Beyond the Castle Walls
A Play for Young Audiences
A young royal gets sent on a mission to save a damsel in distress from a dragon and secure the future of the kingdom through marriage. Instead, they end up befriending the dragon and together they discover the truth about the royal family's legacy and the politics of the kingdom.
Production, River Union Stage, September 2023
Reading, River Union Stage, November 2022
“This play is a delightfully refreshing take on fairytales! It has well developed and unlikely characters with a wonderful story arc. The dialogue is very rhythmic and almost lyrical.” — Alison Gilheany, River Union Stage
A Murder of Crows
The fires in Los Angeles never stopped. A young woman and her mother are trying to figure out how to survive in their new reality. Their choices result in a fate that is out of their hands.
“This is a delightful burst of absurdist tragedy. Filled with fatigued health care workers and Shakespeare-quoting, verse-speaking vagrants, Beck’s play pulses with a dark, wry humor, briskly plunging the audience into a vast, completely realized world that, while fantastical, is but a mirror image of our own. In just under twenty pages, not a single line of dialogue or stage direction is wasted, and Beck’s poem of a dying society is a true treat to read.” — Daniel Prillaman
“Short, bizarre, and more than a little unsettling, Beck's play paints a world that continues to haunt the reader beyond its ending. The world is just nonspecific yet strikingly familiar enough to allow for a great amount of creativity on any designer or director's end. Could easily be executed on any kind of budget in any kind of space, as it is this fundamentally human story about the attempt to exist in a hostile world that drives the piece home.” — Nick Grosso
Reading in Los Angeles, May 2019
Alien Technology
A Short Intergalactic Play
Two extraterrestrial anthropologists travel through time and space on a mission to find the right human to receive a piece of alien technology that has the ability to solve most of humanities problems..
The Day We Sent the POTUS Into Space
Brian and Michelle are bored of having the same conversation every time they talk. They try to spice up their video calls by playing a game which leads them to explore the current political and social climate.
A Man’s Family
A cult leader realizes that he lost control over his followers after a murder spree in his name that he never ordered.
A Man’s Legacy
After his followers commit murder in his name, a cult leader finds himself in prison questioning the legacy he's going to leave. His cell neighbors don't appreciate his attempts at artistic expression.
Nice To Meat You
Two men meet for a strange, intimate arrangement that ends with them being connected in an unconventional way.