CURRENT WRITING PROJECTS
I’m currently working on novel and a picture book.
PLAYS
low tide
1997. Pine is a confused 17 year old. He wants to write, we wants to be comfortable in his queerness , but it doesn’t seem to working out. Then he reads the work of Seamus Cedar, a reclusive poet who writes odes celebrating queerness and the natural world. Before he can overthink it, Pine runs away to find Seamus who lives in a dune shack on the edges of a peninsula that juts into the Atlantic. In this little haven at the edge of the world, Pine meets all sorts of artists and tries to build a relationship with Seamus (known in town as Grumpy Poet). A seed and some water can eventually crack a boulder in half — mechanical weathering — and the arrival of Pine breaks this sleepy town open. A kaleidoscopic play about chosen family, queer elders, and the beauty of kettle ponds.
Moss & Kay's Fabulous Adventure
Or: Objects Becoming More Distant From One Another at Ever-Increasing Speeds
A big, queer, meta-theatrical adventure about entering middle age, embracing change, and making art.
Moss & Kay meet in the audience of a play. Kay is there to support a friend, and Moss is there because their ex wrote it — about them. As the play begins, the story Moss was expecting is not the story being told; Kay has some ideas about how to fix that, so the two of them take matters into their own hands. What follows is an adventure about memory and relationships, about making art and working in restaurants, about letting go and meeting the next day.
8 actors
Island of the Undead
In the summer of 1996, a group of teens are sent to Camp Green Rock on a remote island off the coast of New England. After a crash landing, they quickly realize this summer camp might not be all fun and games, for starters, the island is crawling with wolves, and bats keep attacking them. The Doctor who runs the camp is kinda obsessed with their blood and keeps them locked in their rooms – luckily they are really good at passing notes. Armed with flashlights the campers set out to find a way off the island before the Doctor begins … the procedure…
Island of the Undead was created in the grand tradition of Paula Vogel's playwriting bake-offs, Dracula by Bram Stoker was the source material.
18-22 actors — perfect for High School/College/University
On the Formidable Ambiguity
Of the Foreseeable Future
We Rise
Declan's identity was stolen so the government deleted it, his boss gave him a new one but it feels kinda wonky. Audra just found out that her mom has been paying people to be friends with her since high school, she's 37. In the midst of all this, they get sucked into the popular self-help movement, HOPE'S SPRING ETERNAL, as it starts to take control of the nation. Soon enough they're in too deep and the only way to stop the insanity is to stop Hope. Fortunately, the laws of attraction brought her right to them.
6 - 8 actors
From Skull To Ghost
Set in a rapidly sinking Brooklyn, From Skull To Ghost is a lamentation on loss and time passed in a vanishing world. A massive sea-wall is being built up Fourth Avenue to keep the rising tides at bay and a chosen family has gathered in their bar to mourn the loss of one of their own. As the toast what they have lost, this group of friends, all whom live on the other side of this wall, must decide what to do and where to go while the water laps at their ankles. Some leave, others get trapped in that final night when they were together. And who keeps knocking at the door?
6 actors.
THE RESERVOIR
or: MUTANT WATER BABIES
A radical faerie-inspired, ritualistic retelling of The Bakkhai by Euripides.
The walled City-State of New York City was one of the only places with clean drinking water until a mysterious parasite infected the upstate reservoir. Was it all the mega-fracking? Ms. Pipes denies that connection, but she's also an aggressive mouth piece for the administration. THEN! The parasites starts turning all the city residents into mutants! This annoys the Mayor because she works hard to keep her militarized City-State running smoothly. After listening to a self-help tape, a long forgotten deity returns and teams up with a pair of teenage mutants to save everyone (But also maybe punish them? It's hard to say).
Music by Nicholas Williams
8 - 9 (or more!) actors.
Click here to access demo tracks of some of the songs.
THE DEEPEST PLAY EVER: THE CATHARSIS OF PATHOS
A rag-tag group of clowns are hiding out in a bunker creating and rehearsing an 800 play cycle ad infinitum; every night they risk it all and raise a flag outside the bunker: SHOW TONIGHT! Lo! An audience appears! The clowns finally have the opportunity to perform and begin with play one, The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos. The Catharsis of Pathos follows the antiheroine Mother LaMadre and her children as they drag their wagon through the Fifth World War and the post-post-apocalyptic wasteland that is New Europe. Together they must navigate all the pitfalls of the dramatic art of drama to find the few remaining books the art-abolishing Evil Empire have yet to destroy and maybe, just maybe, find a way to replace violence with art. Meanwhile, failed artist Davlavdor Salí sells his souls to become the Zombie King of the Evil Empire and sets out to deconstruct the world into nothingness but he needs all the books to do that. Equal parts satire and homage to epic theatre and the struggle for greatness.
10+ actors; 2 musicians.
Music and additional lyrics by Michael Wells.
Premiere: 2006 New York International Fringe Festival, extended into Fringe Encore Series. Awarded FringeNYC Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwriting. Produced by CollaborationTown at the New Ohio Theatre in 2012, directed by Lee Sunday Evans.
"Geo Decas O’Donnell’s mashup of classical theater and literary dystopias might be the funniest, most entertaining show in town." - Oleg Ivanov, METRO NY
You can access drafts of my plays through my New Play Exchange Page.
WORK FOR ALL AGES
RIDDLE OF THE TRILOBITES
An epic, puppet-filled musical for all ages set 500 million years ago in the Cambrian Ocean during the Age of Invertebrates. The ocean is changing, new creatures are appearing and the Trilobite Elders fear that their reign as the dominant creature is coming to an end. Hope comes on Molting Day when a young trilo named Aphra is revealed to have prophetic markings electing her to solve the riddle of how “the trilobites cannot live but will not die.” Unsure how she could possibly solve a riddle that no Trilobite before has been able to, Aphra and her best friends set off on an epic adventure.
The play tackles themes related to growing up, family, loss, our impact on the environment, and extinction. It explores the reality that geological shifts have life-altering impacts on all creatures, encouraging children to think about how mankind behaves toward the planet now and to learn more about the oceans and their preservation.
Co-written with Jordan Seavey. Music and additional lyrics by Nicholas Williams. Developed with Lee Sunday Evans.
6 actors/puppeteers, lots of characters. 2 -3 musicians.
Developed as part of New Victory Theater's Labworks program. Riddle of the Trilobites received developmental funding from The Henson Foundation, NYSCA and The Dramatist Guild Fund.
MOST SCRIPTS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
You can access drafts of my plays through my New Play Exchange Page.