What the plays are for, how they are built, and what they ask of an audience.
I write plays to entertain in the truest sense of the word: to give serious attention to people, questions, and histories that are too often pushed aside.
Her creative approach is rooted in memory, conscience, and exploring how individuals resist silence: how people confront power, and the personal costs of truth telling.
Her theatrical works feature minimal staging combined with emotionally rich, poetic language. They may be solo or collaborative pieces, frequently drawing from historical subjects or invented characters. Rather than following conventional story structures, her plays employ non-linear formats centred on memory, ritual, and direct audience engagement.
During the pandemic she expanded into ensemble storytelling, absurdist elements, and theatrical symbolism. Recent pieces examine bereavement, aging, and mortality through compassion, levity, and authentic emotion.
A stool, a lantern, a basin. A cloak that becomes a kingdom. A trunk that opens rooms of memory. The technical demand is usually described as minimal, and that is deliberate rather than economical.
What the set does not do, the writing does. These are plays for actors who like text, and for rooms where the audience can hear it.
Direct address recurs throughout the repertoire, from a fundraiser speech to a jail cell on the last night. The fourth wall is rarely assumed.
Work exploring people whose lives exceed the stories told about them.From the author note in the collection
Solo adaptation
Lear: A Solo Adaptation
1 performer. 60 minutes.
In the final moments of Lear’s life, memory, delusion, fury, and grief collapse into one another as he relives the choices that destroyed his…
In the collection Read the play
Solo historical drama
Heretic: The Mary Dyer Story
1 performer. 80 minutes.
In a Boston jail cell on the day before her execution, the Quaker martyr Mary Dyer relives loss, motherhood, religious persecution, and the choices…
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Historical ensemble
Even Unto Death
6 performers. Approximately 65 minutes.
In the aftermath of Joan of Arc’s execution, her family and the women around them live with what the public legend leaves out: grief,…
In the collection Read the playI write to invite attention: to what’s been forgotten, to what still needs to be heard, and to what we might learn if we listen closely.Jeanmarie Simpson
Companies producing one of the plays are welcome to reproduce this statement, in whole or in part, in a programme, a study pack or a press release. A short author biography and a headshot are available on request.
Rights are available for universities, schools, community theatres, festivals, workshops, staged readings, and independent productions.
A short letter when a play is finished, when a production opens, or when new classroom material becomes available. Nothing else.