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Plays

13 Heads

 

A full-length play of historical fiction… or is it? A cast of five men and one woman.

 

The fledgling United States may think they have won their Revolution, but six years after declaring victory there is still no peace treaty, the Americans still can’t agree on a Constitution, and the world’s most powerful Empires, who fear the spread of revolution to their own colonies, secretly plan to once and for all destroy the weakened and squabbling Americans. At a secret gathering in London, Ben Franklin, his son William, and Ben’s grandson, Temple, are guests at the home of General Benedict Arnold and his young wife, Peggy Shippen Arnold. It is a meeting and a meal that changed the world and in the process, produced some hearty laughs.


Status – Now available for consideration for development and production opportunities.

Three Wives

 

A full-length comedy-drama. A cast of three women of a certain age.

First, there was the marriage of Diana and Jane Ann, then the marriage of Jane Ann and Kate, with Diana’s untimely death in between. Love can be messy and Jane Ann’s lingering guilt and feelings for her first wife complicate her feelings for her second wife. When Jane Ann attempts to resolve matters by finally removing the first wife’s oil portrait from over the fireplace, it only seems to stir the flames below. A sparkling New York comedy that tackles love, loss, grief, the supernatural, and all the other fun stuff of marriage.

Status – This play is currently being prepared for a New York industry reading in January of 2026, starring Geneva Carr, Katie Finneran, and Chilina Kennedy. Sheryl Kaller will direct.

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Brice Bogard, DDS

 

A full-length comedy. A cast of four men and two women. 

When Brice’s best friend, Mike, dies suddenly, and Mike’s family and his poker game move on, Brice realizes that when he dies, he, too, will soon be forgotten. Brice’s worrying over ways he can achieve immortality becomes an obsession. With no artistic talent or skills, Brice searches for a way to become unforgettable. What he finds is love, tragedy, despair and hope, and that the best part of immortality is that one can live without it.
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Status – Now available for consideration for development and production opportunities.​​
 

The Rock Island Line
 

A full-length comedy-drama. A cast of three men and three women.

This is the story of three generations of a Scandinavian-American family who have come together at the family home in Rock Island, Illinois for a family celebration and reunion. But there are other desires and intentions at work, conscious and unconscious, to both expose and conceal secrets of a family fighting to maintain the growth of a family tree that is rotting from within.
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Status – Now available for consideration for development and production opportunities.​​

The Last Laugh
 

(co-written with Mady Julian)

A full-length comedy. A cast of nine men and three women; with doubling, six men and three women. 

The Last Laugh is a farce-murder mystery set in the offices of a cable TV series entitled Strange Bedfellows. It's Hollywood in the early '80s, and cable TV series are just beginning to make their appearance on the scene. The product for the most part is pretty ugly; in this case, it's deadly. Dan, the runner for the show, is found in the producer's closet with a knife in his chest, dead. First the producer, a sweetheart named Jay Coffman, tries to hide Dan's murder from his staff members, so they'll get busy on the rewrite of the script they are shooting that night; a script for a spinoff series that will be done on a real network – on NBC. But then, the staff discovers Dan's body. Jay still tries to convince them not to call the police, if they do they will never finish the rewrite and their dreams of escaping cable tv will never happen. With the staff knowing that there's a dead person in the closet—and that one of them is the murderer— they can only go on trying to be funny, because they figure, Dan is already dead, and they still have a chance to escape alive to a network show. 

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Status – Now available for consideration for development and production opportunities.​​​

Leap
 

A full-length comedy. A cast of two men and one woman.

A man, Bob Kanicki, has no idea what to do with his life, so he decides to make a perilous leap out the window. Bub, a young man, saves him, but not to truly save him...he wants to buy his soul. A young woman, Anna, tries to convince Bob not to sell his soul. A farce with one door that muses on life, death, and our moral obligations to ourselves.
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Status – Now available for consideration for development and production opportunities.

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