Selected short Plays
Full list of plays and script samples available at the New Play Exchange
CLEAN DISHES
Synopsis: DRAMEDY; For any 2 people
An ex-couple meet at a curiously short-staffed restaurant to discuss the apparently flexible terms of their non-relationship.
productions & developments
Play Festival 2022, Chain Theater, July 2022 + LIVESTREAM (Watch Here) | PocketBear Productions
doug & ava say "I love you"
Synopsis: Sex comedy; 1m, 1w
Two college students, Doug and Ava, are about to get busy. But while Ava has some reservations and conditions, Doug actually has a very clear plan, and with the help of a very useful little pamphlet, he might just see that plan through to completion. When in doubt, read the instructions, right? Doug & Ava Say “I Love You” is a short, comedic exploration of sexual politics and the rhetoric of consent.
productions & developments
Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney, 2019 (dir. Alyssa Gillgren)
The Gallery Players New Play Black Box Festival, Park Slope, 2017
TABLE TALKS
SYNOPSIS: VIDEO MONOLOGUES; (Varied ROLES)
A deliciously short ongoing series of video monologues that eavesdrops on those people you see—and hear—in restaurants.
Totality
Synopsis: Drama; 2m, 2w
Two couples contemplate mortality and their relationship while waiting for a rare celestial event: the total solar eclipse, August 2017.
knots
Synopsis: LGBTQIA+ comedy; 2m, 1w
Two grooms have one final conversation before walking down the aisle, while a family member tries to keep both men on the task at hand.
Productions & Developments
8 Tens Festival, Actors Theatre, 2020
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
synopsis: modern romance; 1m, 1w
At a coffee bar, a young couple come to the not-so-difficult decision that, while things were kinda good for a while, and the sex was maybe even better than okay, it’s time to break things off. Yes. I guess. Definitely. Probably. Maybe.
Productions & Developments
Boog City Poetry, Music, Theatre, and Film Festival, Sunday, Sept. 17, 4 - 6 p.m, 2017, Sidewalk Cafe.
Dark Side Of The Moon
synopsis: Drama; 2w, 1m
Ann and Tim, a young married couple, cope in different ways with the loss of their daughter. Ann is unwilling to move on, and disagrees with Tim about how to treat Ann’s older sister Susan. Forgiveness, pain, and the glimmer of hope hang in the balance.
Productions & Developments
NYC Downtown Play Festival, 2006
Elvis's Dog
Synopsis: Monologue/comedy/southern, 1w
After a botched visit to Graceland, Mary-Ellen Hoak tries to get to the bottom of the rumors about one of Elvis's dogs, the one named Moonbeam, a rumor that her late-husband believed in wholeheartedly.
Productions & Developments
Claire Porter’s Word/Play, Medicine Show Theatre, 2012
BUFFER
(Xavier Cha with Robert Moulthrop)
Synopsis: Experimental, performance art, Duologue
BUFFER is a collaborative performance work conceived and directed by Xavier Cha, with the "screenplay" written by Xavier Cha with Robert Moulthrop.
A man and woman deep in conversation, their intimate dialogue glitching and dropping out. The razor-sharp movement of a contemporary dance company, lagging just seconds behind an operatic score. Two sweaty men in the middle of a sexual encounter, bodies freezing in an ecstatic loop. Comprising three scenes that toggle back and forth like browser windows in a state of perpetual buffering, it lays bare the intimate yet alienated relationships we have with the bodies on our screens.
Productions & Developments
Image 1: Xavier Cha, Buffer, 2017. Performance view, Brooklyn Academy of Music, November 1, 2017. Cassandra Freeman and Babs Olusanmokun. Photo: Rebecca Smeyne. Image source.
Images 2 - 5, stills from promotional video for Buffer, Next Wave 2017, BAM, 2017, video available here.