Every year, Smith and Kraus publish a volume of the best ten-minute plays of the previous year, and I’m pleased to say that for the first time, one of my own plays is included: “Too, Too Solid Flesh,” recent winner … Continue reading
It’s a brand-new year, and we all know what that means! Months of snow, cold, and seasonal affective disorder, of course. Fortunately, there’s a treatment: quality theater to bring a beam of sunshine into the heart of this wretched season. As it … Continue reading
The Arlington Friends of the Drama are holding a fundraiser in the form of a short play festival on the 20th and 21st of November, and one of the plays will be my own “The Evaluation,” a brand-new play never before … Continue reading
I’m a bit late in posting about this (the past few weeks have been very busy indeed), but better late than never: Two weeks ago, on September 24, Fravær (as Absence is known in Norwegian) had its opening night at … Continue reading
The poster for Fravær (the version of Absence being performed by the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen) is now available! As are tickets, which you can order from this website. Words can not express (yes, I know what a thing for a writer to say) how jazzed up … Continue reading
In July, I worked with Megan Schy Gleeson (who directed the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre‘s production of Absence) on a workshop of my play The Centipede King. Now, you can see the results by coming to a staged reading of the play at … Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, a play of mine will be appearing in the Hovey Players’ Summer Shorts in Waltham, MA. I’m always happy to have my work done at Hovey, as my relationship with the company dates … Continue reading
The Boston Globe features a beautiful article by Don Aucoin on the recent flurry of plays about victims of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Among the plays he discusses are Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, Sharr White’s The Other Place, Barney Norris’s Visitors, and my own Absence. … Continue reading
Writers at Play: 2015 Showcase of New Work Monday, June 22. 7:30pm. FREE Boston Playwright’s Theatre I belong to a playwriting group called Writers at Play, all of who members are MFA playwriting alumni of Boston University. The group is launching … Continue reading
My play Absence, winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Award and nominee for the Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for best new play, will get its European debut this fall at the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen. The play will be performed in Norwegian, … Continue reading