THEATER BIO

I’ve written for theater, film, radio, opera and musical theater,
mime, street theater, and dance-theater.

PRODUCTIONS

Yale Rep                                           
Victory Gardens
Yale Cabaret   
New York Fringe Festival
Theater Center Philadelphia  
New Jersey Stageworks
Magic Bride        
Tyson Studio Theatre
The Complex                          
21St Theatre Company

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Sundance Playwrights Lab - The Hiroshima Daughter              
Asian Theater Workshop, Mark Taper Forum - The Hiroshima Daughter
Ashland New Plays Festival - Luke’s Dad, Reckoning Angel
A.S.K. Composer–Librettist Studio

Interact Theatre Company                                          
NAACP Theatre Festival
Yale Cabaret Hollywood                                                           
Towne Street Theatre
Long Beach Studio Theatre                                                        
Ojai Theatre
Capital Fringe Festival                                                                 
Moving Arts
Interact Theatre Company

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

The Hiroshima Daughter
One Good Tree 
Sleeping With the Dead
Colors at Sunset
A God By Another Name

Olympic Notions & Supply
Luke's Dad
Reckoning Angel
A Greenhouse Determination
Symphony Pastorale

ONE ACT PLAYS

Playing with Matches
A Day At The Museum
Social Science
Ye Olde Miracle Play of the Nativity
Morning Tea

Home Movies
Solo
Session
Four Straight Women Watching Gay Porn

OPERA/MUSICAL THEATER/DANCE THEATER

Crazy Nora - opera libretto, a (excerpts broadcast on public television WHYY).based on radio drama The Story of Crazy Nora (wrote and directed)

Dramaturg - opera For Whom the Bell Tolls, based on Hemingway novel, scheduled for production in Brasília in February 2026. Directed libretto reading, National Opera Center

Grab the Sun!- book for original musical

Playwright in Residence, Danceteller - collaborated on three dance theater performance works including Before Forever, performed 150 times nationally. People’s Friendship Theatre of Moscow sponsored a Russian-American adaptation of Before Forever, which toured Russia and Lithuania.

MEMBERSHIPS, HONORS

Member, Dramatists Guild                                                          
Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowship      
Yaddo Arts Residency                                          
Founding member, Alliance of Los Angeles  Playwrights (ALAP)   
Audience Favorite, Towne Street Theatre - Social Science  
Two L.A. Dramalogue Awards - Symphony Pastorale, Home Movies
Shortlisted, HighTide Festival Theatre - Colors at Sunset
Semi-finalist, National Playwrights Conference - One Good Tree                                               

PRODUCING

Director, writer, Patchwork Players, Weathervane Theatre – summer stock children’s theater
Writer, Manager, The Latest Dish – agitprop theater troupe performing at AIDS marches and demonstrations
Producer, L.A.'92 — Three Plays/Three Voices, day-long theatrical reflection on 10th anniversary on LA Riots, including reading of my play Olympic Notions & Supply
Producing Director, Yale Cabaret Hollywood – productions including site-specific Baal, gender-swap Taming of the Shrew, and the punk rock musical rocksong (also directed).

TEACHING

Nantucket Writers Workshop – playwriting
Philadelphia Theatre Company – introductory and intermediate playwriting
Vineland High School South, New Jersey – high school playwriting program                      
Ashland High School – student workshop
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena – substitute instructor, “Directing Actors” class, Film Program
Yale Alumni Service Corps – playwriting (China), theater games (Ghana), theater games, storytelling with sock puppets (India)                      
Up ‘Ere Productions, UK – mentored students working on monologue plays
Ringling College of Art and Design – mentored student with capstone project

CURRENT/FUTURE PROJECTS

  • Pilot for streaming comedy-drama set in Jackson Heights, Queens, about two second-generation gay men from different ethnic backgrounds fall in love.

  • Horror movie set on Caribbean island about entitled cosplayers on an isolated plantation face the legacy of enslavement and colonialism.

  • Seek composer/lyricist team & co-book writer for Grab the Sun!, a resetting of Lyistrata in an inner city high school as a backstager. Have initial draft of book.

  • Adapt movie It Happened One Night for stage musical, recasting the story of spoiled heiress thrown in with people seeking a new start in the Depression.

  • Seek co-book writer and composer/lyricist team to create 1001, a fresh musical take on the 1001 Nights, reimagining the story from Scheherazade’s perspective, marrying King Shahryar to save the lives of other women, only to fall in love with the man she hates, discovering his deep hurt of betrayal through her storytelling.

  • The Duchess, a verse adaptation of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, reset in a South American dictatorship.