The Plays
Plays for Children
Maddie and Eleanor
A lonely fourth-grader finds inspiration and friendship in a magical encounter with Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Growing Stage – February 2023
Winner of the Laurie Award and the 2022 New Play Festival at The Growing Stage
Excerpt of Maddie and Eleanor
Heidi
(co-written with Joan Cushing)
A musical adaptation of the novel Heidi, by Joanna Spyri
Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD, April – May 2009; Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta, GA, Dec 2018
Nominated for Outstanding Production, TYA (Helen Hayes), February 2010
Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (Helen Hayes), February 2010
Contact www.GurmanAgency.com for information about obtaining rights to this work.
Excerpt of Heidi
101 Dalmatians
(co-written with Joan Cushing)
A musical adaptation of “The 101 Dalmatians,” by Dodie Smith.
Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD, November 2014 – January 2015
Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, September – October 2014
A musical adaptation of “The 101 Dalmatians,” by Dodie Smith.
Excerpt of 101 Dalmatians
Junebug and the Reverend
An adaptation of the novel by Alice Mead.
Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD, February – March 2007
Excerpt of Junebug and the Reverend
Plays for Adult Audiences
The Paris Test
Grief and love collide when Will takes his daughter Emma to visit Paris, France and remembers his first visit to the City of Light, where he met (and fell in love with) his wife Beth.
PlayZoomers (on-line production) – March 2021
Excerpt of The Paris Test
Common Threads: Mary Lincoln, Varina Davis, and Elizabeth Keckley
Two women bonded by mutual tragedy, the Civil War, and the seamstress who looked after them.
Commissioned by and performed at the National Portrait Gallery, April 2012 and April 2013
Excerpt of Common Threads
Two Halves of a Circle – Ronald and Nancy Reagan
The 52-year marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, whom their daughter Patti described as “two halves of a circle.”
Commissioned by and performed at the National Portrait Gallery, September, and December 2011
Excerpt of Two Halves of a Circle
Migrant Voices
Inspired by Dorothea Lange’s photographs, the imagined stories of five women during the Great Depression.
Stone Ridge School, Bethesda, MD, October 2008
Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA, March 2007 (staged reading)
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway One-Act Festival, New York, NY, July 2000
Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA, January 2000 (staged reading)
Love Creek One Act Play Festival, New York, NY, September 1999
Industrial Arts Theatre, Denver, CO, June-July 1997
Washington Theatre Festival, Source Theatre Company, Winner HD Lewis Award for New Play Development, Washington, DC, July 1996
Best Stage Monologues for Women of 1997
Excerpt of Migrant Voices
Stretch Marks
A kaleidoscope of comic monologues about the tribulations of being female.
Theatre at Lime Kiln, Lexington, VA, February 2004
Virginia Commonwealth Festival, Staunton, VA, January 2004
Nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play (Helen Hayes Award), March 2002
Laurie Beechman Theatre, New York, NY, February 2001
Charter Theatre, Washington, DC, January 2001
Excerpt of Stretch Marks
The Thing of It Is
Two life-long friends on a cross-country road trip have a fateful encounter in a Pittsburgh Motel Six.
Washington Theatre Festival, Source Theatre Company, Washington, DC, July 2001
2 Co’s Cabaret, Columbus, OH, Oct-Nov, 2000
RoundHouse Theatre, Silver Spring, MD, June 2000 (staged reading)
Horizons Theatre, Arlington, VA, May 2000 (staged reading)
Excerpt of The Thing of It Is
Works-in-Progress
This is Meghan Miller
A woman faces life-changing consequences, following a phone call to the police.
