Selected Summaries

2025 O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference Semifinalist.

An indie-pop adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest based on Enyn’s concept album. Prospero is determined to retell the old play his way: neither littered with the racist undertones of the original, nor quite a post-colonial recontextualization.

However, the Spirit of the Story seeks to assert itself as the familiar events of the play occur around the island.

2024 O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference Semifinalist.

Featherdreamer starts off as a Golden Age musical: boy sees girl, becomes infatuated, and pursues girl (regardless of her actual desires.) At the culmination of the grand love ballad, he confesses his love— to the actress playing the female lead, not the character herself.

The metatheatrical fallout deals with the power of the stories we tell and the responsibility that comes with that power in a world that has so often silenced or warped certain stories.

Jay is a violently enthusiastic Indian-American wannabe cowboy searching for the mythical Bird-Faced Beast of Sawmill Lake. The tragic reason for this manic search is revealed in a series of trials that serve as a crucible for Jay’s relationship with their country. 

Sophytos is a Greek youth in 200 BCE, in what is today Kandahar, Afghanistan. Mac is the fiddle player in a failing folk band in 1970s London. Jay is an Indian-American playwright living in NYC during the present day. What binds them together?

As Bactrians invade his home, Sophytos leaves to seek his fortune and purpose, traveling as far as Pella, the heart of Macedonia. Seeking enlightenment in Eastern philosophies, Mac and her band follow the “hippie trail” to India. And Jay, determined to write an “Indian play” without actually writing an Indian play, travels by car and plane with his girlfriend to Paramaribo, Suriname.

As the travelers seek themselves in communities and places quite removed from their original lives, their timelines begin to bleed into each other in strange counterpoint, forcing each traveler to confront the meanings and purposes behind the journeys themselves.

The library of the summation of human knowledge has just burned to the ground.

What comes next?

In the 1880s, the body of a young woman was pulled out of the River Seine. One of the morticians was supposedly so taken by her beauty that he made a death mask of her face - said mask became a wildly popular accessory in Bohemian households as her character became something of a muse. She is often imagined to have died by suicide, due to the expression on her face and the lack of marks of violence on her body.

Vera, a modern-day museum researcher, is putting together an exhibition on this woman - known today as L’Inconnue de la Seine. One of her secondary sources is the girl as imagined by Beauregard, a Bohemian writing letters in the 1940’s. As the three timelines converge, the nature and purpose of romanticization and fantasy are called into question.