Hello!

I am a writer

I write plays, lyrics, and prose

And sometimes, Haikus

What’s New?

Old Souls, Young Love

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival presented my play This Time Around this spring as one of its official Short Play Selections. Now, the play is being performed at Southeast Missouri University the last weekend of October. Available on New Play Exchange, 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)

First Contact

I directed a reading in June 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 this spring. 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 last summer. 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!