Birthday
Dramatic comedy. 1m, 1f. Simple Set.

In Birthday, an anxious young woman slips away from a unwelcoming birthday party in a bar only to discover a stranger sitting in the other room. Confiding old secrets and past mistakes as the party rages nearby, they find they may have a chance to forgive themselves and each other.

"Birthday is a romantic comedy, sort of; it's a lovely, sweet play of connection and camaraderie. Skillman picks up details of the trappings of our lives and makes them sing resonantly." - NYTheatre.com

"As Birthday deftly shows, New York is definitely a place where one can find the urge to scream out one's life to total strangers out of sadness and desperation...it's also a town where sometimes you can find someone who'll listen." -- James Comtois, JameSpeak.com

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
LEILA - 29,
KYLE - 31

Nobody
Drama. 2m, 4f. Simple Set.

In Nobody, six people come together, each for their own reasons, at a restaurant on the Lower East Side. Obsessively going over the events of the day, they grasp at trying to come to terms with their disjointed lives and their singular, unsettling dream.

"Skillman has these people reveal themselves, inadvertently and almost in passing, in little breathtaking non-sequitur asides...this is all that Nobody is about—the ways that in fact everybody is Somebody, because of those idiosyncratic, individual details that make us so and sometimes prevent us from connecting as we intend." - NYTheatre.com

"The train-of-thought flow of Skillman's language finds a comfortable home inside the charged monotone of her characters' voices. It's not often that a theatergoer has the opportunity to observe as an actor tears into the subconscious of a character. It's not an experience one is likely to forget."- Laura Palotie, PeekingThroughTheCurtain.com

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
KAT - Proofreader
ALEX - Chef
KASH - Beer Guy/Bartender
ILONA - Waitress
LOUISE - Widow
ANNA - Poet/Teacher