I write plays and screenplays. These are some of them!
PLAYS
Wicked Child
When Ben leaves his lucrative associate job at a New York law firm to join the Israeli Defense Forces, his secular Jewish family must reexamine its positions towards the state of Israel and their Jewish identity. A play about whether political belief can destroy familial bonds, how Jewish families educate their children about Israel, and how much we owe to our people.
WORLD PREMIERE: Zoetic Stage, January 2024.
Workshop and Reading— Finstrom Festival, Zoetic Stage, May 2022
Semi-Finalist—Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference (2020)
Long List— Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (2020)
Developmental Reading— Salon29, December 2019
What Else Is True?
At a large university in New York City, six isolated college students formed a long form improv team, and became best friends in the process. But time goes on, and teenagers grow into adults, and some don’t, and the relationships we once took for granted slowly transform and dissolve. A play about what it means to be funny, about how we first taste adulthood in college, and how we cling to and isolate other people in the process.
WORLD PREMIERE: ART/NY, produced by Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective, August 2023
Developmental Workshop— Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab, June 2022
Developmental Workshop— Egg & Spoon Theatre Company, March 2022
Semi-Finalist— B Street Theatre New Comedies Festival, 2020
Finalist— Lanford Wilson Theatre Festival, 2022
I Would Never Lie to You
A multimedia comedy about deception in the age of the Internet that explores (among other things) catfishing, The Fyre Festival, Theranos, The Music Man, and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Commissioned by The Juilliard School’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, where it was to premiere in March of 2020, directed by Alex Shaw.
Absolutely!
Etgar Vereznu is the Supreme Leader and Comrade General of Mechzenia, an Eastern European communist paradise that is like, very much not a dictatorship, ok?!? And tonight, Etgar has prepared a spectacular song-and-dance pageant to celebrate the anniversary of his reign. Problem is, tonight’s also the night that a band of dissidents has initiated a military coup. So, pretty awkward. A semi-musical comedy about totalitarianism and the power of song. Music by Luke Holloway.
Developmental Reading— 29Salon, March 2022
SHORTS
It’s a Dog
He's bald. Well, no, he's *going* bald. He still has hair. On like, the sides. Does that count? It counts, right? Maybe? Either way, he’s pathetic. And he’s getting old. A short film about hair (and life) receding.
Official Selection: Indy Shorts (Oscar Qualifying), Beverly Hills Film Festival, Allentown Film Festival, Capital City Film Fest, New York No Limits Film Series, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Vero Beach Film Festival, Mendocino Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival.
Best Comedy: Coney Island Film Festival.
Finalist: Cleveland Film Festival
Tuck & Art
Tuck Turtletaub and Art Gessner are the geniuses behind the greatest midtempo AM radio hits of the 1960s and 70s – songs like “Puppy Dog Girl,” “I’ve Got A Lady In My Pocket,” and “Nicodemus (Nicodemus).” And their creative process? Is a fucking nightmare.
Written with and co-starring Tom Nieboer. Directed by Tyler Mercer.
Episode 2 is a Vimeo Staff Pick.
ORIGINAL PILOTS
When his Totalitarian Dictator father dies unexpectedly in a car crash, world class idiot Etgar Vereznu is suddenly promoted to Supreme Leader of Mechzenia, the world’s saddest and poorest Former Soviet Republic. But it turns out the job is like really hard and the UN is like super mean and being in charge is way more stressful than he ever anticipated so give him a break, ok?!?!
Semi-Finalist (Top 20 out of 4000+)— Script Pipeline TV Writing Competition, 2022
Absolutely!
A half hour comedy following a group of graduate students at a Reform Rabbinical School in New York City as they try to balance their spiritual growth with their desire to live the normal, indulgent, messy lives of twenty-something New Yorkers.
Semi-Finalist (Top 6)— Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, 2021
Semi-Finalist— Orchard Project Episodic Lab, 2021
Chosen People
An upbeat, semi-absurd half hour comedy procedural about the National Parks Investigative Command— the elite squad of Oregon weirdos facing down ecological criminals, big business and public indifference to protect America’s natural treasures and endangered species.
Semi-Finalist— Orchard Project Episodic Lab, 2020