PLAYWRIGHT:
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THE GREAT GATSBY - www.TheGreatGatsbyPlay.com - published by Dramatists Play Service - it is the only adaptation granted exclusive
rights and authorized by the Fitzgerald Estate - it was selected as the inaugural production for the
Guthrie Theater's new theatre complex and subsequently has been produced at numerous theatres
and schools across America and around the world - more information about past, current, and upcoming productions can be found
at www.TheGreatGatsbyPlay.com
Awards:
Finalist 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
- 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 April - May 2007, culminating
in June at Arts Theatre, London - produced worldwide - official BBC entry, Best Drama Adaptation, for the 2008 Prix ItaliaAward
- official BBC entry Prix Italia.
Awards:
Winner: Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival;
Winner: Fringe
Award, Adelaide Fringe Festival;
Nominated for the Adelaide Drama Critics Award;
Nominated for Best
Adaptation by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle;
Recipient of 3 Back Stage West Critics' List Honorable Mentions:
Adaptation (twice) and Sound Design;
Reviewplays.com: Best Director; Runner-Up: Best Ensemble;
Entertainment
Today Ticketholder Awards and Reviewplays.com, Runners-Up: Top Plays of 2005, Best Ensemble, Best Direction, Best Adaptation, and Best Sound Design.
THE LAST TYCOON - published
by Dramatists Play Service - (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: L.A.
Weekly 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; Broadcast: WBAI-FM, NY
Awards:
Winner: 2nd Place, Mind's Ear Audio Play Competition
Winner: George Houston Bass Award
Winner: Cleveland
Public Theatre New Works Festival
Winner: 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: 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;
Produced: thesideproject, Chicago
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: Writer's Digest Writing
Competition;
Semi-Finalist: InterAct Theatre’s Showcase of New Plays;
Staged Reading: Blue Heron Theatre,
New York;
Semi-Finalist: 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,
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, 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)
