Forthcoming Plays:
- Picture Day, Generation Now Playwriting Commission, 2026
- Work-in-progress piece, LACMA immersive theater in collaboration with Native voices, 2026
- Part 3 of the Muldrow Cycle, LA Writer’s Workshop, 2025-2026
A Third Space (2024)
Devised from the intergenerational interviews of the Trans Conversation Project, TRANS-Scripts is an anthology-style play of dialogues and monologues that explore the commonalities and complexities of transgender and nonbinary lives. An all-trans/gender-nonconforming ensemble will collaborate to share perspectives and build communities with audiences at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Annex (2023)
A “miracle cure” transforms a flaky disaster friend to a neighborhood oracle–but it comes at a cost. They must choose between their new abilities or their queer family’s stability.
Premiered at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Learn about Annex’s buzz and awards.
Central Standard Time (2023)
Jay returns to Muldrow, Oklahoma to take over the Jacobs Family Store following the death of their Great-Aunt Alice, rankling the legion of relatives who expected to be left in charge. Jay puts their own sense of cultural responsibility to the test by attempting to live in this small town of nosy aunts, conservative churches, and pointed expectations.
Developed with the Autry Museum of the American West’s Native Voices New Playwright Retreat in Los Angeles and La Jolla, June 2023
“Decoration Day,” an excerpt, selected for the 13th Annual Native Voices Short Play Festival at the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, 2023.
Selection, Kayenta New Play Lab, 2024
Embers Borne West (2022)
An exploration of belonging, assimilation, and identity for an intergenerational Cherokee-Choctaw family of Okies in 1920s Los Angeles. A century ahead in LA, nonbinary descendent Jay hopes to solve some family mysteries by eavesdropping.
Developed and read at the Moving Arts MADLab First Look Reading Series
Winner, Los Angeles New Play Project – Forthcoming production 2026 at Fountain Theater
Love Chicken (2022)
Old and new relationships collide during a weekend retreat and its aftermath when nonbinary best friends Lolo and Yan have to evaluate their future in light of their past.
Premiered at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Learn about Love Chicken’s buzz and awards.
Don’t Call Me (2020)
While reading Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley in English class, a group of high school students come to see one another more clearly as literature mingles with their lives.
Marilyn Monroe in the Desert (Director)
- Rehearsed Reading, Premiere the Play Podcast, December 2023
- Dramaturg process with playwright, Barbara Blatner
Maddox K. Pennington 