Craft

Writing in the Wild Between Form and Fire

🎭 What I Make

This is where the chaos becomes form.
This is where words are carved into monologues, moments, and metaphors.
This is the workshop — the rehearsal room of thought — where my plays, poetry, photography, and performance all live under one roof.

You’ll find here a curated collection of:

Stage plays — one-acts, full-lengths, courtroom comedies, theological farces, and meditative duets
Poetry — sharp, surreal, and often hiding in the margins
Photography — quiet glimpses of light, decay, and human stillness
Selected acting work — because sometimes the best way to write for the stage is to be on it

All of it is unified by a single creative philosophy I call:

🌀 Elegant Anarchy: My Signature Style

Elegant Anarchy is the tension between meaning and madness. It’s the kind of work that looks like it might fall apart — but never does.

It’s:

Carefully structured chaos
Comedy that winks, then bleeds
Absurdism with heart
Language that dances between poetry and punchline
Rituals undone and rebuilt in real time

It’s Beckett with rhythm, Ives with teeth, Durang with a law degree, Chekhov if he were raised in Florida and taught high school drama during hurricane season.

In Elegant Anarchy, characters may be confused, but the writing never is. The world may unravel, but the storytelling holds. And in every ridiculous, impossible moment, there’s a precise emotional truth hiding just beneath the surface.

This is the kind of work I strive to make — whether in a courtroom sketch parody or a ten-minute poem whispered under stage lights.

📜 Plays

Below are selected works from my catalogue:

🎭 The Case of the Missing Joe

Genre: Absurdist legal farce
Runtime: Full-Length, Two acts
Status: Final draft; ready for staged reading or production
Blurb:
Daniel Stevens, a sleep-deprived personal injury attorney, is just trying to survive another day at his chaotic law office — until one of his clients vanishes, a mob boss sends cryptic baked goods, and his assistant might not be who she says she is. Featuring talking coffee cups, paranoid gnome disputes, and a child who’s too smart for everyone’s good, this courtroom comedy spirals into mystery, mistaken identity, and existential caffeine dependence.
Featured: Stage West New Works Playwright Series 2025

🎭 Dog-Eared Truth

Genre: One-act poetic drama
Runtime: 10–15 minutes
Status: Festival-ready; award finalist
Blurb:
In a quiet apartment filled with books and unspoken grief, two estranged siblings reunite to decide the fate of a dog neither of them wanted — and the memories they both tried to forget. As stories are read aloud and old wounds opened, the line between fact and fiction blurs. Dog-Eared Truth is a tender, literary confrontation about loyalty, narrative, and the versions of ourselves we leave in the margins.
Finalist: Tampa Bay Theatre Festival 2025 (Dramatic Selection)

🎭 Funeral of god

Genre: Absurdist tragicomedy, meta-theatre
Runtime: Full-length, two acts
Status: Final draft; ready for staged reading or production
Blurb:
A group of performers rehearse the funeral of a God who may never have existed. No one agrees on the ritual. The script keeps changing. The casket keeps creaking open. It’s a play about loss, belief, and performance — and the line between eulogy and denial.

🎭 The Last Key Lime Pie

Genre: One-act absurdist marital comedy
Runtime: 10 minutes
Status: Festival-ready
Blurb:
A Florida couple takes shelter during a hurricane. So does Florida Man. So does a slice of key lime pie — the last one. What starts as dessert becomes a battleground for love, legacy, and citrus-based resentment.
Featured: Stage West New Works Playwright Series 2025
Finalist: Tampa Bay Theatre Festival 2025 (Comedic Selection)

🎭 One Seat Over: Ten Conversations Between Here and There

Genre: Elegant Anarchy Series / Episodic / Virtue-Driven Two-Handers
Runtime: Full-length, two acts
Status: Final draft; ready for staged reading or production
Blurb:
Ten poignant, absurd, and wildly funny conversations unfold one seat over – in ferries, duck boats, monorails, wedding carriages, and more. Each scene explores a different virtue (Time, Regret, Truth, Commitment, Silence…) through mismatched strangers whose banter veers from hilarious to heartbreaking. From a shoeshiner and a frantic jobseeker in The Last Shine to a glitter-wielding nun and a weary blackjack dealer in Liturgical Confetti, this play is a moving, fast-paced collection about finding humanity in transit and meaning in motion.

🎭 A Midsummer’s Dad Scream
Genre: One-act Shakespearean spoof
Runtime: 10–15 minutes
Status: Final draft; festival-ready
Blurb:
In this irreverent fairyland fiasco, a furious Athenian father stomps into an enchanted forest to drag his daughter back from the clutches of romance — only to be met with a wisecracking fairy, a rhyming tree, and theatrical chaos. Egeus, Hermia’s drama-drenched dad, soon learns that in a forest run by Andrew Lloyd Webber, reason doesn’t stand a chance. With fourth-wall breaks, rhymed wisdom, and fairy sass, A Midsummer’s Dad Scream is Shakespeare if the Bard binge-watched drag brunch and community theatre tech week.

🎭 Contrition
Genre: One-act drama
Runtime: 12–15 minutes
Status: Final draft; emotionally intense
Blurb:
A man walks into a confessional—but not for forgiveness. What follows is a searing confrontation between victim and abuser, thirty years in the making. Contrition is a harrowing, unsparing drama about faith, power, silence, and the illusion of absolution. As Michael demands truth from the priest who scarred him, Father Patrick must choose between confession and self-preservation. No easy redemptions. No tidy prayers. Just raw reckoning.

🎭 Exit Cue
Genre: Two-hander dark comedy
Runtime: 10-12 minutes
Status: Final draft; ready for stage
Blurb:
Two aging comedians reunite in a motel room on the edge of obscurity and maybe something darker. Between roast-level banter and wistful recall of their glory days, Exit Cue spirals into an unexpected, poignant standoff with mortality. Is this their final curtain or just one more missed cue? A bottle, a secret, a pact, and one last joke they may not both walk away from.

🎭 Griddle Me This
Genre: One-act absurd workplace comedy
Runtime: 10-12 minutes
Status: Festival-ready
Blurb:
3AM. A Florida diner that only serves waffles. A sarcastic waitress, a tourist who might be a genie, and a local who never leaves. Wishes are granted, but only in the form of sarcastic trophies and emotional support raccoons. Griddle Me This is a diner-side meditation on dreams, delusion, and why burnt coffee sometimes tastes like home.

🎭 Lights Up
Genre: Full-length meta-theatrical noir comedy
Runtime: 10-12 minutes
Status: Final draft; ideal for black box
Blurb:
The director is dead. The cast is confused. And the play refuses to end. In this surreal backstage whodunit, a ragtag group of misfit actors must navigate sabotage, ego, and existential cue sheets. Lights Up is a spiraling, sharp-tongued elegy to community theatre, artistic ambition, and the murder of meaning in Act Two.

🎭 On the Likelihood of Elephants
Genre: One-act poetic dramedy
Runtime: 12–15 minutes
Status: Festival-ready
Blurb:
At a nearly empty train station, a disillusioned professor and a grieving poet spar over probability, memory, and the odds of an elephant walking through the door. On the Likelihood of Elephants is a whimsical and haunting two-hander about second chances, emotional math, and what it means to believe in arrivals.

🎭 Shadowed Kings and Queens
Genre: One-act intimate family drama
Runtime: 10–12 minutes
Status: Polished draft; staged reading-ready
Blurb:
A father and son battle across a chessboard in a living room loaded with more history than furniture. As their game intensifies, so do the revelations: identity, legacy, and the love that comes with conditions. Shadowed Kings and Queens is a tender, tightly written domestic duel about what happens when the pieces don’t move how you planned.

🎭 Thursday’s Child
Genre: Full-length poetic allegory
Runtime: 12–15 minutes
Status: Final draft; ideal for staged reading or movement-enhanced production
Blurb:
On trial for desertion—not of law, but of home—Thursday must defend their decision to walk into the unknown. A surreal courtroom, a mythic judge, and a whispering road weigh in. Thursday’s Child is a lyrical, existential journey about freedom, legacy, and the cost of becoming yourself when the map is blank.

📸 Photography

My photography is where I go to breathe.
I shoot forgotten signs, rusted edges, faces in quiet moments, and wide stillness between storms.

It’s visual poetry — captured in contradiction:

Stillness amid movement
Shadow amid heat
The sacred in decay

Wiiner of the 2015 USF International Photo Competition

✍️ Poetry

My poems are tight, sharp, and rarely safe. I don’t publish many, but the ones that make it out are usually:

Tethered to place
Speaking through silence
Inspired by courtroom voices or overheard arguments
Or disguised as stage directions

Winner on the 2025 Booksville Poetry Contest – “Justice“

🎭 Acting & Performance

Before I was a playwright, I was a performer — and I still step onto the stage when the role (and the absurdity) is right.
I believe that acting is the best training for empathy, dialogue, and knowing when a scene just isn’t working.

Acting Roles include:
It Runs in the Family – Police Sergeant
Company of Wayward Saints – Dottore
School of Rock – Mr. Mooneyham / Professor Green
Annie Get Your Gun – Buffalo Bill Cody

📬 Request Scripts or Collaborate

Interested in producing one of my plays?
Looking for monologues for actors?
Want to co-write something unhinged and meaningful?

Reach out!

Let’s make something beautifully broken together.
Something that’s funny until it hurts, strange until it makes sense,
and chaotic — but only at first glance.

This is craft.
This is Elegant Anarchy.
Welcome.