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THE NEW ABNORMAL will receive its world premiere at the Adelaide Fringe in Adelaide, Australia on February 16, 2024 and will run through February 27, 2024, in the Main Theatre at Goodwood Theatre and Studios 

CUSTOMER SERVICE was produced by Open Hydrant Theater Company at the Point in the Bronx from December 9-17, 2023.

THE HOLDING ROOM was produced by Open Hydrant Theater Company at The Point in the Bronx from September 15-24, 2023.

THE NEW ABNORMAL (full length version) received a rehearsed reading at the Grove Theater, Eastbourne, UK, as part of the Eastbourne Fringe on July 29, 2023.

My short play MISS IRRELEVANT was produced at the 24th Street Theatre in San Antonio TX on April 13, 2023.

My short play CUSTOMER SERVICE was produced at the Etcetera Theatre in London, UK, on March 17, 2023.

SAM AND RICK AND THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RICK CLUCHEY, an essay I co-wrote with Nora Masterson, was published in the Spring/Summer 2022 issue of READING IRELAND: The Little Magazine. A twelve-page excerpt of SAM AND RICK was also published in the issue. 

My short play THE EULOGY was named one of six winners of the 2021 Phillips' Mill Emerging Playwrights Competition and was read at the Mill in New Hope, PA on November 20, 2021.

The recording of the Quaranstream Theatre production of THE BARTER was streamed as part of the Broadway on Demand Stage/Screen Short Film Festival in September, 2021.

THE NEW ABNORMAL was named one of six winners of the 2020 Phillips' Mill Emerging Playwrights Competition and was read at the Mill in New Hope, PA on June, 12, 2021.

THE NEW ABNORMAL was read virtually by B Street Theatre, Sacramento, CA, on August 16, 2020.  bstreettheatre.org 

THE NEW ABNORMAL, my short play about the pandemic, won the 2020 Segora One Act Play Award from Poetry Prose and Plays,  St. Andre-sur-Sevre, France. www.poetryproseandplays.com

THE BARTER was published in Smith & Kraus's  Laughter is the Best Medicine: Forty-Five 5 Minute Plays in the Time of Coronavirus in December, 2020. 

THE BARTER was produced by Quaranstream Theatre, Chicago, IL, on April 18, 2020.

THE BARTER, my microplay about the Coronavirus, was read virtually by Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas, TX, on April 17, 2020.

SAM AND RICK was selected for the Blank Theatre's Living Room Series and received a public reading on November 11, 2019 in Los Angeles.

MISS IRRELEVANT was published in Applause Theatre & Cinema Books's THE BEST NEW TEN-MINUTE PLAYS, 2019.

PARALYZED was recognized by the prestigious Players club of Gramercy Park as one of three winners selected by its Theater Committee for the "Playwrights Take the Stage" event on June 14, 2019.

My short play CUSTOMER SERVICE, a nightmarish comedy about telephone help lines, had its world premiere at Smock Alley Theatre's SCENE + HEARD FESTIVAL in Dublin, Ireland on February 22, 2019.

MISS IRRELEVANT was included in Smith & Kraus's BEST TEN MINUTE PLAYS OF 2019.

MISS IRRELEVANT had its UK premiere on November 11, 2018, as part of UNTOLD STORIES at the Pleasance Theatre. Alan Phillips directed the production, which featured Emma Zadow and Kingsley Amadi. 

Review: https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-untold-stories-new-writing-festival-pleasance-theatre/

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT, my full-length drama about a celebrity athlete accused of date rape after a one night stand, had its world premiere at Outvisible Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on September 21, 2018. The production was directed by Adriane Galea and featured Jeremy Kucharek and Danielle Wright.

 Review: https://www.encoremichigan.com/2018/09/9198/

MISS IRRELEVANT, a ten minute play inspired by the #MeToo movement, received its world premiere at Sugartown Shorts in Bushwick, Brooklyn on June 30, 2018. I directed the play, which featured Nilsa Reyna and Bryn Packard.

My full-length play, SAM AND RICK - the true story of the unlikely friendship between writer Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, an inmate in San Quentin Prison serving a life sentence without parole - was read at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on December 17th, 2017. It was adapted from a play Rick Cluchey wrote in 2008.

My other full-length plays include SURVIVORS (Arts Club of Washington National Playwriting Award; O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist; Princess Grace Award semifinalist), UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT (Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist; Detroit New Works Festival winner; Last Frontier Theater Conference; Blank Theatre Living Room Series); STORAGE LOCKER (IATI Theater Mainstage; Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence third prize); and PARALYZED (JET Theater Festival of New Plays winner; Ohio State-Newark New Play Contest third prize; O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist; McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition semi-finalist).  My short plays have been produced at festivals in New York City and around the country. EMERGENCY ROOM, a darkly comedic one-act about our dysfunctional health care system, received the Upstage Playwright Award from Houston’s Upstage Theatre. I was a writer for ABC’s WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and Fox’s SPORTS GENIUSES. I was also the sole writer of more than 400 episodes for the syndicated radio program LITTLE KNOWN LEGENDS OF SPORTS. BA, Brown University. MFA, University of Southern California. Member: Dramatists Guild of America; Writers Guild of America, East; and PEN America.

 My short play THE EULOGY was named one of six winners of the 2021 Phillips' Mill Emerging Playwrights Competition and was read at the Mill in New Hope, PA on November 20, 2021.

The recording of the Quaranstream Theatre production of THE BARTER was streamed as part of the Broadway on Demand Stage/Screen Short Film Festival in September, 2021.

THE NEW ABNORMAL was named one of six winners of the 2020 Phillips' Mill Emerging Playwrights Competition and was read at the Mill in New Hope, PA on June, 12, 2021.

THE NEW ABNORMAL was read virtually by B Street Theatre, Sacramento, CA, on August 16, 2020.  bstreettheatre.org 

THE NEW ABNORMAL, my short play about the pandemic, won the 2020 Segora One Act Play Award from Poetry Prose and Plays,  St. Andre-sur-Sevre, France. www.poetryproseandplays.com

THE BARTER was published in Smith & Kraus's  Laughter is the Best Medicine: Forty-Five 5 Minute Plays in the Time of Coronavirus in December, 2020. 

THE BARTER was produced by Quaranstream Theatre, Chicago, IL, on April 18, 2020.

THE BARTER, my microplay about the Coronavirus, was read virtually by Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas, TX, on April 17, 2020.

SAM AND RICK was selected for the Blank Theatre's Living Room Series and received a public reading on November 11, 2019 in Los Angeles.

MISS IRRELEVANT was published in Applause Theatre & Cinema Books's THE BEST NEW TEN-MINUTE PLAYS, 2019.

PARALYZED was recognized by the prestigious Players club of Gramercy Park as one of three winners selected by its Theater Committee for the "Playwrights Take the Stage" event on June 14, 2019.

My short play CUSTOMER SERVICE, a nightmarish comedy about telephone help lines, had its world premiere at Smock Alley Theatre's SCENE + HEARD FESTIVAL in Dublin, Ireland on February 22, 2019.

MISS IRRELEVANT was included in Smith & Kraus's BEST TEN MINUTE PLAYS OF 2019.

MISS IRRELEVANT had its UK premiere on November 11, 2018, as part of UNTOLD STORIES at the Pleasance Theatre. Alan Phillips directed the production, which featured Emma Zadow and Kingsley Amadi. 

Review: https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-untold-stories-new-writing-festival-pleasance-theatre/

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT, my full-length drama about a celebrity athlete accused of date rape after a one night stand, had its world premiere at Outvisible Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on September 21, 2018. The production was directed by Adriane Galea and featured Jeremy Kucharek and Danielle Wright.

 Review: https://www.encoremichigan.com/2018/09/9198/

MISS IRRELEVANT, a ten minute play inspired by the #MeToo movement, received its world premiere at Sugartown Shorts in Bushwick, Brooklyn on June 30, 2018. I directed the play, which featured Nilsa Reyna and Bryn Packard.

My full-length play, SAM AND RICK - the true story of the unlikely friendship between writer Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, an inmate in San Quentin Prison serving a life sentence without parole - was read at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on December 17th, 2017. It was adapted from a play Rick Cluchey wrote in 2008.

My other full-length plays include SURVIVORS (Arts Club of Washington National Playwriting Award; O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist; Princess Grace Award semifinalist), UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT (Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist; Detroit New Works Festival winner; Last Frontier Theater Conference; Blank Theatre Living Room Series); STORAGE LOCKER (IATI Theater Mainstage; Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence third prize); and PARALYZED (JET Theater Festival of New Plays winner; Ohio State-Newark New Play Contest third prize; O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist; McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition semi-finalist).  My short plays have been produced at festivals in New York City and around the country. EMERGENCY ROOM, a darkly comedic one-act about our dysfunctional health care system, received the Upstage Playwright Award from Houston’s Upstage Theatre. I was a writer for ABC’s WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and Fox’s SPORTS GENIUSES. I was also the sole writer of more than 400 episodes for the syndicated radio program LITTLE KNOWN LEGENDS OF SPORTS. BA, Brown University. MFA, University of Southern California. Member: Dramatists Guild of America; Writers Guild of America, East; and PEN America.