Full-length plays:
AMERICAN SON (2M, 1W) When a man comes to Rob claiming to be his real father, Rob
discovers that he's been hidden away by his mother who never told him the truth,
and the secrets that come out may ruin an entire family. UPCOMING WORKSHOP 2012 New Works Festival College of the Canyons Theatre Department Santa Clarita, CA Spring 2012 Reading of the First Act at The Playwright's Playpen ALAP's 2011 Drama Lama Ding Dong! Community Center at Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood Saturday, October 15, 2011. THE GLASSES (5M, 2W with doubling) THE GLASSES, a surreal comedy, takes place in an office, where a real-estate agent, who overlooks his co-workers, buys a pair of glasses that lets him magically see what his co-workers are really like on the inside, and these revelations open him up to friendship and love. Winner, High Point University 2011 New Play Contest High Point University, High Point, NC UPCOMING Production scheduled for February 16 - 19, 23 - 26, 2012 To be directed by Ed Simpson. MONA LISA
(3M, 1W, with double casting). MONA LISA is the story of Leonardo da Vinci, who while working on the titular painting, falls in love with its sitter, Lisa del Giocondo. When an emissary from the government demands that da Vinci do a propaganda painting to please the Pope, Leonardo finds himself caught between the city of his birth and the woman he loves.
Awards:
2011 ART Lab Grant from the American Repertory Theatre's Alumni Association (Boston, MA).
Winner of The Rocky Mountain Theatre Association Playwriting Competition, 2010, Helena, MT (funded by playwright Steven Dietz).
Productions:
In conjunction with the ART Lab Grant, the play was workshopped and produced at the
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Wellfleet MA. May 2 - 6, 2011. Directed by Dan Lombardo.
The New Play Conservancy Players Guild Theatre, Canton, OH. July 16-18, 2010. Directed by Mark Monday.
Selected by THE REPOSITORY, the Canton, OH newspaper, as the "Rep Pick" to see.
Readings/Workshops: Northern Writes: 4th Annual New Play Festival, Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME. July 2, 2010. Directed by Marcie Bramucci.
RMTA staged reading in Helena, MT, February 13, 2010.
Other:
Play Competition Finalist, 9th Annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, New Orleans, LA 2011. Finalist for the 13th Annual New Works Festival at Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, 2010. Finalist for PlayFest! The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays at The Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 2009.
1000 MILES
(2M, 2W with doubling) 1000 Miles, based on the 1860 public domain memoir Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, is the true and daring escape from slavery by the married couple Ellen and William Craft in 1848. So their unborn children will not be born as slaves, Ellen impersonates a white male and pretends to be William's master as they travel 1000 miles by public transit (ship, rail, and carriage) trying to gain their freedom in Boston.
Reading: "1st Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays in NYC," Juneteenth Legacy Theatre at Nicou's Spoon Theater, New York, NY. June 19, 2011. DIrected by Allie M. Woods, Jr. Other:
Semifinalist for the 2010 - 2011 Playwrights First Award, New York, NY. Finalist for the 2011 Tru Reading Series, New York, NY. Semifinalist for the 2011 Reverie's Next Generation Playwrights Contest, New York, NY. Finalist for PlayFest! The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays at The Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 2010. Semifinalist for The New Harmony Project 2011 Conference.
One Acts:
LEAVING LILY BELL
(2W) Set in her New York penthouse, Lily Bell is a late 30-something once successful film actress whose career has recently ground to a stop. But what has kept her going is the support of her younger assistant, Emily, who is now trying to figure out how to tell Lily that she's leaving.Production at SCV Space, Santa Clarita, CA. July 8 - 9, 2011.
Production at "Long Island City One Act Festival," The Queens Players at The Secret Theatre, Long Island City, NY. Jan 12 - 23, 2011.
10-minute plays:
THE BABY
(1M, 1W) After a dinner party, a husband and wife have a falling out over a taboo subject.
Selected for the anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus.
Production at Three Roses Players, The Crown City Theatre at St. Matthews Church, North Hollywood, CA. February 20 - March 6, 2011.
Directed by Maggie Grant. Review at The Tolucan Times
Production at Three Roses Players Production at the American Globe Theatre 16th Annual 15-Minute Play Festival, NYC, April 23, 2010. Play chosen as a finalist and performances extended to April 30 and May 1, 2010.
Directed by Melinda Buckley. Heideman Finalist, The National Ten-Minute Play Contest, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY. 2009.
COYOTE (2M) When Jerry has to go to Richard's house to get his passed-out wife, things aren't good. They get even worse when he can't find her. Review at The Tolucan Times Production at Three Roses Players' The Writer Speaks, The Crown City Theatre at St. Matthews Church, North Hollywood, CA. February 20, 23, and March 6, 2011. Directed by Maggie Grant. Reading at ALAP's THE 12TH ANNUAL ALAP PLAYREADING FESTIVAL, Plummer Park Community Center, West Hollywood, CA. October 23, 2010. Directed by Maggie Grant. ENTRANCED Reading in Drama West's "Fright Fest" at the Edendale Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 2:00 pm 2011 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles Directed/Acted by Jim Kohn, Brian Katz, and Lauree Enos Reading in "To Scare or Not to Scare," F.A.C.T. (Friends Always Creating Theatre) Words and Wine Reading Series. October 30, 2011. NYC.
Staged reading at SCV Space, Santa Clarita, CA. July 8 -9, 2011. Production at Endtimes Productions' Vignettes for the Apocalypse V, The Kraine Theater, New York, NY. June 9 - July 2, 2011. Directed by Hezues R.
THE EQUATION (2M, 1W) When a physicist discovers an equation that says the world shouldn't exist, what do you do next? TO BE PRODUCED FIRST HALF (2M, 1W) Production in New Vision Theatre Company's Summer Shorts at Sunshine Brooks Theatre, Oceanside, CA. July 1 - 16, 2011. Directed by Lukas Vetrak. Production at Turtle Shell Production’s 8 Minute Madness Playwrights Festival 2011, Shell Theater, New York, NY. January 22 - February 6, 2011. Directed by John W. Cooper. HOMELAND (1M, 1W) Set in a government office, a man is being investigated by the government and the bureaucrat, who is seeking out those who may not belong in this country. Or so she thinks. Production in the "2011 Denise Ragan Wiesenmeyer One-Act Play Festival" at the Attic Theatre, 5429 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016. September 16 - October 7, 2011. Directed by John Szura. THE INTERVENTION (2M, 2W) When Rob visits his parents for Sunday night dinner, little does he know that it's just an excuse for his intervention.Production at Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga's "I Can't Think Straight: The Coming Out Experience," Chattanooga, TN. October 7 -23, 2011. Directed by Gary Lee Posey. Reading at Drama West Fest, Edendale Library Branch, Los Angeles, CA. June 25, 2011. Directed by Katie Amstutz.
Production at Turtle Shell Production’s 8 Minute Madness Playwrights Festival 2011, Shell Theater, New York, NY. January 22 - February 6, 2011. Directed by Nick Brennan. THE LAST EGG (1M, 1W) A sperm tries to talk his way into the last egg. Production at the "New Works Winter Festival 2012," Acme Theater Productions, Maynard, MA. January 13, 14, 20, 21, 2012. Play selected by audience as "Best of ..." the festival and performed again on August 28, 2011. Directed by Kaz Matamura. THE LOVE MACHINE (1M, 1W, 1M/W) The life (and death) of a relationship in ten minutes. Production in Fire Rose Production's The 8th 10-Minute International Play Competition, Secret Rose Theatre, North Hollywood, CA. December 9 - 11, 2011. Directed by Mike Gaglio. OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX (2M) Based on a true story, a man visiting a brothel becomes part of the CIA's Cold War mind-altering experiments. Produced at the Fertile Grounds Festival. A twin premiere of two different versions of the same play in Third Eye Theatre's "Grand Guignol 4" and The Pulp Stage's "Pulp Diction III" Portland, OR. January 19 - January 29, 2012. SANTA-TUDE (3M, 2W) Santa meets his new marketing team. Production in The Phoenix Theatre's A Very Phoenix X-Mas 6: Our Goose is Cooked, Indianapolis, IN. December 1 - 23, 2011. TWO NIGHT STAND
(1M, 1W) Jenny wakes up in a strange apartment with a guy she doesn't really know, and the guy, Robert, is having the best morning of his life. Production in "Motel Tropicana -- a Series of Adult No-Tells" at Obsidian Art Space, Houston, TX. January 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 30 and February 2, 3, and 4, 2012. Production in the 4th Annual 0 to 60: Longwood 10-Minute Play Competition, Center of Communication Studies and Theatre, Longwood University, Farmville, VA. March 30 - April 3, 2011. Directed by Joseph Heavner.
Published in the "One Play Depot" series, Briery Creek Press, Longwood, VA, 2011.
Short(er) plays:
BASKET
(1M, 1W) Finding love over a basket of groceries.
Production in Gi60: Live U.S. Edition 2011, Gone in 60 Seconds: The International One Minute Play Festival, New Workshop Theater, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. June 10 - 11, 2011.
Production in In a New York Minute Playwriting Competition, Spare Change Theater, SLC Centers, New York, NY. September 10 and 11, 2010. Directed by Steve White.
(2M) The Beer Fairy, protector of stupid drunks everywhere.
Production in Gi60: Live U.K. Edition 2011, Gone in 60 Seconds: The International One Minute Play Festival, Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax, UK. June 12, 2011. THE ORGASM
(1M, 1W) Or "How to Fake It Even if You are a Guy"
Production in 20 erotic shorts, The Working Theatre Collective, Eff Space, Portland, OR. February 10 - 14th, 17 - 20, 2011. ZOMBIE SPEED DATING (1M, 1W) A zombie tries to find love (excerpted from ENTRANCED) June 17th, 2011, The Tiffany Room at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. The poster for The Penobscot Reading (I'm on the bottom left).
 |  Check out the good reviews: http://tinyurl.com/7gr9by9 and http://www.examiner.com/performing-arts-in-indianapolis/phoenix-show-celebrates-myriad-holidays-review and http://www.indystar.com/article/20111218/ENTERTAINMENT/112180321/Best-bet-Very-Phoenix-Xmas The Baby
At the American Globe Theatre/Turnip Theatre "16th Annual 15-Minute Play Festival," New York, NY. Starring Christopher Flockton and Julie Galdieri and directed by Melinda Buckley.  Mona Lisa at The Penobscot Theatre Reading in Bangor, ME. As the audience files in --
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