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Plays
PLEASE LAUGH
reading, play date at pete’s candy store – february 2023
reading, the dramatists guild – may 2021
semifinalist, eugene o’neill national playwrights conference
semifinalist, shenycarts festival
finalist, breaking & entering rooftop readings
finalist, the loom new works festival
speaking strictly for me
production, astoria food pantry – september 2023
The Repair Man
production, muhlenberg college – november 2018
Grand Theft Tea Leaves
production, theatre row – july 2017
production, small box series – june 2023
two of hearts
production, queens short play festival – february – march 2025
reading, play date at pete’s candy store – july 2024
placed first in program
semifinalist, queens short play festival
the old jew who begat scrooge, on his deathbed
staged reading, mccarter theatre center – december 2021
i can fix him
reading, dramatists guild – december 2024
reading, brick aux – september 2023
semifinalist, breaking & entering rooftop readings
river phoenix fugue
production, the firebird project @ the tank – september 2024
reading, wig-wag live! – september 2024
purchase the script in wig-wag’s fifth anniversary zine!
baby, it’s you
production, SERIALS NYC – summer 2025
more plays!
TAKE MY WIFE!
Freudian Oops
tom weiner is a sociopath
Tingle (or, The Cold Sore Play)
Screenplays
Available upon request.
Hearts and Bones*, a pilot.
One and one-half wandering Jews (a bipolar student rabbi and a career puppeteer with OCD) meet at therapy and encounter each other’s demons.
Semifinalist and top 4% of entries in the ScreenCraft 2021 TV Pilot competition.
Mommy Issues, a pilot.
A 25-year-old virgin with unfortunately genetic reproductive health issues starts trying to become a mother in a series of increasingly unethical ways.
Klezmerobics, a feature film.
It’s 1985, and a group of teenage girls in a traditional Orthodox Jewish community find sisterhood, passion, and power in their high school dance troupe with a little help from a postpartum mom choreographer and a bootlegged Jazzercise tape.
Go To Him, a short film.
A group of teenage girls from Queens accidentally go to LaGuardia Airport the day The Beatles touch down at JFK in 1964.
Comedy Writing
“ron chernow to adapt lin-manuel miranda biography into hip-hop musical,” via the broadway beat
“‘Livestreams Are Killing Live Theatre,’ says Man Who Paid $849 for Premium ‘Hamilton’ Tickets,” via The Broadway Beat
“Man Desperately Waiting for Sondheim to Die So He Can Re-Post High School ‘Into The Woods’ Photos,” via The Broadway Beat
“Chaos Erupts at Broadway-Themed Bat Mitzvah Over Separate Tables for Lippa’s and LaChiusa’s ‘The Wild Party,’” via The Broadway Beat
“Kentucky Exodus,” via Sally Mag
“Synagogue Mouse: The Story of Jurgen,” via Facebook
Poems
“if you could see her through my eyes you’d have the time of your life,” via Daily Drunk
sarah jae leiber 