Selected Works
PLAYS:
HE WHO HAS 10,000 HORSES
Commission for Noor Theater
2F, 2M
Summary: A newly divorced, newly-arrived billionaire is drawn into the tantalizing world of reverse-aging technology by a charismatic younger man. Will he invest in saving the world---and his family---or sacrifice everything in his pursuit of immortality? A Science Fiction thriller inspired by Ferdowsi's 11th century Book of Kings....
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Commission for The Acting Company
3F, 5M
Summary: Pip, a young working class orphan raised by his abusive sister and her kind Blacksmith husband, is summoned to entertain a reclusive heiress and her stunningly beautiful adopted daughter. Shortly after, he receives a life-changing fortune from a Mystery Patron, with the mandate that he "learn to be a gentleman." Who is Pip's mystery benefactor? And can (or should) Pip reinvent himself?
BLOOD+MILK, OR MOTHERLAND
Atlantic Theater Launch Commission
4F, 4M
Summary: A very young Iranian-American artist/nanny wrestles with a diagnosis that accelerates her decision about whether to become a parent, as she watches the parenting struggles of her employers and receives magical visions and visitations from Lilith, Adam's powerful, pre-Biblical first wife. An exploration of guilt, immigration, bloodlines, freedom, and the declining birth rate in America....
CUT: A Blasphemy.
Presenting digitally in Bard at the Gate's 2022-2023 Series
Synecdoche Works Finalists' Prize Winner
2F, 2M
Summary: A riveting, darkly comic encounter between the legendary Samson and the Philistine Delilah, who beguiles him with her wit, her fury as an outsider and her skills at bondage. How deeply embedded is our sense of insider privilege and how does it blind us?
TELEVISION PILOTS:
AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
Dark Comedy, One Hour
Logline: Just before the election of 2008, a renegade Senator’s daughter and an immigrant Chemistry Major on scholarship team up to manufacture and sell Adderall from their shared dorm room when a national shortage creates a crisis on their very Catholic university campus. Based on a true story.
(ANTI)BODIES
Drama, One Hour
Logline: A young immigrant goes to work as a tutor at a remote estate during a Plague and discovers that her charismatic boss uses the house as a front for a mysterious form of trafficking. A Science Fiction Thriller, inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre...
SAVAGE
Comedy, One Hour
Longline: A popular OnlyFans model, a disillusioned legit agent, and an ambitious young writer join forces to build a new OnlyFans Agency, “E-Pimps for the Greater Good”, recruiting OnlyFans Models and “Chatters”, and reevaluating everything they know about sex and relationships along the way.
HE WHO HAS 10,000 HORSES
Commission for Noor Theater
2F, 2M
Summary: A newly divorced, newly-arrived billionaire is drawn into the tantalizing world of reverse-aging technology by a charismatic younger man. Will he invest in saving the world---and his family---or sacrifice everything in his pursuit of immortality? A Science Fiction thriller inspired by Ferdowsi's 11th century Book of Kings....
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Commission for The Acting Company
3F, 5M
Summary: Pip, a young working class orphan raised by his abusive sister and her kind Blacksmith husband, is summoned to entertain a reclusive heiress and her stunningly beautiful adopted daughter. Shortly after, he receives a life-changing fortune from a Mystery Patron, with the mandate that he "learn to be a gentleman." Who is Pip's mystery benefactor? And can (or should) Pip reinvent himself?
BLOOD+MILK, OR MOTHERLAND
Atlantic Theater Launch Commission
4F, 4M
Summary: A very young Iranian-American artist/nanny wrestles with a diagnosis that accelerates her decision about whether to become a parent, as she watches the parenting struggles of her employers and receives magical visions and visitations from Lilith, Adam's powerful, pre-Biblical first wife. An exploration of guilt, immigration, bloodlines, freedom, and the declining birth rate in America....
CUT: A Blasphemy.
Presenting digitally in Bard at the Gate's 2022-2023 Series
Synecdoche Works Finalists' Prize Winner
2F, 2M
Summary: A riveting, darkly comic encounter between the legendary Samson and the Philistine Delilah, who beguiles him with her wit, her fury as an outsider and her skills at bondage. How deeply embedded is our sense of insider privilege and how does it blind us?
TELEVISION PILOTS:
AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
Dark Comedy, One Hour
Logline: Just before the election of 2008, a renegade Senator’s daughter and an immigrant Chemistry Major on scholarship team up to manufacture and sell Adderall from their shared dorm room when a national shortage creates a crisis on their very Catholic university campus. Based on a true story.
(ANTI)BODIES
Drama, One Hour
Logline: A young immigrant goes to work as a tutor at a remote estate during a Plague and discovers that her charismatic boss uses the house as a front for a mysterious form of trafficking. A Science Fiction Thriller, inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre...
SAVAGE
Comedy, One Hour
Longline: A popular OnlyFans model, a disillusioned legit agent, and an ambitious young writer join forces to build a new OnlyFans Agency, “E-Pimps for the Greater Good”, recruiting OnlyFans Models and “Chatters”, and reevaluating everything they know about sex and relationships along the way.