After a year as a proud member of Antaeus Theatre Company’s Playwrights Lab, I’m pleased to announce I’ll be writing a piece for the third season of their Zip Code Plays podcast series.

The Zipcode Plays are short-form audio dramas that take inspiration from the unique neighborhoods of Los Angeles. My play will focus on 90039, the zip code in which I currently live, specifically the neighborhood of Frogtown. Here’s a lil’ blurb of what to expect:

Isa and Hannah are thrilled to have just bought their first home in the offbeat but rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Frogtown— it’s got a great back yard, proximity to the river bike path, and only slightly unfriendly neighbors. However, when a mysterious, practically Biblical infestation of Western Toads (the near extinct original denizens of Frogtown that gave it its name) swarm the streets and creep into every room of their house, the young couple must face the fact that they just put down roots in a place on the brink of likely ecological collapse. They’ll discover they have very different ideas of how to deal with this hard, loudly croaking truth.

Climate change! Gentrification! Queer homeownership! Biblical infestation of amphibians! The podcast will be out in December. Stay tuned.