I’m thrilled to have been selected for the Antaeus Zip Code Radio Plays!

The Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles chose six playwrights to create 30-minute radio plays to produce, which will be released November 30, 2020 FREE to the public online and via podcast. Each play takes place in a different zip code in L.A.

My play, “90024 Westwood: ALL INFORMATION HEREIN IS CLASSIFIED” is a collection of digital audio FBI files on Eleanor Pender McPherson, an alleged participant in protests in and around UCLA. The two FBI agents assigned to her surveillance learn never to underestimate an 80 year old woman.

The amazing Carolyn Ratteray will direct and Jeff Gardner is Audio Producer. Casting to be announced soon!

I’ll be posting again when the final product is available for you to listen to via online (or wherever you listen to podcasts.)

Filmed just before the world shut down, I helped create three comedy shorts with the talented Stephanie Erb, Ben Solenberger, and his amazing team of creatives under the “Short Smirks” umbrella. These two-to-three minute funnies are made just to make you laugh.

I had the pleasure of writing “Quantum Hallway,” in which two women wait for a restaurant bathroom in a hallway which might also be a quantum portal:

And here’s “Visitation” which was penned by Stephanie Erb:

And here’s “Gratitude Jar Time Capsule,” written by both me and Stephanie:

Excited about having shot these sketches with talented actress/writer Stephanie Erb! We had an outstanding crew, and were blessed with the unstoppable force that is Ben Solenberger as producer. We’ve just shot the first three “Short Smirks” and stay tuned for how to view them….

Playwrights Union “First Peek” Reading Series presents the first reading of my new play “Call Time” on Sunday May 19 at 4:30. Tickets are free but reservations recommended (click here).

Synopsis: A group of misfit drama kids break into their abandoned high school auditorium in search of one last night of connection, hope, rhymes, and Fritos.

Starring (in order of appearance):

NEWT:  Sam Christian 
GAGE:  William Smith Walker
KAI:  Crescent Hurley
TATTS:  Seth Meriwether
DEX:  Samantha Mendoza
LEX:  Evie Nootenboom
GUNNER:  Jason Caceres
LILA:  Natasha Tina Liu

Thanks to Playwrights Union and all who support brand new theater!

Photo Credit: Armen Berenson

“The Clearing in the Jacoby” is a Finalist for The 2019 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival!

In this rollicking comedy, set in an ancient Australian forest famous for being an international destination for committing suicide, five very different people find themselves in need of answers, each other, and a government employee named Sharon.

Located in Burbank, Garry Marshall Theatre is interested in new work that is uniquely theatrical, authentically voiced, and has a strong point of view. The New Works Festival presents five new plays in staged readings to help the development process of the playwright, and will take place June 2-4, 2019.

This year, they received over 200 submissions, so being chosen in the top 8 plays is an honor all by itself. Thank you to the selection team at Garry Marshall Theatre for this distinction!

So thrilled and proud that my new play “The Clearing in the Jacoby” is a Finalist for The 2019-2020 Reva Shiner Comedy Award!

In this play, set in an ancient Australian forest famous for being an international destination for committing suicide, five very different people find themselves in need of answers, each other, and a government employee named Sharon.

The Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) is the only professional theatre in the entire state of Indiana dedicated solely to new plays. They select ten finalists and produce the winner’s play. I’m so lucky to have been a Finalist for this award three different times now.

Thanks to everyone at The Bloomington Playwrights Project for choosing my play as one of the ten funniest of 2019!

Thrilled that my play “Miss Keller Has No Second Book” will be part of the Writers Theatre of New Jersey “Soundings Reading Series” on January 5, 2019, directed by James Glossman.

The reading will feature Tony-winning actress Maryann Plunkett, Maureen Silliman, Mackenzie Astin, Clark Carmichael, and Hannah Mae Sturges. Ms. Silliman and Ms. Sturges are reprising the roles they created in the World Premiere production at Gulfshore Playhouse earlier this year.

The Soundings Reading Series is designed to test a fairly well-developed play in front of an audience. Authors have five hours of rehearsal with professional actors and a director, and a public reading of the play with guided feedback from the audience.  All readings are followed by a discussion with the author, director, and Artistic Director John Pietrowski.

These readings permit Writers Theatre to connect with its community of patrons and artists to:

• gain audience insight into the play

• continue the exposure of the audience to the creative process

• give our audience experiences with diverse narrative forms.

For tickets, click here. Writers Theatre of NJ is at 28 Walnut St, Madison, NJ 07940, and showtime is 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. See you there!