PLAYWRIGHT:
(see Quotes/Reviews page for more info)
THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE - current project - courtesy of the Tennessee Williams Estate -scheduled for production in 2008
THE GREAT GATSBY - opened July 2006; selected as the inaugural production for the Guthrie Theater's new theatre complex - produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, November 2006 - adaptation courtesy of the Fitzgerald Estate
Awards:
Finalist 2007 PEN Award in Drama
WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ - an anti-Iraq War play adapted from Eliot Weinberger's acclaimed prose-poem - world premiere at the Fountain Theatre for an extended 5 month run 2005/2006 - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2006 - read in 45 cities around the world on March 20, 2006 - Adelaide Fringe Festival, March 2007 - produced as a radio play by BBC 4 Radio, May 11, 2007 - 30-city UK tour beginning April 2007, culminating in June at Arts Theatre, London - produced worldwide - official BBC entry, Best Drama Adaptation, for the 2008 Prix Italia
Awards:
Official BBC entry 2008 Prix Italia;
Nominated for the 2007 Adelaide Drama Critics Award;
Winner Fringe Award, 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival;
Winner Fringe First Award, 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival;
Nominated for Best Adaptation by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle;
Recipient of 3 Back Stage West 2006 Critics' List Honorable Mentions: Adaptation (twice) and Sound Design;
2005 reviewplays.com (Cynthia Citron): Best Director; Runner-Up: Best Ensemble;
2005 Entertainment Today Ticketholder Awards and reviewplays.com, Runners-Up: Top Plays of 2005, Best Ensemble, Best Direction, Best Adaptation, and Best Sound Design.
(An Electronic Published Version of the play is available for $10.00 at http://fountaintheatre.com/buytickets.html.)
TENDER IS THE NIGHT
(original adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel about a psychiatrist and his marriage to a former patient - a thinly veiled autobiography of Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda)
Produced: Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles
Published: Modern American Literature Series, Prestige Books
Awards:
Winner: PEN West Literary Award for Drama;
Winner: 7 Drama-Logue Awards (including Best Production); Winner: Back Stage West "Garland" Award Best Production; Winner: "Best of 7 Productions" L.A. Village View;
Nominated for 2 Theatre L.A. OVATIONS Awards (including Best New Adaptation);
Nominated for 3 Showcase Magazine "Robby" Awards
THE LAST TYCOON
(adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel about Monroe Stahr, 1930s Hollywood producer modelled after Irving Thalberg)
Produced: Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles
Awards:
Winner: 5 Back Stage West/Drama-Logue Awards (including Best Adaptation, Best Direction, Set, Lights, Costumes);
Winner: Beverly Press “Best of 1998”;
Winner: Frontiers Mag “Best of 1998”;
Winner: L.A. Weekly 1998 Production Design Of Year; Entertainment Today: Runner-up Best Adaptation;
Nominated for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle “Ted Schmitt” Award For Original Play
SHE-WHO-IS-MADE-OF-CLAY (one-act)
(the last of the California Yokuts Indians, a berdache, performs the Rites of the Dead for his/her people)
Produced: Rites & Reason Theatre, Brown University
Workshopped: Cleveland Public Theatre
Published: Alabama Literary Review
Published: Black Hat Press
Published: American Writing: A Magazine
Broadcast: WFBH-FM, Indiana, 2002
Broadcast: WBAI-FM, NY, 2000
Awards:
Winner: 2nd Place, 2001 Mind's Ear Audio Play Competition
Winner: George Houston Bass Award
Winner: Cleveland Public Theatre New Works Festival
Winner: 2004 Shenandoah Top Ten International Plays
THE BEETHOVENS (with Fred Kurth)
(the true story of Beethoven's sexual obsession with his sister-in-law, Johanna van Beethoven, and how it destroyed his family and influenced the genius of his third period)
Produced: Dynarski Theatre, Los Angeles
Awards:
Winner: 2 Drama-Logue Awards (including Original Writing); Nominated: PEN West Literary Award for Drama
VIVIAN ON THE WHITE WALL (one-act)
(a frightening Vision gives Clay the greatest gift of all... the gift of life)
Awards:
Finalist: 2001 Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville
PINK SKIN (one-act)
(Is suicide an act of bravery or weakness? Is that final scream one of despair or the whirr of hummingbird wings?)
Produced: Bloomington Playwrights Project, Indiana (April 2004) Produced: thesideproject, Chicago, July, 2005
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
(original adaptation)
Produced: One Act Theatre Company, San Francisco
ACT OF BETRAYAL
(America's greatest Hero becomes its greatest Traitor; the true story of Benedict Arnold)
Awards:
Honorable Mention: 2002 Writer's Digest Writing Competition;
Semi-Finalist: 2001 InterAct Theatre’s Showcase of New Plays;
Staged Reading: Blue Heron Theatre, New York, 1999;
Semi-Finalist: 1999 Northwest Regional New Plays Conference
SESSIONS WITH A DEAD POET - inspired by Dr. Frederick Kurth's book, "Howling with Sakutaro", about the father of modern Japanese poetry, Hagiwara Sakutaro
Awards:
Honorable Mention, 2005 Writer's Digest Competition
MAN FOR MAN
(inspired by Leonard Michaels' acclaimed novel, "The Men's Club")
(A group of men try to create a "Men's Club," a meeting place for solace and understanding, but it turns comically absurd, sad and destructive. After all, men will be men.)
LOVE ETERNAL (one-act)
(the forbidden love story of Tristan and Iseult)
Awards:
Finalist: West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest
VOICE (with Fred Kurth)
(a visitation from a trash-talking Brooklyn "voice" and sex in a pulpit, all combine to help a wife re-define her identity)
Awards:
Honorable Mention, 2002 Writer’s Digest Competition
BEETLEJUICE'S GRAVEYARD REVUE ("MONSTER REVUE") (with Peter Giordano)
Produced: Universal Studios Hollywood
DARLING, WENDY (commission, new Peter Pan musical)
BETRAYED
(one-act version of Benedict Arnold story)
CRY OF THE GIRAFFE (one-act)
(a man's obsession with a teenage girl leads to death)
Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: A Modern Version for America - (current project, scheduled for 2008) - a new translation/adaptation
A NOBLE PEACE (current project) - about Noble Laureate, Andrei Sakharov
