Plays

In the winter of 2023, an old high school theater classmate told me he wanted to produce a female-focused, narrative-driven, male strip revue—and asked me to “write the words.” The show debuted at Public Works in San Francisco, and enjoyed a second run at the Foundry following a grant from San Francisco where it received glowing coverage from the SF Standard. Email for a script or to get involved in the next iteration.

How to Find a San Francisco Apartment in 30 Days || The Foundry (Fall 2024)
How to Find a San Francisco Apartment in 30 Days || Public Works (Spring 2024)

Chloe Bender used to have it all – a cushy tech job, an even cushier crypto millionaire boyfriend, and the crown jewel: a rent controlled San Francisco apartment. But when she loses her job, her boyfriend, and her life savings, she has 30 days to find a new apartment – or better yet, a new man who is well-endowed… with real estate.

Join Chloe as she braves the apps in this hilarious live show that (literally) STRIPS down San Francisco male stereotypes and the special hell that is online dating.

 

Books

During my senior year at Harvard, I began work on a series of novels that eventually sold as part of a four book deal to HarperCollins Publishers. If you want to learn more about my secret past life as a young adult novelist, then please enjoy this Harvardwood Profile.

The Ivy || HarperCollins (2010)

The Ivy: Secrets || HarperCollins (2011)

The Ivy: Rivals || HarperCollins (2012)

The Ivy: Scandal || HarperCollins (2013)

 

Scripts: Film & Television

While my books were in development for television (a torturous, convoluted journey with many false starts that predated the streaming era back when there were only three networks for teen live action television), I spent some time spec script writing.

Years later, to vent frustrations related to being a female founder in Silicon Valley, I wrote a TV pilot initially titled “C.E.brO.” that ended up evolving into a weekend hobby project with other female friends in the industry. Happy to share on request.

SEX IN SILICON VALLEY
(2019 with Natacha Merritt, Pilot and Series Package Available)
When a female founder struggling to raise startup capital sends her male Uber driver to pitch in her place, they secure funding and begin secretly building a rent-a-Bro empire.

FOUNDERS
(2013, Spec Script Available)
Two high school nerds skip Harvard and head straight to Silicon Valley to get rich quick so as to rub it in their classmates' faces—the only problem is they have 0 startup ideas.

OKAY, CUPID
(2012, Spec Script Available)
A struggling Victorian-era romance novelist takes a day job ghostwriting online dating profiles and ends up working—and eventually falling—for the website's cynical founder.

 

Poetry

I seem to have written a large number of poems (mostly on my phone, while travelling) starting around 2018, one or two of which might even be good. That’ll be for the public to judge after I’m dead, supposing anyone ever gets a hold of my email password.