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LADY COP TV ’78

COMEDY 
{4 women, 1 man}
2 hours (with intermission)

Synopsis: Hollywood. 1978. TV writers Linda Karpasian and Linda Brandywine have created a hit and also an historic first: a buddy cop show starring two women. In this fast-paced comedy, Linda, the grizzled showbiz veteran, and Linda, the sincere relative newbie, are up against the clock—and the patriarchy—when their latest script for Moxie & Hart gets rejected by the top for having “too much lady stuff, not enough cop stuff.” Given only five hours to write a new episode, the two Lindas wrestle with the Big Idea, the “game” of Hollywood, and even fictional New York City homicide detectives Moxie and Hart themselves, who at one point step right off the page and into Linda K’s shag-carpeted Burbank office. Will they find a way to tell the story they believe in and still land the script in time for sweeps week? Or will they be swept under the showbiz rug, with a vacuum in one hand and a pregnancy test in the other?

LIGHT YEARS

MYSTERY-DRAMA laced with humor
{3 women, 1 man}
2 hours (with intermission)

Synopsis: The summer night sky is vast and vivid over the farmhouse Pete Bowman built and from which he mysteriously vanished 30 years ago. Today his granddaughter Brett, a disabled former cop, is at that same house—where she spent many an idyllic childhood summer—now hiding from the world and trying to conjure the past to fix the present. Novelist Tess, Brett’s estranged cousin, recently finds herself homeless and tucks away at the farm too. During nights of wild meteor showers and weird sounds, the women try to reconnect, but mostly they collide with the realization that you can’t turn back time—until one energizing, awe-filled moment that calls into question their very grasp on reality. When an awkward young neighbor named Vera stumbles into their sphere, she brings even more questions and something new: the willingness to walk directly into the places that scare them.

History 

  • April 2025: Reading (Horizon Theatre)

I’M RIGHT HERE

COMEDY-DRAMA SATIRE
{2 women–multiple roles}
75 minutes

Synopsis: Lori Ackerman is a resilient, resourceful spark plug of a mom and truck driver. She’s also got a chronic undiagnosed illness. She’s also been labeled by doctors as “hysterical,” and not the funny kind. When Lori encounters brilliant but struggling neurodiverse family physician Dr. Pamela Slusarski, the two embark on a fact-finding mission that uncovers not just Lori’s truth, but Pamela’s as well, in the process revealing a wonderfully peculiar connection. Turns out answers aren’t just about science; they’re about being able to see the human being right in front of you.

History 

  • Summer/2023: Self-Produced Workshop and Public Reading (Horizon Theatre) (director: Justin Anderson)

WE ARE ALL WAVES ON THE SAME OCEAN

DRAMA (with movement)
{1 Black woman, 1 White woman}
80 minutes

Synopsis: Dr. Tamra Berry’s career as an Atlanta shrink is not going the way she planned. Neither is her marriage. Neither is her yard, where a giant tree recently came down during spring storms. And tonight, she’s trying to unwind from all that, not to mention from simply existing as a Black woman, when a bright, odd young person shows up at her fence gate. But it’s not just any young person. It’s Josephine Carlisle. Jo, who was just a kid when they last met. Jo, who was drowning in acute mental illness when they last met. Jo, who now appears better but will sometimes answer a question with dance rather than words. They’re both searching for something. Redemption? Revelation? A way forward?

History 

  • Spring/2023: Theatrical Outfit/Working Title Playwright’s The Unexpected Play Festival FINALIST & WORKSHOP (director: Rebekah Suellau; dramaturg: Dalyla McGee)
  • Spring/2022: Playwrights Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival SEMI-FINALIST

MOUNTAIN MAMAS

DRAMA (with humor and theatricality)
{3 women, 1 man}
95 minutes

Synopsis: Patsy Armstrong is a coal miner. Just like her daddy, Earl. And just like her mother, Wanda, who, at 60 years old, is still there. As of this week, Patsy’s back in her mother and daddy’s house, after a mining accident that left her with no ability to move or communicate. Her bright 18-year old daughter, Livvy, now lives there too. In a home that’s full of humor and generosity and rowdiness and grit. But a home—not to mention a whole dang planet—that’s under more pressure than maybe it’s ever been. When the family gets news about the settlement from Patsy’s accident, Livvy jumps into the fray. And Patsy, now forced to listen and observe more than she ever did as a healthy person, is plagued by nightmares and revelations she’s able to share only with us. It doesn’t take long for her to realize she has to learn a new way of being if she’s gonna save her entire world.

History 

  • June/August/2025: Barter Theatre Full Production
  • Feb/2024: SELECTION: Barter Theatre Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights: Staged Reading (In-Person)
  • May/2023: SELECTION: Florida Repertory Theatre PlayLab: Staged Reading 
  • July/2022: Public Staged Reading: Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
  • January/2021: SELECTION and Virtual Workshop: Barter Theatre Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights
  • February/2021: O’Neill New Playwrights Conference SEMI-FINALIST
  • March/2021: Playwrights Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival FINALIST

MERCY ME

DRAMA (with humor and magical realism)
{1 woman}
70 minutes

Synopsis: Percy Wright has always had an active imagination. Maybe that’s why her real life never fully launched. Now she finds herself back in the tiny Missouri town where she survived her teenage years. Because her mother is dying. But not fast enough. For either one of them. While Percy struggles with her mother’s needs, not to mention teaching night classes in horticulture at the junior college extension for adult learners, she loosens weird memories. As the past comes into focus and truths she took for granted start to dissolve, Percy finds herself at a crossroads. This one-woman play is about grief and rage, but mostly about how humor, wonder, and forgiveness can help us transcend the unthinkable.

History 

  • April/2019: Selection & Workshop, Actor’s Express Threshold New Play Festival (director: Rachel Parish)

SAFETY NET

DRAMA
{3 women}
100 minutes

Synopsis: Chris Dove is a female fire captain in an Alabama town at war with opioids, and she’s facing it head-on, heart-out and under scrutiny. Meanwhile, her arthritic spitfire-of-a-mother, Xenia, now living with Chris after a bad fall, worries for her child’s right mind and tries to conjure stability with a bundt cake and a Bible verse. When Chris’ childhood friend, Val—a recovering addict Chris brought back from an overdose a few months before—crashes into their lives, they find themselves at a tipping point between what’s safe and what saves.

Press

“Safety Net is a trip through the emotional wringer, an unapologetic expression of the pain that surrounds addiction. This is a show that is legitimately heartbreaking, rife with moments of vulnerability and despair and rage. It is an incredibly written, beautifully acted piece of art…” —The Maine Edge

From Florida Weekly theatre critic, Nancy Stetson, who chose Safety Net as “Best New Play” in her round-up of the regional season, after seeing the reading at Florida Rep: “It’s almost two months since I attended the play reading, and those three women are still very much alive to me, living in my memories and in my heart. Daryl had a play, “Split in Three,” in a previous Florida Rep PlayLab; it was given a full production (its world premiere) in their 2014-15 season. As moving and as funny “Split in Three” was, “Safety Net” surpassed it.

History 

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MEDICA

DRAMA (with sci-fi, humor, and a touch of magic)
pronounced [med-ik-uh]
{2 women, 2 men}
90 minutes

Synopsis: In a remote surgical tent during a 25-year war, in a time later than now, and in a world where all healers are required to be women, 60-year old Dr. Minnie Vega is going to snap. Until young and mysteriously gifted Dr. Irene Wilde enters her reality, along with the troops involved in a sudden offensive. And for the next 24 hours, the two medica butt heads and fix soldiers who, for some reason, all look the same. And radios breathe and defy space and time. And light comes out of fingers. And really, all these doctors want to know is: can it be possible to take care of yourself while you’re healing everyone else?

History 

  • February/2018: Synchronicity Theatre SheWRITES Festival (director: Rachel May; dramaturg: Rebekah Suellau)
  • November/2017: Working Title Playwrights Ethel Woolson Lab (director: Amber Bradshaw; dramaturg: Patricia Henritze)

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THE FLOWER ROOM

COMEDY
{2 women, 2 men}
75 minutes

Synopsis: Ingrid is an uptight academic who researches sexual behavior in world cultures while remaining completely closed off from her own sexual self. When she loses her university job, she turns to writing erotica to pay the bills – unleashing her own journey of sexual discovery.

“I love that this play is funny and naughty, but more so that it centers on a woman who awakens her sexual self on her own terms and in her own time, without the impetus coming from the need to please a man. That’s a powerful story that’s really worth telling in this day and age. We are proud to present this wonderful, empowering play with an all-woman creative team.” -Freddie Ashley, Actor’s Express Artistic Director

“A breath of fresh air.” –Atlanta InTown Paper

Reviews & Press

Development History 

  • Apr-May/2018: Production, Actor’s Express (director: Melissa Foulger)
  • Apr/2017: Florida Repertory Theatre PlayLab Festival (director: Annette Trossbach)
  • Dec/2016, Reading: Actor’s Express Threshold New Play Festival (director: Lisa Paulsen)
  • Feb/2016, Workshop: Emory University’s Brave New Works series (director: Shannon Eubanks)
  • Aug/2015, Reading: Emory University’s 4:48 (director: Lisa Paulsen)

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FREED SPIRITS

COMEDY • Commission for Horizon Theatre Company
{4 women, 2 men}
2 hours

Synopsis: Brainy outcast, Susan Dickey, gives tours at Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery in hopes that its vibrant past might make her own present feel less stuck. Mostly, she wanders the brick walkways amidst the towering mausolea quite alone, until one spring day when a freak tornado cuts a swath through her sanctuary and churns up not only a buried mystery, but also a cadre of urban misfits. Despite being sociopaths, introverts, and cantankerous geniuses, they’ll come together to confront unexplained visions in an attempt to save themselves and the cemetery from oblivion.

Development History

  • Sept 23-Oct 30, 2016, World Premiere Production: Horizon Theatre (director: Lisa Adler) (Commission for the New South Play Works Series of new plays exploring the contemporary American South, community and positive change focusing on people and themes of interest to intown Atlanta, Georgia)

Reviews & Press

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SPLIT IN THREE

COMEDY-DRAMA
[3 women, 2 men]
2 hours

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The Mississippi Delta. 1969. The Supreme Court has put its foot down and in this last county, segregation must dissolve. Poor, white sisters, Nola and Nell, one grounded by cynicism and the other by faith, live day-to-day. Until they discover a mixed-race, highly-educated sister they never knew they had. And in a place where separation begets isolation, difference turns out to be a saving grace.

“…THIS IS A LOVELY PLAY. Like William Inge, Fazio is quite good at drawing a scene that seems ordinary, then slowly revealing its crumbling foundation. … As a story that ultimately hints at redemption and healing, the working out of the complicated knots of family ties, that is an asset and a blessing.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Production History

GREYHOUNDS

Drama
[2 women]
90 minutes

Circumstance brings together two very different women at an isolated Oklahoma bus stop in the wee hours, beginning a dance of hurt, humor, and intense longing for connection that could bridge the gap over two painful pasts. A horrible discovery mid-way through the night proves to be a catalyst for revelation, transformation, and, ultimately, that desperate link. Are these women truly opposites? Who will they be when the next bus comes?

Production History

  • June/2015: Actor’s Repertory Theatre of Luxembourg
  • Feb/2006: Theatre Row, New York City (limited 3-week engagement) (director: Jesse Jou)
  • July/2006: American Theatre of Actors, New York City (limited 3-week engagement) (director: Jesse Jou)
  • August/2005: Truman State University

Reviews

ACTORS REP OF LUXEMBOURG

Luxemburger Wort (June/2015): Greyhounds, by Actors Repertory Theatre, A Journey You Won’t Forget (PDF)

Luxembourg Chronicle (June/2015) (PDF)

WICKSHAW PRODUCTIONS, THEATRE ROW, OFF-OFF-BROADWAY

“You’ll want to take the journey with Greyhounds, an intriguing well-acted play.”
—Robin Milling, World Entertainment News Network (Feb/2006)

“…playwright Daryl Lisa Fazio has mastered the art of dialogue, giving each character real room for development. This writer has great potential, and I am eager to see future works.” –Akia Squitiere, Scene 4 Magazine (Feb/2006)

“Greyhounds is an actor’s showcase…a revelatory and exciting second [half]. Fazio’s use of flashbacks provide a great touch…” –Frank Avella, Newyorkcool.com (Feb/2006)

”When two strangers meet at a bus terminal to escape or reenact the reasons behind their fears, what emerges in a series of magically constructed vignettes is a play by Daryl Lisa Fazio called “Greyhounds.” Structural nuances, clever reversals peppered with humor make this charming play a wonderful debut for Fazio.” —Nick Mwaluko, Talent in Motion Magazine (Feb/2006)