marked green at birth, marked female at birth
graphic by T Mitsock
Janice Amaya, me, T Mitsock & Amanda Centeno in the 2023 Workshop at Faultline Theatre Company | photo by Valerie Terranova Photography
six tweens navigate the simultaneous horrors and bliss of middle school in 2006. From forced 5 Mile Runs in P.E. in order to “fight the obesity epidemic” to the life and death question “Who are you going to The Dance with?”, the characters unlock new friendships, queer desires and ultimately survival in a world where “females” are expected to “shhhhhhh!!!!!!”
Faultline Theatre Company/Irons in the Fire, 2023
The Barn at Lee, 2022, Pride Plays, 2020
Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2019
J Riley & T Mitsock in the 2023 Workshop at Faultline Theatre Company | photo by Valerie Terranova Photography
the zoo
in response to the #metoo movement dubbed “witch-hunt” and their campus’s gross neglect, a group of college kids seeks revenge for their own experiences with sexual assault
KAYLA
excuse me excuse me pardon me excuse me excuse me that wasn't me that was a little bit of the old me before i'm sorry daddy I misbehaved i'm sorry daddy yes i'm just the girl i'm just the girl I'm just the girl I'M A GIRL GIVE ME A LOLLIPOP I HOPE SHE WAS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR HAVING TO CARRY A MATTRESS ACROSS HER GRADUATION STAGE sorry
rave review (zoom comments)
Semi-Finalist, NPC/The O’Neill, 2022
Developed w/ Speakers Corner 2021
they want me dead so i choose breath
LIL
What if I told you this isn’t “30”
This is disabled?
(beat)
Okay!
I guess you can ask questions about death now.
(BUG is now next to LIL. I’m not sure how they got here.)
dear divine
set in a magical-realist world in which it is illegal to be TGNC, the characters have to look to each other for guidance as unexpected death and vast loneliness become the great equalizer amongst seeming misfits
Reading at the Broadwater in Los Angeles in partnership with ActNOW/Sacred Fools Theatre Company, 2023
Semi-Finalist, NPC/The O’Neill, 2023
Barrow Group/First Fridays, 2022
Developed w/ Fresh Ground Pepper, 2022
monologue, performed by Lea DeLaria
Developed w/ the 24 Hour Play Festival, 2020