Christmastown - A Hanukkah Play

EST/LA - 2022 (Reading)

Welcome to Zuniktog, a cozy California beach town founded in the early 1940's by a small group of Polish Jews escaping the Holocaust. Built in a charming "old country" style, the town looked straight out of Fiddler On The Roof...but then the tourists came. Fast forward to present day, and the town's rustic European architecture has been transformed into a perrenial winter wonderland, coloquially called "Christmastown". But when the city council announces they are going to vote on permanently changing the name, a rift is driven through the community. Zuniktog or Christmastown? History or fantasy? Jewish or Christian?

Christmastown is a dark comedy about the American Jewish experience during the "most wonderful time of the year."

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Mira and the Whale

EST/LA - 2022 (Reading)

They say a whale trawls the ocean’s depths, swallowing up any sunken sinners…and in the whale lives the prophet Jonah and his daughter Mira, who has never seen the sun. But when a hapless craftsman and his creation are swallowed by the whale, Mira’s whale-wide-world is thrown upside down, and now she must find her new place in it.

Inspired by the deepest depths of Jewish mythology, Mira and the Whale is a new story based on a very, very old “tail”.

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Think of the Children!

Selected for a staged reading in EST/LA’s 2023 Winterfest

Two purportedly Jewish couples meet to perform a secretive ancient ritual as part of their Passover preparations. But both couples have their secrets, and the truth has a way of spilling out…

Think of the Children! is a very dark comedy about the blood libel and the people who need to believe in it.

Happy Puppet Hour 2

Puppet Improv Group - 2020

Book and Lyrics by Jacob Surovsky

Music and Lyrics by Nick Kassoy

Directed by Daisy Tichenor

Two aliens/talk show hosts (Morglick and Terry) battle an existential threat and save the world…and maybe even learn a thing or two about themselves along the way. Featuring excerpts with the Broadway cast of the (short-running) Live From Planet G Musical!

Apron Goldswift’s Alien Cabaret

San Diego International Fringe Festival - 2018 (Winner Best Musical)

Music by Zane Alexander

Book and Lyrics by Jacob Surovsky

Directed by Josh Guicherit and Jacob Surovsky

Apron Goldswift returns to Earth with a troupe of alien performers in tow for an intergalactic exhibition of extraterrestrial artistry, but his past transgressions hold both him and his planet in peril.

The Banza

San Diego International Fringe Festival - 2017 (Winner Best Musical & Best Direction)

Book and Lyrics by Jacob Surovsky

Music by Zane Alexander and Kion Heidari

Directed by Jason Maddy

Feuding roommates Ben and Hammy struggle to survive freshman year as they are tormented by a goofy RA, the ghost of Rod Serling, and a bloodthirsty monster known as….the Banza.

My Mother’s in the Audience

San Diego International Fringe Festival - 2015

Directed by Jason Maddy

Four stage moms are driven into a bloodthirsty frenzy when entered into a regional competition for best parental coordinator. They’ll stop at nothing to win…resorting to swords, Shakespeare, and Satan while the show must go on.

Emma and Richie’s Big Viking Funeral!

Brand New Theater - 2019

Directed by Daisy Tichenor

Emma and Richie’s mutual breakup party is thrown into chaos when they accidentally bring two Vikings back from the dead.

Apples to Oranges

Modern Minority Theatre Company, 24 Hour Theater Festival - 2020

Directed by Danielle Graham

Written with the prompt “Love of Self” (based off one of the classifications of the 6 kinds of love). Leigh and Farrah take it upon themselves to give their friend Evelyn an ill-intended intervention.

The Spirit of Hanukkah

Online Hanukkah Special - 2020

Created with Zane Shrem-Besnoy

Meet David and David, two coworkers trapped in a Spirit Halloween warehouse who are trying to make the most of the Hanukkah season. Through song, sketch, and Hanukkah War re-enactment, they figure out what makes those 8 nights so special.

We Three

San Diego Fringe Festival - 2014 (Winner Outstanding Street Theater Artists)

Developed with Phillip Magin and Tyler Faison

Three rambunctious teenage buskers performed a 10 minute Puppet Circus variety act to an unsuspecting and unforgiving public.

Happy Puppet Hour

Puppet Improv Group - 2019

Developed with Sam Pirie, Matthew Kerr, Alex Greenblatt, Aidan Gray, Domenica Diaz, Derek Christiansen, Marisa Caddick, Mia Glenn, and Ruby O’Brien

An anthology of improv segments framed within the context of a live studio TV taping that fused puppet mania with multimedia.

She Kills Monsters

Dorothy’s Friends Theater Company - 2018

Written by Qui Nguyen

“[She Kills Monsters] tells the story of Agnes Evans, an average woman who loses her parents and little sister Tilly in a car accident. Having been very distant from her sister while she was alive, Agnes embarks in an adventure to get to know her sister better by playing a Dungeons & Dragons module that Tilly had written, and discovers things she'd never imagined.”

Hateful Hands (Macbeth)

San Diego International Fringe Festival - 2016

Written by William Shakespeare

Hateful Hands applied a dramatic puppet overlay to Macbeth, allowing themes of manipulation and the supernatural to be explored at greater depths as the inanimate was brought to life and performed the most vile of deeds.