Author, playwright, educator.
Plays
THE UNEXPECTED LIGHT ON AZADEH MEDUSA (one-act play, drama)
A commission from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, November 2016.
Readings and workshops, The Kennedy Center, Spring 2017
THE MAYWORKERS (full-length drama, drama)
Development Residency, The Lark and Theresa Rebeck Writers Retreat – July, 2016
Developmental workshop, WORD Bridge, June 2009
TOO QUICK TO PICK (ten-minute play, comic-drama)
Warner International Theatre Festival, October 2016
Boston Theatre Marathon XVIII, May 2016
A WHOLE LOTTA EMPTY (short play, drama)
In 30 SHORT PLAYS FOR PASSIONATE ACTORS, All Original Play Publishing, September 2016
Boston Theatre Marathon XVII, 2015
STORM ON STORM (short play, comic drama)
Eclectic Shorts, City Theatre, Miami, January-February 2017
In The Best Short Plays of 2015, editor Lawrence Harbison, Smith & Kraus
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, December 2015
Little Black Box Play Festival, McLennan University, April 2014
Short Attention Span Festival, The Barn Theatre, Key West Florida, April 2010
City Summer Shorts, City Theatre, Miami, Florida, May-June 2009
Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville, July 2009
An Eclectic Evening of Shorts, Artistic New Directions, New York, March 2008
Boston Theatre Marathon IX, Virginia Wimberly Theatre, May 2007
StageWorks, Hudson, New York, Play By Play, Festival of Short Plays, 2006
DUMP (short-play, drama)
New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts, October, 2016
Boston Theatre Marathon XII, May 2010
Published in The A Train Anthologies, Play Scripts, Inc. Fall, 2008
The A Train Plays, Neighborhood Playhouse, New York City, 2004
GAME ON (ten-minute play, comic-drama)
Radio Theatre Project, St. Petersburg, Florida, May 2015
Shorts Gone Wild Festival, City theatre, Miami, 2014
Muhlenberg College, September, 2014
10 x 10 2012 Series, The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews, Ireland, 2012
Boston Theatre Marathon XIII, Virginia Wimberly Theatre, May, 2011
Books
Publications
The Dramatist. Over 50 published articles relating to the field of playwriting (craft, inspiration, writer’s block, self-production, agenting, etc.), 2007-2016.
Ties That Bind, Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, Dump, Game On as part of the Boston Theatre Marathon’s Annual Anthology of collected short plays, Smith & Krause, publisher, 2008-2014.
The Kennedy Center Presents: The Best Student Plays of 2006, introduction by Neil LaBute. Editor, BackStage Books, March, 2006.
Introduction, Shoes on the Highway, by Maureen Brady Johnson, Heinemann Press, 2006.
Oh, Messiah Me, one-act play included in Curtain Down, an anthology of short plays, June 2006.
Musing