Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist
Told in three scenes spanning more than forty years, this play traces the life of maverick intellectual Lev Trachtenberg from his radical youth at City College to his hard-core reactionary old age.
• Produced at The Tank in February/March 2024, directed by Jake Beckhard.
• Produced in August 2025 at LakeHouseRanchDotPNG in Miami Florida.
“...one of the most fiercely argued plays to come our way in years ... an exhilarating experience ”
-Light and Sound America
“[a] brisk and illuminating political drama"
-TheaterMania
Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone
An acoustic hyper-pop opera about death and sex, God and gender, utopia and the end of the world through the life of early-American mystic The Public Universal Friend.
Written and performed with syd island and Philip Santos Schaffer as Friend of Friend
• Produced at The Brick/Prelude Festival in October 2023.
• Produced at Joe's Pub in September 2024.
• Produced at HERE Arts Center in December 2024.
• Developed through the 2022 Deceleration Lab with The Assembly Theater Project.
“part concert, part queer church service, part rave, and all big, tender, welcoming energy.”
-Vulture
The Trade Federation, Or, Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels
A meta-theatrical riff on the Star Wars prequels that argues that The Phantom Menace is actually a secret allegory for the IMF's history of predatory financial practices in the developing world.
• Produced at IRT in September/October 2019, directed by Allen MacLeod.
• Produced at Otherworld Theatre in Chicago in April/May 2023.
“This smart, tightly written play is at once a very funny satire of the Star Wars saga—and Star Wars fans—a heartfelt homage, and fabulous fan fiction.”
-Chicago Reader
Occupy Prescott
Inspired by the thousands of Occupy sites that sprang up across the world in the fall of 2011, this play examines the triumphs, frustrations, and tragedies endemic to building a movement for progressive change.
• Produced by Theater in Asylum at Jalopy Tavern in October 2021, directed by Paul Bedard and Katie Palmer.
“A depiction of the dirty work that has to occur in everyday activism.”
-Fordham Observer
Os Confederados
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Told in two acts 150 years apart, Os Confederados tells the mostly-true story of the ex-Confederates who fled the Reconstruction-era South and tried to rebuild Dixie in the Brazilian jungle.
ANDY BOYD