Playwriting

Heather is an award-winning playwright whose works interrogate systems of power with viscerality, wit, and heart; sparking audiences to make change together.

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Staged Works

Nidoto Nai Yoni (2025)

A white middle-aged man is in front of a music stand, holding a black dial telephone receiver to his ear. His white hair is slicked back, and he wears glasses and a blue suit.

In July 1945, President Truman sits alone, preparing to sign the order to drop atomic bombs. Suddenly, space, time, and history bend, and a young pacifist from 2025 appears who refuses to let his decision stand. As the two stand off, they grapple with the bombs' impact, the ways their lives intertwine, and the question, "Is a world without war possible?"

Awards:

2026 Leota Diesel Ashton Playwriting Award

WashU in St. Louis / Dir. Ellen Schaaf

Full Fathom Five (2025)

Two white college-age actors stand in front of music stands. An actor with glasses, short hair, and a blue shirt pretends to slap an actor with glasses, short dark hair, and a red shirt. The actor in the red shirt twists away, hair flying.

WashU in St. Louis / Dir. Jeffery Matthews / Credit: Danny Reise Photography

Two men - Shakespearean actors and old friends - reunite after a tragic loss to bury the hatchet. But with strong wine, swift tongues, and old betrayals in play, they find the line between life and Shakespearean drama blurring very quickly. A rumination on imperial love.

Awards:

2025 Leota Diesel Ashton Playwriting Award

2025 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival Award

Works in Progress

Untitled Redneck Murder Play - Foucault meets musical theatre meets O Brother, Where Art Thou?