ONE ACT PLAYS |
Lovebites
Productions:
Louisville Ten Minute Play Contest, Oregon Public Broadcasting benefit, Artist Rep, OR, Literuption, Conant Booksellers, Oasis Club, Artquake at the Schnitzer Theatre,Terra Nova Theatre, OR,Stage One, LA.
A popular comedy about a woman who is in such despair over the men she meets, she falls in love with her dog. They both sacrifice everything to be together only to find out they have bigger problems that have nothing to do with species.
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Slappy Slamdunk
Productions:
Artist Repertory Theatre, OR.
The drama of a little boy and the loser father who abandons his son by leaving him with a famous basketball player he meets in the dining car of a train.
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Mata Hari, Sketch of a Courtesan Monologue
Productions:
Portland Civic Theatre, Oregon Public Broadcasting Gala, Third Tuesday Theatre, Conant and Conant, OR.
Meet a charmer, a courtesan, the dancer that introduced the strip tease to Europe through her exotic and sensual dance. But was she the international spy that everyone said she was?
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Little Favors
Productions:
First Stage, LA, Nat Horne Theatre, NY, OffOffBroadway, Studio X, Ashland.
A comedic drama about the horrors of friendship between two professional high profile Manhattan women.
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He/She/It
Productions:
Louisville Ten minute Play contest New Rose Theatre, Literuption.
Published: Meriweather Press
A comedy about a husband who wants another woman to have their baby and the wife who doesn’t want a baby or the other woman in their lives.
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The Woman Who walked with a List
Productions:
Storefront Best of Fest & Harbor Hall, OR, Studio X, Ashland, Portland State U Theatre.
A comedy of a three generations of unusual women who meet on the grandmother’s grave to work out the absurdities of love and hate in their lives.
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Anne Frank Revisited - Oregon Children’s Theatre
Productions:
Portland Center Stage, On tour to 70 schools in Oregon.
A new version of Peter and Anne in the attic and what it means to be an adolescent in time of war.
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The Ghost of Rhody Al
Productions:
Artist Repertory Theatre OR, Literuption, Portland Art Museum.
A comedy monologue about Al, an anti-social computer genius who falls in love with Rhododendrons, builds a beautiful garden, and finally opens up to a love with a woman that turns so destructive he retires to his favorite Big White Bertha Rhody.
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TWO ACT PLAYS |
Daughters of Eden
Productions:
Columbia Theatre, Red Octopus Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Storefront Theatre.
Awards: Stanley Award, NY.
A drama of epic proportions based on a true story. An itinerant preacher came to a sleepy Oregon farming town town in 1903. He preached a convincing sermon to return to nature. The wife of the town minister fell in love with him.The women followed him into a holy-roller nudist cult. The conflict pitted husband against wife, daughter against son. The men eventually destroy him but they never knew if the children born after the preacher’s arrival were his or theirs. The mark the preacher left is indelible to this day.
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Breaching or The Man Who was a Whale
Productions:
Theatre Paris, OR., Nat Horne Theater, NY, OFFOFFBROADWAY.
A comedy about a marine biologist who has to save the world by becoming a whale. He has discovered the whales’ secret biological imperative toward peaceful co-existence. The answer is chemical and if he can retrieve a specimen he may save his own species. But he only has one day before humans are completely destroyed.
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The Commissar is Coming
Productions:
Cygnet Productions.
A comedy about pollution in a small Russian town that suffers in excess of what we all suffer today. A poisoned and corrupt environment. The village uses bog mud to fertilize their fields but the bog is highly radioactive. Yet they can’t survive without their crops on the poor land. But their survival really depends on the Commissar who determines how polluted they are, how uneatable the food is, and compensates them with a small subsidy so they don’t have to eat the food they grow.
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The Last Seduction of Mata Hari
Productions:
Villa Jacaranda Theatre, Mexico.
Awards: Winner of Oregon Literary Award.
Developed at the Artist Rep Theater, it is a drama on the life of a turn-of-the-century courtesan who introduced the strip tease to Europe through her erotic dance that she learned in Java. She was the toast of Europe until she was arrested and executed for espionage. Whether she was truly innocent or guilty has never been determined.
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OPERA/LIBRETTO |
Mata Hari
Productions:
Premiered at Deep Ellum Opera Co., Dallas, Texas. April, 1995.
Awards: Award for Production
Set against the backdrop of World War I, this is the tale of an alluring spy who introduced the striptease to Europe and was later executed.
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