Following a personal tragedy, hard-core hiker Madeline joins a hiking group in hopes of meeting like-minded people. But when the casual hikers won’t pick up their trash, Madeline breaks her own rules by leaving something in the woods herself: their blood.

DEAD COLOR is a thriller in the vein of the TV show “Tales from the Crypt”: bad people doing bad things and everyone gets their comeuppance. Lovers Joel (Derek Chariton) and Hannah (Jamie Miller) plot the demise of Rodney (Tim Parrish) (Hannah’s husband and Joel’s brother) after he inherits a...

When the Mississippi Supreme Court issues a resentencing hearing for death row inmate Eddie Usis, pragmatic seasoned attorney Cecelia Owens and hot-headed young lawyer Jonas Becker are forced to team up to uncover the truth behind Eddie’s violent behavior. Top 5% for the Warner Brothers Writer’s Fellowship

Antoinette “Ant” Lowman, an aggressive, yet effective police officer, returns to her rural Mississippi hometown after assaulting a well-connected suspect. When tragedy strikes an old friend, the local police dismiss the crime, and Ant must decide if true justice is found in the law or in the backwoods. Finalist for...

PUPPET PEEP SHOW (co-written and performed with Kate Mickere) featured a variety of burlesques found-object puppet shows including the Can-Can Dancers and Reuben’s Revenge (with a dressing finish, naturally).

BODY LANGUAGE was originally developed in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon’s annual alternative theater festival, Playground. It was restaged at the Luck of the Puppets puppetry festival in Pittsburgh. Set to Tom Waits’s “When You Ain’t Got Nobody Any Body Looks Nice,” BODY LANGUAGE is the story of a plain, red...

On the day a campaign worker is deposed and the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, is tried for corruption, a hotel bartender passes his day on Twitter. Soon, a web of secrets begins to unravel and hidden truths about the characters' corrupted lives spill out into the public sphere. Semifinalist for...