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ONE-ACTS / SHORTS

Saddle Up!

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14/48: The World's Quickest Theater Festival (2019 Edition)
January 4, 2019
​ACT Theatre

Director: Ryan Higgins
Cast: Libby Barnard, Imogen Love, Lori Lynner, Julia Prud'homme

Synopsis: A U.S. Cavalry horse becomes a conscientious objector to settler colonialism​

Also featured in the 2020 Askew Theatre Company Outside the Box Play Festival (Ashland, OR)​

I Swear This is a Happy Play

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​14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival (2019 Edition)
January 5, 2019
ACT Theatre

Director: Troy Lund
Cast: Libby Barnard, Kelly Johnson, Imogen Love, Bob Williams

Synopsis: Anxiety, Depression, and Irritation in the day of one woman's life


Laying Down Roots

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​14/48: Nordo Food Theater Thunderdome V
May 16-18, 2019
Cafe Nordo

Director: Anastasia Higham
Actors: Corinne Magin, Marty Krouse, Madi Cooper, JP Hamilton
Chef: Christian Rosso

Synopsis: Searching for a cure for her wife's illness, a scientist accidentally turns her into a rhubarb


Wheels of a Dream

Picture[photo by Tommy Calderon]

​Funhouse V
September 19-28, 2019
Annex Theatre

Director: Alex Garramone
Cast: Gabriel Joseph Adams, Sara Geiger, Elex Hill, Keller O'Malley, Zoe Schwartz

Synopsis: A children's theatre troupe recounts the violent history of the American transcontinental railroad

Semifinalist for the 2020 Gaslight-Baker Theatre One-Act Play Competition (Lockhart, TX)

The Perfect Family

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​The Ugly Radio podcast
Episode: "All Watched Over By Machines (of loving grace)"
Aired September 12, 2020

Producer: Andrew Shanks
Cast: Skyler Gahley, Mike Gilson, Sky Stephenson, Andrew Shanks

Synopsis: A nightmarish look at modern suburbia

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The Guardsmen

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​Kenmore Quickies
July 26-28, 2019
As If Theatre
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Director: Elizabeth Hershly
Cast: Dawn Cornell, Laura Crouch

Synopsis: A Pacific Northwest ghost story set on a golf course late one night in 1949

Because

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Seattle Play Series: Capitol Hill
July 13-14, 2015
Knights of Columbus Hall

Director: Tina Polzin
Cast: Amanda Keogh

Synopsis: A teenage woman standing outside a Capitol Hill dive bar talks of music, her troubled past, and her uneasy family life



Also featured in the 2021 Talking It Out Festival (New York, NY)​

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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​Seattle Theatre Readers
January 2012
Rendezvous Jewel Box Theatre

Synopsis: In a college town late one Halloween night, a student has a run-in with the Devil


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