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December 2023
My short play Trite and True is a finalist for the 2024 Downtown Urban Arts Festival, to be held in June, Off-Broadway at Theatre Row. The 24 finalists were selected from over 300 submissions by Artistic Director and Tony and Grammy nominee Reg E. Gaines.
October 2023
On Thursday, November 23, at 9 p.m., Rebound Productions is producing my short play Family Emergency in its New Writing Showcase at the Etcetera Theatre in London.
My short play Trite and True has received an Honorable Mention from the Phillips’ Mill Community Association of New Hope, Pennsylvania, in its 6th Annual Emerging Playwright Competition.
August 2023
On Sunday, November 26, my short play All Sales Final will have a virtual reading with seven other plays at the Central PA Playwriting Festival.
The Brewster Theater Company of Carmel, New York, is producing my short play All Sales Final with six other plays in the Third Annual Playwright Festival. Three performances:
Friday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 24, at 2:00 p.m.
Featuring
Ben Kistinger as Manager
Stacey Cohen as Nora
Kevin McCarthy as Ted
Directed by Vince Umbrino
July 2023
My short play All Sales Final has been selected as a winner of the 2023 Central PA Theatre & Dance Fest Playwriting Competition.
June 2023
I have been selected as a semifinalist for Chisa Hutchinson’s Signpost Fellowship for writers of color.
May 2023
The College of Charleston will present two staged readings of Closet Space as part of Stelle di Domani at the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, featuring staged readings of the winners and runners-up from the last three years of the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award. Two performances:
Friday, June 9, at 4 p.m.
Saturday, June 10, at 4 p.m.
Featuring
AP Hart as Margaret
Teresa Elj as Shelly
Glenda Byars as Rhonda
Hunter Harrell as Kendra
Directed by Todd McNerney
The College of Charleston Department of Theatre and Dance has selected my play Closet Space as the winner of the 2023 Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award.
My play Good Neighbors was also a finalist for the award in 2020.
Everybody’s Theater Company of Upper Dublin Township, Pennsylvania, is producing my new short play All Sales Final with six other plays in First Flights: A New Works Showcase. Three performances:
Friday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 20, at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m.
March 2023
My short play All Sales Final was selected as a semifinalist in the Heartland Theatre Company’s 2023 10-Minute Play Festival “The Waiting Room.”
The Halle Cultural Arts Center of Apex, North Carolina, is producing my short play Family Emergency with six other plays in LITE Theatre 2023: Laugh, Inspire, Think, Encourage. Two performances:
Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 12, at 3:00 p.m.
October 2022
On Tuesday, October 11, at 7 p.m., the Music Theatre of Connecticut will be presenting my play Closet Space as part of MTC New Voices: A Reading Series of New Plays by Contemporary Playwrights.
Featuring
Alison Lea Bender as Kendra
Janet Dickinson as Rhonda
Cristina Farruggia as Shelly
Sara Fetgatter as Margaret
Stage Managed by Jim Schilling
Directed by Amy Griffin