PLAYS
If interested in reading or producing a play, please contact James through the Contact page on this website.
A Song for the Vanished | 45 Minutes | 1 female character, 1 male character
(co-written with Suz Pontillo)
An online post prompts an attempt to enter a mysterious dimension, confront enigmatic entities, and resolve the fundamental disharmony of human souls in this interactive ritual of desperate determination.
(written for & premiered at the London Lovecraft Festival 2026)
The Silver League | 10 Minutes | Cast: 5 flexible
Four geriatric superheroes with outdated powers find a chance to reclaim their former glory when their nurse is abducted.
(written for & premiered at 14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival Summer 2025)
Unplanted Seeds | 10 Minutes | Cast: 4 flexible
Four male gametes in limbo grapple with purpose, potential, regret, and finding meaning no matter how long-lived or in what form.
(written for & premiered at 14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival Summer 2025)
Out in the Open | 75 Minutes | Cast: 4 female characters, 1 male character
Bri navigates her life, relationships, and sense of self in this queer realism one-act.
(premiered at the Alhadeff Studio Theatre in 2018)
Phobe | 10 Minutes | Cast: 2 male characters, 1 flexible
Years after an evolved alien society has taken over Earth, Buck protests the new world order in the parking lot of a Minnesota Costco while his friend Roger tries to talk some sense into him.
Ars Moriendi | 10 Minutes | Cast: 2 flexible
As a mysterious apocalypse approaches, two strangers form an impetuous connection and prepare to watch the world expire.
Coffinside Coffee Cake | 10 Minutes | Cast: 2 male characters, 1 flexible
Francis, a grave digger, and P, an enigmatic man, have a macabre arrangement. Against P's wishes, Francis hopes to form a real friendship with P on the night that everything changes.