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Fire Island is gone. A cataclysmic storm has breached the island’s last defenses, leaving the Pines swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean. All residents have evacuated—except Harry, a seventy-year-old man unwilling to abandon his submerged home. When Casey, a seventeen-year-old deckhand from the Sayville Ferry Service, arrives to pull him out, the two find themselves caught between survival and surrender, history and erasure.
Ocean Walk received two industry readings in New York City on December 5, 2024. The readings were produced by Telly Leung, and the development of the play was supported by a Spark Grant from The Jeffrey L. Nissen Arts Education and Development Fund in partnership with Open Jar Studios. The reading was directed by Marc Acito.
The cast was as follows: James Lloyd Reynolds (Harry), Caroline Keegan (Casey), and Benjamín Cardona (Radio/Glen & Martín).
Ocean Walk received a public reading in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on May 22, 2025. The reading was produced by Great Barrington Public Theater, and the development of the play was supported by Berkshire Voices. The reading was directed by Jonathon Loy and assistant directed by Caroline Keegan.
The cast was as follows: Tim Hayes (Harry), Raya Malcolm (Casey), and Eamon Yates (Radio/Glen & Martín).
Ocean Walk received a public reading in Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York on July 21, 2025. The reading was produced by Arts Project of Cherry Grove and National Queer Theater. The reading was directed by Marc Acito and assistant directed by Caroline Keegan.
The cast was as follows: Lou Liberatore (Harry), Hero Marguerite (Casey), and Sam Gravitte (Radio/Glen & Martín).
Ocean Walk received a two-week developmental workshop with Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College in Arlington, New York on June 22-July 5, 2026. The reading was produced by William E. Briggs. Jonathon Loy directed, and Sam Mueller dramaturged.
The cast was as follows: Arnie Burton (Harry), Alyssa Marvin (Casey), and Charlie Reid (Radio/Glen & Martín).
In 2026, Ocean Walk was selected as an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist; a Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Prize Finalist; and a Recipient of the Brockman Grant for Pines Artists from FIPPOA (Fire Island Pines Property Owners Association).
Ocean Walk is the first play in a developing play cycle known as The Pines Plays.
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For his 30th birthday, Leo planned a three-day murder mystery…in the middle-of-nowhere Vermont…for 7 gay men, 3 women, and a dog. However, what no one planned for was just how invested some people would get in the game.
A private workshop reading was held by Company of Fools (New York, NY) in June 2024. The director was Tyler Riley, and the cast was: Michael Odofin (Leo), Joseph Allen (Kaleb), Eamon Yates (George), A.J. Alvarez (Felix), and Chevy Martinez (Ryan).
On Thanksgiving eve, 27-year-old Salvatore (Sal) returns to his unspokenly-fascist family's home in Pennsylvania. A rare occurrence. His queer life—work, play, chosen family—has been confined to the safety of New York City, intentionally so. But this trip home is different, necessary.
A staged reading was held by Arts Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas) for their 2024 Original Works Series Readings on March 21, 2024. The director was Jessie Beebe, and the cast was: Ryan Derrick (Sal), Faith Hope Cheesman (Nicolina), Zach Huffman (Nonno), and Stephen Devereaux (Rafael).

"Ocean Walk" NYC Reading (Dec 5, 2024). Photo credit: John Lagucki.

"Ocean Walk" Great Barrington Reading (May 22, 2025). Photo credit: Andrea Yu.

"Ocean Walk" Cherry Grove Reading (July 21, 2025)

"Ocean Walk" Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College (July 2026). Photo credit: Buck Lewis.

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Avi's run out of options. Their friends are "bleh." Their family is unwell. And therapy has been—well, nevermind. But it's nothing that a trip to confession can't fix, right? ... Right?
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
COMPANY: Burlington County Footlighters’ 2nd Stage (New Jersey)
EVENT: Curtain Rising: Staged Readings of New Work
DATE: March 11, 2023
DIRECTOR: Chrissy Wick
CAST: Haley Melvin (Avi), Brian Wayman (Priest)
Joe and Kyla, best friends and recent college graduates, sit in their first apartment, discussing life, death, and everything in between, finding solace in their shared uncertainty.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
COMPANY: The Magnetic Theatre (Asheville, North Carolina)
EVENT: 4th Annual One Act Play Festival
DATE: August 4-13, 2023
DIRECTOR: Emily Tucker
CAST: Quinn Terry (Joe), Sami Mills (Kyla)
UPCOMING:
October 2024: University of Massachusetts, Lowell
December 2024: Appalachian State University
During the intermission of Forrest's play, his friend Daniel plans to leave, leading to a comedic confrontation about honesty, friendship, and the harsh realities of artistic creation.
Please Take Your Seat for Act Two received two public readings in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on November 18-19, 2025. The play was selected for the Berkshire Voices 10-Minute Play Festival, and it was produced by Great Barrington Public Theater. The reading was directed by Liam Castellan.
The cast was as follows: Liam Castellan (Forrest), Joey LaBrasca (Daniel), and Michelle Joyner (The Usher)
For this couple of 4 years, Lucas and Sebastian have finally reached an impasse in their relationship. And at the end of the day, there's no place like home to fight it out.
This play was first workshopped in Spring 2024 by Berkshire Voices, the playwright group of Great Barrington Public Theater in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
This play was first published in Volume VIII of Apricity Magazine, the official literary and arts journal of the University of Texas at Austin.
Brian has cracked. It’s 2020. He’s alone, in the middle of lockdown, and counting the strawberry-to-flake ratio in his box of Special K. So, naturally, he’s called an emergency therapy session with Anne. The only thing is...she may have gone a little mad, too.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
COMPANY: Covid-19 Theatrical Response Team (Digital)
EVENT: Dramatic Distancing: 14 Plays from Quarantine Days
DATE: May 3, 2020
DIRECTOR: Alaina Beth Reel
CAST: Brian Landis Folkins (Brian), Anne Bowles (Anne)

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Burlington County Footlighters talkback (March 11, 2023) - photo credit: Kristin Curley

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When the New York Times spoke once more of poet Frank O’Hara in 1983, 17 years after his passing, they remembered him as “a man who [couldn’t] stay down.” Meanwhile in Fire Island Pines, a community Frank called home, many men were horrifically being knocked down amidst an epidemic. This play attempts, briefly, to bring these narratives together through dialogue & poetry as a man struggles to bear the grief of the world around him.
A previous edition of this play, titled “Where Crown Crosses Ocean,” was first published in Issue 11 of Tulsa Review, a literary journal published annually by Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The current edition of this play was then published in Issue 6 of Hominum Journal, a literary magazine that publishes online quarterly.
Sunrise on Fire Island Pines. When the party's over, what comes next?
This play is to be published in print in Edition 2 of Fire Island Tea.
How do you say goodbye to a ghost you don't know if you can live without?
This play was first published in the Winter 2023 Issue of The Coachella Review. The Coachella Review is a literary arts journal published by the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
COMPANY: A Night of Play
EVENT: A Night of Play @ The Baumann (Brooklyn, NY)
DATE: May 20, 2019
DIRECTOR: Tristan J. Shuler
CAST: Stephanie Uttro (Big Gulp), Michelle Siddiqui (Soup Cup)
Katherine and Peter have been running from each other for so long, it was only a matter of time before they came right back around.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
COMPANY: Torrent Theatre (NYC)
EVENT: Mindflood: A Short Play Project
DATES: April 21-24, 2016
DIRECTOR: Sheldon Carpenter
CAST: Marchelle Thurman (Katherine), Alexander Reed (Peter)
COMPANY: Theatre InspiraTO (Toronto)
EVENT: InspiraTO Festival
DATES: June 2-11, 2016
DIRECTOR: Adam Bonney
CAST: Kristi Woods (Katherine), Adam Malcolm (Peter)
When your "chosen family" must make selfish choices, what happens to the family? For Barrett, Joel, Roger, and Gil, their golden hour has finally come: how deep is their commitment to preserving the closest thing any of them have ever had to family?
This play was first published in the Summer 2023 Issue of The Coachella Review. The Coachella Review is a literary arts journal published by the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.
What's the best advice for an open relationship?
This play was first published in Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of Short Plays’ September 2023 Issue. Mini Plays Review is a literary arts journal comprised of diverse short plays and monologues that stand as a testament to the enduring power of concise storytelling.
This play was first published in Issue #8 of Molecule: a tiny lit mag’s in March 2023.
Molecule is a digital and print journal publishing poetry, prose, plays, interviews, reviews, and visual art twice annually.
This play, as is the case for any work published in Molecule, could not exceed a 50-word count. Including the word count for the title, character names, and stage directions, this play hits exactly 50 words.

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