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From global catastrophe to desperate kittens, read “Overture: Sound Collage Collapse” from NOISE/QUIET. Link in first co...
03/11/2026

From global catastrophe to desperate kittens, read “Overture: Sound Collage Collapse” from NOISE/QUIET. Link in first comment. 🔥🐈

A boy sits in a therapist’s office. Something sits in the corner. This is what theater does that essays can’t—it makes y...
03/06/2026

A boy sits in a therapist’s office. Something sits in the corner. This is what theater does that essays can’t—it makes you feel.

A play in one session

The fourth movement of NOISE / QUIET:Lizard People — a satire about chaos and conspiracy.
02/24/2026

The fourth movement of NOISE / QUIET:
Lizard People — a satire about chaos and conspiracy.

A play about chaos and conspiracy

At a recent reading, I shared one of the comedic pieces from NOISE/QUIET. Afterward, someone asked what else was in the ...
02/13/2026

At a recent reading, I shared one of the comedic pieces from NOISE/QUIET. Afterward, someone asked what else was in the cycle. When I described two women meeting in a medical waiting room—choosing kindness in a moment of fear—there was a hushed excitement in the room. Someone said: “I want to read that one.” Here it is.

A play about silence and continuity

I'm publishing a cycle of short plays over on Substack. The first piece is out today and the rest will follow over the c...
02/03/2026

I'm publishing a cycle of short plays over on Substack. The first piece is out today and the rest will follow over the coming weeks.

From rejection to resurrection: how two plays became a cycle of sound and silence

What does Nietzsche have to do with fairy fruit and vanishing children? Everything! I wrote about it in my latest essay ...
01/20/2026

What does Nietzsche have to do with fairy fruit and vanishing children? Everything! I wrote about it in my latest essay on Substack.

How an overlooked novel from 1926, Nietzschean philosophy, and a grant award launched my most ambitious adventure yet

Lately I’ve been thinking about what happens when tradition gives way to novelty—in art, in leadership, in life. My new ...
11/11/2025

Lately I’ve been thinking about what happens when tradition gives way to novelty—in art, in leadership, in life. My new short play Succession Play wrestles with that question. Read it here:

A short play about power, players and portents.

It began with a handful of ghost stories and an uneasy feeling I was disappearing from the theater world. Out of that re...
10/31/2025

It began with a handful of ghost stories and an uneasy feeling I was disappearing from the theater world. Out of that restlessness came Unearthly Visitants, my first self-produced project—and somehow, every piece I’ve made since has been haunted by it.

How adapting Edith Wharton’s gothic tales shaped the way I make theater—with production photos and a short video.

A one-minute play I wrote in 2021. I think it still holds up.
09/09/2025

A one-minute play I wrote in 2021. I think it still holds up.

A one-minute play.

FINAL PERFORMANCE SUNDAY, SEPT 7 @ 2PM. Last chance to see Tom Rowan’s brave new play with dance that dares to ask quest...
09/07/2025

FINAL PERFORMANCE SUNDAY, SEPT 7 @ 2PM. Last chance to see Tom Rowan’s brave new play with dance that dares to ask questions about the relationship between Critical Social Justice activism and Collaborative Performing Arts training at colleges & universities. How does the tension between imposed orthodoxies and freedom of artistic expression impact students, faculty, staff and the future of artistic practices? In their review, Thinking Theater says it’s a show that “entertains and challenges its viewers, one that acknowledges ambiguity without resorting to platitude. Dismantling Prospero asks difficult questions and trusts its audience to sit with the unease in the storm that follows.” Tix at link in Story.

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