Plays - Full Length

 

JALDEE / HURRY

Virtual Reading, Blossoming New Works Festival, 2021

Originally developed with The Vagrancy Writers’ Group

 

On Wall Street in 1987, Tariq, a young and ambitious Pakistani immigrant is clawing his way up the corporate banking ladder in hopes of becoming the youngest Vice President to date. But in the American world of 80s excess and with Black Monday looming, what will be the true cost to his relationships, values, and identity?


WATER LILY

 

A woman returns home after a long absence to save her grandmother's dilapidated cabin that sits on protected marshland. Weaving past and present, a history of dreams, loss, and paralysis to the changing world is revealed. A play that explores how some of us can never leave places or events behind, too wounded by an environment that will never cease to change with or without us.

WINDOWS

Workshop, Blank Theatre Living Room Series, 2019

 

Differing views of identity, family, and relationships to ourselves and others push and pull four friends apart and together in a small New York City apartment- they climb back and forth through windows in their lives, hoping if they step through the right one, they will not have to answer “what-if” ever again.

Plays - One Act

 

THE YOUNG WOMAN IS A BOAR

Full production, Atlantic Acting School, 2021

 

Nadia and her boyfriend Lionel are fighting. He wants to go to a party, she wants him to delete pictures off his phone. She hears a wild boar outside. He doesn't. She may or may not be turning into one too.

 

BABA, JEE (FATHER, YES)

Full production, Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2018

Winner, 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival Scholarship

Winner, Encore Producers’ Award

 

A South Asian take on the classic father/child drama motif. Maria, the daughter of a Pakistani father and an American mother, lives in New York City with her boyfriend Dave. On the eve of Hurricane Sandy, her father (Baba) comes to visit from Pakistan for the first time in years. Trapped inside while the storm rages on, Maria, Dave, and Baba must all confront their differing views on culture, love, and belonging. In the end, they find that what they all want is perhaps not so different after all.

 

ROPE

Full production, Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2020 (postponed)

 

Beth and Jude, a seemingly happy couple, prepare for a wedding reception in their Connecticut hotel room. As Jude begins work on his best man speech, he runs into a childhood friend, Violet. She’s happy to see Jude, and as the night continues on, befriend Beth too. But Violet knows secrets about Jude’s past. And what she knows could destroy those around her. ROPE explores the wounds we carry, forgiveness and fault, and how a single event can bind us all together, even a decade later.