2024
Almost Certainly Not Real, a short play inspired by astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, wins first place in the Science Playwriting Competition sponsored by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University and will have a staged reading on May 8.
2023
December
Six Feet is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2023.
November
“Please Let Me Shoot You” (a monologue) is published in Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, volume 2.
A reading of Mirror Image with Seashells at In Process, MTSU, November 17.
October
Almost Certainly Not Real, a short play inspired by astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, is performed at the North Park Playwright Festival, North Park Vaudeville & Candy Shoppe, San Diego, CA. Oct. 28-29. Directed by Richard Gilman.
2022
December
The Clock Strikes 17 (a pandemic anti-play) has a staged reading as part of Playwrights at Night at the Jersey Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove, NJ, on December 7. Directed by Carl Hoffman.
November
Outside of Here is nominated for a Midsouth EMMY for Technical Achievement! Yay, team!
A reading of Never Say at In Process, MTSU, November 17.
June
Six Feet has a staged reading as part of the Second Seven at Fusion Theatre in Albuquerque, NM, on June 20.
May
Theodosia Redux is a semifinalist for the 2022 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.
Natural Traps is a finalist for the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting.
February
Theodosia Redux has a Zoom reading at State Left Theatre’s Off Stage Left series, February 21. Directed by Scott Bishop.
January
Velveteen, a short play inspired by microbiologist Esther Lederberg, is named a finalist in the KIT International Series 2021 Political Theatre, Kairos Italy Theater, New York. Staged reading date TBD. Preview in Broadway World.
Outside of Here wins the 2022 First Night Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event from First Night Honors.
2021
December
Outside of Here (abridged), the SUPERCUT—a 12 hour play in 16 minutes, super-edited by Galen Fott, is now online.
November
Absent Grace is performed at Jacksonville State University’s One Act Festival and Student Showcase, Jacksonville, Alabama November 30-December 1.
A staged reading of a scene from If You Can Here It (a play with music, maybe) as part of In Process, MTSU, November 18.
October
Outside of Here (a 12-hour play) is broadcast live by Pipeline-Collective and the NECAT Network, October 2. Directed by David Ian Lee and Melinda Sewak and featuring three dozen Nashville actors. You can watch all 12 hours on Pipeline-Collective’s website.
Read about Outside of Here:
Preview by Evans Donnell in StageCritic.com
Preview by Jeffrey Ellis in Broadway World.
Preview by Gina E. Fann in MTSU News.
Critics’ Pick by Amy Stumpfl in the Nashville Scene.
August
No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister is performed at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, August 22-26. Directed by Claire Gresham.
July
Theodosia Redux is a finalist for the Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting.
“Deb Randall Fights to Keep Venus Theatre Afloat”: an article about Venus Theatre and Witches Vanish is published in the Voices of Laurel summer issue. By Patti Restivo. Page 8.
February
Witches Vanish is published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
2020
November
Aglaonike’s Tiger has a digital performance at Texas A&M University, November 18-20. Directed by Anne Quackenbush.
I Love You Terribly is performed as an audio play as part of Connected in the Deep at Wake Forest University, November 13. Directed by Cynthia Gendrich. (Listen here.)
Theodosia Redux has a staged reading at the In Process Series, Middle Tennessee State University, November 12. Directed by Lauren Shouse.
Scenes from If You Can Hear It (a play with music, maybe) have a staged reading as part of the Experimental Theatre Writers’ Workshop Fall Presentations, Silver Glass Productions, November 10.
August
Strumento is performed online at Guerl-rilla Theatre, Columbia, MO, August 29. Directed by Meg Phillips Crespy,
February
Kill or Be Killed: a Venus Speaks panel discussion of Women Who Kill and the Venus productions of Witches Vanish and No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister. At Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland, on February 22.
Strumento is performed at ACT 1’s One Acts Festival at the Darkhorse Theatre in Nashville on February 7. Directed by Lauren Terry.
2019
December
Absent Grace is performed in a 10-Minute Play Showcase at the University of Northern Iowa on December 12. Directed by Thayne Lamb.
November
Absent Grace is performed at SUNY Potsdam’s Ten-Minute Play Festival, November 15-16. Directed by Rachael Clements.
September
Don’t Kill the Angels has a staged reading in Woven Theatre Company’s The Loom: New Works Festival in Nashville, September 6. Directed by Courtney Schuster.
July
Workshop leader for Nuts. Bolts. Paper. Dramatists Guild—Tennessee Chapter. July 7.
May
Absent Grace is performed in the YET Play Series in Woodstock, NY. May 10-11.
He Killed My Bird, or Now That We’re in Heaven has a staged reading at Guerl-rilla Theatre in Columbia, MO. May 4.
April
Lillie Meant Murder is performed in National Cathedral School’s One-Act Play Festival (Washington, DC). April 25-26.
February
Aglaonike's Tiger has a mainstage production at Western Kentucky University. February 21-26. Directed by Carol Herin Jordan. College Heights Herald feature by Abbigail Nutter.
2018
November
Kingdom (a play about Snow White and climate change) has a staged reading at the Tennessee Playwrights Studio Festival in Nashville, November 25. Directed by Leah Lowe.
October
Absent Grace, a 10-minute opera based on the play, is performed at Boston Opera Collaborative's Opera Bites, October 26-28. Music by Marti Epstein.
Reviews of Opera Bites (Absent Grace):
Boston Globe review by Zoë Madonna.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer review by Leon Golub.
Schmopera review by Aruturo Fernandez.
September
Palooka is performed in Troy University’s Ten Minute Play Festival (Troy, AL) on September 24. Directed by Viva A. Gunter.
June
Serena premieres at the Museum of Dysfunction X at Mildred's Umbrella in Houston, Texas, June 21-23. Directed by Bree Bridger.
Mice into Horses is published in Ponder Review volume 2, issue 1.
May
An interview by C. Kay ‘Andy’ Landis is published in The Dramatist.
March
Respondent to the New Works Festival at Western Kentucky University. March 3-4.
February
I Love You Terribly: Six Plays (actually seven) has a staged reading at Best Medicine Rep in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Directed by Lucette Moran. February 11.
January
Palooka is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017.
"Do You Censor Yourself When Writing?" is published in The Dramatist.
2017
November
Absent Grace is performed at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. Directed by Myriah Wynia. November 16-18.
September
Aglaonike's Tiger premieres at Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland. Directed by Deb Randall. September 7-October 1.
Read about Aglaonike’s Tiger:
Washington Post review by Celia Wren.
TheatreBloom review by Amanda N. Gunther.
DC Theatre Scene review by Debbie Minter Jackson.
DC Theater Arts review by Susan Brall.
Baltimore Sun review by David Sturm.
April
Mice into Horses is performed by two different casts at the Thalia Festival at the AlphaNYC Theater in New York. Directed by Alice Camarota. April 20-22.
2016
October
Aglaonike's Tiger has a lab production at University of Pittsburgh Stages. Directed by Shelby Brewster, with puppets and masks by Michael McDevitt. October 12-16.
Don't Kill the Angels is a semifinalist for the 2016 Writing Award at the Bridge Initiative: Women in Theatre.
July
Aglaonike's Tiger has a workshop production at 5th Wall Productions in Charleston, South Carolina. Directed by Blair Cadden. July 15-17.
June
Palooka wins the Andaluz Award Jury Prize and is performed in Fusion Theatre's 11th Annual Short Works Festival, The Seven: Strange Bedfellows, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Directed by Aaron Worley. June 9-12.
May
Absent Grace is performed in Kent Denver School's One-Act Play Festival in Englewood, Colorado. May 13.
Absent Grace is performed at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Directed by Kristopher Sage. May 4.
March
Witches Vanish is part of Borderlands of History: Gender, Violence, Memory, A Staged Reading Series at the University of Pittsburgh. Directed by Shelby Brewster. March 18.
Absent Grace is performed by students at the SHOBI College of Music in Tokyo on March 12.
January
Don't Kill the Angels is a finalist for the Greenhouse Project: Science and Art at Strange Sun Theater.
Absent Grace is performed in the Short Play Festival at Niagara University. January 22-24.
2015
November
A scene from Witches Vanish is performed in New Faces 2015 at Southern Illinois University. Directed by Katelin Burchett. November 14.
Till Death is performed in Undergraduate Directed One-Act Plays at UC Santa Barbara. Directed by Selene Betancourt. November 13-15.
October
No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister is published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
On the cover of American Theatre with Women's Voices playwrights.
August/September
Witches Vanish premieres at Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, August 20-September 20.
Read about Witches Vanish:
Baltimore Sun review by Patti Restivo.
DC Metro Theater Arts review by Michael Poandl.
TheatreBloom review by Amanda N. Gunther.
Washington Post review by Jane Horwitz.
An interview in the DC Theatre Scene.
An interview with Venus artistic director Deborah Randall in Theatre Bloom.
An article on the Women's Voices Theater Festival by Laura Shamas on the LA FPI website.
A story on Venus in the Baltimore Sun.
July
Lillie Meant Murder is performed at the Barn Summer Playhouse Series: The Best of the Best American Short Plays at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. July 19-27.
May
Absent Grace is performed as part of She Said, He Said: Love & Life, without a Net at Readers Theatre Repertory, May 15 & 16 in Portland, Oregon.
Absent Grace is performed as part of the Oswego High School Drama Club's 10-minute play festival, May 7 & 8 in Oswego, New York.
April
Aglaonike's Tiger has a staged reading at the Carver Theatre in Birmingham on April 25. Directed by Bree Windham and presented by the Magic City Reading Series and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Read about Aglaonike’s Tiger in Weld for Birmingham.
March
A snowy week at work on a new play at the Winter Writer's Retreat in Creede, Colorado, thanks to the HBMG Foundation, the Human Stage, and Creede Repertory Theatre.
Swimming in the Afternoon is published in River Styx issue 93.
He Killed My Bird, or Now That We're in Heaven is published in Old Stories, New Readings: The Transforming Power of American Drama.