sara ilyse jacobson                                        playwright
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Shadows Dark and Deep
3 men/4 women 
85 minutes

Malcolm, a teenager, meets Bianca in the nursing home where he is a reluctant volunteer. After a rocky start, a relationship develops between the pair as Bianca shares stories from her past, and Malcolm divulges the details of a family dispute. Meanwhile, Malcolm's mother Audra struggles to hold on to the ideals of the Black Panther Party to which she once belonged, while her marriage to a fellow member falls apart. 

Staged Reading - Agnes Nixon Playwriting Contest
Staged Reading - Fancy Pants Theater #erasism Festival

Staged Reading - The Virginia Playwrights and Screenwriters Initiative, Hamner Theatre 
Finalist - 2015 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival
Finalist - 2009 Great Plains Theatre Conference
Finalist - The Movement Theatre Company's Elevator Reading Series 2009

Semi-finalist - MultiStages 2017 New Works contest
Semi-finalist - 2014 Princess Grace Awards Playwriting Fellowship
Semi-finalist - 2009 Square Top Repertory Theatre New Works Festival



​The Heart is Hollow                                                                                  1 man/1 woman 
75 minutes

Roxanne tries online dating after moving to Hawai`i in 2004. She begins communicating with Logan, an infantry soldier serving in Afghanistan. The pair develop an intense online relationship despite the fact that they are in different geographical locations. 

Production - 2007 Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, D.C.
Finalist - 2014 FirstWorks, Theatre @ First
Finalist - The Polygraph Tests 2011, True False Theatre
Finalist - 2009 Great Plains Theatre Conference
Semi-Finalist - 2014 nuVoices, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte
Reading - Ten Grand Productions Cold Cuts Reading Series for New Work



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Catch The Spider
2 men/2 women
75 minutes


Callie, a writer purportedly researching a novel about the women of the Irish Republican Army,  has been in love with Julian since they were kids.  Since she can't have him, Callie settles into a relationship with lovelorn Aiden.  When her friend takes up  with Julian, Callie is forced to address the ambivalence  she feels towards Aiden.  Past, present, and Celtic myth intertwine as Callie examines the ways in which memory informs behavior. 
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Production - True False Theatre & Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
Finalist - The Second Annual Polygraph Tests Residency, True False Theatre
Staged Reading - 22nd Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab




Hook, Line, & Sinker 
3 men/3 women 
90 minutes


It's 1951 and Hadacol is all the rage.  The wildly popular elixir is promoted as a remedy for everything from asthma to impotence to gout.  Part-carnival, part-burlesque show, The Hadacol Caravan Medicine Show has come to the small Louisiana town that Charlotte and her son Henry call home.  Behind the scenes, dancers Sadie and Oliver try to blend in and forget the botched plan that led them to join the Caravan.  In the present day, Felicia comes to terms with her new diagnosis while Sebastian, her ex-husband, encourages her to pursue alternative treatment.

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