These plays are part of a series that feature the fictitious Jordan family, and while the characters are often in turmoil and face new challenges, Ms. Phaire’s plays maintain a humorous posture.  She tackles such social and psychological issues as: teen peer pressure, sexual infidelity, loneliness, depression, and religious intolerance to name just a few.  Ms. Phaire says that the Jordan family storyline offers a rich vehicle for displaying real-life issues because audiences really respond to the strong and opinionated Mama Pearl character, the matriarch of the Jordan family.  Currently, she is working on a new playscript that deals with the challenges of finding one’s soulmate.

As a novelist, she has completed two manuscripts in the women’s fiction genre and currently working on a third manuscript in the period fiction genre (historical).  Her first novel was a modern-day mystery/romance entitled
Almost Out of Love that was published in 2000.  She has since completed a new manuscript that is scheduled for publication in August 2007.  In 2002, her poetry was published in Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century.