plays
Friend Animals, or Feminine Upheaval
Comedy | 90 minutes
3F, 3M
Isn't it time we determined the relationship? Five high school students and a curious mathematician grapple with God, sex, and freedom.
Night
Comedy | 10 minutes
4 F/M
A young radish anticipates the harvest.
Sense & Sensibility
written with composer Aferdian Stephens
Comedy | Full-Length (in process)
10 Singers
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood take on love and responsibility following the untimely death of their beloved father.
John Dumpty
written with composer Aferdian Stephens
Drama | Full-Length (Master's Thesis)
7 Singers
In an America just like ours, except for the fact that 1 in every 100,000 people is born an egg,
John H. Dumpty makes history as the first egg president.
I Celebrate...
written with composer TJ Rubin
incorporating texts by Walt Whitman
Comedy | 15 minutes
3 Singers
A pregnant clarinetist and bumbling timpanist seek revenge on the megalomaniacal conductor who ruined their lives.
OPERAS
Pepito
written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides
Comedy | 20 minutes
4 Singers
Pepito, a lonely shelter dog, misses his old family and his old life. Camila and David, young married professionals, are searching for the perfect dog. As the cracks in Camila and David's marriage deepen, Camila and Pepito form an unshakeable bond.
Gilberto
written with composer Nicolas Lell Benavides
Drama | Full-Length (in process)
7 Singers
Oakland. 1951. The Korean War looms large over the newly drafted young men of America. Gilberto, 21, left New Mexico for California six years ago and has never looked back. Resourceful and charming, he makes a life but not a living teaching dance lessons at Sweet's Ballroom.
Ten Minutes in the Life or Death of...
written with composer TJ Rubin
Drama | 9 minutes
3 Singers
"A short phantasmagoria from within the head of a dying man." - Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle
Ten Minutes in the Life or Death of... - Music by TJ Rubin, Libretto by Marella Martin Koch, feat. Lyle Smith Mitchell, David Lancelle, and Lee Cohen
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Song cycles
The Dashwood Sister Song Cyles
inspired by Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility
written with composer Aferdian Stephens
commissioned by mezzo-soprano Meagan Martin
Marianne Dashwood, 17 minutes
Elinor Dashwood, 12 minutes
Danny & The Rocket
music by Casey O'Neil
Comedy | Full-Length (Master's Thesis)
4M, 3F
On the verge of a career breakthrough, an emotionally-isolated scientist grapples with loss and love.
"Can't Go Back" from Danny & The Rocket - Music by Casey O'Neil, Lyrics by Marella Martin Koch, feat. Daniel Plimpton
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