plays

Eelpout
90 minutes | 6 actors
Eelpout is a fast-paced, surreal farce about the traps of midwestern masculinity, where friends are lovers, fish can talk, and life’s mysteries beckon from the bottom of a frozen lake.

Daddies
90 minutes | 8 actors
(available on Audible) A COVID rom-com with a sci-fi twist.

Not Omaha
90 minutes | 8 actors
What if the end of the world was like the death of a parent—natural, strange, and sometimes beautiful?

Once Removed
90 minutes | 1 actor
This documentary play explores Paul’s coming-out in the upper Midwest, uncovering a history of silence.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation
2-3 hours | 4–8 participants
Created in collaboration with Kimmothy Cole, The Sacrament of Reconciliation is an experiment in contagious healing through forgiveness.

Chickens in the Yard
70 minutes | 6 characters (4 actors)
A gay couple travels from the families that raised them to the family they make together through the eyes of their four chickens.

Driftless
100 minutes | 10 characters (5 actors)
Fracking connects the sands of western Wisconsin to the shale of western Pennsylvania.

Reasonable Assurance
30 minutes | 12 characters (between 6 and 12 actors)
Student debt and adjunct labor are destroying higher education,
devised in collaboration with a group of undergraduate students, Pittsburgh artists, and several adjunct faculty members.

Kiss
10 minutes | 2 characters
The world ends in ten minutes.

Queer Youth Plays
From 2012 to 2017, Paul worked as a teaching artist under the direction of Adil Mansoor with Dreams of Hope, an arts organization serving the LGBTQIA+ youth of the Pittsburgh area. Each year Adil and Paul worked with local artists to facilitate the writing of a new play with the DoH ensemble.