Plays & Screenplays

• "Mysteries of the Rainforest"

  A man in the throes of a mid-life crisis returns from the Peruvian rainforest to confront the buried wilderness of his own family.

  Presented in a staged reading with Estelle Getty, 1992.

  Workshopped at MIchael Patrick King's Arcade Theater, 2000.

• "Modern Screen"

  A naive screenwriter in the 1950s enters a contest and goes to Hollywood, where he gets an education in the world of Grade-D exploitation films.

  San Francisco Screenplay Festival - Semi-Finalist

  Filmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards - Semi-Finalist

• "Mercy"

  A self-centered restaurateur is thrust into the position of caregiver after his estranged father suffers a stroke, and must deal with the trials of eldercare -- and an unexpected aide -- as well as his comlicated relationship with his father.

• "Good Housekeeping"

  It's 1980, and a NYC party girl and her husband are relocated to a planned suburb in the middle of nowhere, where she is befriended by a "power mom" and a former 1950's homemaker -- one of whom may be responsible for a series of unexplained deaths.

Articles

"Me and Woody Allen Are Just Like That" (click on logo for a PDF of the article)

Other articles and columns have appeared in such publications as

One Man Show

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