Welcome, friends, strangers and others who have lost
your way.
You have reached my website where you can
- Find out about and read my work by clicking links to the
left: Dozens of produced plays, numerous stories and plays published in some of the finest literary
journals in the country, nine published books and three novels.
- Read "The Bank Robbery" a widely anthologized, prize winning
short story. The Bank Robbery
Here are some recent happenings
-My one-act Play "Tammy" named one of five finalists
in the Eileen Heckart Drama For Seniors Competition, 2009.
-My son Elias' terrfic rock band, The Flying Eyes,
release their first full-length album through Trip in Time Records. Listen and find out how to order http://www.myspace.com/theflyingeyes
- My ten minute play "Normal Is A Country"
performed at the 10 by 10 in the Triangle Festival, Carrboro, NC, July, 2009; at Subversive Theatre, Buffalo, NY, May, 2009;
at Rochester Repertory, Rochester, MN, 2008.
- My one-act play "The Weight" performed at the 15th Annual New York
City Fifteen Minute Play Festival, May, 2009; at the Salute Shorts Festival of the Rapscallion Theatre Collective, NYC, May,
2009; and at 517 Playwrights, Lexington, KY, October, 2009.
- Two new plays for young audiences the hilarious "The
Emperor's New Clothes" and "Kidnapped: Persephone in the Underworld" published by Brooklyn Publishing and available
at(www.brookpub.com).
- My children's play "Why Pigs Shouldn't Read Books", winner
of the Multi-Arts.Org Playwriting Competition, 2009.
-My ten minute play "No Talking On The First Date"
performed at Shelterbelt Theatre, Jan-Feb, 2010; at the 2009 International Cringe Festival; and at City Theatre Company, Wilmington,
DE.
- "Normal Is A Country" named a finalist in the Actors
Theatre of Louisville National Ten Minute Play Contest, 2008. The play was a winner in the the Longwood University
Ten Minute Play Festival, 2009, which includes publication by One Act Play Depot.
- "Tree Man" performed by Team Venture Productions,
Chicago, April, 2009.
- A short story "War of Choice" published in the new
issue of the venerable Gargoyle (#54).
- A one-act play "Italy" published in the latest issue
of Poems & Plays.
- A short story "Maybe I'm Stupid" just published in
the on-line journal "The Big Stupid Review".
- A one-act play "Tammy" published in Conclave:
A Journal of Character.