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I'm a playwright [1] who lives in New York. I love to deconstruct tropes as often as possible in my own work.

Pages I am responsible for launching:

• Animated Credits Opening
• Anton Chekhov
• Counterpoint Duet
• Dinner Theatre
• Four Girl Ensemble
• God Is Love Songs
• No Medication for Me
• Esperanto, the Universal Language
• Kwyjibo
• La Ronde
• Teeny Weenie
• Tom Robbins
• Stephen Sondheim
• Things Get Real
• Vampire Musicals

My plays include examples of:

The Starship Astrov (Anton Chekhov meets Star Trek)

• Chekhov's Gun
• Green-Skinned Space Babe
• Oblivious to Love
• Recycled In Space (almost)
• Vehicle Title
• X Meets Y

The Thyme of the Season

• Curse Cut Short + Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
• The Fair Folk
• Perspective Flip (of A Midsummer Night's Dream)
• Pun-Based Title
• Sequel (to A Midsummer Night's Dream)
• Shout Out To Shakespeare

The Empress of Sex

• Ancient Greece
• Attractive Bent Gender
• Calling Your Orgasms
• Defrosting Ice Queen (subverted)
• Disguised in Drag
• Do You Want to Copulate?
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex
• Everyone is Bi
• Instant Seduction
• Loads and Loads of Characters
• Lysistrata Gambit (inverted)
• T-Word Euphemism ("Love")
• The Power of Love
• Three-Way Sex
• Wholesome Crossdresser

Suckers

• Action Girl
• Goth
• Large Ham
• Nietzsche Wannabe
• Our Vampires Are Different
• Sliding Scale Of Vampire Friendliness (pretty much all of them)
• Vampire Hunter
• Vampire Invitation (parody inversion)
• Vampires Own Night Clubs (a coffeehouse in this case)

Ore, or Or

• All Asians are Alike (discussed)
• Asian and Nerdy
• Big Applesauce
• Everything Is Racist
• Far East
• Fan Boy
• Space Jews
• Star Trek
• Taoism

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