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.