STAGE PLAYS
The Jaguar King
In 1941, an American archeologist battles a Central American
revolutionary who is stealing precious artifacts from her Mayan
temple site to fund his terrorist activities.
Shortly After Takeoff
A fatherless teen attempts to escape the chaos and symbiotic
attachments of his suburban family via a unique artistic vision.
Winner: Christopher Brian Wolk Award. Produced by The Harbor
Theatre. Finalist: ATC Competition and Ashland New Play Contest.
Pictures
With A Naked Camera
In 1955, a young woman from the Hudson valley wins a two-week
stay in New York. Becoming affianced to an intern she is then
hospitalized with polio and must ultimately choose between returning
home or
staying in New York. Finalist at PlayLabs (Minneapolis,
MN), TheatreFest Play Contest and the Bloomington Playwrights
Project.
The Czar of Nothingness
On the eve of his eviction from the game room he owns on the
Lower East Side, an elderly widower struggles with his past
when a young intruder claims his deceased wife had another
life and owes her money.
Six Inch Adjustable (One-Act)
Two brothers come to terms with a motorcycle engine, their crumbling
family and each other. Samuel French Short Play Festival winner.
Published.
Bizet's Locket
Searching for birth parents she suspects may be of Jewish origin,
a young woman travels to France in 1974 and begins a tempestuous
relationship with a former French resistance leader who appears
to be concealing an incriminating secret. Winner Paul Green Contest,
Riverside Stage Contest.
Together Tulane
During the reunion of the band he once spearheaded, a wandering,
60's visionary comes to terms with the romantic and political realities
of the 90's. O'Neill finalist.
Owning The Knuckleball
A baseball pitcher's obsession with success leads him on a journey
through a ritualistic American landscape. Winner/Nat. Play Conference
/Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, 1994. Produced in London, 1996.
Heart
Timers
Five years in the lives of two lower-class New Jersey women
as they escape their environmental and personal limitations.
First prize & production: Theatre-in-the Works/Amherst, FEAT
of the Phoenix Theatre. Produced: New City Theatre/Seattle. Semi-Finalist:
Weissberger Play Competition.
A Map and a Cap...
The son of an immigrant comes to terms with his relationship
to his deceased father. Two year National Tour and Off-Broadway.
Semi-finalist/ Forest Roberts contest.
Grace (One-Act)
A tragedy concerning the last hours of a politically powerful
millionaire. First-prize and production: DFAP/Dubuque.
Clean
Sweep (One-Act)
A comic examination of one man's crusade to clean up his urban
environment.
Car Nil Knowledge (One-Act)
A comic triangle with a man, a woman and a car. First-prize & production:
PST/Milwaukee.
Lost at Sea
While stranded in the Bermuda Triangle, an older, wealthy couple
on a yacht are befriended by a younger, "alternate life-style" couple
on a sailboat. Satiric comedy. Winner of the John Drew Theatre
Play Contest/ East Hampton and the New Play Festival/ Charlotte
Repertory Co.
Major Moments
Social-sexual interactions of four adults on New York's Upper
East Side. Dramatic comedy.
Art's Life
Painter Arthur Nash comes of age in a Soho loft during changing
economic times. Extended-off Broadway run on Theatre Row. Dramatic
comedy.
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