Plays
B-Storm by Ava Geyer; photo by Ben Katz
audio play for Audible Originals
Feeding Frenzy
Cindy is counting down the days until her daughter comes home for winter break—if only she can hold herself together long enough. River has been watching her mother spiral for years, and this isn’t just another rough patch—it's the last one she's willing to endure. Out of fierce love and desperation, River’s found a way to cure her mother’s suffering permanently, and she’s determined to see it through. As River’s methods escalate from unsettling to alarming, Cindy must confront the question: what happens when the person who loves you most is willing to destroy who you are to save you?
Studded with smart humor, underpinned by deep feeling, and full of never-saw-it-coming twists, Feeding Frenzy is a timely mother-daughter story about the unknowability of those we most adore.
Releases on Audible November ‘26. Directed by Tony-nominee Anne Kauffman, featuring two-time Tony-nominee Johanna Day, Silvia Dionicio (HBO’s Task), Tony-nominee and Grammy Award-winning Jenn Colella, Crystal Finn and Jen Ikeda.
Power Nap
Imagine you're expecting (specifically, a baby). There's a 5-week course that'll distill the most valuable piece of wisdom you have into a literal pill your future child can take whenever they want. And then they'll have it—not the advice: the actual wisdom. Would you do it? What would your wisdom be?
A comedy about trying to sum up life while living it.
Semi-finalist, Ojai New Play Conference ‘25
Bloodworks Reading Series @ Ensemble Studio Theatre, June ‘23. Directed by RJ Tolan, featuring Sharina Martin
Death Cleaning
Cole is ending his life in two weeks with the state of Maine's permission. But when his home nurse quits, his estranged daughter Evan must take over as his caretaker.
What starts as a stand-off becomes a referendum on digesting abuse, accessing empathy, and how those who see us sharply hurt us deeply. A comedy. Obviously.
Developed with White Horse Theater Company, directed by Laura Dupper, featuring Tony-nominee John Ellison Conlee
Big Splash
It’s the future and body swaps are a booming arm of the wellness industry. Dan is being a bad father and wants someone to take his place.
A dark comedy about tech, “self-care,” and where trauma lives in the body.
Theater Masters Visionary Award 2020
Bloodworks Reading Series @ Ensemble Studio Theatre, June ‘22, directed by Lily Riopelle featuring Tina Benko and Greg Keller
Industry
Jodie arrives in LA to get her brother off heroin and into rehab. Her husband, Hal, is in Atlanta pitching the next big thing in pharmaceuticals: a drug that cures addiction.
A pressure cooker about family, money, dopamine, what it really means to be a "user," and what it truly means to be "clean.”
Semi-finalist, Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective
Monster
When self-help guru Drew Capuano's compulsive masturbation comes to light, he retains the services of the only person who will still represent him: his power hungry 24-year-old female assistant. Meanwhile, survivor Mona Giotti works to make sure she's put Drew away for good.
A brutal and brutally funny odyssey through America's media machine that puts perpetrator and survivor on a collision course of reckoning.
Finalist, Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition 2019
World Premiere, Wagner New Play Festival 2019, directed by Joe Hendel, featuring Michael Rishawn & Amara Granderson
Shorts
Monster by Ava Geyer; photo by Jim Carmody
Decay
(short play)
Based on a true story of maternal neglect, Mexican mountain towns, missing cats and missing teeth, Decay is a biting and poignant docudrama following one daughter’s quest to understand the tricky anatomy of forgiveness.
Produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre October ‘24. Directed by Tyler Christie, featuring Holly Settoon, Alton Alburo, and Max Singer.
Most Wonderful
(short play)
Kevin is hiring Dustin to help him make a commercial. It will be funded by the government, secretly. Its purpose is to subliminally prepare the American people for the end of the world, which is coming on Feb. 12th. Happy Holidays.
Produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre December ‘23. Directed by Lily Riopelle, featuring Max Singer and Kevin Csolak
Fruit Snacks
Effie is working on being more vulnerable. She does phone catchups with her adult son while he's on the freeway. She tries to open the jaws of her pain and have him stand there with her, on the pain's tongue. A three-person play about what it takes to “be real” with each other.
Produced in Hopeful Decade event, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2020.
(short play)
Baby Baby
(short play)
Abigail and Rose are ready to have a baby. Dr. Lee Hagel wants to know why they want to have a baby—of all the things to have. A goofy meditation on nurturing, parenting, and “how to stay awake.”
Produced in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Asking For Trouble Festival 2019.
Directed by Dominique Rider, featuring Will Dagger
B-Storm
(short play)
Sex sells. Even when you're selling chocolate syrup to little kids, unfortunately. New York ad execs are forced to confront past wounds and current crises when their new campaign hits a little stickily close to home.
Published by Concord Theatricals (Buy here!)
Winner, National MFA Playwrights Festival
Produced at Theatre Row in NYC; Directed by Julie Kramer, featuring Crystal Sha'nae