Someday I’m Gonna Lose You, 2023 (Full-Length Ethnodrama)
Losing a parent at a young age feels like swimming around in a fish bowl, cut off from the rest of the world. It's like the matrix, once you've been exposed, you can't unsee it. On a quest to shine a light on the bittersweet emotions of becoming a parent after losing a parent, "Someday I'm Gonna Lose You" was created verbatim from 16 interviews with 9 women and 7 men who were an average age of 24 when they experienced the death of a parent.
A Window at the Moment, 2022 (Full-Length Ethnodrama)
Wanting to further explore the powerful link between music, memory and unconscious emotion, I created “Tuning In,” an arts-based research project focused on the quality of life benefits music might offer people living with dementia. I created a ten-question interview protocol in order to help answer the following research question: What are the experiences of caregivers and health care professionals using music as a treatment for the improvement of cognitive function in people living with dementia? From June 20, 2022 to July 20, 2022 I interviewed 22 participants attempting to reimagine, redesign and reform long term care - people living with dementia, caregivers, music and occupational therapists, geriatricians, culture change specialists, professors and pharmaceutical researchers. The first draft of "A Window at the Moment," was created verbatim, word for word, from those interviews. It is my hope that as a piece of theater "A Window at the Moment" inspires a forward-looking view on the capacity of our systems to not only manage the pain and agitation of people living with dementia but help them reclaim their humanity.
Fragments, 2022 (Full-Length Play)
FULL-LENGTH. FOUR WOMEN. TWO MEN. Has never received a professional production. Seeking development.
Set in a lavish West Village master bathroom, a millennial caregiver reconciles with the grief of losing his father to Lewy body dementia.
Along Those Lines, 2022 (One-Act Ethnodrama)
Twelve interviews were conducted to create this one-act ethnodrama on political polarization in the U.S.
Dear Mr. Zinn, 2021
Devised the script “Dear Mr. Zinn” for the book release event of Sonia Murrow and Robert Cohen’s Rethinking America’s History: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond. In the Zinn archives, Murrow and Cohen found a total of 121 letters written from 1986 to 2001 from high school juniors in Bill Patterson’s history class. The letters revealed students in conflict with prior learning and old assumptions and illuminated how Patterson encouraged engagement. Presented at Tamiment Library.
All That Promise, 2021 (Full-Length Play)
Thurston Hall, a Theater major, is struggling to find his voice. In the fall of Senior Year, Thurston is caught between the home he left and the boy he still is; and the potential he holds and the man he knows he can become. Aimlessly, he maneuvers The District, the city that makes him doubt his unique purpose, desperate for a witness to his crude and fundamental transformation.
Room for Grace, 2018 (Memoir)
Stage 4 cancer for her and a debilitating disease for her husband: life crashed down in an instant. Maureen Kenner found resilience, however, in the lessons she learned from her Special Ed students in Providence, RI. Her students lived with their hearts opened despite struggles of the highest magnitude. Through these students, Maureen gains courage, humor, and the strength of spirit to face her devastating realities, head on. Maureen’s oral history was captured by her son Daniel who tenderly wrought this book out of their recorded conversations. Through anecdotes and hard-earned lessons, Maureen tackles challenge after challenge and reframes daily struggles with a positive outlook allowing her to transcend and conquer mortal fears with dignity and room for grace.
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