LIST OF PLAYS
Accolades and Productions
The three older Lukatzki children -- a communist, a capitalist, and an actress -- are back home for Khanike and amid arguments and radio listening sessions, manage to bring a puppet to life. Over the course of the play, the lines of time are blurred, the radio receives broadcasts from the future, and Jewish culture versus assimilation is called into question.
Semi-Finalist, Jewish Plays Project, 2024
Performed at Syracuse University as Honors Thesis, 2023, Dir. Eli Golding
The mourning party of a high school environmental science teacher is at the Wild Frog Eatery, a jungle-themed restaurant featuring animatronic animals, for a will reading. Morgan, her daughter, is a congresswoman, which means tensions are high as the At Any Cost Bill, legislation promoting a full commitment to halting climate change by any means necessary, is to be placed in front of Congress in the coming days. Things become complicated when an animatronic animal begins talking directly to Morgan and her brother Mike, promising hope at the end of the will. Last Will and Testament and Other Wild Frog Facts deals with the process of grieving, both family, habitat, and hopes for the goodness of humankind.
Longlist Finalist, Waterworks Festival at Live Arts Theatre, 2025
Produced by The Blank Theatre in Los Angeles, California (dir. Laura Stribling, 2022)
The Blank Theatre's Young Playwrights' Festival- Winner, 2022
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Jason Dunn goes about a normal day in his home, almost as if he is on a sitcom. After cracking a few obligatory jokes with his overenthusiastic mother and uncle, Jason tries to express frustration with being overly stressed and overburdened, but is consistently thwarted with interruptions from his family and a persistent laugh track. As the sitcom lights get brighter and the laugh tracks get louder, Jason is forced to put on a happy face for his audience to avoid being seen as dysfunctional until he just can't take it anymore.
Featured in Lights Up! Festival of New Plays (2022)
Produced by The Blank Theatre in Los Angeles, California (dir. Asaad Kelada, 2020)
The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights’ Festival- Winner, 2020
Princeton University’s Ten-Minute Play Contest- 1st Place, 2019
Syracuse Stage’s Young Playwrights’ Festival- Winner, 2019
JENNY'S WORRY MONSTER
Have you ever had a worry before? Has that worry ever become so big that you felt like it was preventing you from doing what you wanted to do? Sounds kind of like a bully, right? Some worries become so big that they become worry monsters- bullies that are like weeds in your garden, but they don’t grow with water or food…they become more and more powerful when you give them attention. And poor Jenny gave her worries a lot of attention. She was especially afraid that there might be a monster under her bed. Her parents assured her that there was no monster under her bed. And they were right. There was no monster under the bed. But there was a monster behind her mirror.
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The Blank Theatre's Young Playwrights' Festival - Semi-Finalist, 2022
AN APPLE A DAY
Four people in a doctor's office wait an unusually long time for their appointments. When the youngest of the four opens their comic book, opened also is a Pandora's box of anxieties surrounding getting older, facing reality, and the idea that maybe dreams don't come true.
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Lakeshore Players 10-Minute Play Contest- Finalist, 2022
The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights’ Festival- Semi-Finalist, 2021
Bonnie, the face of a beloved children's television show, has dementia, and her co-star, Mel Begley, along with her puppet alter ego, pays her a visit. As they re-enact scenes from their program in hopes of jogging her memory, they stumble upon pieces of unresolved arguments and apologies that were never spoken.
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Produced by The Blank Theatre in Los Angeles, California (dir. Asaad Kelada, 2021)
The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights’ Festival- Winner, 2021
The year is 1995, there’s a horrible thunderstorm outside and Wendy Symmonds and her daughter Ruth are hosting a dysfunctional Passover seder. As the play consistently flashes back to the past, we learn that Wendy was a member of a one-hit wonder 70s band. Tensions increase between Ruth and her mother as Ruth reveals that her passion is painting, and Wendy’s flashbacks become more and more difficult to differ from reality. No Exodus examines the personal and cultural stakes of holding onto and letting go of the past and the stories we tell about it.
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Staged Reading at The Growing Stage in Netcong, New Jersey (dir. Dennis Connors, 2021)
Growing Stage Young Playwrights’ Festival- Winner, 2021
Jewish Plays Project-Honorable Mention, 2021
Produced for Jamesville-Dewitt High School (dir. Alethea Shirilan-Howlett, 2020)
SNOWCAPS
The Greyview Community Library is pleased to invite you to their Sunday night painting Zoom after being on hiatus. Ben's gonna try his best.
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The Blank Theatre Young Playwrights’ Festival- Semi-Finalist, 2021
PEELING ORANGES
Richard and Esther's children are marrying each other, and Richard and Esther have been tasked with making salad for the wedding. As they chop ingredients and make conversation about how their children will live together, some of Esther’s fears about her child losing her values are shown, as well as Richard’s internalized anti-Semitism toward Esther.
Scholastic National Awards- Gold Medal, 2019
Empire State School Press Association- Silver, 2018