Full Length
Never Gonna Let You Go
(in development)
Dark comedy. Cast of three. Middle-aged professor and local theater legend Martin is fired for an affair with Cynthia, an undergraduate. He's forgotten all about young Tim, who shows up at his wreck of an apartment for a reading of Waiting for Godot. Martin, Cynthia and Tim have at it while Cynthia's father, and perhaps the police, loom. One scene, unit set, 100 minutes.
Readings
Boston Playwright Theater 2019, Wilbury Theater 2019 , North Shore Readers Theater, 2020.
Ten Minutes
Productions
all at Boston Theater Marathon
1 Bdrm, Zen Escape
At a Florida Air BnB, a progressive liberal from the Boston suburbs wants a writer's retreat, but discovers that her overly-friendly southern host has troubles of her own. 2W.
Off the Rails
Life in the age of Trump. Firings, unease, an elusive muse. Cast of 4.
Hamlet: My Generation
Set in fashionable London,1966. Generations collide, rules get broken and everything you know about Hamlet is wrong. Shakespeare cut and shuffled, plus asides, rock, go-go boots and the country blues. Cast of 7.
Production
Wilbury Theater, 2020
Pictures of Patty Hearst
An ensemble cast of six play out the strange, true-to-life tale of Patty Hearst, from kidnapped heiress to revolutionary to defendant to alt-celebrity. "The self," a psychiatrist stated at her trial, "turns out to be a fragile thing." A fictive theatrical journey based on the public record.
Production
Boston Playwrights Theater
Production
Boston Playwrights Theater
La Vita Claire
Dante's first book, La Vita Nuova is the jumping-off point for this sprawling romp through three loves stories and time periods. Dante and Beatrice becomes comic farce; the tale of 1900's immigrants a melodrama; and the present-day performance artist Claire obsessed with Dante is played for real. Doubling galore for this cast of seven.
Dante's first book, La Vita Nuova is the jumping-off point for this sprawling romp through three loves stories and time periods. Dante and Beatrice becomes comic farce; the tale of 1900's immigrants a melodrama; and the present-day performance artist Claire obsessed with Dante is played for real. Doubling galore for this cast of
Productions
Newgate Theater, Providence
CentaStage, Boston
The Lark, Playwrights Week, NYC
Citizen Kane at Heaven's Gate
Commission to write an adaptation of Citizen Kane for a cast of 30 children ages 8-18. Welles dies, meets St. Peter and argues his case to be let into heaven on the basis of his iconic film. The cross-examination is brutal. Based on the true story, but wanders far.
Production
Andy's Summer Playhouse, Wilton, NH
Dancing Downstream
Comedy. Henry is determined to build a home only from the things that float downstream. Soon, a NYC Ballerina on the run floats by, her domineering choreographer in hot pursuit. Henry's wife is not amused, but the couples wring the changes, and everyone comes away with something, if not someone, new. Cast of 4.
Productions
Samuel Beckett Theater, NYC
CentaStage, Boston
One Hit Wonder
Somehow a record store survives in down and out New London. In Eugene O'Neill's town, there are dreams and schemes for revitalization amid drug dealing, a bummed out owner, his messed up employees and, yup, a ghost of records past. Cast of 5.
Production
New Theater, Boston
A Raft Made of Grass
Dead crows keep falling from the sky. Bombs are dropping in the neighborhood. An ordinary day in the American burbs. Cast of 4.
Let's Get Meta
Comedy. The inner critic torments a playwright, ridiculing his post-mod ideas. Cast of 4.
Nobody Knows Anything
A Hollywood blockbuster behind the scenes, with parasailing and a very large showerhead. Cast of 6.
Sam Spade
An esteemed broadcast journalist tries to buy off his junior associate, who is also his pregnant lover. Cast of 2.
10/11
A woman is arrested for a spending spree with a friend's credit cards - a friend who died in the 9/11 attacks. Monolog.
France
A job interview for a travel agency turns into a mystical and deadly trip to France. Cast of 2, plus a crowd of the French.
One Act
Jenny Must Die
A musical comedy rewrite of Euripides' Iphiginea in Aulis, set in a Gyro shop on present-day Santorini. Songs include, "It's Fun to Go To War." 60 minutes. Cast of 6
Production
Providence Fringe Festival, 2020
Summer Wind
Last night of summer, past closing, a drive-thru on the beach on the low-end urban shore. College kid's trying to finally make the move on the cashier, when the boss's estranged daughter shows up, drunk and ornery, claiming Sinatra's in the car, demanding food. Her father is rousted out of the back room and all hell breaks loose. Who's to blame for their ruined lives? Cast of 4.