THE LAST WIDE OPEN @ Circle Theatre, Ft Worth
My musical play THE LAST WIDE OPEN premieres at Circle Theatre in Ft. Worth, Texas. September 2021.
SIX CAR PILEUP for Weston Playhouse
Writers received a postcard of a rural American image and were asked to respond with a play that fits within the card’s 4x6” structure....
MAYTAG VIRGIN @ Gulfshore Playhouse
My play Maytag Virgin at Gulfshore Playhouse brings live theater back to Naples, Florida! At the time of this production, our show is the...
On Human Dignity in the Theater World
What if -- and I'm just spitballing here -- we all got together and agreed to add a little dignity to that rickety old hamster wheel of...
The Work of Love
We are capable of rich and life-altering intimacy--however fleeting--with the oldest of comrades, and the newest of acquaintances. We can...
You can be still for a second...
You can exhale and close the heavy door behind you, wrestle it shut if you have to. You can lean against the inside of it and even click...
Walter: The Room
When Anna had lived with Walter for about a month, he decided to surprise her after school one day. He watched her board the bus and then...
Walter: The Liquitex
It occurred to Walter, that if he would simply write his house number on the side of his trash can -- along with a few choice expletives...
Brunch at the High Table
The morning light is just lovely streaming through the enormous windows here. The veteran all of 15 minutes, I tell them that the seat...
Walter: The Wave
Walter stood at the window of his unfurnished living room and watched his daughter saunter off toward the grouping on the corner. Each...
Walter: The Crying
Walter was a man of science. He knew how to repair space modules and calculate the speeds of solar winds. But terrestrial conundrums were...
I believed that you would tell me...
I believed that you would tell me when we'd had enough. I don't know why I thought I'd never get to it on my own. I think there must have...
Meet You At The Place
I want to rewind to the part before our hearts shattered all to hell and we knew any better or anything at all and just sit here at the...
Passing Milfin, Passing Loxley
Passing Milfin, passing Loxley. You say don’t you remember coming down here, two lanes and those azaleas, demented, big as houses,...
Second Date and the Squid
I was sitting at a little table at Maiwand Kabob in Columbia the other day. In walks this fetching red head and she’s looking around for...
