Theatre

Outlaws of Sherwood (2025)

In my wildest fantasies, I seize it all back from them, every crumb, every coin, filling my pockets and letting everything overflow from my arms, running away with the wealth they’ve built by taking from us. From women and children, from the sick, from the needy. I take it all back, and pour it out for everyone to help themselves. If only I had that power.

Beowulf (2024)

He slips into my home, silent and sneaky, the way he is. As though I can’t smell him, can’t taste his presence in my place, the place of my family. He is wrong here, a shard of glass in the bowl of porridge. I don’t need to see him to know that he’s there. He is coming to kill me, as they have all come to kill me. 

Return to Wonderland (2023)

Other kids go to other worlds.
By paintings
Or tornados
Or wardrobes. But Alice? She fell down a hole.
Not very classy.
You’ve heard of her. Right?

Girls Will Be Wolves (2022)

She said there could be wolves there. There aren’t wolves at the park, you might think, but she’ll say, wolves can look like anything. They might look like dogs. They might look like birds. They might look like people. They might look like girls. Don’t go into the woods, because you might never come back. She didn’t say they would send me there. She didn’t know I wouldn’t want to come back.

The Book of Monsters (2021)

We left the book but took the stories. For stories will never leave.

Snow. Apples. (2020)

Make way for us. You do not want to cross our path. We may look innocent, like weary travelers. We are not. We go where we will. We see everything. We know everything. We control everything. We spin. We measure. We cut. Everyone worships us.

The Land of Oz (2019)

No, she wasn’t happy. She was angry, and confused, and lost. She had friends, but what do they know, these heroes of Oz, who walk through her country, taking their own rewards, helping people, making friends and enemies as they go? What do they know of anger? What do they know of witches?

Nellie Bly: A Menace to Propriety (2019)

The thing is...I got too angry. I yelled too loud. I really think it was my turn to be there and she was just being difficult, but--that doesn’t matter. They heard us yelling and they beat us both anyway. So neither of us got to sit there that week.

The Wild Wood (2018)

There are girls in the woods. One is stealing your food. One is looking for her mother in a tree. One is visiting her grandmother. One is singing in a tower. One is protecting her child. One is chasing swans. One is still sleeping and waiting. Two are together, gathering wood. One wants to go home but can’t find the way.

An Awfully Big Adventure (2017)

Mother won’t let me act like this at home. She won’t let me walk through mud puddles, or climb trees, or roll down hills. “That’s not proper,” she says. “Little girls should not behave that way.” And I want to be good, so I listen to her. But when I’m there, it doesn’t matter. I can choose for myself. Every night I go there. But every morning I wake up in my bed again.

The Maid of Orleans (2016)

A play about Joan of Arc.

The Odyssey (2015)

Dear Odysseus: here is the latest news from home. I miss you still, and hate you still. I wonder if you're ever coming back. Every day I weave and unweave, until my fingers bleed, and it feels like my heart bleeds too. Every strand I pull out feels like ripping away strands of hope and love. 

Dear Odysseus: I don't think I will write to you anymore. 

Redcap (2014)

Wolves are animals. They’re ruled by their instincts. They don’t think. They don’t plan. They don’t notice. They smell. They hunt. They track. Obviously we have to smell like something different. He won’t get us if we’re not there! All he’ll see of us is the cape. He’ll think he’s hunting us. He’ll think he’s got us cornered. Trapped and whimpering and scared. That’s what he’ll think. He doesn’t know better yet. We’re a force that can’t be stopped.

Cygnet: A Story of Swan Lake (2013)

Why'd you turn them into swans?
Aren't they prettier this way?
Yes!

They are prettier this way, but I still don't understand. Why did you do it?
They were boring as women. They spent every day wearing dresses, and cleaning, and baking, and smiling, and crying. Now they fly and swim and dance. They are more beautiful and feel less. 

Romeo y Margarita (2013)

A Spanish-infused Romeo and Juliet.

The Maid of Orleans (2012)

A play about Joan of Arc.

The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (2011)

About the Twelve Dancing Princesses.