Plays

Full Lengths:

Aliens With Extraordinary Skills,Waxing West, Lenin's Shoe, For a Barbarian Woman, Bechnya, Ants, Useless, The Inflatable Apocalypse

Shorts:

White Embers, Final Countdown, Dog Luv, Aurolac Blues, Jelly-Love and Peanut-Butter

A dark comedy about a clown from the “unhappiest country in the world”, Moldova, who pins her hopes on a US work visa. Chased by Homeland Security, a deportation letter deflates Nadia's enthusiasm and a pair of spike heels might be all it takes to burst her American Dream (or turn it into a nightmare...). New York City, with its special energy, seems like the perfect solution for her problems, but is it really? Luckily, Nadia is not alone in her journey: A Russian illegal immigrant, Borat, her fellow clown, tries to find his own path in the Big Apple, by working as a cab driver. Lupita, her Latina roommate, an exotic dancer and wanna-be actress, shows Nadia the tough side of the city. Meanwhile, Bob, an American washed-up musician finds himself in the relationship with the Moldovan girl. Aliens with Extraordinary Skills is based on true stories of immigration explored and fictionalized by a playwright who tries to understand her own story. The moral of the “fable” might be that - regardless our passport and native language - we are all “aliens” in search for love, understanding and a place to call “home”.

White Embers is a passionate and heart-breaking "thriller" dealing with the violent love&hate relationship between the West and the East.

Winner of 2010 Samuel French OOB Short-Play Festival at Theatre Row!

A quirky dramedy exploring the biochemistry of job loss, motherhood and desire - as well as the personal science of turning worker ants into queens, while surviving in the world of ants and humans with an accent.

Vlad, the crippled son of a Russian Mafioso, plans to kill his father - now owner of a restaurant in Queens. Vlad comments on reality by immersing himself into a virtual world of blogs, the only place where he can be himself. He also loves to rap… Alex and Irina, two other young loners, help Vlad to put his murderous plan into practice. On the other hand, Jasna - a former war correspondent, and Kebab - a former suicide bomber, try to find friendship and peace.

LENIN'S SHOE is an intimate look into the world of East European immigrants living in New York after the fall of Communism and their struggle to redefine the word 'home'.

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For a Barbarian Woman and other plays

SHARI faces hopeless days and  nights in Bechnya, a (fictional) country torn by wars and poverty.  The American Dream takes unsettling forms in Shari’s mind as she is a prisoner in a dark cell with only one escape: her imagination. So she imagines - or maybe recalls - the meeting with FATMA, a Bechnyan girl now living an America.

BECHNYA is the confrontation between two women who share a past and negotiate a future. A sad&funny story about political and familial circumstances that determine people's lives.

Two Gypsy street-kids, high on Aurolac (a silver-paint that's huffed from plastic bags), dream of an America they know from movies and McDonalds leftovers.

In Waxing West -- (A Hairy-Tale in Four Seasons), Romanian cosmetologist, Daniela Popescu, arrives in the United States as the soon-to-be bride to the sexually repressed computer engineer, Charlie Aronson. As Daniela seeks to adjust to her new life with Charlie in the land of dreams, Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu, formerly Dictator-and-Wife of Romania, but now vampires, haunt her making her life miserable. This comic yet socially and politically relevant drama journeys between Romania and New York, between past and present, between "the American Dream" and the American nightmare. Will Daniella be able to escape the ghosts of her past to move on?

A dark comedy about a homeless woman living in trains, somewhere in the Balkans

 A play in which dogs led by Madog learn mankind's history of torture and execution.

 A hilarious rampage about love, betrayal, office boredom/sexuality, and various types of jelly ...