SELECTED PRODUCTIONS, AWARDS, and DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, WORKSHOPS, FELLOWSHIPS
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Dramatic Writing, 2019-2021
Theatre@First Firstworks Workshop/Reading, Boston
Covenant, 2021
New American Voices Festival Workshop/Reading at Landing Theatre, Houston
Queen of Sad Mischance, Festival winner, July 2020
Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected workshop
Queen of Sad Mischance, Clauder Competition Gold Prize, May 2019
Great Plains Theater Conference PlayLab Playwright
Queen of Sad Mischance, May 2019
New Repertory Theatre Next Voices Fellowship
Queen of Sad Mischance, August 2016-June 2017
Harriett Lake Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theater
The Castle of Otranto, February 2008
New American Playwrights Project, Utah Shakespearean Festival
Breaking the Shakespeare Code, August 2007
Harriett Lake Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Codes/Breaking the Shakespeare Code, Jan-Feb 2005 and February 2006
SELECTED PRODUCTION and AWARD HISTORY
Queen of Sad Mischance (full-length drama)
Gloucester Stage Company, NeverDark Series, 2021
Winner, New American Voices Festival, streamed, TX 2020
Polaris North, NYC, streamed reading, 2020
Gold Prize, Clauder Competition, Portland Stage, workshop, 2019
Official selection, Great Plays Theatre Conference, reading, NE, 2019
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, 2018
Finalist, The Lark Playwrights’ Week, 2018
Finalist, Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival, Dallas, 2018
Official selection, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, workshop, 2018
Boston Podcast Players, 2018
The Depot, Connecticut, reading, 2018
Page-to-Stage Theatre, Virginia, reading, 2018
Massasoit New Play Festival, workshop reading, 2018
New Repertory Theatre, reading, 2017
First Place/Pestalozzi Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA 2017
Firehouse Center for the Arts, workshop reading, Newburyport, MA 2017
Covenant (full-length drama)
Theatre@First, FirstWorks, development workshop and reading, MA 2021
Noir Hamlet (full-length comedy)
Pegasus Theatre, TX, 2021
Advice to the Players, live and streamed, NH, 2020
Yasplz LLC, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, 2019
Nominee, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script, Boston, 2019
EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater, 2018
Boston Globe Critics’ Pick, 2018
Centastage, Boston Center for the Arts, premiere, 2018
Urban Stages, NYC, reading, 2018
The Congregation, NYC, reading, 2018
Actors Studio of Newburyport, reading, 2017
Breaking the Shakespeare Code (full-length, seriocomic)
Back Porch Theater, live streamed, CA, 2021
Tiny_Theatre, streaming reading, FL, 2020
MMAS Black Box, filmed and streamed, MA 2020
Playwrights Downtown/440 Studios, Hey Jonte! Productions, NYC, 2019
Shetler Studios, NYC, readings (feat. J. Robert Spencer; dir. Thomas Caruso), 2016
Clockwise Theatre, Illinois, 2015
Nominee, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script, Boston, 2014
NY International Fringe, Hey Jonte! Productions, NYC, 2014
Greenhouse Theatre, Hey Jonte! Productions, Chicago, 2014
Vagabond Theatre Group, Boston, 2014
Good Company Theater, Ogden, UT, 2013
Wasatch Theater, Salt Lake City, 2008
New American Playwrights Project, staged reading, 2007
Nominee, Weissberger Award, Williamstown Theater Festival, 2006
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, reading 2005, workshop production, 2006
What’s Below (working title, short audio drama)
Lyric Stage Company of Boston (commission), MA, 2021
Closing Doors (short drama)
ANDTheatre, NYC, filmed and streamed, 2021
JL Smith Playwriting Contest Winner, PA, streamed, 2021
City Theatre National Short Playwriting Finalist, streamed reading, FL, 2020
Samuel French OOB Festival, NYC 2020
Barrington Stage Company 10x10 Festival, MA 2020
The Actors Studio, NYC 2020
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2020
Little Fish Pick of the Vine, CA, 2020
Best Play Award, North Park Playwrights Festival, CA 2019
The Denizens Theater Company, NYC 2019
Orange Players, CT 2019
Boston Theater Marathon, 2019
Lois Returns (10-minute comic monologue)
Urban Stages (commission), NYC, streaming, 2021
Back Porch Theater, CA, streaming, 2021
Talking Horse Productions, streaming MO, 2021
The Dobler Effect (short comedy)
Lakeshore Players, MN, 2021
Centastage/Boston Theater Marathon, streaming, 2020
A Monogamy of Swans (short comedy)
Triangle Rainbow Festival, NYC, streaming, 2021
Almost Adults Theatre, NM, streaming, 2020
Vokes Players, MA, streaming, 2020
Eastbound Theatre, CT 2020
Cold Comfort Theatre’s Belfast Pride Plays, Belfast, ME, 2019
Arlington Friends of Drama ArlingTEN Festival, 2019
Lee Strasberg Institute, NYC, 2018
Gary Garrison Festival, 2017
Seoul Players Festival, Korea, 2017
AlphaNYC, Women’s Eight-udes, 2017
Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival, 2017
Hovey Players Summer Shorts, MA, 2016
Bad Habit Productions, Boston Theater Marathon, 2016
[spectrum] lgbt festival of new plays, Colorado, 2016
A Dateless Bargain with Engrossing Death (short comedy)
Barrington Stage 10x10 Festival, filmed and streamed, MA, 2021
Massasoit New Play Festival, MA, 2019
Evening of Shorts, Hey Jonte! Productions, Lincoln Center, NY, 2015
City Theatre of Independence, Kansas City, 2015
The Maltese Walter (short comedy)
The Greenhouse Ensemble, streaming, NYC 2021
Raven Short Play Festival, CA 2020
Shorts @ The Canal, London, 2018
Funhouse III, Seattle, 2018
Short + Sweet Festivals: Delhi, Queensland, Dubai, Hollywood, 2015-2016
Best of BARE Essentials, London’s West End, 2016
Greenhouse Ensemble, NYC 2016
First Place Winner, Seoul Players Festival, 2015
Samuel French OOB Festival, 2015
Theater Workshop of Owensboro Summer Shorts, KY, 2015
Open Tent Theater, NYC 2015
Acme Theater, MA 2015
Little Fish Theatre Pick of the Vine, CA, 2015
First Place Winner, Rover Dramawerks, TX, 2014
Heidemann Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2014
Winner, Longwood University 0-60 Competition, VA 2014
Orange Tea Theatre, Amsterdam, 2014
Spokane Stage Left/Hit and Run Festival VII, 2014
F.A.C.T. Words and Wine, NYC, 2014
Argos Productions, Boston Theater Marathon, 2014
Snowdance Comedy Festival, Racine WI, 2014
Unpacking (short drama)
Lyric Stage Company of Boston/Boston Theater Marathon, streaming, 2021
No Regrets (short comedy)
Left Edge Theatre, CA, streaming, 2021
Theatre Three, NY, streaming, 2020
Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2019
Thank You, Two (short comedy)
Crossroads Theatre Shed, Israel/UK, streaming, 2021
The Playhouse at White Lake, MI, 2020
Heralds of Hope Theater, MD, 2020
Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2019
Amphitrite and Poseidon, (short movement piece with text)
Third Citizen Theatre Company Digital Dionysia, streaming, 2020 and 2021
The Plumbing Museum (commission), 2019
The Noir Before Christmas (short comedy)
Magnetic Theatre, NC, streaming, 2020
Moving Parts, Paris, streaming reading, 2020
Away in a Manger (short comedy)
Tiny_Theatre, FL, streaming reading, 2020
Moving Parts, Paris, streaming reading, 2020
Quannapowitt Playeers, MA, 2013 and 2018
Hovey Players, MA, 2013
Friday Drinks (one-act drama)
Tiny_Theatre, FL, streaming reading, 2020
Moving Parts, Paris, streaming reading, 2020
culture*park Marathon, 2019
Rising Sophomore (short drama for zoom)
Theatre Three, NY, streaming 2020
Taphouse Theatre Shelter-in-Place Festival, TX, sreaming, 2020
QuaranStream Theatre Festival, IL, streaming, 2020
The Long Happy Christmas Journey to Wellesley and Weston (one-act comic drama after Wilder)
Possibilities Theatre Company, IL, streaming, 2020
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2015
Concordance (full-length, seriocomic)
The Depot, reading, CT, 2019
American Play Reading Series, SoBe Arts, Miami, 2014
Semifinalist, PlayPenn, 2013
Vagabond Theatre Group, reading, Boston, 2013
Munroe Arts Center, reading, MA, 2013
National Finalist, New American Playwrights Project, 2013
Orfeo Group, reading, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2012
Noise (experimental short)
WOW Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, CA 2019
Oracle Performing Arts, CA, 2018
Generic Theatre, Portsmouth, NH, 1993
Slippery Rock University, 1991
Shelter West/Grand Mal Theatre, NYC, 1986
Easter at the Entrée Gold (one-act, drama)
New World Theater, NH, 2018
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, 2016
Winner, Actors Rep of Vermont Nor’Eastern Playwriting Contest, 2015
Winner, Nantucket Short Play Contest, 2014
Playwrights’ Round Table, John Goring Memorial One-Act Fest, Orlando, 2014
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2011
Family Planning (short drama)
The #metoo Plays Off-B’way Festival, The Alternative Theater, NYC 2018
Fears & Phobias, Ixion Theater Ensemble, MI, 2018
Necktie (monologue play)
1:One Theatre Festival, Constellation Productions, Dubai, 2018
Gateways Spring 2018, Redgates Theatre, London, 2018
Winner, Extremely Short New Play Festival, Ottawa, 2016
FlashFest, Playsmiths, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2014
It’s the Jews (short serio-comedy)
Winner, Actors Theatre Playhouse Short Play Contest, NH, 2017
Seoul Players, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
Playwrights’ Round Table, Orlando, 2016
Evening of Shorts, Hey Jonte! Productions, Lincoln Center, NY, 2015
Summer Shorts Festival, City Theater, Miami, 2014
Play-of-the-Month, Boston Play Café, 2013
First Place, 8-Minute Madness Festival, NYC 2011
First Place, KNOCK International Short Play Competition, WA, 2010
Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Theater Marathon, 2010
Genuine Cashmere (short seriocomedy)
Odenbear Theatre, NM, 2016
Impact 15 International Theatre Festival, Ontario, 2016
Asphalt Jungle Shorts II, Kitchener, Ontario, 2016
Cary Playwrights Forum LITE Festival, NC, 2015
Moving On (short drama)
Community College of Rhode Island, 2016
Salem Theater, Boston Theater Marathon, 2015
Till That Lucky Day (one-act, seriocomic)
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2013
The Castle of Otranto (full-length, adaptation of gothic novel)
Bluffton University, 2011
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, workshop production, 2008
Isaac in Flux aka The Secret Dream of Professor Isaac (one-act, seriocomic)
Circle Repertory Company, NYC, 1988
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, NYC, 1986
Shelter West, NYC, 1986
Quaigh Theater New Year’s Eve Marathon, NYC, 1986
SCRIPTS PUBLISHED:
Easter at the Entrée Gold (one-act drama)
Best American Short Plays 2015-2016, Applause Books
New England New Play Anthology, StageSource
It's Academic, New World Theatre
Closing Doors (short drama)
Best Ten-Minute Plays 2020, Smith & Kraus
The Maltese Walter (short comedy)
Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, Smith & Kraus
Noise (short experimental work)
Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance, Smith & Kraus
Rising Sophomore (short drama for streaming) YouthPLAYS 2020
The Comedy of Errors (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2012
As You Like It (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2006
Twelfth Night (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2006
Much Ado About Nothing (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2004
Scripting Original Plays with Students: The Workshop Process
Series of articles about devised theater in Spotlight newsletter for educators, 2006
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS (devised with students at Weston High School)
Ether Day, full-length for 22 players
Commissioned by the Anesthesia History Society
Premiered at the Ninth International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia, 2017
Painting Provenance, one-act for 18 players
Massachusetts High School Drama Guild State Champion, 2008
Escaping Alcestis, one-act for 18 players
Massachusetts High School Drama Guild State Champion, 2005
TEACHING
Affiliate Faculty in Theatre Education, Emerson College, 2020-present
Playwriting, Adult Acting, and Shakespeare, Hanover Theatre Conservatory, MA, Jan 2019-present
Director of Drama, Weston High School, September 1987-June 2018 (retired)
Associate Faculty, National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare/Teacher Training Intensive,
Shakespeare & Company/NEH, 1991
Teacher, Huntington Theatre Company Young Critics Institute, 1989
EDUCATION
Playwriting “Boot Camp” with Paula Vogel, 2018
Graduate study in Self-scripting and Solo Performance (Kathleen Donohue), Emerson College, 2003
Playwriting workshop (Alan Brody), M.I.T., 2001
National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare/Teacher Training Intensive, Shakespeare & Company, 1990
M.A. in Theater/Playwriting (Len Berkman, Judith Thompson, Karen Malpede), Smith College, 1986
B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Highest Honors in English and in Mathematics,
Clark University, 1981
Exchange student studying Literature, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, History, Philosophy,
University of Sussex, England, 1979-80
MEMBERSHIPS
Dramatists Guild (Eastern New England Ambassador)
StageSource/New England New Play Alliance
Centastage Writers’ Group
Writers-at-Play
Far and Wide Playwrights Group
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, WORKSHOPS, FELLOWSHIPS
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Dramatic Writing, 2019-2021
Theatre@First Firstworks Workshop/Reading, Boston
Covenant, 2021
New American Voices Festival Workshop/Reading at Landing Theatre, Houston
Queen of Sad Mischance, Festival winner, July 2020
Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected workshop
Queen of Sad Mischance, Clauder Competition Gold Prize, May 2019
Great Plains Theater Conference PlayLab Playwright
Queen of Sad Mischance, May 2019
New Repertory Theatre Next Voices Fellowship
Queen of Sad Mischance, August 2016-June 2017
Harriett Lake Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theater
The Castle of Otranto, February 2008
New American Playwrights Project, Utah Shakespearean Festival
Breaking the Shakespeare Code, August 2007
Harriett Lake Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Codes/Breaking the Shakespeare Code, Jan-Feb 2005 and February 2006
SELECTED PRODUCTION and AWARD HISTORY
Queen of Sad Mischance (full-length drama)
Gloucester Stage Company, NeverDark Series, 2021
Winner, New American Voices Festival, streamed, TX 2020
Polaris North, NYC, streamed reading, 2020
Gold Prize, Clauder Competition, Portland Stage, workshop, 2019
Official selection, Great Plays Theatre Conference, reading, NE, 2019
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, 2018
Finalist, The Lark Playwrights’ Week, 2018
Finalist, Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival, Dallas, 2018
Official selection, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, workshop, 2018
Boston Podcast Players, 2018
The Depot, Connecticut, reading, 2018
Page-to-Stage Theatre, Virginia, reading, 2018
Massasoit New Play Festival, workshop reading, 2018
New Repertory Theatre, reading, 2017
First Place/Pestalozzi Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA 2017
Firehouse Center for the Arts, workshop reading, Newburyport, MA 2017
Covenant (full-length drama)
Theatre@First, FirstWorks, development workshop and reading, MA 2021
Noir Hamlet (full-length comedy)
Pegasus Theatre, TX, 2021
Advice to the Players, live and streamed, NH, 2020
Yasplz LLC, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, 2019
Nominee, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script, Boston, 2019
EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater, 2018
Boston Globe Critics’ Pick, 2018
Centastage, Boston Center for the Arts, premiere, 2018
Urban Stages, NYC, reading, 2018
The Congregation, NYC, reading, 2018
Actors Studio of Newburyport, reading, 2017
Breaking the Shakespeare Code (full-length, seriocomic)
Back Porch Theater, live streamed, CA, 2021
Tiny_Theatre, streaming reading, FL, 2020
MMAS Black Box, filmed and streamed, MA 2020
Playwrights Downtown/440 Studios, Hey Jonte! Productions, NYC, 2019
Shetler Studios, NYC, readings (feat. J. Robert Spencer; dir. Thomas Caruso), 2016
Clockwise Theatre, Illinois, 2015
Nominee, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script, Boston, 2014
NY International Fringe, Hey Jonte! Productions, NYC, 2014
Greenhouse Theatre, Hey Jonte! Productions, Chicago, 2014
Vagabond Theatre Group, Boston, 2014
Good Company Theater, Ogden, UT, 2013
Wasatch Theater, Salt Lake City, 2008
New American Playwrights Project, staged reading, 2007
Nominee, Weissberger Award, Williamstown Theater Festival, 2006
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, reading 2005, workshop production, 2006
What’s Below (working title, short audio drama)
Lyric Stage Company of Boston (commission), MA, 2021
Closing Doors (short drama)
ANDTheatre, NYC, filmed and streamed, 2021
JL Smith Playwriting Contest Winner, PA, streamed, 2021
City Theatre National Short Playwriting Finalist, streamed reading, FL, 2020
Samuel French OOB Festival, NYC 2020
Barrington Stage Company 10x10 Festival, MA 2020
The Actors Studio, NYC 2020
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2020
Little Fish Pick of the Vine, CA, 2020
Best Play Award, North Park Playwrights Festival, CA 2019
The Denizens Theater Company, NYC 2019
Orange Players, CT 2019
Boston Theater Marathon, 2019
Lois Returns (10-minute comic monologue)
Urban Stages (commission), NYC, streaming, 2021
Back Porch Theater, CA, streaming, 2021
Talking Horse Productions, streaming MO, 2021
The Dobler Effect (short comedy)
Lakeshore Players, MN, 2021
Centastage/Boston Theater Marathon, streaming, 2020
A Monogamy of Swans (short comedy)
Triangle Rainbow Festival, NYC, streaming, 2021
Almost Adults Theatre, NM, streaming, 2020
Vokes Players, MA, streaming, 2020
Eastbound Theatre, CT 2020
Cold Comfort Theatre’s Belfast Pride Plays, Belfast, ME, 2019
Arlington Friends of Drama ArlingTEN Festival, 2019
Lee Strasberg Institute, NYC, 2018
Gary Garrison Festival, 2017
Seoul Players Festival, Korea, 2017
AlphaNYC, Women’s Eight-udes, 2017
Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival, 2017
Hovey Players Summer Shorts, MA, 2016
Bad Habit Productions, Boston Theater Marathon, 2016
[spectrum] lgbt festival of new plays, Colorado, 2016
A Dateless Bargain with Engrossing Death (short comedy)
Barrington Stage 10x10 Festival, filmed and streamed, MA, 2021
Massasoit New Play Festival, MA, 2019
Evening of Shorts, Hey Jonte! Productions, Lincoln Center, NY, 2015
City Theatre of Independence, Kansas City, 2015
The Maltese Walter (short comedy)
The Greenhouse Ensemble, streaming, NYC 2021
Raven Short Play Festival, CA 2020
Shorts @ The Canal, London, 2018
Funhouse III, Seattle, 2018
Short + Sweet Festivals: Delhi, Queensland, Dubai, Hollywood, 2015-2016
Best of BARE Essentials, London’s West End, 2016
Greenhouse Ensemble, NYC 2016
First Place Winner, Seoul Players Festival, 2015
Samuel French OOB Festival, 2015
Theater Workshop of Owensboro Summer Shorts, KY, 2015
Open Tent Theater, NYC 2015
Acme Theater, MA 2015
Little Fish Theatre Pick of the Vine, CA, 2015
First Place Winner, Rover Dramawerks, TX, 2014
Heidemann Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2014
Winner, Longwood University 0-60 Competition, VA 2014
Orange Tea Theatre, Amsterdam, 2014
Spokane Stage Left/Hit and Run Festival VII, 2014
F.A.C.T. Words and Wine, NYC, 2014
Argos Productions, Boston Theater Marathon, 2014
Snowdance Comedy Festival, Racine WI, 2014
Unpacking (short drama)
Lyric Stage Company of Boston/Boston Theater Marathon, streaming, 2021
No Regrets (short comedy)
Left Edge Theatre, CA, streaming, 2021
Theatre Three, NY, streaming, 2020
Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2019
Thank You, Two (short comedy)
Crossroads Theatre Shed, Israel/UK, streaming, 2021
The Playhouse at White Lake, MI, 2020
Heralds of Hope Theater, MD, 2020
Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2019
Amphitrite and Poseidon, (short movement piece with text)
Third Citizen Theatre Company Digital Dionysia, streaming, 2020 and 2021
The Plumbing Museum (commission), 2019
The Noir Before Christmas (short comedy)
Magnetic Theatre, NC, streaming, 2020
Moving Parts, Paris, streaming reading, 2020
Away in a Manger (short comedy)
Tiny_Theatre, FL, streaming reading, 2020
Moving Parts, Paris, streaming reading, 2020
Quannapowitt Playeers, MA, 2013 and 2018
Hovey Players, MA, 2013
Friday Drinks (one-act drama)
Tiny_Theatre, FL, streaming reading, 2020
Moving Parts, Paris, streaming reading, 2020
culture*park Marathon, 2019
Rising Sophomore (short drama for zoom)
Theatre Three, NY, streaming 2020
Taphouse Theatre Shelter-in-Place Festival, TX, sreaming, 2020
QuaranStream Theatre Festival, IL, streaming, 2020
The Long Happy Christmas Journey to Wellesley and Weston (one-act comic drama after Wilder)
Possibilities Theatre Company, IL, streaming, 2020
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2015
Concordance (full-length, seriocomic)
The Depot, reading, CT, 2019
American Play Reading Series, SoBe Arts, Miami, 2014
Semifinalist, PlayPenn, 2013
Vagabond Theatre Group, reading, Boston, 2013
Munroe Arts Center, reading, MA, 2013
National Finalist, New American Playwrights Project, 2013
Orfeo Group, reading, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2012
Noise (experimental short)
WOW Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, CA 2019
Oracle Performing Arts, CA, 2018
Generic Theatre, Portsmouth, NH, 1993
Slippery Rock University, 1991
Shelter West/Grand Mal Theatre, NYC, 1986
Easter at the Entrée Gold (one-act, drama)
New World Theater, NH, 2018
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, 2016
Winner, Actors Rep of Vermont Nor’Eastern Playwriting Contest, 2015
Winner, Nantucket Short Play Contest, 2014
Playwrights’ Round Table, John Goring Memorial One-Act Fest, Orlando, 2014
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2011
Family Planning (short drama)
The #metoo Plays Off-B’way Festival, The Alternative Theater, NYC 2018
Fears & Phobias, Ixion Theater Ensemble, MI, 2018
Necktie (monologue play)
1:One Theatre Festival, Constellation Productions, Dubai, 2018
Gateways Spring 2018, Redgates Theatre, London, 2018
Winner, Extremely Short New Play Festival, Ottawa, 2016
FlashFest, Playsmiths, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2014
It’s the Jews (short serio-comedy)
Winner, Actors Theatre Playhouse Short Play Contest, NH, 2017
Seoul Players, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
Playwrights’ Round Table, Orlando, 2016
Evening of Shorts, Hey Jonte! Productions, Lincoln Center, NY, 2015
Summer Shorts Festival, City Theater, Miami, 2014
Play-of-the-Month, Boston Play Café, 2013
First Place, 8-Minute Madness Festival, NYC 2011
First Place, KNOCK International Short Play Competition, WA, 2010
Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Theater Marathon, 2010
Genuine Cashmere (short seriocomedy)
Odenbear Theatre, NM, 2016
Impact 15 International Theatre Festival, Ontario, 2016
Asphalt Jungle Shorts II, Kitchener, Ontario, 2016
Cary Playwrights Forum LITE Festival, NC, 2015
Moving On (short drama)
Community College of Rhode Island, 2016
Salem Theater, Boston Theater Marathon, 2015
Till That Lucky Day (one-act, seriocomic)
First Place/Honegger Prize, Firehouse Center for the Arts Festival, MA, 2013
The Castle of Otranto (full-length, adaptation of gothic novel)
Bluffton University, 2011
Orlando Shakespeare Theater, workshop production, 2008
Isaac in Flux aka The Secret Dream of Professor Isaac (one-act, seriocomic)
Circle Repertory Company, NYC, 1988
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, NYC, 1986
Shelter West, NYC, 1986
Quaigh Theater New Year’s Eve Marathon, NYC, 1986
SCRIPTS PUBLISHED:
Easter at the Entrée Gold (one-act drama)
Best American Short Plays 2015-2016, Applause Books
New England New Play Anthology, StageSource
It's Academic, New World Theatre
Closing Doors (short drama)
Best Ten-Minute Plays 2020, Smith & Kraus
The Maltese Walter (short comedy)
Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, Smith & Kraus
Noise (short experimental work)
Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance, Smith & Kraus
Rising Sophomore (short drama for streaming) YouthPLAYS 2020
The Comedy of Errors (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2012
As You Like It (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2006
Twelfth Night (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2006
Much Ado About Nothing (annotated one-hour Shakespeare adaptation), Theatrefolk, Toronto, 2004
Scripting Original Plays with Students: The Workshop Process
Series of articles about devised theater in Spotlight newsletter for educators, 2006
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS (devised with students at Weston High School)
Ether Day, full-length for 22 players
Commissioned by the Anesthesia History Society
Premiered at the Ninth International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia, 2017
Painting Provenance, one-act for 18 players
Massachusetts High School Drama Guild State Champion, 2008
Escaping Alcestis, one-act for 18 players
Massachusetts High School Drama Guild State Champion, 2005
TEACHING
Affiliate Faculty in Theatre Education, Emerson College, 2020-present
Playwriting, Adult Acting, and Shakespeare, Hanover Theatre Conservatory, MA, Jan 2019-present
Director of Drama, Weston High School, September 1987-June 2018 (retired)
Associate Faculty, National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare/Teacher Training Intensive,
Shakespeare & Company/NEH, 1991
Teacher, Huntington Theatre Company Young Critics Institute, 1989
EDUCATION
Playwriting “Boot Camp” with Paula Vogel, 2018
Graduate study in Self-scripting and Solo Performance (Kathleen Donohue), Emerson College, 2003
Playwriting workshop (Alan Brody), M.I.T., 2001
National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare/Teacher Training Intensive, Shakespeare & Company, 1990
M.A. in Theater/Playwriting (Len Berkman, Judith Thompson, Karen Malpede), Smith College, 1986
B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Highest Honors in English and in Mathematics,
Clark University, 1981
Exchange student studying Literature, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, History, Philosophy,
University of Sussex, England, 1979-80
MEMBERSHIPS
Dramatists Guild (Eastern New England Ambassador)
StageSource/New England New Play Alliance
Centastage Writers’ Group
Writers-at-Play
Far and Wide Playwrights Group