Her works include the plays When January Feels Like Summer, Lockdown, My Secret Language of Wishes, Pa's Hat, and Citizens Market.
[1] The world premiere of Thomas's When January Feels Like Summer was directed by Chuck Patterson, her late husband,[2] at the City Theatre In Pittsburgh in 2010 and won the American Theatre Critics Association Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright.
[3] It was subsequently co-produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Page73 Productions in the Summer of 2014 in New York and directed by Daniella Topol.
It was a Critics Pick of The New York Times and was brought back in October 2014 as a co-production between the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Women's Project Theater also directed by Daniella Topol.
In May 2019, her play Lockdown directed by Kent Gash was commissioned and produced at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York City.