BREAK is about the unexpected effects of the Ground Zero recovery effort on New York City’s firemen and policemen, and their families. In December of 2001, FDNY Captain Jon Emmett and NYPD Officer Marco Gennaro are both assigned to Ground Zero. Emmett is struggling with the loss of hundreds of friends and the disintegration of his family while Gennaro is fighting to keep his marriage together, though being around his wife and child is a constant reminder of what he could so easily lose in the post-9/11 world. Emmett and Gennaro end up sitting together in the overcrowded dining room of the tent at Ground Zero. Though they can’t help but enter into battle over the nature of their jobs and why things happened the way they did on 9/11, a more important issue arises——how to survive the difficult and painful recovery effort, without which New York City cannot begin to heal or attempt to move forward.

Several companies have helped immeasurably in the development of BREAK over the years. In 2002, Reverie Productions did a reading of BREAK as part of its One Act Wonders series. On the Leesh mounted the first workshop of a full-length version of the piece at NYU in 2003. In 2004, On the Leesh teamed up with the Naked Angels and took BREAK to New York Stage & Film for a workshop. In 2007, Reverie Productions did another reading of BREAK, this time as part of its Next Generation Playwrights Contest.

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