Full length play

Synopsis

Terry and Kati live in Denver. It was love from the moment they met at Very Gay Beans Cafe. The trouble is
Five years have passed
Now ten
Now fifteen
and time just keeps moving faster and faster.
When a tragedy takes place several miles from their home, Terry and Kati are forced to slow down and ask each other, how should a conversation be? That is, how can we establish a profound connection, which feels distinctly available after an act of violence, in our day to day?

Development History

Production, University of Washington, 2024

Workshop, Playwrights Realm, 2024

Workshop, Playwrights Center, 2024

Reading, University of Texas, 2023

O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2024

Princess Grace Finalist, 2024

Full length play | Dance-Theater

Synopsis

It's 16th century France and everything is horrible! There's bubonic plague, major agricultural collapse and the leadership is corrupt as all hell. When a dancing plague breaks out, a group of potato farmers cue the strobe lights and reach towards hope. These are the Choreomaniacs. This is their (mostly) true story.

Development History

Workshop Production, University of Texas at Austin, 2024

Full length play

Synopsis

From the top of the 10 meter diving board, 17 year old Annie sees the face of a man ripple across the water and, subsequently, in everything she does. Joanna thinks its God, Tiernan's too busy trying to win states to pay attention and Rico just wants to get laid. An athletic new play about the terror of young womanhood and the ways that we cope with the thing in the shadows.

Development History

Production, Seoul International Theater Festival, 2024 (Korean Translation)

Workshop, Teatro Vivo, 2023

Workshop, Crashbox, 2022

O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2022

Short film

Link

https://vimeo.com/1042326655?share=copy

Synopsis

In the days leading up to the National Breathholding Competition, a documentary film crew capture star breathholder Evelyn Balm’s strenuous routine. Inspired by Dogme 95, The Evelyn Balm Story takes a sincerely humorous approach to our obsession with competition and the length’s we’ll go to for the people we love. 

Development History

Screening, Cohen New Works Festival, 2023

One act play with music

Link

https://vimeo.com/797762329?share=copy

Synopsis

A meta-theatrical play with pop music, 9/10 Beds weaves two timelines s to explores the past and present of reproductive justice in Texas. In the 1969 timeline (inspired by Lucia Berlin’s Tiger Bites), Willa and Lauren travel to Chihuahua, Mexico in pursuit of an abortion before the passing of Roe. In the 2022 timeline, Malena and Daph are writing a play steps from the Texas capital following the overturning of Roe. The entire project was built around the question "how does pleasure show up in Texas after Roe?". It was created as a six week MFA Studio Project (designed as a lab for theatrical experiments) at the The University of Texas at Austin.

Development History

Workshop Production, University of Texas at Austin, 2023

2nd Place, Kennedy Center KCACTF Musical Theater Award, 2023

Association for Theater in High Education (ATHE), Conference Presentation, 2023

Ten Minute Play

Publication

https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/97283/below

Synopsis

After losing her home to a California wildfire, Anara joins her cousin for a shocking marine expedition. A surrealist short that interrogates the sense we’ll make, if any, of the end.

Development History

Workshop, Take Ten Theater Masters, 2023

Solo Show

Synopsis

Am I Busy Yet? is a solo immersive show that follows Gus, the unmoored younger sister of athleisure icon Ty Haney, as she crosses things off a gargantuan to-do list. Beginning with a guided meditation and ending with a full tilt birthday bash, Gus enlists the audience’s help as she confronts the pressures of modern industry and rediscovers her sense of pleasure.

Development History

Workshop Production, Cosmic Cherry Arts Festival NYC, 2022

Virtual Production, Oregon Fringe Festival 2021

Synopsis

The Sprint is a DIY artist retreat produced by Malena Pennycook and Robin Chotzinoff on the Mishpocha Woods Compound in South Austin. The mission of The Sprint is simple: bring artists together and help them make significant progress on an individual project in a short period of time. The vibe falls somewhere between a co-working space and an adult summer camp. Since it’s inception in 2022, the Sprint has supported dozens of artists and projects.

Participating Artists

Katie Bender
Robin Chotzinoff
Augusta Dexheimer
Charly Dannis
Jenny Davis
Garrett Ennis
Valerie Fowler
LJ Granered
Nic Hart
Dan Hasse
Kaia Lyons
Lars Montanaro
Zipporah Norton
Malena Pennycook
Rodolfo Robles Cruz
Ana Schuler
Sarah Saltwick
Allison Smith
Adam Soto
Robin Grace Soto
Kate Taylor
Matt Thekkethala
David Thornberry
Emma Watkins
Hope Woodard

Full Length Play (written partially in Spanish)

Synopsis

Las Malvinas, Argentina 1982. Two brothers, Mac and Ike, are trapped between two wars. The island's cannon fire is making Mac explode from the inside out and Ike doesn't want them to be the next Argentino's to disappear. At least there are penguins. Loosely inspired by Oedipus Rex, Two Apprentices is a dark fairy tale about brotherhood, imperialism and the slipperiness of hope.

Development History

Reading, Kennedy Center KCACTF, 2023

Winner, Kennedy Center KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, 2023

Winner, Kennedy Center KCACTF Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, 2023