Full-Lengths (Selected)
The Violet Sisters
(2F)
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Pam comes home to Brooklyn to attend her father’s funeral. When she arrives, she is greeted by an angry sister, a dilapidated house and a past that she can’t escape. Despite all of her best intentions, the conversation quickly turns tense and the two sisters are forced to deal with all that they have let slip away, all the words that have been left unsaid for years. A two-person, one set, real time play, The Violet Sisters is a play about forgiving when you cannot bring yourself to forget.
Select Development:
Cape Cod Theater Project, 2022
New Harmony, 2021
Mirrorbox Theater, 2020
The Playwrights Center, 2020
THIS HAPPENED ONCE AT THE ROMANCE DEPOT OFF THE I-87 IN WESTCHESTER
(2F, 2M)
Kevin owns a Romance Depot. Beth needs a vibrator. The two of them form an unlikely relationship that straddles the line between friendship and romance. What happens when two lonely people find one another?
Select Development:
The Goodman Theater’s New Stages Festival, 2022
The Playwrights’ Center Ruth Easton Series, 2021
Youngblood Workshop, 2018
meet you at the Galaxy Diner.
(2F, 2M, 1ENBY)
Bill is in Alaska and AG is in NY. They're old High School pals who have nearly forgotten about one another. When they reconnect over AIM after not speaking for 20 years, they find that looking back might help them remember who they are.
Select Development:
Northern Stage New Plays Now, 2022
VoxFest, 2021
Winner: The Neukom Award for Playwriting
MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES
(2F, 1ENBY)
Ellie and Britt have been lifelong friends, lifelong haters of cheerleaders and lifelong drama geeks so when their All Girls Catholic School's drama club does Romeo and Juliet, obviously they'll be a part of it. But when Amber, a cheerleader with an injury unexpectedly gets the lead across from Britt, Ellie's heart is turned upside down. Actually, all their hearts are. A new queer kinda adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Select Development:
Boomerang Theater, 2023
William Inge Theater Festival, 2022
THE VIRTUOUS FALL OF THE GIRLS FROM OUR LADY OF SORROWS (an adaptation of Measure for Measure)
(7F)
The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows, is an exploration of teenage revolution in the face of petty authoritarianism. Set in a Catholic girls’ school, the play recounts the ripple effects caused by one student's decision to produce M4M2, a controversial sequel to Measure for Measure.
World Premiere: Spicy Witch Productions, 2019
This play is perfect for colleges and has been read or performed at the following: Dartmouth, UNC-Chapel Hill, Itacha College, Brooklyn College, among others.
ALOND(R)A
(3F, 4M)
ALOND(R)A tells the story of Allonda and her friends as they wrestle their way through the summer - sometimes it's on the playgrounds in the projects of Coney Island, sometimes it's with their feelings and often it's at home. A coming of age story about friendship and heartache, ALOND(R)A asks how much is too much to fight for?
Select Development:
Reading, MCC Theatre, 2019
Reading, The Leah Ryan Fund at the New Ohio, 2019
EST/Youngblood Bloodworks, 2017
Winner: Leah Ryan Prize
Runner Up: Yale Drama Prize, 2019
Finalist: American Blue Ink Playwriting Award, 2018
Runner Up: Jane Chambers Award, 2018
Semifinalist: Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2018
We Are A Masterpiece
(5F, 7M)
WE ARE A MASTERPIECE takes place at the dawn of the AIDS crisis, when the disease was still a mystery. In Kalamazoo, Michigan, Joan, a no-nonsense nurse, becomes a sort of fairy godmother to the town’s gay community when no one else will step up to care for them as they die one by one. She becomes their friend, their mother, their sister, as they navigate life and death with this new plague. Out of the ashes of their collective lives, lifelong bonds are forged and beauty is found even at the darkest of moments.
World Premiere: Retro Productions/14th Street Y, 2018
Winner: The Doric Wilson Award for Independent Playwrights, 2018
Honorable Mention: Christopher Hewitt Award, 2018
Nominee: New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Full-Length script, 2018
For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play)
(9F)
When Joy gets on the Brooklyn Scallywags and meets the star, Lizzie Lightning, she and her long term partner Michelle find their lives turned upside down. For The Love Of asks how much you’re willing to sacrifice – or lose – in order to follow your heart.
Center Theatre Group Block Party, 2019
West Coast Premiere, Theatre of NOTE, 2018
World Premiere, Pride Films & Plays, 2017
New Georges Space Grant, 2016
Residency with NTI at the O'Neill, 2015 & 2016
Alumni Workshop at Sarah Lawrence College, 2015
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre reading, 2014
The Mermaids' Parade
(2F, 4M)
Biron has been deployed to Iraq and Islande is stuck in Coney Island. A fable of a mermaid connects them both as they are forced to confront their personal horrors in order to try to find one another and themselves during a time of war.
Semi-Finalist: The Relentless Award, 2017
Finalist: Princess Grace Award, 2017
Honorable Mention: Panndora's Box, 2017
Developed during Pipeline Theatre's PlayLab 2015-2016.
REBELS TIL DEATH
(3F, 2M)
Azul and Sweetie are lifelong friends and long time rebels, living in the projects in Coney Island. When they start keeping secrets from one another and Sweetie starts to uncover buried secrets from his past, will their world fall apart?
Playwrights Horizons Guest Artist Series, 2018
Solo Shows
Gina Femia is a playwright. William Shakespeare is a playwright, too - maybe you've heard of him? Through the lens of different Shakespeare plays, and juxtaposing him with the abusive relationships that defined her coming of age, Gina discusses how her experience with the Bard has shaped her origin story as a playwright.
lisa; a fantasia (a solo play with other people)
lisa is writing a play while also going to work, working on her relationship and working through her trauma, and also trying to write a play in a world that wants to own her trauma and also, she needs to call her mom back. lisa; a fantasia is a swirling, metatheatrical autobiographical fantasia that explores how we live our lives through the trauma of life, and how we create our art in an industry that wants to own our narratives.
Whoa, and Gina has written even MORE PLAYS than can fit here! Head over to New Play Exchange page to check them out.
Photography courtesy of Poetic Theatre Productions.