In Process

Human Development  (1 W, 1 M, 1 Open Casting)​
Straight Play
You know those videos that show one second a day for every day for the first year of a baby’s life? A meditation on the big-little moments of love and conflict in which parents and children shape each other.

Waiting for Snow in Havana
Based on the memoirs Waiting for Snow in Havana and Learning to Die in Miami by Carlos Eire
Book by Sarah Gancher
Music & Lyrics by Benjamin Velez
Lyrics by Richard Blano

Untitled Klezmer Musical (working title)
Book/Music/Lyrics by Sarah Gancher
Commissioned by Theater J

Jazz Play (working title)
one-act radio play with live jazz
Commissioned by Playwrights Horizons Soundstage


The Hustler and the Nun
Book, music and lyrics by Andrew Bancroft
Dramaturgy by Sarah Gancher
Commissioned by Araca Group

Maestro (working title—will change)  (2W, 2M and orchestra) 
Musical with composer Ben Wexler
Grove/Whitman Commission
[2022] Closed reading 


The Hole (3W, 4M)
A workplace comedy about the problem with the patriarchy, set in a Florida morning zoo radio show in 1995.
 
Some background: “the hole” is an insider radio term that refers to the member of a morning “zoo crew” whose job is to scold the show’s main shock jock by saying things like “come on, that’s not nice!” or “you guys are going to hell!” The hole is the show’s voice of reason, its wet blanket, the person who changes the subject. The hole makes the other personalities on air seem funnier by comparison. The hole is almost always the only woman in the room.
 
Struggling comedian Rocky has been forced to move back to Fort Carter (a part of New Jersey that happens to be in Florida) to take care of her dying dad. Broke and bored, she jumps at the chance to join the local morning zoo radio show — until she learns that her new boss, shock jock Booger, expects her to be his on-air “hole.” She needs the money, so she tries to fit herself into the format. The only problem is that Rocky is noticeably funnier than Booger, and keeps accidentally upstaging him. This play considers the inherent link between representation and revolution. It asks who gets to be in the center of our stories: “why do you get to talk and I have to laugh?” 

[2018] Workshop and Reading with New York Stage and Film (dir. Danya Taymor)
[2018] Workshop and Reading with Asolo Rep (dir. Celine Rosenthal)
[2017] Commissioned by Asolo Rep and the Toulmin Foundation

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