Some of my characters’ stories.
Too… You | Play
For the first time after a troubling marriage Layla dares invite a new man to her life. Her alarm system is on fire. With her 9-year-old twin daughters, both rewarding and challenging in their own ways, the undertaking proves all the more difficult. New love interest Robin isn’t deterred at all, until his façade slowly starts to crack, and Layla’s house is in trouble again.
O Negative | Play
When Viola, Hannah, Aaron and Timmi lose both parents in a week they’re facing uncomfortable conversations around their upbringing, individual needs as well as different experiences under the same roof. The siblings negotiate what family means while trying to function in a highly emotional moment of organizing the funerals of two people who couldn’t stand the smell of each other.
Awful Daylight Sonata | Play
When classical music student Stella seeks help in a Methodist church for her final project at university, Gospel musician Jackson is willing to jump in. Eager to do the right thing, Stella tries to combine two (musical) worlds on the piano that have been separated by hatred in the past. But as she ignores the world she lives in, she risks putting the person she cares most about in danger.
Tears of Laughter | Musical (book & lyrics)
For 15 years, Oscar traded his working-class youth for the time of his life in a circus. After returning to his British hometown, he quickly discovers that the equality and joy he experienced around his circus caravan are not lived, let alone celebrated there. Fortunately, Oscar finds warmth on the stage of a local comedy club, while trying to defy the cold society with his hope and optimism offstage. (Composer: Tomas Williamson)
IR/RESPONSIBLE | Musical (book & lyrics)
IR/RESPONSIBLE is, at least in the beginning, a musical comedy about highly motivated and equally unaware Thomas who leaves his beloved country for the first time to gain experience abroad and carry the Austrian (hospitality) values out into the world. Once he operates in a grand hotel in New York and outside his bubble, Thomas gets confronted with dark family secrets as well as his lack of understanding of cultural differences and the existence of more than one truth.
Boulevard of Broken Knees | TV Show
Former Russian figure skating star Mariya is determined to create a healthy training alternative to her athletic upbringing that has left her irreparably disabled at age 19. But the forces that made her rise and fall are ready to destroy potential pushbacks even harder than the hopeful young athletes they’re entrusted with.
The Mentorship | TV Show
Forced to mentor a young girl, 22-year-old Beth does not only learn about the dysfunctional family situation of her 8-year-old mentee Florence but also about the origins of her own struggles and shortcomings. Determined to make Florence’s life better, Beth takes the mentorship a bit too far and kidnaps the girl, as no one else can be trusted anymore.
Sarah Kohl 