Taken from Lyras’ experiences behind a bar, at a multimedia office, in apartments fringe and fancy and one on one encounters with intense personas that he ingeniously interprets, the overriding theme of desperelics emerges with a clarity that is at once hilarious and shocking: life plans lead to chaos. The desperation to achieve freezes if not fossilizes true inspiration. The fanatic characters are portrayed as running over the very thing they're chasing.

Cultural victims include a genius philosophy prodigy with a penchant for hard tasks and pedophilia, a fitness trainer whose weakness for gambling keeps him pumped up, a drug delivery messenger who saves lives, a corporate lackey whose career maneuvers have enslaved him to a copy machine and the inventor of the first Greek diner.

desperelics ran at the Gene Franke Theater where the play sold out 31 of 39 performances and the closing night's audience included Mike Nichols who proceeded to cast Alex in "What Planet Are You From?" written by and starring Gary Shandling, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsly, John Goodman and Annette Bening.