Three Suitcases
Semifinalist, 2019 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference

True story: Long before finding fame as a writer, Beat Generation icon William Burroughs met a German Jewish woman named Ilse Herzfeld Klapper in Dubrovnik. A year later, they were married.

Ilse Burroughs received a U.S. visa from this marriage and arrived in New York in 1939, where she worked for exiled anti-fascist German writer Ernst Toller.

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Three Suitcases imagines the intersection of these three lives in Manhattan's Hotel Mayflower in 1939 - a landscape of political refugees, growing fascism, and attempts to rewrite history. 

The Drowned Girl

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A fable about art, complicity and evil in the Nazi film industry. 

Congressman Davy 

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A new musical about Davy Crockett's political rise and fall.

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Music by Dean Schlabowske (Waco Brothers, Wreck) 

Plays Pandemical

Six broadside-style monologues, filmed at various moments in 2020, reflect on how COVID-19 rippled through our lives. How did pandemic change our views of science, history, art, government -- and ourselves?

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Featured in the Vancouver and Prague Fringe Festivals

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All works filmed in a socially-distanced manner, in collaboration with Pandora Machine and Mind the Gap Theatre.

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"[A] series of short monologues for YouTube that have captured a world wide following." -- DC Theatre Scene 

An Evening

with Lola Montez

"An Evening With Lola Montez is one of the most fascinating Fringe shows I've seen..." -- Broadway World

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World premiere:  

July 2019 at the Capital Fringe Festival 

Nero/Pseudo

"[A] bona-fide hit musical, from the pen of Richard Byrne." - Broadway World

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"... a fun romp that effortlessly links ancient themes of imperial deification & the 20th century cult of rock and roll." -  MD Theatre Guide

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World Premiere May 2014 - WSC/Avant Bard

Recent Writing 

How the Velvet Revolution - and an American grad student - sparked a classic book by Bohumil Hrabal. 

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The Wilson Quarterly