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PictureClaire Stewart-Moore as Wendy in The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet (produced as Lock Up Your Chaperone, Short + Sweet Sydney 2014)
Girls on the Brink  
A collection of short plays about coming of age and the dramatic impact of sudden change on young lives. From a new take on Romeo and Juliet to an Afghan girl whose days as a boy are at an end to a futuristic tale of living forever, these seven diverse plays all explore that precarious moment when young people find themselves on the brink of life.
​Includes 
The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet
Refloat Our Whale
Grow Up, Juliet
Twilight of the Grizzly
Aleema the Boy Girl
Sugar Horror 
Almost Immortal




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Proud Mary and Prejudiced Lydia

Who Remembers Eponine's Sister? 
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We Aren't Aliens


Prepper's Nightmare 
published by ​ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center

and in Ageless! 11 Short Plays Celebrating Seniors
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Garage Invasion
published in Stage It! 6: Thirty 10-minute Plays


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Surfing in Munich
published in Stage Journeys: 10 short plays from New Zealand

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Threatened Panda Fights Back
published in
 A Year in the Caravan, 2020-21


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Trumpettes Anonymous
published in 
The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021
(Applause 2021)

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Ebook Meets Treebook 
published in Stage It! 2 : Thirty 10-Minute Plays


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Doug's monologue from Prepper's Nightmare
published in The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2020
(Smith and Kraus, 2021)

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Elizabeth's Revenge 
from Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest)
published in 
The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2020 
​(Smith and Kraus, 2021)


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Boot's Vacation and None of Your Blarney 
published in Best Men's Monologues of 2019 (Smith & Kraus)



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Sweet Fright  ​
published in Best Women's Monologues of 2019 (Smith & Kraus)


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The Birds Are Feeding Me

published in Laughter Is the Best Medicine : forty-five 5-minute plays in the age of coronavirus (
Smith & Kraus, 2021)

and

Synkroniciti, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 2021)


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Don't Flip Your Snood
published in Contemporary One-Act Plays, Volume 2
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Kia Orāna, Joe
published in The Covid Monologues : 54 Writers Respond to the Pandemic


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Restoring Romeo and Will Kemp's Turn
published in London: Smoke, Blokes and Jokes of Foggy Town, Red Penguin, 2022

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Opening monologue from The Sword and the Gown published in WE/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority, Smith & Kraus, 2022 


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Restoring Romeo
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published in For Stage and Screen, Issue 3: "After"​, 2023


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Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest) ​
published in The Courtship of Winds, Summer, 2022

and in Hearts & Guns, Volume 2.
​Qutub Minar Review
, 2023


Margaret Thatcher Changes the World 
​published by 
Lazy Bee Scripts, UK, 2015
Table in the Air
published in 2019-2020 Science Playwriting Competition
​I Love an Earthling ​ ​
published in Some Scripts - Issue 1

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Incident in Vienna (short story)
published in Lost. Volume 2: Missing Things, 2023

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The Tarantula's Pet Frog
published in ​Stage It! 7, 2023


​Love and Acoustics won 2nd place at Words on Water Playwriting Contest, Blue Institute, Harwich, Massachusetts, 2023. Script published online