Current Projects
HAPPY PLEASANT VALLEY: A SENIOR SEX SCANDAL MURDER MYSTERY MUSICAL
Book, Music & Lyrics by Min Kahng
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
March 5 - 30, 2025
A risqué romp of a musical for the digital age, this joyful mystery brims with laughter and erupts with infectious song. The fun is ageless in this tale of a Gen Z “influencer” whose tenacious Korean American grandmother has much to teach her about life, sex, and murder in a senior citizens home you will never forget. Redefining “active living” in the golden years, this hit from our 2023 New Works Festival explodes social taboos around aging while celebrating intergenerational connection.
Happy Pleasant Valley is the recipient of a Kurjan/Butler commission from TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
AS YOU LOVE IT
by Adam Kraar
Zeiders American Dream Theater
May - May 24, 2025
Transporting audiences to an alternate 20th-century New York, AS YOU LOVE IT follows a spirited young woman who concocts a daring scheme to impress her antiquarian father and the captivating actress who’s stolen her heart.
As Lydia pens a sequel to the beloved As You Like It, her “undiscovered Shakespeare play” takes on a life of its own. Her simple forgery captivates newspapers, scholars, and a Broadway producer, giving a new voice to what she loves most.
This new comedy exploring the complexities of love and ambition was designated a Finalist by the American Shakespeare Center for its biennial competition for plays “in conversation with Shakespeare.”
THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrrell and Gordon Farrell
Based on the Essay/Book by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA
April 18- 25, 2025
An eager intern at a top literary magazine is given a career-making assignment – fact-checking a new work by a celebrated essayist. The only problem is, most of the facts in the essay are embellished, adjusted, or just plain made up! Details wrestle with truth when the intern travels thousands of miles to confront the essayist, with the deadline looming.
THE BERLIN DIARIES
by Andrea Stolowitz
Theater J
Washington, DC
June 4 - 22, 2025
Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz opens the pages of her great-grandfather’s journal to discover a previously unknown genealogy that propels her on a search for home, heritage, and repairing her own story within the Jewish diaspora.
DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY
DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY
By E.M. Lewis
Oregon Contemporary Theatre
February 1 - March 9, 2025
Words are powerful…books can transform. Zan doesn’t want to read to Dorothy, and she’s not too sure she wants him to! But his community service assignment is not optional. Gradually, book by book, the two of them form an unexpected friendship…Just when they need it most.
Winner of the Portland Civic Theater Guild New Play Award
THE BERLIN DIARIES
DOROTHY'S DICTIONARY
by Andrea Stolowitz
CenterStage Rochester
March 16 -25, 2025
Hidden secrets are revealed when a great-grandfather’s Holocaust-era diary sends a young woman on a “Finding Your Roots” style journey of discovery across the globe on a quest to fill in the missing branches of her family tree. Two dynamic performers play dozens of roles in this contemporary play about the search for home and the family you never knew existed.
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere