My first play, The Double Wide Casket (Originally titled Don’t Hydroplane) is a comedy of (Southern) manners that begins with the announcement of the death of Hybernia Bell, an 90-year-old cake maker and three-time widow in Amenable, Tennessee. What starts as a typical attempt to bury a loved one in a tasteful manner hits a little snag when sisters Annagram Woodard and Betty Queen Petty learn that their mother will no longer fit in the casket she got for free 35 years ago when her first husband died (It was a BOGO). Nor is there room to bury the double-wide casket she now needs in the available plot because their cemetery neighbors squeezed their unmarried daughter into the space that would have allowed for a larger coffin. It’s a story about a family trying to figure how to bury their matriarch without killing each other in the process.

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Playhouse on the Square

Memphis, Tennessee

Winner of the 2022 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition

The play received its world premiere production from July 7th thru July 23rd 2023.

at TheaterWorks@The Square

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Waterworks Festival at Live Arts

Charlottesville, VA

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One of four plays chosen from more than 600 entries to receive a staged reading at the inaugural Waterworks Arts Festival. The readings took place on May 12 and 13, 2023.

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To read an excerpt of The Double Wide Casket, click below.