Are the Jews responsible for the Iraq war? In this faux espionage thriller set in the months after 9/11, a neoconservative and American-Israeli lobbyist pursue their secret plans in order to strengthen and protect the country. Throw in a fiery evangelical preacher, an Israeli spy, and an ambitious reporter and it all makes for a devastating portrait of Jewish complicity with the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraqi war.

The Disappearance of the Jews is a dark comedy about the mysterious forces that drive Jews to abandon their religion. Heshie, a World War II veteran determined to make sure the Jews never forget the Holocaust, loses his mind chasing after a neighbor he’s convinced is Adolf Eichmann’s widow. Martin, his son, is a social-climbing doctor whose obsession with a rich WASP socialite turns murderous. And Lawrence, the youngest generation, is a suicidal 20-something atheist who winds up becoming an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jew. The play explores the self-loathing and rootlessness at the heart of Jewish-American identity. It takes the audience on a rollicking fun ride straight into disaster.

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Keep Your Distance is a full-length drama about a young professional couple in New York City confronting the ultimate moral question: how far should we go in helping the less fortunate? DAVID is a public defender in the Bronx whose commitment to public service is challenged by an obnoxious, elderly woman named MRS. SCHWARTZBAUM. What at first seems comic becomes tragic as David’s frustrations with her lead him to commit an unconscionable act of cruelty.

ABIGAIL, David’s wife, runs a homeless shelter, but one day finds herself faced with a bleeding, disoriented mentally ill man. Her determination to help him becomes an obsession, and she eventually commits the fatal error of inviting him into her home. Meanwhile, TOM, a successful African American lawyer who made his way up from the projects, plays the spouses off of each other, forcing them to confront their own white guilt. As the play builds towards its climactic ending, DAVID and ABIGAIL find they can only resolve their respective moral crises by destroying their marriage.

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Heshie is a crotchety Jewish old man furious that his son had the gall to marry a gentile. Mrs. Erskine is a wealthy WASP dowager furious at her son for being gay. They meet at a doctors office in Manhattan and discover that they have more in common than they originally thought. They wind up on a date that does more than just bring them together—it salves their self-inflicted wounds and offers a path toward redemption.

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I'm Not Hamlet is a 10-minute play about a character named Lawrence with a very overbearing mother (any resemblance to the play's author is purely coincidental). Recently widowed, the mother plans to remarry. Its just that her husband-to-be is the man Lawrence suspects to have killed his dad. Is Lawrence fated to wind up like Shakespeare’s famous Danish prince? Or can he somehow manage to avoid suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune? This is the question.

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An elderly couple fight viciously over who's to blame for their son's death years earlier. When a strange border arrives, husband and wife both project onto him their fantasies about their lost child. The border exploits this, dragging his hosts into a strange no-man's land where fantasy and reality have become indistinguishable. A Pinteresque exploration of the ravages of time on memory.

Three one-act comedies make up this evening of zany, madcap humor first produced at the 2004 New York Fringe Festival by NeoShtick Theater ("We put the 'er back in theater!"). Tales of geeky guys, porn stars, egomaniac directors, and lame-brained writers so much breakdown of the fourth wall you'll think an earthquake struck. Co-written with Gersh Kuntzman.