COMPLETED WORKS

 

This Is What The Days Are

On a rural homestead in North Carolina, a group of grievers has formed a smaller, self-sustained world to live and work in. They slaughter pigs, celebrate birthdays, wait for the asparagus to mature. Seasons pass, gardens grow. The asparagus still isn't ready yet. THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE is a new play about the strange task of living as the left-behind.

  • Reading, Bedlam/West End Theater, March 2024 (dir. Francesca Sabel)

    • Featuring Moe Angelos, John Behlmann, Kayli Carter, Peter Francis James, and Nicole Villamil

  • Workshop, tall poPpy/Atlantic Theater Company, 2023 (dir. Francesca Sabel)

    • Featuring Moe Angelos, John Behlmann, Kayli Carter, Francis Jue, and Nicole Villamil

Homofermenters or, the Park Slope Co-Op Play

We’re all heroes when we work the Cheese Shift at the Park Slope Food Co-Op. There might be a corpse in the cooler, but we’re all too polite to talk about it. Part satire, part slasher, Homofermenters follows the Friday 6AM cheese shift as its members navigate co-operation, the collapsing planet, polyamory (kinda), and how to cut through a human-sized wheel of parmesan.

  • ANT Fest Production, Ars Nova, June 2024 (dir. Francesca Sabel)

    • Featuring Moe Angelos, Annie Fang, Kai Heath, Merritt Janson, Maaike Lanstra-Corn, Liva Pierce, with design from Jessie Baldinger (scenic), Jonah Bobilin (lighting), Michael Rogerson (sound), and Maddy Rosaler (costumes + producer)

Production photos by Allison Stock

Williamson, West Virginia has been aptly nicknamed “Pilliamson” as long as the Attridge sisters have called it home. In the wake of their mother’s overdose, the two sisters have taken very different paths. As Harper raises Noah’s child, vowing to tread new ground, Noah finds herself unable to break old cycles – until a stranger promises a way to do just that. Madison Fiedler’s new drama SPAY interrogates the question of autonomy in small-town Appalachia.

Photos of ‘Spay’ at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble by Michael Brosilow

More information about the community events programmed around Spay by Denise Yvette Serna & Brit Cooper Robinson, including town halls on harm reduction & community action, Narcan training, and days of service with the Night Ministry can be found here.

Special thanks to panelists from Live4Lali, Wolf Pack Therapy, Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago, Western Michigan University, and DePaul University, and to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital for Narcan training at every Thursday performance.

Screech Owl

When a middle-aged man on a sugar daddy app isn’t looking for anything sexual– just a Nice Jewish Girl– that’s not weird, right? Hopefully not, because Rose Aronson is willing to do whatever it takes to move out of her sister’s house, I mean Eden, I mean Westchester. A dark absurdist comedy that considers the myth of Lilith, Screech Owl delves into the sexed and sexual positioning of a Jewish girl on the verge of being a woman, or a monster, or something.

  • Workshop, Studio Theatre, 2023 (dir. Francesca Sabel)

    • Featuring Haley Wong, Laura Harris, Andrea Harris Smith, Matthew J. Harris, & Ryan Rilette, with dramaturgy from Adrien-Alice Hansel

  • Finalist, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, 2021

  • Finalist, Leah Ryan’s Fund for Emerging Women Writers, 2021

  • Finalist, Theater J’s Patty Abramson Prize, 2021

  • Semi-finalist, Jewish Plays Project’s 12th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest, 2022

  • Semi-finalist, Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire, 2022

  • Workshop, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2021

  • Collaborations of Merritt Summer Festival, 2021 (dir. Isabel Perry)

    • Concept presentation here

    • Design renderings by Jessie Baldinger (scenic design) and Olivia Hern (costume design) below:

The Incubators

On the first day of California Right To Life Leadership Camp Age Division 15-17, everyone is so so excited. And nervous! And, honestly, mad!! At the state of the world, etc. But mostly excited: they’re finally surrounded by like-minded activists ready to fight on the front lines for what they believe in, with new strategies of warfare. In Madison Fiedler’s new dark satire The Incubators, Anthony is working on his anger stuff but working harder on destroying abortion culture and Saidie wants to be pregnant so bad and Billie isn’t 100% sure she belongs here, but the one thing they can all get behind is that they are The Pro-Life Generation and they’re just getting started.

  • Workshop/reading, Westport Country Playhouse, dir. Joan Sergay, November 2022

    • Featuring Andrew Garman, Sharlene Cruz, Carmen Berkeley, Tessa Albertson, Neal Gupta, Sean Finnegan, Amara Leonard, & Aurora Real de Asua

  • Semi-finalist, Athena Project (2021 Plays In Progress)

  • Workshop/reading at Playwrights Downtown, dir. Joan Sergay, February 2020

If God Came A Callin

In a mountain town split into remnants of Appalachia’s past and glimmers of its future, a lottery is announced. Ticket rates: standard. The prize: the chance to speak with God. The devout think it's sacrilege and the skeptics are sure it's a hoax and no one's certain exactly what God needs money for, but in the chance that there's truth to it, who'd say no to a miracle? A magical-realist new play with the music of church and shaky violins and family dinners, If God Came a Callin dives into the holy and the familial and all the restless in-between.

  • Production, University of Kentucky, 2023

  • Reading, Barter Theatre’s Appalachian Festival of Plays & Playwrights, 2021

  • Reading, Northwestern University, 2017

I Talk To The Flowers

In a sixty-minute surrealist musing, poets Sylvia Plath and May Ayim share an impossible chance encounter at Virginia Woolf's grave.

  • Production, Skidmore College, 2020

  • Production, University of Kentucky, 2020

  • Reading, Northwestern University, 2018

 

FILM

Fishbowl

Two late-twentysomethings – and former high school theatre department legends – house-sit in the Hamptons, where they attempt to avoid their exes and keep a goldfish alive for the weekend. (15 min)

  • World premiere, Palm Springs International ShortFest

  • Directed & produced by Isabel Perry & Adam Yates; edited by Adam Yates; cinematography by Gabe Armstrong

  • Starring Allie Levitan & Daniel Liu; featuring Ben Castleman & Randi Perry

 

FICTION

All The Trees Of The Field

Queer coming-of-age Southern novella about forest rangers, haircuts/first love, and leaving home. Word count: 10,717.

Daughters and Other Breakable Things

Short story about a teenage girl losing her mother, losing her appetite, losing. Word count: 5,000.

  • Awarded the Edwin L. Shuman Award for Fiction

  • Published in lit mag Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk