and destroy the god of the underworld? And if they succeed in this impossible scheme, will any of their brethren recognize them, remember them, and join with them to bring down the Olympic Empire?

Casting: 3W, 6M

Length:  One Act

Staged reading :  San Francisco Olympians Festival, Exit Theatre, 2012, Dir. Karen Offereins. 

Award:  People’s Choice Award Winner, S.F. Olympians Festival, 2012

The beautiful poster for the play is by David Van Patten.  You can see more of his work here.  

The first motion picture electrifies The Society of Free Love and Universal Enlightenment, leading to horror, amazement, and, God forbid, marriage. 

Casting:  2W, 4M

Length:  Ten Minutes

Productions:  FN Productions, New York, NY, 2007, directed by  Halina Ujda

San Francisco State University,  One-Act Fringe, 2007, directed by Roy Conboy    

Staged Reading: No Nude Men Benefit, 2007, directed by Stuart Bousel

Publication:  Stage This, Too, 2007

Synopsis:  Queen Isabella uses an arsenal of tactics to convince King Ferdinand to use his venture capital to fund Christopher Columbus. 

Casting:  1W, 1M

Length:  10 minutes

Production History:    

Theatre Ariel, Readings & Discussion, November, 2016

Theatre Ariel, "Stranger in Our Midst" Festival, 2011. 

Best of PlayGround Festival, 2007.   Directed by Elizabeth Williamson.      

Staged Reading:   Monday Night PlayGround, 2006.   Directed by Bill Selig.

Podcast:             KQED Writer’s Block Podcast, 2008, Directed by Jim Kleinmann

Publication:          Best of PlayGround, 2007