Featured in Time Out New York's “Best Theatre to Stream” List!

Proud to be a part of a unique project called “SALEM: POST-MORTEM” which is a poetic new play by Peter Gray, directed by Michael Alvarez. It’s the inaugural project for a new theater company in New York, and if starting a theater company during a pandemic isn’t an act of courage and love, I don’t know what is!

In “SALEM: POST-MORTEM” the witches of Salem awaken once more--this time in the afterlife-- to seek resolution of their unfinished stories and confront the fear which left their town in tatters. When the veneer of Puritan decorum falls away, old voices scramble to regain their status and new voices awaken power they never touched on earth.

It was an international cast of 16 actors, and we all acted as our own film crew, with Michael and Peter guiding us remotely. Such a joy to create during the pandemic, and work with these two amazing creative spirits.

It will be free to watch and can be accessed at www.the-muse-collective.com with donations going to raise money for the Audre Lorde Project.

The Muse Collective was created by Michael Alvarez in 2020 as an umbrella for collaboration and theatrical investigation. Their philosophy is to create art in an attempt to see beyond the veil of waking life, excavating the invisible worlds of our mind, heart, soul, and shared humanity.

Here’s the Broadway World press release with more info, and here’s where this project was featured in Time Out New York’s “Best Live Theater to Watch Online” list!

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:

Difficult times call for difficult instruments, perhaps more difficult for my listeners than for me! I’ll try to break the monotony of anxiety with the occasional tune. Recorded at home via my phone (sans makeup or hair!). Here’s a few for you:

Titanic: https://vimeo.com/399052458

Swept Out to Sea (original): https://vimeo.com/399052458

Somethin’ Stupid mashup: https://vimeo.com/399724355

La Vie En Rose https://vimeo.com/398994838

Enjoy Yourself https://vimeo.com/412403849

Goodnight Irene https://vimeo.com/400030413

Enjoy in good health!

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….

The wonderful fans of NPR’s comedy quiz show “Says You!” have done it again: this weekend’s tapings (in front of live audiences) are sold out!

We’ll be performing / taping two shows at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco Friday Feb 14, two shows at the McClatchy Auditorium in Sacramento Saturday Feb 15, and two more shows at The Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on Sunday Feb 16. Standby tickets and info at SaysYou.net.

Get your copy of singer/songwriter Brian Woodbury’s new album “Levity & Novelty” today! It’s chocked full of wonderful, quirky, clever tunes, one of which — “Perfectly Awful” — features yours truly! You can even purchase the track I’m on separately, FOR ONLY $1, y’all.

Give it a listen below, and if you’d like to add it to your digital library for a buck (or even buy the whole amazing CD for only $20!) you can click the “buy” button below, or visit here, on Brian’s website. There are 27 songs on the album, so if you buy the whole thing, you’re saving $7, so that’s not nothing. In that scenario, you’d be saving and also simultaneously supporting cool artists like Brian. Doesn’t that give you a warm squishy feeling?

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