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Gold

Play/Screenplay
When 19-year-old Frankie inherits her late grandfather’s little black book, she goes on a cross-country road trip to meet his mistresses.
Best Feature Screenplay 2nd Place
2022 Hot Springs Screenplay Competition
Best Feature Screenplay Top 20 Finalist
2022 San Francisco IndieFest Screenplay Competition
Best Feature Screenplay Top 10 Finalist
2021 Boston Screenplay Awards
Best Feature Screenplay Quarterfinalist
2021 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Best Feature Screenplay Semifinalist
2022 Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
Best Feature Screenplay Semifinalist
2021 NYC International Screenplay Awards
Best Feature Screenplay Semifinalist
2021 Atlanta Screenplay Awards
Best Feature Screenplay Quarterfinalist
2022 Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship

Welcome To Betty's Diner

Play
What if you went backwards in time and didn’t feel like coming back? Olivia is a nostalgia-obsessed millennial who has just stumbled upon a defunct diner in the New Mexico desert along Route 66. One touch of a dusty, wall-mounted telephone and she’s suddenly whisked away to 1958. While her road-tripping friend in 2021 tries to rework the magic and bring her back to the present, Olivia adjusts to the world of Santa Rosita in an era of poodle skirts, slick-haired hooligans, and golden oldies.
 
At Betty’s Diner, a beloved eatery along the highway, Olivia gets her fill of eccentric locals: the pageant queen past her prime and her delinquent boyfriend; the tough-but-compassionate owner and the World War II veteran in love with her. But in Donna, a monster movie-loving mechanic, Olivia finds a reason to stay behind.
 
Grab a booth, order a milkshake, and Welcome to Betty’s Diner.
Developed through the Cafe Nordo Slow Cooker
​Seattle, WA

​Untitled Monologue Play (or Anxiety)

Play
(available in Stage and Virtual versions)
Co-Written by Kiki Penoyer
“Do you want to move in with me?”
“Will you marry me?”
“Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?”
“I want a divorce.”

Four people, four moments in a romantic relationship, four tough decisions, four monologues. A young actor coming down from a breakup contemplates the cost of his career of moving in with his dashing director. A photographer stuck working at a department store considers a marriage proposal from the high school sweetheart who may not be the right one for her. A washed-up singer reflects on the disaster of his first marriage just seconds away from his second. A failed writer’s struggle with depression threatens to ruin the one good thing in her life—her wife.