The community of National Committee readers for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced The Baseball Gods as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We leaned into the relationship between Jamie and Sam, which is beautifully rendered from age 8 through 18. We found this to be a nuanced, gorgeous play about family and adolescence. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

A beautifully written play about two young friends dealing with hardships they don’t understand or deserve, but who manage grace and goodness through their baseball-fueled connection. So many highly “physical” plays are about violence in one form or another; this one is about love.

I had the opportunity to watch a virtual reading of this play through the Landing Theatre New American Voices Festival 2021. It's a lovely, heartbreaking story of childhood friendship, the pains of growing up, and the losses we face in the process. I found it to be incredibly moving, and the shifts back and forth through time created this wonderful portrait of the friendship. I came away both devastated and hopeful. Can't wait to see it on stage!