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Success!

My 10-minute play “A Point of Honor” has officially been named one of 10 winners in the Lakeshore Players Theatre‘s 8th Annual contest! It and the other winners will be fully-staged at their festival...

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Feeling like a short order cook of scripting – order UP!

Just made it under the wire, but I get to credit myself the completion of the first draft of a major project for the month of May. As I noted back in this post, I have first drafts of major projects to...

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Blah blah large…blah blah multitudes

Today I finished the first draft of a new one-act play. It’s called The Rothko and it’s about a man who kicks a hole in a $30 million painting and can’t explain why he did it. This upsets people; and I...

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These would seem contradictory

Two happy announcements – first, I’ve been offered membership in the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and have gladly accepted. OCPA supports the development of new work from O.C.-affiliated...

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They like to laugh up north

Woke up to a nice piece of news: my 10-minute play “A Point of Honor” has been selected as one of nine scripts to be performed at the 10th Annual Snowdance 10-Minute Comedy Festival staged by Over Our...

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2014 is my something else year, too

I just learned that my one-act play “The Rothko” has been selected for production at the 4th Annual OC-Centric New Play Festival for Orange County Playwrights. The festival is staged at Chapman...

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Wild Writer Friday Nights

I wrote a play last night. Not what I always do with my Friday nights, but at least I can say I did that once on a Friday night in my life. I’m participating in a 24 Hour Theatre project at the Long...

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That Jersey Kid is going places

Just got some very late word that my 10-minute play “The Jersey Kid” will be performed this weekend by the Red Brick Road Theatre Company as part of their third annual “Shorts!” fest. Performances are...

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Strange that they didn’t ask why it was a Rothko

I did a brief interview with the OC-Centric New Play Festival, which is staging the world premiere of my one-act play The Rothko. We start rehearsals this Saturday under the direction of the esteemed...

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Public Domain – when it stops being stealing

In general, I focus on original work; although the biggest payday I’ve ever had as a writer was technically for an adaptation. When I sold Queen Lara I wrote on the title page that it was “freely...

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