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THE CONSEQUENCES

A new indie rock musical co-authored with Nathan Leigh. A bittersweet rock and roll love story about roads not taken and dreams not followed. A winking deconstruction of the romantic comedy genre, it explores themes of fate, choice and the difficulty of knowing one’s own heart. It's been workshopped at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, ETC Theatre in Dayton, and New York Theatre Workshop.
Listen to a song: All That You're Touching is Skin

BIG MONEY

The year is 1982. Three game show contestants battle it out for a fifty thousand dollar prize that they all desperately need. But one of them has a secret: after studying the game for years, he’s discovered the key to winning it. Based loosely on the true story of Michael Larson, the man who broke the bank on the game show Press Your Luck, it’s a funny, freewheeling rock musical about big dreams, big money, and big hair. It explores the ups and downs of the American Dream with a driving 80s synth-pop score. Written in collaboration with Nathan Leigh, it received a workshop presentation at Williamstown Theatre Festival in summer 2008, at Ars Nova in early 2009 and at Pasadena Playhouse in early 2011.
Listen to a song: Make Me Someone New

THE LIST

A darkly comedic thriller about a man who uncovers a host of terrible secrets when his father dies. Before he knows it, he's in way over his head. Leigh Silverman directed a reading of it at Playwrights Horizons in September 2007, starring a great cast including Colin Hanks. It also had a workshop at Pioneer Theater Company in Salt Lake City in spring 2010.

RIP ME OPEN

Written with Desiree Burch, Michael Cyril Creighton, and Brian Mullin.
Rip Me Open follows two wise-cracking, desperate souls as they investigate a strange sexual act in a case of threatened violence and psychosexual intrigue. It ran at Galapagos Art Space and Dixon Place. Gothamist wrote about it: "From start to finish, [it] zigzags from moments of hilarity to moments of deep sobriety... the thrill in watching it is observing the actors negotiate such tricky emotional terrain and often literary script while at the same time putting on an entertaining show, and seeing them succeed."

PRESIDENT HARDING IS A ROCK STAR
"In the manic imagination of this show's creator, President Warren G. Harding wore black leather pants and a shirt ripped open to the navel, snorted coke in the Oval Office with Napoleon and Alexander Hamilton, and belted his stump speech and tariff laws as Tommy-esque rock ballads." -New Yorker

This funny, freewheeling rock musical was produced by Les Freres Corbusier at HERE Art Center in July 2004 and by Landless Theatre in D.C. in Fall 2008.