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His play you don't have to do anything had an acclaimed sold-out run at HERE Arts Center presented by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Will Arbery. His work has been supported at New York Theater Workshop, IRT Theater, Mercury Store, The Brick Aux, The Tank, The Flea, and The Wild Project. He's a member of Roundabout Theater's Space Jam Program, an Artist-in-Residence at New York Theater Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency, a two-time PWC Core Apprentice Finalist and a two-time Page 73 and Princess Grace Semifinalist. His short films have been screened at Newfest, Provincetown Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and Bushwick Film Festival among others. He won the Rita & Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize and the James E. Michael Playwriting Prize. He's been an Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College. 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Photography by Maria Baranova https://ryandrake.squarespace.com/plays daily 0.75 2026-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586c61348cd90e6ed559ad/055bca04-8849-4692-9ae3-809eb7a452b8/BF_Key+Art_A.png Plays - BIG FEELINGS 1W Ms. Joy went to the soccer game of a girl she didn’t actually know. It hurt her feel__s. PRODUCTION: The Cell, Dir. Sammy Zeisel 2026 WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: The Tank, Dir. Carsen Joenk 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586c61348cd90e6ed559ad/0d656747-821e-4218-b866-f95f4cf28feb/YDHTDA2+Promo+Design+Approach+4.png Plays - you don’t have to do anything. 3M/1W Teddy and Clark aren't friends, but they have been talking online for 11 years. As Teddy traverses his memories to piece together moments of their relationship, the more convoluted and fractal they become. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING is a play about when intimacy feels filthy. PRODUCTION: HERE ARTS CENTER, Dir. Ryan Dobrin, Presented by Will Arbery, 2024 WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: IRT Theaterr 3B Residency, Dir Ryan Dobrin, 2022 WORKSHOP: Mercury Store, Dir. Ryan Dobrin, 2022 READING: Less Than Rent Theater, Dir. Emma Miller 2018 Vulture/NY Magazine’s Top 10 Best Theater of 2025 at #5 Anna Sosenko Trust Grant, 2023 Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist 2021 O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586c61348cd90e6ed559ad/1594221890741-AZ4V5YN8T1FIU3CBWNK9/courtship+poster.png Plays - COURTSHIP 4M/3W Four Bulgarian teenagers train at an elite Tennis Academy in Central Florida while navigating their own shame and desires. Things get spooky ;) READING: NYTW Mondays @ 3, 2023 WORKSHOP: Mercury Store, 2023 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586c61348cd90e6ed559ad/1620219903767-LTLYPK8VXPVLDLF16YR5/Screen+Shot+2021-05-05+at+9.04.05+AM.png Plays - Homesick 4M/3W Come downstairs! That show about the gays is on and Todd is home! We can’t WAIT to change him—I mean replace him—I mean love him—I mean murder him? READING: Hunter College, Dir. Annie Tippe 2020 READING: Hunter College Playwrights Festival, Dir Aneesha Kudtarkar 2021 Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Program - Finalist 2021 2021 Rita & Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586c61348cd90e6ed559ad/1552936043325-X9J3HTOCFKZ0C6JHJJFZ/roller+dynasty+LA+poster.jpg Plays - ROLLER DYNASTY 4W/1M One night while working the graveyard shift at a roller disco in Marfa, TX, Donna and Colby are smacked with a surprise: The Apocalypse! How groovy! Now what?! Skating through a honky tonk disco fugue, the ladies are left to figure out who they are, what it all means, and if anything even matters at all. ROLLER DYNASTY celebrates friendship, disco music, and the end of the world. PRODUCTION: The Actor’s Company Theater LA, Dir Emma Pasarow 2019 PRODUCTION: Medicine Show, Dir. Emma Miller 2018 READING: 999 Festival, Dir. Emma Miller 2018 READING: Dir. Rachel Dart 2016 TableWork Press Recommended List 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c586c61348cd90e6ed559ad/1552936074789-P7BOV4KODQZ2PN5MIREH/gaming+poster.jpg Plays - GAMING AND CRYING AND DREAMING AND GAMING 1W/1M Tom and Clementine have med school externships in the cancer ward. They find refuge in the storage closet where they escape together to play games on their phones. Things get messy when Clementine falls in love with Tom and Tom falls in love with their patient, Jake. Over many months, Tom and Clementine explore the boundaries of their friendship and argue about god, complacency, and who makes the best end-of-chemo cake. PRODUCTION: Dixon Place, Dir. 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