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. PLAYWRIGHT
Selected Plays
 
 

PLAYS (Selected Performances)

The 2nd Act Problem

Samuel French One-Act Festival, finalist (2006); FirstStage One-Act Contest, honorable mention (2006)

Staged readings:  New Playwrights Series (NJ) (2005);  Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company (2005); Early drafts, Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004);  (2002)

Leonardo (musical scene)

BMI “Smoker”

Rupert Murdoch Unchained (musical scene)
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004)
Step
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004)
Co-op Murder Mystery (*)

Last Frontier (Edward Albee) Theatre Conference (2003)

Listen to Me THAW 24/7 (2003)
Bemused Samuel French One-Act Festival (2003)
Movie Mad SwampKing (2002)
September 11, 8:48 a.m. Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001)
Couples Counseling

Full-length Version World Premiere: REDCAT Theatre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA (2004);  Staged Reading:  Looking Glass Theatre (NYC, 2001); Selections:  Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) ; O’Connor Theatre Project (Oxford, Miss., 2001) 

Phone Tag

Strawberry One-Act Festival (finalist, 2003); StageWorks (Kinderhook NY, 2002); Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001)

The Stormy Waters, the Long Way Home

    
Samuel French One-Act Festival (2001); Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000); Pulse Ensemble Theatre (2001); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001)
The Magic Box Samuel French One-Act Festival (2000); Actor’s Studio Drama School Theatre (NYC, 2000)
Group Therapy: A Musical Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000)
Pop! Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000)
Tell Me Again You Love Me (**) Pulse Ensemble Theatre (NYC, 1999); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001)
Ask It (***)

Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, 1999); Atlantic Theatre Lab (NYC, 2001)

Street of Dreams 42nd Street Collective (NYC, 1996)
The Shattered Glass 42nd Street Collective  (staged reading, 1997)
What Are You Working on Now? O’Connor Theatre Project (2001)
Leaping Into Marvelous Producer’s Club (NYC, 2000)
Tending to Dolly Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001)
When Mom Joined an Ashram

Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001)

Naked Ambitions Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001)

* Full-length play
** Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest Award
*** Winner, Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition

TRAINING
California Institute of the Arts (BFA) Musical composition
New York University (MA) Journalism
Actor’s Studio, New School University (MFA) Playwrighting
Playwrighting studies with Curt Dempster, Laura-Maria Censabella, Stuart Spencer, Shirley Lauro, Neal Bell, John Augustine, Romulus Linney, Bruce Whitacre

AFFILIATIONS
Librettist, BMI Lehman-Engel Music Theatre Workshop
Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Workshop
Dramatists Guild
CityLab, led by the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Curt Dempster (1999-2005)
National Writer’s Union

 
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