Writing for the Stage & Screen

After the success of Curse of the Bambino, I wrote a number of plays, including the full-length Riverbank Code, a true story about a team of researchers who "proved" in a Chicago court that Francis Bacon wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare. It was stage read on Beacon Hill and later published by Eldridge Publishing in 2001). I.P.O. was another full-length piece, a comedy which takes place on the last full day of 1999, as we follow a young man who quit a Harvard scholarship to grab his share of the Internet boom. It was presented by the  Quannapowitt Playhouse in February, 2011.

Of my short plays, several were produced at festivals around the country. A few have also been published (I have several $0.02 royalty checks to prove it.) Anyway, here are my personal faves, in PDF. I offer them to any theatrical company, without compensation. Just let me know if/when you are presenting it. Thanks.

This first one was presented at the Hovey Players in Waltham. I remember watching two exceptional actors say my words - which I thought maybe were funny - and make them bust-out-loud FUNNY. It was published in 2004 by Brooklyn Publishing.

The set for this next piece could not be simpler.... perfect for black box or small theaters. The story centers around Percy, a birthday present on his way to a little girl's party. Percy is happy. Life couldn't be better. But into the mailbox falls Raymond, a PAYMENT OVERDUE notice, who doesn't share Percy's rosy view of the world - or the postal system. 

Eugene O'Neill once suggested that man should experience a resurrection a week.  How do                         you suppose mankind would react?  This short play presents one possibility. Resurrection premiered simultaneously in 2005 at both the brown couch theatre in Chicago and Studio Rep of Rhode Island, and was presented as part of the 2006 Boston Theater Marathon, and the Curan Theater of New York City's Notes from the Underground one-act festival.

"Where do you get your ideas?" is a question I am sometimes asked. Arnold Nawrocki is Dead popped into my head as I read the obituary of the man who perfected the process of individually wrapping cheese slices. It  premiered at the 2004 Boston Theater Marathon. 

I am not a football fan, but having a cousin from Pittsburgh I am well familiar with the subject of the last piece I am going to share. In Immaculate Reception, Pittsburgh natives Harry and Frank return to their boyhood homes after their father's funeral.  There, they learn that the secret their deceased mother had been hiding from their father - and them.