Heather Robinson in Mice, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, 2017 (Youthana Yuos)
MICE
Ayushi and Grace have just met. Both are pastor’s wives. Both are handcuffed to support poles in the basement pantry of a serial cannibal in a mouse costume. And both intend to outwit their pious captor.
“Nelson’s bizarre plot results in suspenseful moments that are genuinely unsettling.”- The Los Angeles Times
“This taut 70-minute psychological thriller is no joke…a high-suspense game of life and death.”- LAist
hottest church dads
Cody Johnson and Fernando Monjaraz in Hottest Church Dads, Sandcastle Theater Company, 2024 (Ariella Wolfe)
Jason and Bryan— two white, Millennial, Evangelical teenage boys— don’t have much experience being gay. But they know the same Christian music. And they have opinions about which men at church are the hottest. And they have time on their hands. Until it runs out.
Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2023
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, 2023
what they hid in the corpse
Matt Standley, Bekka Fink, and Patrick Chico in What They Hid in the Corpse, Oakland Theater Project, 2024 (Lisa Martinez)
A lonely, small-town gay man stumbles into the arms of a handsome stranger with a strange request — to transport a cadaver across the Canadian border.
Developmental reading, Oakland Theater Project, 2023
DEMONIAC
An exorcist discovers a demoniac living in a tomb and attempts to heal him, but is met with resistance.
Developmental Reading, The Ignite Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, 2023
KINGS OF ISRAEL
Will Fritz and Joshua Gleeson in Kings of Israel, Kansas City Fringe Festival 2014 (Fringe Staff photographer)
Over a series of bedroom conversations, Kings of Israel retells the dangerous relationship between King Saul and David, the first two kings of Biblical Israel.
Editor's Pick, Best Productions of the Season, 2013-14- KC Metropolis
A “Best Production” Pick, Kansas City Fringe Festival 2014- KC Metropolis
OUTSPOKEN KC: LOVE AND MARRIAGE
Shawna Peña-Downing and Jordan Foote in Outspoken KC: Love and Marriage, GLAMA, 2013 (Schaeffer Nelson)
A constellation of true romances from Kansas City’s LGBTQ communities. With research and creative consulting by Cherae Clark.
Staged Reading, Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America (GLAMA), 2013
Staged Reading, Peace Church UCC, Kansas City, 2014
BOX 7
Zachary Carol, a “pedophile rights activist”, needs to get his taxes filed. Soon. As a vigilante closes in on him, Zachary must subject himself to the scrutiny of several tax professionals. Based on the 1990’s infiltration of the gay rights movement by wicked men.
Workshop Reading, Launchpad, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, 2017.
SIXTH GRADE AS IT WAS
The year 2000. A Classical Christian school in the Midwest. A 6th Grade class. A beloved teacher. And a bizarre, new curriculum. Based on something that happened. More than once.