WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS
Archie has always been responsible, shaping his life around small comforts and a quiet plan to open a bookstore filled with fantasy novels and kindergarten art. Just days before it opens, his stepbrother Nick calls from the bottom of a drug spiral that has dragged him across California, and Archie drops everything to bring him home.

On the road back to Sacramento, they spend a night at a Mojave Desert motel, where they meet Bree, a grieving housekeeper clinging to her father’s stories, and Lolo, a rodeo cowboy chasing a future that may never come. Over the course of a single night, the four slip into the strange and fantastical worlds they once ruled, childhood worlds of winged lions, pirate queens, space rangers, and alien sidekicks. But even the most beautiful imagined worlds may not be enough to protect them from what waits in the tall grass.

”We Are the Forgotten Beasts,” an O’Neill Finalist, is a tender, offbeat Americana odyssey about the beasts we create and the ones we become.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
Reading, San Diego Black Artists Collective @ The Old Globe, San Diego, CA (2025)
Workshop, Third Culture Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (2022)
Reading, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego, CA (2023)
Reading, Garry Marshall Theatre, Burbank, CA (2022)
Reading, New Village Arts, San Diego, CA (2022)