Respected judge and Holocaust scholar David Lewin nears the end of his life, slipping in a morphine haze between the present and ghostly visits from his parents in their younger forms, fleeing Nazi Germany and Lithuania in the late 1930s. These moments carry him back to the narrow escapes that shaped his family’s story and made his own life possible.
As he’s drawn into the past, he confronts the work of his own lifetime: exposing how the German judiciary enabled tyranny and asking what history demands of us today.
At his bedside, his daughter, who donated her kidney to him, and other family members gather around David, each navigating grief in their own way as they face the reality of cancer and loss. Time and memory intertwine as the living and the dead share the same space, guiding David toward release.
Spanning generations, the play explores justice, memory, and the fragile state of democracy in America today. And there’s a little baseball in there, too.
AWARDS for Threshold:
Semifinalist, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, 2026
Semifinalist at another renowned play festival TBA, 2026
In process:
Kafka at the Café Savoy
In the crumbling back-alley theaters of Prague, Franz Kafka falls helplessly in love: with a traveling Yiddish troupe, their dying art form, and the identity he'd spent his whole life running from.
This 75-90 minute adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector preserves Gogol's sharp satire of corruption, bureaucratic cowardice, and the absurdity of power, themes that haven't exactly lost their relevance.
The adaptation is available for licensing and production, and is well-suited for theater companies, academic institutions, and schools looking for a stageable comedy with a large cast and outrageous characters.