Hello!

I am a writer

I write plays, lyrics, and prose

And sometimes, Haikus

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Hot Off the Presses

As of March 2026, I write a bi-monthly performing arts column for Cascadia Daily News. My first two pieces were a play review and a survey of the limited performing venues in Bellingham. You can read my columns on the paper’s website.

Pyramid Scheme

As many in my life have found out, I’ve gotten really into Andy Looney’s Pyramid Arcade system of games. They’re a bunch of tabletop games that can be played with colorful stacking pyramid pieces, ranging from light party games to abstract strategy games. But which are the best? I have my own personal ranking, with comments, running on Board Game Geek as I work to try 50 of these games.

Back Onstage

Photo Credit: David Cohn

I got back into scripted acting last summer with Bellingham TheatreWorks’ Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre. I played Charlie in The Foreigner and Manus in Translations. This spring, I hopped in to understudy for Toad in Black Squirrel Children’s Theatre’s first production, A Year With Frog and Toad.

I’m Published!

The Wall and the Woods is officially published! It joins the catalogue at Gitelman & Good, committed to making meaningful new work conveniently available for high school theatre educators to find and license. Read this new fantasy dystopia and access classroom resources at the Gitelman & Good website.

Old Souls, Young Love

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival presented my play This Time Around in spring of 2024 as one of its official Short Play Selections. The play was also performed that October at Southeast Missouri State University. This Time Around has been called “a melancholy sci-fi rom-com that isn't really melancholic, nor romantic, nor a comedy... but it is oh so wonderfully satisfying.” (John Kelly, NPX recommendation). The script is available online at New Play Exchange, or in print as part of the published festival short play collection!

First Contact

I directed a reading in June 2024 of my newest play, a sci-fi comedy called Do Not Reply commissioned by Bellingham Arts Academy For Youth. A group of scientists is elated to receive Earth’s first message from another world! The catch? The message instructs them to keep it a secret. As they watch a series of stories from other planets who failed to keep the secret and met their demise, the scientists—and the audience—must decide whether to share the discovery. The reading was very well received by both the cast and audience!

Historically Hysterical

My play Good Heavens! was part of Bellingham TheatreWorks’ New Play Cafe in spring 2024. It had a reading on Sunday, March 31st at the New Prospect Theatre. The show features astronomers throughout history working their way through lost friendships, lost legacies, and lost noses! You can read the script now on New Play Exchange.

One, Two, Pandemonium

With a couple new play commissions coming up in 2024 (details to follow), I gave myself a creative palate cleanser for December with a video project. Here is a silly edit I made of the first track from the band AJR’s current album, The Maybe Man. In less than a week, it has become the most viewed piece of media I’ve ever worked on, which feels odd. Enjoy!

Magic, Monsters, and Mystery

My play The Wall and the Woods, commissioned by Youth Theatre Northwest, had its first performances in November 2023, directed by Mike Lion. It is a fantasy dystopia inspired by ideas from the middle school-aged cast’s answers to the question: “What sort of show do you wish you could put onstage?” You can read the script now on NPX here!

Digital Afterlife

My play Lifted Up was selected from over 400 submissions to be one of five plays produced in Cypress Productions’ The Second Harvest in Lexington, Kentucky summer 2023. You can watch a recording of the show now.

Hanner & Repp Present

On August 28th, 2022, I did a show at Theatre Puget Sound in Seattle Center featuring:

  • Readings of plays and monologues written by me and directed by Zacharee Simms

  • Cabaret-style songs performed by Bryan Hanner and me

  • Improvised music performed by Eric Anderson and me

It was a delightful return to live theatre! If you’d like to hear about future Hanner & Repp productions, you can sign up for our email list here.

I Robbed a Grocery Store and Then I Blamed You

A theme song I made for the Review Revue podcast was featured in Episode 146: Edible Arrangements. It made hosts Geoffrey James and Reilly Anspaugh laugh, but it also made them cuss me out, so you can’t win ‘em all. Here is the full version!