Plays

Over two dozen productions internationally. Produced by the Fade to Black Festival, Nylon Fusion, MOJOAA Performing Arts Company, Anacostia Playhouse, Barter Theatre, Saw It Here First Productions, London’s Science Fiction Theatre Festival, and more.

Geo Jones performs in a staged reading of THE TRANSPORTED MAN, the surreal saga of Henry “Box” Brown, for the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights 2023. (Credit: Barter Theatre)

Don’t Hate the Player

An old-school player finds a “GameGirl” and tries to take control of her, but learns the hard way she don’t play. (10-minute play. 1 F, 1 M)

  • Produced May 2020 for Love City Arts‘ Sip & Play Virtual Show #1.
  • Premiered March 2019 at TADA! Theater in NYC for Nylon Fusion‘s This Round’s On Us: Making Sense — Can You Touch Me?

Farewell, Flesh!

An aspiring actress and a fading star compete for a new skin at a traveling carnival. (10-minute play. 2 F, 1 M)

  • Premiered Oct. 2017 at the Slate Theater in Seattle for Funhouse II.

Faster Than the Speed of Race

Legendary NASCAR driver Wendell Scott can’t stop, won’t stop. (Monologue)

  • Premiered Feb. 2023 at Shine: Illuminating Black Stories, part of the 2023 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights at Barter Theatre.

For Sore Eyes

Looking to spice up her tired marriage, an older woman orders custom-made, designer eyeglasses to see a younger version of her husband. (10-minute play. 3 Characters)

  • Premiered April 2023 for the New Voices, New Works Festival — Love: Make Ya Do Right / Make Ya Do Wrong — at Anacostia Playhouse.

Going Viral

The paranoid host of a conspiracy theory YouTube channel tries to separate fact from fiction in a COVID-19 world. (10-minute play. 4 Characters)

House of Glass

As part of an experiment to regulate the population, a married couple and their SimFant move into a smart house with walls made of glass. (1 M, 1 F, 1 Gender Neutral Voice)

  • Coming 2020 to Whitton Library in Richmond, London for The Script Room. (CANCELLED)
  • Premiered April 2018 at the Slate Theater in Seattle for Funhouse III.

Invisibility

An anxious mother meets with a troubled recruiter to get her son into a special school. (10-minute play. 2 F)

Made You Look

A post-break-in monologue about a robbery gone wrong. (Monologue)

Red Letter Day

Set in a Martian colony, a woman must wear a scarlet “A” and face the consequences in a public trial for “abstaining” from her preacher husband.
(10-minute play. 1 F, 3 M)

Signs of the Times

When a young activist doesn’t know what to write on her protest sign, she calls a special sign-creation company for help.

Spread

Live from his quarantined studio, the internet’s realest conspiracy theorist hears from three viewers, who each have their own versions of the truth. (10-minute play. 4 Characters)

Statue of Limitations

Burdened by the weight of COVID and racial injustice, a longtime married couple seeks support in a virtual counseling session. (10-minute play. 1 M, 1 F)

Symbolism

A veteran struggling with PTSD confronts a confederate statue. (Monologue)

The Chair

A couple’s marriage gets tested when the wife buys a smart chair that satisfies all of her needs. (10-minute play. 1 M, 1 F)

The Fail of Man

A one-robot show. Set 25 years after the robot uprising, one scientist brings human survivors to his laboratory to study a glitch in the human brain. (Monologue)


(photo by Natalya Micic Photography) 

The Switch

(photo by Walter Wlodarczyk)

The Three Fates deliberate who should or shouldn’t be selected to die on Reckoning Day. (10-minute play. 3 F)

The Transported Man

An escape artist recounts his world-renown magic act: breaking from the chains of slavery by mailing himself from Virginia to Pennsylvania in a box. (Full-Length)

  • Stage reading Feb. 2023 for the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights at Barter Theatre. 

There Once Was a Jack in a BoxJack1

A mad scientist plans to use a time machine to stop a man from getting shot by a cop. (Monologue)

Turned On

In the not-too-distant future, an aspiring actress who feels violated by a powerful director activates a distress signal to review his behavior. (10-minute play. 3 F, 1 M)

Uncle Tom’s Hangar

At the world’s first and only flying school for Black folks, Uncle Tom interrupts Bessie Coleman’s lesson to sue her for defamation. (10-minute play. 1 F, 1 M)

  • Produced Jan. 2019 for the 2019 Fade to Black Reading Series
  • Premiered Oct. 2018 for at Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh, NC the MOJOAA Reclamation Series.

Warpaholics Anonymous

An afflicted group gathers for a therapy session to talk about lightspeed addiction. (10-minute play. 2 F, 2 M)

  • Produced March 2021 for Talking It Out, a short play festival dedicated to highlighting various issues of mental illness.
  • Premiered June 2019 at the Duke Ellington Room in NYC for The Alternative Theater Company‘s Altered Minds Stage Readings.

When Robots Cook Chitlins

A stubborn widower has a hard time fixing a soul food dinner with his new caregiver. (10-minute play. 1 M, 1 Neutral)

Why Husbands Hold Their Tongues

Long ago, in a village where each person is given a finite amount of words, one wife runs out of her own and files a claim for her stoic husband’s words. (10-minute play. 2 M, 2 F)