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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 will be 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.
November 11, 2019 - SAM AND RICK received a public reading in Los Angeles as part of the Blank Theatre's Living Room Series.
May 28, 2019 - Honored and thrilled that my play PARALYZED is one of three selected by the Theatre Committee of the prestigious Players club in Gramercy Park to receive feedback from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alex Dinelaris and two-time Pulitzer nominee Gina Gionfriddo. I will be in attendance at the "Playwrights Take the Stage" event there on June 14th. http://www.theplayersnyc.org/calendar
May 24, 2019 - MISS IRRELEVANT will be produced this weekend and next weekend by Itinerant Theatre in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in its "Women Leading: The Play's the Thing" Series.
March 17, 2019 - MISS IRRELEVANT will be published in Applause Theatre and Cinema Books's THE BEST NEW TEN-MINUTE PLAYS, 2019 (Fall, 2019).
February 19, 2019 - Headed to Dublin for the world premiere of CUSTOMER SERVICE at Smock Alley Theatre, directed by Pauric Brennan, produced by Aisling Grattan and featuring Dani Masterson, Helena White and Colin Flynn.
December 5, 2018 - Notified that MISS IRRELEVANT will be included in Smith & Kraus's BEST TEN MINUTE PLAYS OF 2019.
November 22, 2018 - Just learned that my short play CUSTOMER SERVICE, a nightmarish comedy about telephone help lines, will have its world premiere at Smock Alley Theatre's SCENE + HEARD FESTIVAL in Dublin, Ireland on February 22, 2019.
November 11, 2018 - MISS IRRELEVANT had its UK premiere 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/
September 22, 2018 - A great review of UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT:
https://www.encoremichigan.com/2018/09/9198/
September 4, 2018 - Thrilled to announce that my ten-minute play MISS IRRELEVANT will be produced in London at the Pleasance Theatre on November 10th and 11th. It will be part of the Untold Stories series produced by Mark Lindow and Emma Zadow. This is my first production outside the United States!
September 1, 2018 - Some nice press for the upcoming world premiere production of UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT in Detroit:
June 30, 2018 - My latest ten-minute play, MISS IRRELEVANT, has been selected for The Theater Collective's Sugartown Shorts, a short play festival that will be held June 28th-30th at Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers, 99 Montrose Street, Bushwick. I will direct the play, which was inspired by the #MeToo movement. It features Bryn Packard and Nilsa Reyna. MISS IRRELEVANT will be performed Saturday, June 30th at 7:30 pm and is the closing play of the festival. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sugartown-shorts-tickets-46774838802
June 2-5, 2018 - Returned to Detroit for the first rehearsal of UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT at Outvisible Theatre (www.outivisibletheatre.com) in advance of its production in September and for the reading of PARALYZED at the JET Theater, which selected the play for JETFEST, its annual festival of new plays. https://www.jettheatre.org/
APRIL 27, 2018 - Traveling to Detroit to be a judge for the 2018 Detroit New Works Festival. My play UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT was the winner in 2017.
http://www.outvisibletheatre.com/newworks/
JANUARY 28, 2018 - Honored to be on a panel for the 2018 BroadwayCon discussing "The Role of Talkbacks in Today's Theater."