The Panic of '29
When the stock market crashes, a secretary and her misfit friends skip town, journeying through an alternate Great Depression filled with financiers, lounge singers, crime novelists, cops, hobos, beekeepers, and even the French. 5M/5F
Production — Less Than Rent @ 59E59, directed by Max Friedman — July-August 2022
With Olivia Puckett, Brian Morabito, Will Roland, Julia Knitel, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Jaela Cheeks-Lomax, Will Turner, Jared Loftin, RJ Vaillancourt, Rachel B. Joyce, PJ Adzima, Rachel Ravel, Devin Kessler, Jacob Presson, and Amber Avant
"Techler's capacity for raucous but pointed parody is evident... Particularly the early scenes, which unspool with the feverish energy of a pulp magazine article sprung to life." —The New York Sun
"Laugh out loud uproarious... with a serious underlying message about the ill effects of duplicity, greed, desperation, violence, and gullibility." —DC Theater Arts
"...A brilliant ensemble of young actors whose comic timing is spot-on. Prepare for a bevy of Wall Street big shots talking fast and cracking wise." —Theatermania
When the stock market crashes, a secretary and her misfit friends skip town, journeying through an alternate Great Depression filled with financiers, lounge singers, crime novelists, cops, hobos, beekeepers, and even the French. 5M/5F
Production — Less Than Rent @ 59E59, directed by Max Friedman — July-August 2022
With Olivia Puckett, Brian Morabito, Will Roland, Julia Knitel, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Jaela Cheeks-Lomax, Will Turner, Jared Loftin, RJ Vaillancourt, Rachel B. Joyce, PJ Adzima, Rachel Ravel, Devin Kessler, Jacob Presson, and Amber Avant
"Techler's capacity for raucous but pointed parody is evident... Particularly the early scenes, which unspool with the feverish energy of a pulp magazine article sprung to life." —The New York Sun
"Laugh out loud uproarious... with a serious underlying message about the ill effects of duplicity, greed, desperation, violence, and gullibility." —DC Theater Arts
"...A brilliant ensemble of young actors whose comic timing is spot-on. Prepare for a bevy of Wall Street big shots talking fast and cracking wise." —Theatermania
The Tycoons!
A law student courts the daughter of the nation’s most powerful railroad magnate, kicking off a game of backroom manipulation, sexual perversion, and complicated train schedules. 3M/3F
Production — Less Than Rent @ Teatro SEA, directed by Max Friedman — August 2019
With PJ Adzima, Linda Glick, Julia Knitel, William Youmans, and Brandon Zelman
Winner of 3 Rave Theater Awards for Outstanding Direction (Max Friedman) and Outstanding Performance (PJ Adzima, Julia Knitel)
A law student courts the daughter of the nation’s most powerful railroad magnate, kicking off a game of backroom manipulation, sexual perversion, and complicated train schedules. 3M/3F
Production — Less Than Rent @ Teatro SEA, directed by Max Friedman — August 2019
With PJ Adzima, Linda Glick, Julia Knitel, William Youmans, and Brandon Zelman
Winner of 3 Rave Theater Awards for Outstanding Direction (Max Friedman) and Outstanding Performance (PJ Adzima, Julia Knitel)
Trust Fund
A young writer teams up with a con artist to swindle the largest trust fund in the world away from his old Princeton buddy on permanent vacation in Europe. 3M/2F
Finalist — Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference — 2022
Staged Reading — Adult Film, directed by Mary Neely — September 2023
A young writer teams up with a con artist to swindle the largest trust fund in the world away from his old Princeton buddy on permanent vacation in Europe. 3M/2F
Finalist — Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference — 2022
Staged Reading — Adult Film, directed by Mary Neely — September 2023
Old Money
A pair of unscrupulous young gold diggers lose out on their inheritance to the maid's weird son after a mysterious plane crash kills their elderly spouses. 3M/2F
Reading — Less Than Rent @ 59E59 — February 2023
Development — Woodward Residency — April-June 2023
Staged Reading — Bloodworks @ Ensemble Studio Theatre — May 2024
A pair of unscrupulous young gold diggers lose out on their inheritance to the maid's weird son after a mysterious plane crash kills their elderly spouses. 3M/2F
Reading — Less Than Rent @ 59E59 — February 2023
Development — Woodward Residency — April-June 2023
Staged Reading — Bloodworks @ Ensemble Studio Theatre — May 2024
Lane Gaullson's Revenge
Lane Gaullson was once Broadway’s most successful playwright, until he did something unforgivable at the Tony Awards and everyone decided they didn't like him anymore. Now, he stews in his apartment, plotting the ultimate revenge... 1M
Production — The Brick, directed by Skylar Fox — April 2023
Lane Gaullson was once Broadway’s most successful playwright, until he did something unforgivable at the Tony Awards and everyone decided they didn't like him anymore. Now, he stews in his apartment, plotting the ultimate revenge... 1M
Production — The Brick, directed by Skylar Fox — April 2023
Walter Skaake
Walter Skaake, New York's second most powerful agent for self-published writers, meets a prospective client at a greasy spoon diner in Maspeth, Queens to give them the hard sell. 1M
Production — The Spade — February 2024
Publication — River Styx Magazine — August 2024
Walter Skaake, New York's second most powerful agent for self-published writers, meets a prospective client at a greasy spoon diner in Maspeth, Queens to give them the hard sell. 1M
Production — The Spade — February 2024
Publication — River Styx Magazine — August 2024
Sweaty Men Under Pressure
The men of mission control struggle with their work/life balance as they help the first man land on the moon. 4F
Production — Ensemble Studio Theatre, directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker — January 2024
With Layla Khoshnoudi, Dawn McGee, Allyson Morgan, and Rachel Lin
The men of mission control struggle with their work/life balance as they help the first man land on the moon. 4F
Production — Ensemble Studio Theatre, directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker — January 2024
With Layla Khoshnoudi, Dawn McGee, Allyson Morgan, and Rachel Lin