SEVEN-LETTER NAMES
A darkly comic play on food and relationships and our relationship to food. While avoiding the impending doom of the outside world, a group of white liberal hipsters who indulge in a six-course farm-to-table meal of locally grown vegetables, ethically raised organic meats, and sustainably caught seafood. This play examines the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and human nature, its primitive instincts, unspeakable secrets, and inconceivable actions.
Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2022.
Selected, NAPSeries, Normal Ave Theater, NYC, January 2020.
NETTLED
Stinging nettles. Restorative elixirs. Urban foraging. Not all online deals are worth redeeming -- or so a couple learns in this darkly funny guide to today's sustainable lifestyles.
Selected, Detroit New Works Festival, Outvisible Theatre Company, 2018.
Selected, Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Lamda Literary, 2016.
LIKE POETRY
Fifteen milligrams of Lavender for exhaustion. Seventeen hundred milligrams of Lemon Balm to eliminate the heart palpitations. Twelve hundred milligrams Kava Kava to help with the anxiety. With visions of Walt Whitman and a jock-strap wearing bed bug, the main character Stagger travels in and out of memories, hoping to gain the skills needed to confront the past and embrace his future.
Selected, New York International Fringe Festival, NYC, 2013.
Finalist, Project Playwright, Sanguine Theatre Co., NYC, 2013.
Selected, Great Plains Conference Playlab, Omaha, NE 2012.
Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2012.
Semifinalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2012.
Gwen Frostic Graduate Playwriting Award, 2009.
THE GAY AMERICAN
It's a long way from the confessional to the glory hole to the podium -- or is it? The Gay American is a merciless satire that pushes past the ghost-written biographies and well-groomed Oprah appearances to find the tabloid "truth" behind the nation's first gay governor Jim McGreevey and his long-in-denial wife Dina. Encompassing everything from The Boss to Madonna, from post-partum depression to self-mutilation, from chamomile tea to crystal meth, the McGreeveys' public record becomes all-too-private fiction in this hilariously skewed comedy.
Production, Ruckus Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Production, Whole Art Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008.
Reading, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008.
DISPOSABLE DARLINGS
In Disposable Darlings, a fleshy, talking, animatronic “daddy doll” becomes an inseparable companion for a family missing their soldier father. But what happens when “daddy” proves to be even better than the real thing?
Semifinalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, McCall, Idaho, 2013.
Finalist, The New Play Development Factory, Dragon Productions Theatre, Palo Alto, CA, 2013.
Finalist, Third Annual Polygraph Tests, True False Theatre, NYC, 2013.
Staged Reading, Fall Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2012.
One-Acts and 10-Minute Plays
Fanny Packs and Hanky Codes
Gay culture is a mortifying blur of signals, signs, and come-ons--but it's not nearly as confusing as true heterosexual love.
Production, Left Coast Theatre Company, San Francisco, 2014.
Production, Gay Play Series, Ringwald Theatre, Detroit, 2012.
Winner, The Audience Award for Best Script and Best Actor, Gay Play Series, Ringwald Theatre, Detroit, 2012.
Take Em Down
In the dark of night on December 20, 2017, a dedicated group of Memphis activists and city workers succeeded in their efforts to remove two Confederate statues from the city's parks. Using council meetings, speeches, tweets, public statements, and historical documents, O'Hare presents a snapshot of their struggle.
Production, Waltzing Mechanics, Documentary Play Festival, 2018.
Fettered
FWBs? FBs? Two strangers are left clinging to the routine of a month-long affair.
Published, Third Coast Literary Magazine, Issue 45, 2018.
Images by Steve Lichtenstein, a collage artist based in San Francisco.