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In various chat rooms, two sets of people hook up. Jared, a 15-year-old looking for the perfect alcohol-and-oxycontin high to relieve the grief he feels over his mother's suicide, instant-messages with Art, a middle-aged pedophile and child psychiatrist who pretends to be a teenager until Jared uncovers the truth. However, Jared doesn't let this dissuade him, and he agrees to connect with Art in Manhattan's Riverside Park, Jared for drugs, Art for sex. In another chat room, Kevin, a 9/11 hero firefighter, carries on an erotic conversation with Jeanine, whom he thinks is 13, but is, in reality, part of an adult volunteer vigilante group out to snare pedophiles. When she discovers his minor celebrity status, she contrives, through her 13-year-old persona, to extract from Kevin a nude picture, his address and phone numbers, and posts everything up on the vigilante website for all to see. From the park, Art takes Jared to a midtown hotel room so that Jared can get high and Art can get sex. Instead, each helps the other come to terms -Jared, with the loss of his mother, and Art, the loss of his conscience. And in a motel room, Kevin is holed up, drunk and scared, having just been fired from his job and run out of his neighborhood after the ensuing media scandal resulting from the revelation of his chat with an alleged "thirteen-year-old." He is visited by Jeanine, out to determine for herself if her actions were justifiable or a mere act of vengeance for the sexual assaults she suffered as a child.

John Street United Methodist Church, NY

2007

Rising Phoenix Repertory

in Plays and Playwrights 2008, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>>

978-0-9794852-1-3

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Rising Phoenix Repertory premieres a new play by Daniel Reitz and directed by Daniel Talbott. Featuring a sexually ambiguous, BlackBerry-obsessed young broker; a grief-stricken woman debating the point of her continued existence; and a reunited couple reminiscing about their past, Fall Forward, is the companys latest site-specific theater adventure. Composed of three intimate vignettes that deal with loss, isolation and the sudden cataclysms that life holds in store, the play is presented in and around the evocative courtyards of John Street United Methodist Church, Manhattans oldest Methodist church. It is produced in association with the River to River® Festival. This description is from the press release: "On his lunch hour, a young Wall Street broker wields his BlackBerry as a barrier from the outside world, juggling his complicated love life through text-messages, cell phone calls and an online dating service, making notes on his MemoPad on how to deal with his grief-stricken mother, and reading Buddhism For Dummies. Inside the church, a woman talks to herself about the banality of her existence, and weighs if she should continue her life after surviving the tragic sudden loss of both her husband and her son in a plane crash. Outside, in the courtyard, a couple are reunited and describe to each other a day a few years ago in which taking a leap meant ending time as they knew it."
- nytheatre.com

Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States)

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A middle-aged gay couple hires a young hustler for a night of sexual game play in celebration of a birthday. But as the evening progresses, the real reasons for their tryst reveal an annihilating mutual loathing. A provocative study of love gone wrong.

Belt Theater, New York City

2003

Naked Angels Theatre Company

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At 23, John McGuire was a junior middleweight contender. He went the distance with Roberto Duran, and stayed on his feet, bloodied but unbowed. Ten years later, he's scratching out a living doing everything from fighting second-rate twenty year-old boxers to supplying drugs to TV actors to turning the occasional gay-for-pay trick. He has one ambition, however: to turn the story of his life into a movie. The screenplay he wants to write, however, isn't his life, but one borrowed heavily from real-life crime writer James Ellroy, in which he takes from his book My Dark Places the tragic murder of Ellroy's mother as the basis for his own hardscrabble story - the boy who witnesses his mother's rape-murder and grows up to be the avenging boxer John never became. A sudden chance to pitch his screenplay to a producer leads him to enlist the help of one of his former johns - a once-successful, now washed-up masochist screenwriter who agrees to write John's screenplay, for a first-draft-to-polish series of beatings. Into this venal world of manipulation and coercion enters Miriam, an enterprising and unsullied journalist writing an article about "beautiful losers" - failed men who achieve their grandest moment in exquisite failure. A lover of boxing herself, Miriam becomes enamored of John and attempts to show him the honest beauty of his former life. She encourages him to make an honest man of himself and realize his potential by agreeing to a rematch with the man John is most afraid of facing again - Darryl, the champion boxer John once beat in a sneaky-lucky punch.

Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43, NY

2007

Rising Phoenix Repertory

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performed in adjoining bathrooms at Jimmys No. 43, the pub theatre space in the East Village that is the artistic home of Rising Phoenix Repertory. The playwright summarizes the play this way: "Two restrooms. In one, two men, in the other, one woman; each seeking something different: love, power, refuge."
nytheatre.com

2007

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part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 29th annual Marathona festival of new short plays from a diverse spectrum of American playwrights

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In a beach house in the Hamptons internationally famous artist Julian Barker is painting against the clock for he has pancreatic cancer and is driven to complete as much work as possible.

Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43, NY

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

In this version, Olga, Irina, and Masha gather in a downtown Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Irina's birthday. Along the way they drink too much wine, share vicodin, commiserate about unhappy love lives and exile to the outer boroughs, and wonder whether they will ever be able to afford their beloved Upper West Side again

Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival

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