Canon
I have written 41 plays in my lifetime, and I have many plays that I haven't completed or that are just in the germination stage. I have posted summaries and if there is a play you wish to request to read, I will send it to you. Just go the 'contact' page. The complete plays are in order of earliest composed to most recent.
Complete Plays
Didn't See that Coming (short/farce, March 2008): *Performed at Arena Stage Young Playwrights Competition*: Based on a Little Johnny joke, boy predicts his loved ones will all die, leading his father to make an alarming discovery.
Maiden's Tale (short/farce, December 2010): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* A young woman has to choose between three suitors, who all fight for her love.
What is Love (short/satire, February 2011): *Performed at Ten-Minute Play Festival at GMU*: A young man threatens suicide over every break-up only to find himself with the very next girl he meets.
The Door (short/absurd drama, February 2011): A man convinces his friend to go through a mysterious door (the door in the play carries many symbolic meaning and interpretations).
The Imaginary Illness (short/satire, May 2011): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* A group of kids convince their substitute teacher that he is gravely ill.
The Curmudgeons (short/farce, December 2011): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* A pair of old men fight over the love of a young nurse in a retirement home.
The Last Day (short/satire, February 2012): A criticism of the 2012 apocalypse, the play deals with a young man who thinks the world is going to end and so he decides to live his last day to the fullest, only to find the prophecy was a mistake.
Ten-Minute Musical (short/musical, February 2012): A college student tries to sabotage the relationships of his friends because he doesn't have a girlfriend.
Boy in the Attic (full-length/black comedy, April 2012): *Performed in GMU Theater Space* A young girl invents an imaginary friend to escape her dysfunctional family and loneliness.
Let's Have a Baby (short/farce, May 2012): *Performed at George Mason Theater Coffee House* A man convinces his wife, who wants a baby, that having a baby is a bad idea by hiring his brother, an actor, to play the role of a baby.
Psychedelic Circus (one-act/nonsense comedy, May 2012): A play that was written on a marijuana trip.
Uchbar (short/nonsense comedy, June 2012): A nonsense play that phrases the question, "What is drama?"
Dreams Come at a Price, or the Martyr (one-act/tragedy, October 2012): An abusive father and husband drives his son to murder his father to free his family from his abuse and control since they have no intention to escape his cruelty.
A.I. The Musical (full-length/musical, November 2012): *Performed at GMU Theater Space* Based on the Spielberg/Kubrick movie, a young robot named David is adopted by a family and all he wants is love- based on what he understands of it.
The Police (one-act/satire, November 2012): In a dark, tyrannical dystopian state, the police has taken over the state and abuses their power for the silliest reasons, leading a man to try to overthrow the captain.
Tarof (short/satire, December 2012): Based on a Persian custom of offering, two friends argue absurdly, based on their culture, over who should have the last piece of salad.
Waiting for Santa (short/satire, December 2012): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* Based on Waiting for Godot, two orphans wait for Santa to show up.
Fisherman and His Wife (one-act/opera, January 2013): Based on the Grimms' Fisherman and His Wife, this opera is about a selfish woman, her henpecked husband, and a magic fish.
Pervert (one-act/drama, January 2013): A jealous brother learns his brother, a successful executive, looks at child porn. He tries to use this against him and blackmails him to the end.
It Only Takes a Moment (one-act/musical, January 2013): *Produced at Capital Fringe Festival 2014* A young man, who is in love with musicals, is also in love with a girl who he stalks by singing his favorite show tunes. Lyrics and music by various composers and lyricists.
Sammy/Poppy (short/absurd radio comedy, January 2013): An earlier version of Psydewalk, a man has an argument with his split personality but it is unclear to us who is real and who is not.
The Maniac (short/drama, January 2013): This play deals with a suspicious, awkward thought by the neighbors to be a threat. The neighbors plot to kill him before he can kill them. The play deals with the question, "who is the villain?"
Guns Kill, or Whatever it Takes (short/drama, January 2013): Although written originally in response to the Sandy Hook shooting, this later evolved from the tone that guns kill to people kill. When a man shoots a bunch of citizens, a young man asks that guns be banned. The dictator doesn't agree to this and so he is forced to kidnap his daughter and blackmails the dictator that she will be killed if guns aren't banned.
The Littlest Prostitute (short/farce, January 2013): This is an adult Cinderella story about a short, skinny young man posing as a female to be kept in a brothel. He is teased constantly by the other prostitutes and forced to make the beds, until his Prince comes. Full of sexual innuendo and bawdy humor.
The Procrastinator (short/farce, January 2013): A young man, under academic probation, can't seem to focus on the task at hand until the last minute when he is sent into madness seeking a muse and fighting back time.
The Castrato (short/drama, January 2013): A young treble faces castration by the Church, against his will, to preserve his God-given voice from changing.
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (short/drama, January 2013): A mother of a girl plays a trick on the girl that bullied her daughter by cyberbullying her.
Call me Jenny (one-act/drama, January 2013): A journey of a transsexual male-to-female in high school in finding acceptance among peers and family.
Apples and Oranges (short/absurd drama, July 2013): A man goes to a vendor asking for something and gets another thing entirely. The play mainly deals with signs, signified, and signifiers.
Sass 'N' Frass (full-length/absurd tragicomedy, August 2013): Two kids have been lost in the woods for years. Their search for the outside is representative of a futile search for God, paradise, meaning, and purpose. Inspired by Waiting for Godot.
The Train (short/absurd satire, September 2013): A play focusing on Marxism and communism, two passengers of different classes duke it out on a train.
Hopscotch (short/absurd drama, September 2013): Written in the style of Edward Albee, this play is about aging and death as demonstrated in a simple game between two characters of two different ages.
Roya (full-length/drama, October 2013): "Roya" means dream in Persian. This play is about a gay couple who open a gay bar in their basement in Iran and later are charged by the government for their actions.
Arms and Legs (short/Grand Guignol, October 2013): A woman who has a desire to live without her limbs goes to a doctor who served time in prison for having sex with his amputee patients. The doctor, reluctant at first, agrees on the condition that she have sex with him. However, a conflict arises with the doctor's fanatic servant watching the events unfold.
Life with Mother (full-length/black comedy, November 2013): A young man of twenty-five has been controlled all his life by his mother and when he meets a girl for the first time he tries to find independence much to the anger and frustration of his mother. Personally, I believe the mother is the best character I have written in a finished play (The characterization in Lear and His Children and Fausto, two unfinished plays, are equally good.)
Psydewalk (one-act/drama, January 2014): A patient, 'P', and a doctor, 'D', get into a heated battle in a mental hospital. This play is heavily influenced by the works of Sarah Kane.
Girl Who Cried Cancer (one-act/black comedy, January 2014): A girl pretends to have terminal cancer to draw attention to herself and plans to take her life eventually, while falling in love with a young man. Meanwhile, her roommate has doubt of the illness and tries to find evidence to harbor it.
Pop Goes the Weasel (one-act/absurd drama, February 2014): This play explores the predictability and monotony of life as seen through the daily routines of a family.
Easy Come, Easy Go (short/farce, February 2014): Based on a Shel Silverstein short, a child learns a lesson in money and not to underestimate women.
Beautiful Child (one-act/black comedy, March 2014): This play focuses on the horror of beauty pageants, overambitious mothers, and competition. Stylistically very reminiscent of Christopher Durang.
Son of Ubu (short/comedic musical, March 2014): Based on the Ubu plays by Alfred Jarry, this play is about a young man finding ambition and manhood by usurping himself to the throne through patricide and matricide.
Maiden's Tale (short/farce, December 2010): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* A young woman has to choose between three suitors, who all fight for her love.
What is Love (short/satire, February 2011): *Performed at Ten-Minute Play Festival at GMU*: A young man threatens suicide over every break-up only to find himself with the very next girl he meets.
The Door (short/absurd drama, February 2011): A man convinces his friend to go through a mysterious door (the door in the play carries many symbolic meaning and interpretations).
The Imaginary Illness (short/satire, May 2011): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* A group of kids convince their substitute teacher that he is gravely ill.
The Curmudgeons (short/farce, December 2011): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* A pair of old men fight over the love of a young nurse in a retirement home.
The Last Day (short/satire, February 2012): A criticism of the 2012 apocalypse, the play deals with a young man who thinks the world is going to end and so he decides to live his last day to the fullest, only to find the prophecy was a mistake.
Ten-Minute Musical (short/musical, February 2012): A college student tries to sabotage the relationships of his friends because he doesn't have a girlfriend.
Boy in the Attic (full-length/black comedy, April 2012): *Performed in GMU Theater Space* A young girl invents an imaginary friend to escape her dysfunctional family and loneliness.
Let's Have a Baby (short/farce, May 2012): *Performed at George Mason Theater Coffee House* A man convinces his wife, who wants a baby, that having a baby is a bad idea by hiring his brother, an actor, to play the role of a baby.
Psychedelic Circus (one-act/nonsense comedy, May 2012): A play that was written on a marijuana trip.
Uchbar (short/nonsense comedy, June 2012): A nonsense play that phrases the question, "What is drama?"
Dreams Come at a Price, or the Martyr (one-act/tragedy, October 2012): An abusive father and husband drives his son to murder his father to free his family from his abuse and control since they have no intention to escape his cruelty.
A.I. The Musical (full-length/musical, November 2012): *Performed at GMU Theater Space* Based on the Spielberg/Kubrick movie, a young robot named David is adopted by a family and all he wants is love- based on what he understands of it.
The Police (one-act/satire, November 2012): In a dark, tyrannical dystopian state, the police has taken over the state and abuses their power for the silliest reasons, leading a man to try to overthrow the captain.
Tarof (short/satire, December 2012): Based on a Persian custom of offering, two friends argue absurdly, based on their culture, over who should have the last piece of salad.
Waiting for Santa (short/satire, December 2012): *Performed at GMU Theater Coffee House* Based on Waiting for Godot, two orphans wait for Santa to show up.
Fisherman and His Wife (one-act/opera, January 2013): Based on the Grimms' Fisherman and His Wife, this opera is about a selfish woman, her henpecked husband, and a magic fish.
Pervert (one-act/drama, January 2013): A jealous brother learns his brother, a successful executive, looks at child porn. He tries to use this against him and blackmails him to the end.
It Only Takes a Moment (one-act/musical, January 2013): *Produced at Capital Fringe Festival 2014* A young man, who is in love with musicals, is also in love with a girl who he stalks by singing his favorite show tunes. Lyrics and music by various composers and lyricists.
Sammy/Poppy (short/absurd radio comedy, January 2013): An earlier version of Psydewalk, a man has an argument with his split personality but it is unclear to us who is real and who is not.
The Maniac (short/drama, January 2013): This play deals with a suspicious, awkward thought by the neighbors to be a threat. The neighbors plot to kill him before he can kill them. The play deals with the question, "who is the villain?"
Guns Kill, or Whatever it Takes (short/drama, January 2013): Although written originally in response to the Sandy Hook shooting, this later evolved from the tone that guns kill to people kill. When a man shoots a bunch of citizens, a young man asks that guns be banned. The dictator doesn't agree to this and so he is forced to kidnap his daughter and blackmails the dictator that she will be killed if guns aren't banned.
The Littlest Prostitute (short/farce, January 2013): This is an adult Cinderella story about a short, skinny young man posing as a female to be kept in a brothel. He is teased constantly by the other prostitutes and forced to make the beds, until his Prince comes. Full of sexual innuendo and bawdy humor.
The Procrastinator (short/farce, January 2013): A young man, under academic probation, can't seem to focus on the task at hand until the last minute when he is sent into madness seeking a muse and fighting back time.
The Castrato (short/drama, January 2013): A young treble faces castration by the Church, against his will, to preserve his God-given voice from changing.
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (short/drama, January 2013): A mother of a girl plays a trick on the girl that bullied her daughter by cyberbullying her.
Call me Jenny (one-act/drama, January 2013): A journey of a transsexual male-to-female in high school in finding acceptance among peers and family.
Apples and Oranges (short/absurd drama, July 2013): A man goes to a vendor asking for something and gets another thing entirely. The play mainly deals with signs, signified, and signifiers.
Sass 'N' Frass (full-length/absurd tragicomedy, August 2013): Two kids have been lost in the woods for years. Their search for the outside is representative of a futile search for God, paradise, meaning, and purpose. Inspired by Waiting for Godot.
The Train (short/absurd satire, September 2013): A play focusing on Marxism and communism, two passengers of different classes duke it out on a train.
Hopscotch (short/absurd drama, September 2013): Written in the style of Edward Albee, this play is about aging and death as demonstrated in a simple game between two characters of two different ages.
Roya (full-length/drama, October 2013): "Roya" means dream in Persian. This play is about a gay couple who open a gay bar in their basement in Iran and later are charged by the government for their actions.
Arms and Legs (short/Grand Guignol, October 2013): A woman who has a desire to live without her limbs goes to a doctor who served time in prison for having sex with his amputee patients. The doctor, reluctant at first, agrees on the condition that she have sex with him. However, a conflict arises with the doctor's fanatic servant watching the events unfold.
Life with Mother (full-length/black comedy, November 2013): A young man of twenty-five has been controlled all his life by his mother and when he meets a girl for the first time he tries to find independence much to the anger and frustration of his mother. Personally, I believe the mother is the best character I have written in a finished play (The characterization in Lear and His Children and Fausto, two unfinished plays, are equally good.)
Psydewalk (one-act/drama, January 2014): A patient, 'P', and a doctor, 'D', get into a heated battle in a mental hospital. This play is heavily influenced by the works of Sarah Kane.
Girl Who Cried Cancer (one-act/black comedy, January 2014): A girl pretends to have terminal cancer to draw attention to herself and plans to take her life eventually, while falling in love with a young man. Meanwhile, her roommate has doubt of the illness and tries to find evidence to harbor it.
Pop Goes the Weasel (one-act/absurd drama, February 2014): This play explores the predictability and monotony of life as seen through the daily routines of a family.
Easy Come, Easy Go (short/farce, February 2014): Based on a Shel Silverstein short, a child learns a lesson in money and not to underestimate women.
Beautiful Child (one-act/black comedy, March 2014): This play focuses on the horror of beauty pageants, overambitious mothers, and competition. Stylistically very reminiscent of Christopher Durang.
Son of Ubu (short/comedic musical, March 2014): Based on the Ubu plays by Alfred Jarry, this play is about a young man finding ambition and manhood by usurping himself to the throne through patricide and matricide.
Plays in Progress/Ideas
This is a list of some plays I have started but not finished. Some of the titles are working titles.
Plays in Progress
Stacy Not So Simple (tragicomedy/one-act): A woman decides to get revenge on the woman who raped her daughter.
Blowing in the Wind (tragicomedy/full-length): The story of an Iranian-American family- two traditional parents and their Western children and the surprise guests they bring with them to the Persian New Year.
I'm Like a Pendulum (drama/one-act): The story of a young man with Bipolar and how it affects his life as well his experience with medications. In the play, mania and depression are major characters and the play has elements of ballet in it.
Fausto (tragicomedy/full-length): Based on Faust (a myth about a doctor selling his soul to the devil for knowledge and wealth), a porn director (Fausto) submits himself to a mysterious man (Mr. Mephisto) and promises him he will give him his girlfriend (Ana) if his next porno is a success. Mr. Mephisto, really the devil, summons the Marquis de Sade (father of sadism) and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (father of masochism) to help him on his journey. This is a double Faustian plot- Fausto sells his soul (true love) to the devil (Mr. Mephisto, who represents corruption) for fame and wealth, while Ana also sells her soul (her body, dignity, and self-respect) to the devil (the porn industry and the selfish, ruthless Fausto twice) for money for theater education (first time) and marriage (second time). The subplot of the play is a landlady, Senora Lopez, trying to sabotage the film due to her conservative religious ideologies and hatred for porn.
Sweet Caroline (tragedy/full-length): In rural Georgia, a young Methodist pastor is brought in to assist the older pastor. Soon, the young pastor falls in love with the pastor's daughter, who is mentally ill. When she suffers a nervous breakdown, her father attributes it to the devil and wishes to exorcise her, while the younger pastor argues she has severe schizoaffective symptoms.
Lear and His Children (tragedy/full-length): Based on King Lear. Set in Dover, Delaware, a tycoon, Lawrence (Lear), leaves his business to his three children, Jenny (Goneril), Reggie (Regan), and Cory (Cordelia) at the insistence of his lawyer, Ken (Kent). However, when it comes to flattery, Cory will not stoop to the level of her brother and sister. For this, Ken argues with Lawrence and for this he is fired and banned from the house. Jenny and her henpecked husband Al (Albany) along with Reggie and his boyfriend Wally (Cornwall) take control of the house, bossing around the servants Ozzy (Oswald) and Stewart. They kick their father out to Heath Street, a fictional street which is supposed to represent the ghetto. There Lawrence meets Foo (the Fool), an Asian homeless schizophrenic who raps. Meanwhile, Esther (Gloucester) lives with her grandson, Edgar (Edgar) and his bastard brother, Edmund (Edmund). Edmund, who has always been jealous of his brother, plots against him and has his grandmother disown him so he can earn her riches. Edmund is friends with Cory's new husband, Frank (King of France), a drug dealing, abusive, womanizing gambler who convinces Edmund to get into the drug business with him. In order to do this, Edmund must seduce Reggie and Jenny, as well as eventually kill his grandmother. The play deals with greed and wealth, the clash between good and evil, and dysfunctional families.
Frankenvenus (Grand Guignol/one-act): A man murders a bunch of women and sews the body parts of the women into an ultimate woman, who he brings to life, who does not love the creator, leading him to torture her until she does.
The House on Baker (drama/full-length): This play deals with sibling rivalry between two brothers and two sisters and the love triangles that form between them. Written in tribute to John Osborne, Harold Pinter, and Oscar Wilde.
Coulrophobia (satire/full-length): This play revolves around a town which opens his a bridge to the rest of the world and soon finds it is invaded by clowns who horrify the people and force them to laugh at their follies, leading the clown catcher to try to stop them. A satire of religion.
The Island (tragic satire/one-act): A Brechtian play, An island of people who are devoted to the island deities believe they can be saved from a storm through prayer.
2113 (absurdist satire/full-length): A dystopian science fiction play about a hundred years in the future where robots take over the world.
Ideas
The Parody (translation/absurdist drama/full-length): A translation of Arthur Adamov's French play, Le Parodie.
It's a Good Life (short/drama): Based on a short story, an angry child with psychic God-like powers punishes anyone who makes him angry and sends the world, now just a town, into a dystopian state.
The Tragedy of Goddard (tragedy/full-length): An influential lord who has led a perfect life and is the example of a wonderful man inspires his friend to plot against him to see him suffer because he's never experienced pain, loss, or misery before. He begins by making it seem the people of the land hate him and are out to kill him. He then tells him to go into exile. In exile, he tells him his wife has re-married and her new husband has spent all of his money. Finally, he tells him that his family is dead and killed by the man. After attempting suicide by poison, he wakes and decides he has to go get revenge and kill the man who slept with his wife, spent all his money, and killed his family. He murders the man but soon learns that his family is alive and the man he killed was innocent. Finally, he decides to get revenge on his friend by killing his friend's wife and baby, which leads to his friend committing suicide. For this, the king sentences the lord to death.
Eire Leanai (drama*/full-length): The title means Children of Ireland and is inspired by love and fascination for Irish culture. Three families from Ireland immigrate to America and live in an apartment together at the height of the Great War. The adults in the families hate each other and the opera concentrates on their hatred, the culture they bring, and the romance of the children. *possibly opera*
The Tellers: On his 50th birthday, two men from Dr. Malcolm McConnell's past come to haunt him with his dark past.
Triad (absurdist drama/one-act): The play explores the powerful dynamics of the number three in sociology.
The Boat (drama/one-act): An old boat is sitting in the cul-de-sac of a Southern town and two families fight over who should remove it while their children play in it.
Eyes that See (drama/one-act): Although I am an atheist, the biographical diary of Christina Levasheff who wrote about her young son who died of Krabbe’s disease as important—mainly because the family got through with faith in God. This is their story.
The Sophomore (satire/one-act): A one-act play about a professor and a smart-street engaging in a heated discussion and posing the question, who is the sophomore?
Miss Stephanie (tragedy/full-length): Told through the eyes of an African-American plantation worker who doubles as a writer, a New England boy engaged to a Southern Belle falls in love with his soon-to-be mother-in-law, much to the disfavor of his fragile fiancé and his jealous, alcoholic father-in-law.
Mind Your Manners (absurd drama/short): A play about a servant learning to mind her manners, raising absurd questions on what manners are.
Loch Lomond (drama/short): Based on the song, Loch Lomond, a young Scottish couple is broken up and one is sentenced to death by the English.
The Letter (farce/full-length): Based on Plautus and Shakespearean comedy and an episode of Full House ("Secret Admirer"), and written in verse, a servant wants to trick his mistress's (the Princess) lover's (the Duke) daughter into thinking a young herald is in love with her with a non-specific letter but a misunderstanding leads to the confusion by everyone in the court that everyone is in love with one another.
The Comedy of Fairies (farcical satire/full-length): A Carnivalesque Shakespearean play about a gay couple who play a trick on a cardinal- one dresses up as Jesus and appears to tell him to tell the duke to ban straight marriage and allow for gay marriage.
Dirty Laundry (farce/full-length): A hairdresser chats and gossips with her clients which leads to huge misunderstandings and conflicts between the characters.
John, Jodie, and John (drama with music/full-length): A play focusing on John Hinckley's obsession with Taxi Driver and Jodie Foster, John Lennon, and Catcher in the Rye- all leading up to his attempted murder of Ronald Reagan.
Hear Me, I'm Alive (drama/one-act): A young girl's mother only pays attention to the dead, so to find love she decides to take her life.
Good Thing We're Friends (black comedy/full-length): A young African-American man is involved in two affairs between an older couple.
Martha Washington (drama/full-length): An older man, who is ill, decides to come out of the closet after years and pursue his life as a drag artist.
The Kids (black comedy/full-length): Two couples, based on the four humors, drink and party and fight in this Albeesque play.
Macabre Theater (Grand Guignol/short): A man kills his audience members to use their bodies as props and puppets for his show.
Writer's Block (drama/one-act): A man faces writer's block and must wrestle with his mind for inspiration.
The Apple and the Tree (black comedy/full-length): In this play that bears resemblance to Long Day's Journey into Night, two children find out they are more like their parents than they ever knew.
Girls, Gin, and Geneva (comedy/full-length): A young man looks for seven different girls to "save" him in a wine bar (the young man is the only one who drinks gin) in the tourist destination -Geneva, New York. Each of the scenes is a different vignette and explores a different dynamic between man and woman- only in the last scene is there a lesson to be learned, which summarizes the play as whole, "Love is great. But other human beings do not define us. We, as individuals, do."
Ubu in America (absurd comedy/full-length): Based on the Ubu plays, Pa Ubu comes to America with his wife because he is hired as a professor of pataphysics at NYU. Meanwhile, Ma Ubu convinces him that he should murder the president with the help of the Native Americans and take control of America and declare himself the king of America. Just as in Ubu Rex, this is successful at first, but Ubu proves to be corrupt. Eventually, the Americans ask of the Prince of Poland, son to the King who defeated the Ubus once, and the most beautiful woman in America to help bring Pa Ubu down.
Twenty-Three for a Moment (drama/full-length): A man experiences a mid-life crisis upon graduating college and finding himself in the working world and living in a world where all his friends are getting married.
Mr. Lonely (drama/one-act): A young man is in love with a young woman, who does not return his love. The girl's mother is racist towards him because he's black and she has her marry a white man. Eventually, the young man is drafted in the military and tries to forget about the pain of his love but spends his night writing love letters to the girl. At one point, the girl writes how she has left her mother and her husband for him upon his homecoming but the mean dies in the war before they can reunite.
Buddy (drama/solo/short): A man through monologues, recalls his memories of his dog, as he spends time with his dog for the last time before taking him to be put to sleep.
Plays in Progress
Stacy Not So Simple (tragicomedy/one-act): A woman decides to get revenge on the woman who raped her daughter.
Blowing in the Wind (tragicomedy/full-length): The story of an Iranian-American family- two traditional parents and their Western children and the surprise guests they bring with them to the Persian New Year.
I'm Like a Pendulum (drama/one-act): The story of a young man with Bipolar and how it affects his life as well his experience with medications. In the play, mania and depression are major characters and the play has elements of ballet in it.
Fausto (tragicomedy/full-length): Based on Faust (a myth about a doctor selling his soul to the devil for knowledge and wealth), a porn director (Fausto) submits himself to a mysterious man (Mr. Mephisto) and promises him he will give him his girlfriend (Ana) if his next porno is a success. Mr. Mephisto, really the devil, summons the Marquis de Sade (father of sadism) and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (father of masochism) to help him on his journey. This is a double Faustian plot- Fausto sells his soul (true love) to the devil (Mr. Mephisto, who represents corruption) for fame and wealth, while Ana also sells her soul (her body, dignity, and self-respect) to the devil (the porn industry and the selfish, ruthless Fausto twice) for money for theater education (first time) and marriage (second time). The subplot of the play is a landlady, Senora Lopez, trying to sabotage the film due to her conservative religious ideologies and hatred for porn.
Sweet Caroline (tragedy/full-length): In rural Georgia, a young Methodist pastor is brought in to assist the older pastor. Soon, the young pastor falls in love with the pastor's daughter, who is mentally ill. When she suffers a nervous breakdown, her father attributes it to the devil and wishes to exorcise her, while the younger pastor argues she has severe schizoaffective symptoms.
Lear and His Children (tragedy/full-length): Based on King Lear. Set in Dover, Delaware, a tycoon, Lawrence (Lear), leaves his business to his three children, Jenny (Goneril), Reggie (Regan), and Cory (Cordelia) at the insistence of his lawyer, Ken (Kent). However, when it comes to flattery, Cory will not stoop to the level of her brother and sister. For this, Ken argues with Lawrence and for this he is fired and banned from the house. Jenny and her henpecked husband Al (Albany) along with Reggie and his boyfriend Wally (Cornwall) take control of the house, bossing around the servants Ozzy (Oswald) and Stewart. They kick their father out to Heath Street, a fictional street which is supposed to represent the ghetto. There Lawrence meets Foo (the Fool), an Asian homeless schizophrenic who raps. Meanwhile, Esther (Gloucester) lives with her grandson, Edgar (Edgar) and his bastard brother, Edmund (Edmund). Edmund, who has always been jealous of his brother, plots against him and has his grandmother disown him so he can earn her riches. Edmund is friends with Cory's new husband, Frank (King of France), a drug dealing, abusive, womanizing gambler who convinces Edmund to get into the drug business with him. In order to do this, Edmund must seduce Reggie and Jenny, as well as eventually kill his grandmother. The play deals with greed and wealth, the clash between good and evil, and dysfunctional families.
Frankenvenus (Grand Guignol/one-act): A man murders a bunch of women and sews the body parts of the women into an ultimate woman, who he brings to life, who does not love the creator, leading him to torture her until she does.
The House on Baker (drama/full-length): This play deals with sibling rivalry between two brothers and two sisters and the love triangles that form between them. Written in tribute to John Osborne, Harold Pinter, and Oscar Wilde.
Coulrophobia (satire/full-length): This play revolves around a town which opens his a bridge to the rest of the world and soon finds it is invaded by clowns who horrify the people and force them to laugh at their follies, leading the clown catcher to try to stop them. A satire of religion.
The Island (tragic satire/one-act): A Brechtian play, An island of people who are devoted to the island deities believe they can be saved from a storm through prayer.
2113 (absurdist satire/full-length): A dystopian science fiction play about a hundred years in the future where robots take over the world.
Ideas
The Parody (translation/absurdist drama/full-length): A translation of Arthur Adamov's French play, Le Parodie.
It's a Good Life (short/drama): Based on a short story, an angry child with psychic God-like powers punishes anyone who makes him angry and sends the world, now just a town, into a dystopian state.
The Tragedy of Goddard (tragedy/full-length): An influential lord who has led a perfect life and is the example of a wonderful man inspires his friend to plot against him to see him suffer because he's never experienced pain, loss, or misery before. He begins by making it seem the people of the land hate him and are out to kill him. He then tells him to go into exile. In exile, he tells him his wife has re-married and her new husband has spent all of his money. Finally, he tells him that his family is dead and killed by the man. After attempting suicide by poison, he wakes and decides he has to go get revenge and kill the man who slept with his wife, spent all his money, and killed his family. He murders the man but soon learns that his family is alive and the man he killed was innocent. Finally, he decides to get revenge on his friend by killing his friend's wife and baby, which leads to his friend committing suicide. For this, the king sentences the lord to death.
Eire Leanai (drama*/full-length): The title means Children of Ireland and is inspired by love and fascination for Irish culture. Three families from Ireland immigrate to America and live in an apartment together at the height of the Great War. The adults in the families hate each other and the opera concentrates on their hatred, the culture they bring, and the romance of the children. *possibly opera*
The Tellers: On his 50th birthday, two men from Dr. Malcolm McConnell's past come to haunt him with his dark past.
Triad (absurdist drama/one-act): The play explores the powerful dynamics of the number three in sociology.
The Boat (drama/one-act): An old boat is sitting in the cul-de-sac of a Southern town and two families fight over who should remove it while their children play in it.
Eyes that See (drama/one-act): Although I am an atheist, the biographical diary of Christina Levasheff who wrote about her young son who died of Krabbe’s disease as important—mainly because the family got through with faith in God. This is their story.
The Sophomore (satire/one-act): A one-act play about a professor and a smart-street engaging in a heated discussion and posing the question, who is the sophomore?
Miss Stephanie (tragedy/full-length): Told through the eyes of an African-American plantation worker who doubles as a writer, a New England boy engaged to a Southern Belle falls in love with his soon-to-be mother-in-law, much to the disfavor of his fragile fiancé and his jealous, alcoholic father-in-law.
Mind Your Manners (absurd drama/short): A play about a servant learning to mind her manners, raising absurd questions on what manners are.
Loch Lomond (drama/short): Based on the song, Loch Lomond, a young Scottish couple is broken up and one is sentenced to death by the English.
The Letter (farce/full-length): Based on Plautus and Shakespearean comedy and an episode of Full House ("Secret Admirer"), and written in verse, a servant wants to trick his mistress's (the Princess) lover's (the Duke) daughter into thinking a young herald is in love with her with a non-specific letter but a misunderstanding leads to the confusion by everyone in the court that everyone is in love with one another.
The Comedy of Fairies (farcical satire/full-length): A Carnivalesque Shakespearean play about a gay couple who play a trick on a cardinal- one dresses up as Jesus and appears to tell him to tell the duke to ban straight marriage and allow for gay marriage.
Dirty Laundry (farce/full-length): A hairdresser chats and gossips with her clients which leads to huge misunderstandings and conflicts between the characters.
John, Jodie, and John (drama with music/full-length): A play focusing on John Hinckley's obsession with Taxi Driver and Jodie Foster, John Lennon, and Catcher in the Rye- all leading up to his attempted murder of Ronald Reagan.
Hear Me, I'm Alive (drama/one-act): A young girl's mother only pays attention to the dead, so to find love she decides to take her life.
Good Thing We're Friends (black comedy/full-length): A young African-American man is involved in two affairs between an older couple.
Martha Washington (drama/full-length): An older man, who is ill, decides to come out of the closet after years and pursue his life as a drag artist.
The Kids (black comedy/full-length): Two couples, based on the four humors, drink and party and fight in this Albeesque play.
Macabre Theater (Grand Guignol/short): A man kills his audience members to use their bodies as props and puppets for his show.
Writer's Block (drama/one-act): A man faces writer's block and must wrestle with his mind for inspiration.
The Apple and the Tree (black comedy/full-length): In this play that bears resemblance to Long Day's Journey into Night, two children find out they are more like their parents than they ever knew.
Girls, Gin, and Geneva (comedy/full-length): A young man looks for seven different girls to "save" him in a wine bar (the young man is the only one who drinks gin) in the tourist destination -Geneva, New York. Each of the scenes is a different vignette and explores a different dynamic between man and woman- only in the last scene is there a lesson to be learned, which summarizes the play as whole, "Love is great. But other human beings do not define us. We, as individuals, do."
Ubu in America (absurd comedy/full-length): Based on the Ubu plays, Pa Ubu comes to America with his wife because he is hired as a professor of pataphysics at NYU. Meanwhile, Ma Ubu convinces him that he should murder the president with the help of the Native Americans and take control of America and declare himself the king of America. Just as in Ubu Rex, this is successful at first, but Ubu proves to be corrupt. Eventually, the Americans ask of the Prince of Poland, son to the King who defeated the Ubus once, and the most beautiful woman in America to help bring Pa Ubu down.
Twenty-Three for a Moment (drama/full-length): A man experiences a mid-life crisis upon graduating college and finding himself in the working world and living in a world where all his friends are getting married.
Mr. Lonely (drama/one-act): A young man is in love with a young woman, who does not return his love. The girl's mother is racist towards him because he's black and she has her marry a white man. Eventually, the young man is drafted in the military and tries to forget about the pain of his love but spends his night writing love letters to the girl. At one point, the girl writes how she has left her mother and her husband for him upon his homecoming but the mean dies in the war before they can reunite.
Buddy (drama/solo/short): A man through monologues, recalls his memories of his dog, as he spends time with his dog for the last time before taking him to be put to sleep.
Musical Ideas
Here are a list of ideas I had for musicals and operas. I would like to see any of these become a future project of mine. This are only ideas but I thought I'd share them with you.
Adaptations
Tonio Kruger (full-length/dramatic opera): An operatic adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, Tonio Kruger.
Edward Scissorhands (full-length/dramatic musical): A musical adaptation of the film.
Godspeed (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the play, Room Service.
Sunday in New York (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the play of the same name.
Super Mario: The Musical (full-length/comedic musical): A rock musical with highly stylized action-dance numbers based on the video
games.
Princess Bride (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the novel and the film.
Kite Runner (full-length/dramatic musical): A musical adaptation of the novel.
Awakening (full-length/dramatic opera): A operetta adaptation of the novel by Kate Chopin.
Calvin and Hobbes (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the comic strips.
Toy Story (full-length/comedic musical): A music adaptation of the popular movies.
Theseus (full-length/dramatic opera): A operatic adaptation of the mythical hero of Greek mythology incorporating the
trial with the Minotaur, his marriages, and his friendship with Piruthous.
Sisyphus (one-act/dramatic opera): An operatic adaptation of the Myth of Sisyphus.
Song of Death (one-act/dramatic opera): An operatic adaptation of the Egyptian play.
Elephant Man (full-length/dramatic opera): An operatic/musical adaptation of Elephant Man with a new book.
Topper (full-length/comedic musical): A musical based on the 1937 film.
Operatic Adventures of Ma and Pa Ubu (full-length/comedic opera): An operetta adaptation of Ubu Rex
and Ubu Enchained by Alfred Jarry.
Original
O.J.: The Musical (full-length/satirical musical): A comedic take on the trial of O.J. Simpson.
My First Year (full-length/comedic musical): Follows the freshman year of twelve students in their dorm including their ambitions, academic struggles, relationships, and
personal demons.
Laurie (one-act/cabaret): A one-person musical based on the life of actress Laurie Beechman.
Up, Up, and Away (full-length/dramatic musical): Based on the life of the Wright Brothers.
Soap (full-length/dramatic opera): An opera based on a stereotypical soap opera that parodies all its conventions.
Reunion (full-length/black comedic musical): This is what happens when you cross Grease and Follies. At the twentieth high-school reunion, former students feel like they need to build facades for their unfulfilled lives and old flames rekindle.
Sitcom (full-length/comedic musical): Similar to Soap but without the operatic feel, this musical explores a traditional sitcom and its conventions as the cast looks back on the history of the show through an E! True Hollywood Story.
eMusical (one-act/song cycle): A song cycle parodying social media.
The Pedo Files (full-length/satirical musical): A satire of pedophilia, Chris Hansen takes the Pedobear on a quest to show him what happens to pedophiles.
Grief (one-act/dramatic opera): Grief follows a man who is grieving his dying wife and dealing with his regrets. His memories and stages of grief are told through song, monologue, and dance.
Badass Babes (full-length/comedic musical): A musical about girls vowing revenge on their abusive, cheating significant others.
Alexander the Great (full-length/black comedic musical): A narcissistic man goes against the wishes of the doctors in an outpatient mental hospital and tries to play matchmaker and doctor to the patients.
Adaptations
Tonio Kruger (full-length/dramatic opera): An operatic adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, Tonio Kruger.
Edward Scissorhands (full-length/dramatic musical): A musical adaptation of the film.
Godspeed (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the play, Room Service.
Sunday in New York (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the play of the same name.
Super Mario: The Musical (full-length/comedic musical): A rock musical with highly stylized action-dance numbers based on the video
games.
Princess Bride (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the novel and the film.
Kite Runner (full-length/dramatic musical): A musical adaptation of the novel.
Awakening (full-length/dramatic opera): A operetta adaptation of the novel by Kate Chopin.
Calvin and Hobbes (full-length/comedic musical): A musical adaptation of the comic strips.
Toy Story (full-length/comedic musical): A music adaptation of the popular movies.
Theseus (full-length/dramatic opera): A operatic adaptation of the mythical hero of Greek mythology incorporating the
trial with the Minotaur, his marriages, and his friendship with Piruthous.
Sisyphus (one-act/dramatic opera): An operatic adaptation of the Myth of Sisyphus.
Song of Death (one-act/dramatic opera): An operatic adaptation of the Egyptian play.
Elephant Man (full-length/dramatic opera): An operatic/musical adaptation of Elephant Man with a new book.
Topper (full-length/comedic musical): A musical based on the 1937 film.
Operatic Adventures of Ma and Pa Ubu (full-length/comedic opera): An operetta adaptation of Ubu Rex
and Ubu Enchained by Alfred Jarry.
Original
O.J.: The Musical (full-length/satirical musical): A comedic take on the trial of O.J. Simpson.
My First Year (full-length/comedic musical): Follows the freshman year of twelve students in their dorm including their ambitions, academic struggles, relationships, and
personal demons.
Laurie (one-act/cabaret): A one-person musical based on the life of actress Laurie Beechman.
Up, Up, and Away (full-length/dramatic musical): Based on the life of the Wright Brothers.
Soap (full-length/dramatic opera): An opera based on a stereotypical soap opera that parodies all its conventions.
Reunion (full-length/black comedic musical): This is what happens when you cross Grease and Follies. At the twentieth high-school reunion, former students feel like they need to build facades for their unfulfilled lives and old flames rekindle.
Sitcom (full-length/comedic musical): Similar to Soap but without the operatic feel, this musical explores a traditional sitcom and its conventions as the cast looks back on the history of the show through an E! True Hollywood Story.
eMusical (one-act/song cycle): A song cycle parodying social media.
The Pedo Files (full-length/satirical musical): A satire of pedophilia, Chris Hansen takes the Pedobear on a quest to show him what happens to pedophiles.
Grief (one-act/dramatic opera): Grief follows a man who is grieving his dying wife and dealing with his regrets. His memories and stages of grief are told through song, monologue, and dance.
Badass Babes (full-length/comedic musical): A musical about girls vowing revenge on their abusive, cheating significant others.
Alexander the Great (full-length/black comedic musical): A narcissistic man goes against the wishes of the doctors in an outpatient mental hospital and tries to play matchmaker and doctor to the patients.
Fiction
My First Erection: A short story about a young man recalling his first erection in a hilarious way.
K is for Kafka: A series of Kafkaesque short stories including The Removal (about a man's exile from life),The Visitor (a man being pushed out of his house by a stranger), The Gambler (a man who gambles everything he has with a magical man), The Artist (detailing the painful sacrifices an artist makes for his art), and The Worm (a parasite takes control of it's host mind as it feeds on his brain).
The Grey House: A novella about how an antisocial man convinces an outcast to join him in torturing the townspeople, mostly by brainwashing them and forcing them to torture each other- mainly loved ones- by force, control, and bribery.
Tales from Coney Island: Includes eight short stories based on Coney Island.
The Sodomites: The first in the Sodom trilogy, this is a metafictional epistolary novel about Edward Truman Shapiro who writes about his deepest sexual fantasies in prison. His story is of Tristan McGowan, a young Irish-born British man, his brother, Alexander, their boyfriends, best friends, and servants. A tale filled with incest, mass violence, rape, and orgies (based on Sade's 120 Days of Sodom), Tristan and Alexander fight for the attention of their corrupt father by perpetrating sex crimes.
A Dog's Life: Two dogs run away from home to explore the open world.
Color of Colors: A satire on the media, Iran, politics, and the human condition written in tribute to Animal Farm. A rooster uses drugs to control the farm animals into listening to the filth that he and his followers say. At first, he insults the farmer who sent his master and the animals into exile. However, when his master learns of the opium circulation, he bans it. This leads to the other farmer giving him opium on the terms that he leads the animals into a rebellion against their current master. Meanwhile, a goat, wishes to use the floor to get himself to rule over the animals in his former farm. The inspiration, aside from Animal Farm, comes from a filthy satellite Persian channel called Rang-a-Rang (meaning Color of Colors). A man named Davar (the inspiration for the rooster) runs it and has been back and forth between the King's son and the Mullahs, depending on who gives him money and is known for being a traitor, a con man, a money swindler, and an ill-mannered, uneducated potty-mouth. A man named Atabaki (the inspiration for the goat) was a foolish man who despite being a Christian, a citizen of America since 1970, having had an American wife, being a real-estate agent (he had no political background), and calling himself "Ron" (his first name is Kamran, a Persian name), and having a son in jail, wanted to run for the President of Iran. Different personas in Iranian politics and media are the basis for the animals, a metaphor for barbarians.
K is for Kafka: A series of Kafkaesque short stories including The Removal (about a man's exile from life),The Visitor (a man being pushed out of his house by a stranger), The Gambler (a man who gambles everything he has with a magical man), The Artist (detailing the painful sacrifices an artist makes for his art), and The Worm (a parasite takes control of it's host mind as it feeds on his brain).
The Grey House: A novella about how an antisocial man convinces an outcast to join him in torturing the townspeople, mostly by brainwashing them and forcing them to torture each other- mainly loved ones- by force, control, and bribery.
Tales from Coney Island: Includes eight short stories based on Coney Island.
The Sodomites: The first in the Sodom trilogy, this is a metafictional epistolary novel about Edward Truman Shapiro who writes about his deepest sexual fantasies in prison. His story is of Tristan McGowan, a young Irish-born British man, his brother, Alexander, their boyfriends, best friends, and servants. A tale filled with incest, mass violence, rape, and orgies (based on Sade's 120 Days of Sodom), Tristan and Alexander fight for the attention of their corrupt father by perpetrating sex crimes.
A Dog's Life: Two dogs run away from home to explore the open world.
Color of Colors: A satire on the media, Iran, politics, and the human condition written in tribute to Animal Farm. A rooster uses drugs to control the farm animals into listening to the filth that he and his followers say. At first, he insults the farmer who sent his master and the animals into exile. However, when his master learns of the opium circulation, he bans it. This leads to the other farmer giving him opium on the terms that he leads the animals into a rebellion against their current master. Meanwhile, a goat, wishes to use the floor to get himself to rule over the animals in his former farm. The inspiration, aside from Animal Farm, comes from a filthy satellite Persian channel called Rang-a-Rang (meaning Color of Colors). A man named Davar (the inspiration for the rooster) runs it and has been back and forth between the King's son and the Mullahs, depending on who gives him money and is known for being a traitor, a con man, a money swindler, and an ill-mannered, uneducated potty-mouth. A man named Atabaki (the inspiration for the goat) was a foolish man who despite being a Christian, a citizen of America since 1970, having had an American wife, being a real-estate agent (he had no political background), and calling himself "Ron" (his first name is Kamran, a Persian name), and having a son in jail, wanted to run for the President of Iran. Different personas in Iranian politics and media are the basis for the animals, a metaphor for barbarians.