My relationship with the crafted word has been a long and varied one. Back in the early, pre-college Jurassic era, I spent a fair amount of time writing poetry and short stories. In college I fell in love with the guitar, and the poetry morphed into lyrics for the music I was composing, and this remained my main creative outlet for quite some time. I still wrote prose, but it was mostly technical stuff – engineering reports, then a thesis in nuclear physics, scholarly journal articles, and all manner of similar sedatives. In my late thirties I turned back to stories, and even wrote a full-length novel, but it was still another good decade before I turned to writing scripts.
My first creations for stage were one-act plays written for young audiences, pieces that we used to perform at libraries and children’s hospitals. If you have never written for young kids, you should. It is an amazingly rewarding experience. After a few years of this, I wrote both The Devil Exclusive (or more appropriately, it wrote itself through me without regard to how I felt about the process) and Another Door Opens. In 2016, Another Door Opens reached the final round of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, and suddenly I started to realize that I might be okay at this playwriting thing. After that I started pouring myself into the art.
In 2017 I wrote 21 new pieces, including three full-length plays (Empires, No Laughing Matter, and Mortal of Grace). 2018 was a slow year on account of my being out on a ship for a third of it, but 2019 and beyond more than made up for that.
To date I now have about 175 scripts (not all are posted on this website, in case like I would you wondered why the numbers don’t match up). While most are still for the stage, an increasing number are being created for screen and radio. I am very proud to share that my plays have now had over two hundred readings and productions across North America, Europe, and Asia. The majority of these (about 150 at the time of this writing) are the result of winning festivals and competitions, although in 2021 the educational venue (i.e. teachers using my scripts in the classroom) has been gaining momentum as well.
If you are interested in producing any of my scripts, please reach out and we’ll make that happen. That is, after all, the whole point of writing them…