Musicals // Plays
120min, 3f 4m, ensemble of 3+
Part Urinetown, part Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, this immersive musical about echo chambers, conspiracy, "us" vs. "them" mentality, and the danger of misinformation follows a young doomsday prepper's escape from a cultish, Y2K-era survivalist colony as she grapples with uncertainty in a new world increasingly resistant to the truth. Read more
Concert in the Tin Pan Alley 2 Concert Series, 2021 (Upcoming)
Virtual Workshop at the New Voices Project, New Musicals Inc. | Disney Imagineering, 2021
Selected Submission for the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Bookwriting Basics Workshop, 2020
Streamed Live on Twitch @ Pixel Playhouse to an audience of over 500k, 2020
Production at Yale University, The Yale Drama Coalition, Creative and Performing Arts Award Recipient (cancelled due to COVID-19), 2020
Developmental Thesis Reading at Yale University within the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theatre, 2019
Concert at MUSI-CAL, The Foundation for New American Musicals @ The Rockwell Table and Stage, 2019
Key Change 30min, 1f 7m or 1f 7 non-males
A college junior comes out as trans to her all-male a cappella group, prompting discussions of history, tradition and masculinity. An interrogation of the all-male space based on my own experiences in collegiate all-male a cappella.
Selected Submission for the IAMA Theatre Under 30 Playwrights Lab, 2021
All of You 40min, 3f 4m
An prodigious chemist with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) risks everything to free herself from the pain of her past. A play that questions whether escaping the pain of losing the ones you love is worth losing them entirely.
Production at Yale University, The Yale Drama Coalition, 2018
The Exceptional Childhood Center 30min, 3f 3m
A satire of my wildly competitive high school, spun as a cutthroat preschool.
Production at Yale University, The Yale Drama Coalition, 2018
YoungArts Writing Finalist, 2016
Production at the Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, 2015
Finalist, The California Young Playwrights Contest, 2015
More at NPX and youthplays.com
TV Pilots
Scripts available upon request. More at Coverfly.
The Bris Whisperer
Half-hour comedy.
When a freak accident at a bris grants Benzi Frumkin, Jewish medical school dropout, the ability to talk to babies, he must seek their guidance in order to put his life back together.
Semifinalist, Stage 32 1st Annual TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest, 2021
In Pieces
Half-hour dramedy.
In this highly visual world of sculpture and sabotage, Casey must overcome suspicion, paranoia, and rivals’ attempts break her as she and her misfit friends survive a cutthroat fine arts conservatory.
Developed at Yale University, Writing the Television Drama, 2019
Selections from Pixel Playhouse
Mini-musicals and musical comedy on YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram and more.
TikTok Selections (Music/Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin, Orchestration by Dylan Schifrin and Max Berlin)
"I'm in love with the weird kid from gym who runs like Naruto"
"When your brain won't let you sleep"
YouTube Selections (Music/Lyrics by Dylan Schifrin & Max Berlin)