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Abbie Hoffman Died For Your Sins Festival

2005

Revolution Theatre, Chicago

Eclectica Magazine

2008

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Synopsis: Stash and Limo, two hill fighters in a long ethnic war, smoke joints and play poker for the next chance to rape Birdwoman, their enemy prisoner. Playing with them is Gill, a dead comrade they have propped up so he can serve as third hand in the game. That's how far gone and degraded these guys are. And yet, their longings, fears, anger, hatred, humor and bickering place them very much in the circle of human behavior. Premiered at Revolution Theatre, Chicago/2005.

Bowie State University

2006

Accokeek Theatre Company

Post Road, a literary journal

2005

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One act

2

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Synopsis: A recently retired physician who doesn't know what to do with himself, causes such a disruption at a bank that he and the bank guard, a refugee from Africa, catch a whiff of the danger all around them.

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Alaska Quarterly Review

2004

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One Act

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1

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Synopsis: A man and his wife, with different needs now that she has become famous and is writing a memoir, come to new understanding of their past, present and future.

Baltimore Museum of Modern Art

2001

Children's Theatre Association of Maryland

Brooklyn Publishers

2004

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adaptaqtion

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2

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Notes: Based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe

Synopsis: One of Poe's creepiest stories enacting the revenge of the obsessive Montresor against the wine lover Fortunato. On carnival night in Venice, Montresor lures the tipsy Fortunato to his estate with the promise of a rare sherry. Down in dank catacombs, Montresor finally chains the hapless Fortunato and walls him in alive. The claustrophobic atmosphere, Montresor's smiling meanness and Fortunato's growing horror are bound to send chills down anyone's spine.

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Scene 4 Magazine http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/may-2007/The_Conquest_of_Mexico.pdf

2007

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Full length

Play/Drama

4

1

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Synopsis: Two parallel stories, the conquest of the Aztecs and the fall of a modern politician, penetrate and influence each other. The fascinating Dona Marina helps Cortez engineer Montezuma's downfall as the gifted illegal Marina brings down the mayor of a large city. Read it in Scene 4 Magazine

The Baby Grand Theatre Wilmington DE

2002

City Theatre Company

Brooklyn Publishers

2004

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Ten Min

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New Brunswick, CAN

2007

Saint John's Theatre Company

Third Coast, a literary journal

2007

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Synopsis: A man driving alone, the voice of his ex-wife echoing in his head, lets loose a wild stream of black humor, hard cruel emotion and linguistic acrobatics. Finally, he enacts a reckless plan that can only end in disaster. But it gets worse: He is decapitated. And worse: He goes on talking. Premiered at Saint John's Theatre Company, New Brunswick, CAN. Published in Third Coast, a literary journal.

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Brooklyn Publishers

2008

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One Act

4

3

9 M or F

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Synopsis: A hilarious retelling of the classic story: outrageous shenanigans, surreal verbal seizures, idiocy, imbecility and inanity, an empire ruled by a preening, primping, puffed up peacock. After the conmen Ludwig and Otto escape jail, with the bumbling detectives Boris and Morris in hot pursuit, they trick the clothes-horse Emperor into letting them create the royal garments for his daughters' weddings. The garments, they say, will not only be of the highest possible style, they will have the magical property of being invisible to fools unworthy of their positions. What fun to watch fools try to prove they are not foolish. Opportunities galore for scene-stealing comic acting.

Baltimore Museum of Modern Art

2001

Children's Theatre Association of Maryland

Brooklyn Publishers

2004

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adaptaqtion

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Notes: Based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe

Synopsis: Heeding the plea of his old friend, Roderick Usher, William Benson travels to the haunted House of Usher, where the very stones are alive with voices of trapped ancestors. There Roderick's sister, the beautiful Madeleine, only seems to die, and Roderick is seized by the paranoid dread that shows itself to be quite real at the heart-pounding climax of the play when the macabre Usher fate finally comes to pass. An adaptation that will delight modern audiences as it remains faithful to the language, atmosphere and psychological insight of the Poe classic.

Cleveland Public Theatre

2006

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Café Irreal

2006

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Ten Min

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3

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Synopsis: A play in 9 scenes of 10 lines. Couples deal with love, hate, fear, and raising the kids in this riotous and poignant dramatic poem

Algonquin Theatre, NYC

2008

Algonquin Theatre Company

Eclectica Magazine

2007

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Synopsis: Laura, an emotional basket case, has been sitting on her porch swing all day when her tenant Gregory comes home from work to tell her he's moving out, because the night before her boyfriend slashed his tires. Laura and Gregory have more than their share of inertia but connect in absurd, sweet and poignant ways.

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Brooklyn Publishers

2008

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One Act

6

6

8 M or F

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Synopsis: This adaptation of the Greek myth of the origin of the seasons succeeds in being dramatic, extremely funny and educational. It is perpetual summer when Zeus, bored on Mt. Olympus after being grounded by his jealous wife Hera, causes Hades, God of the Underworld, to fall in love with the beautiful Persephone. Hades kidnaps Persephone, forces her to be his bride and struggles to win her love. Persephone's mother, Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest, in a rage of revenge over the loss of her daughter, brings famine and perpetual winter to the Earth, taking human life to the brink of extinction. All wounded parties seek justice from the Gods. This lively, engaging play portrays the unique characters of the Greek Gods while enacting a story about the need for balance and change in Nature.

The Creative Place Theatre, NYC

2003

Love Creek Productions

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15 min play

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Synopsis: Joy and Robert are breaking up but unable to divide their books. When Robert starts hammering nails through the disputed books, the couple discovers something they have lost.

The Baby Grand Theatre

2003

City Theatre Company`

Rockford Review

2003

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Ten Min

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1

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Synopsis: A funny, stylized take on a 20 year marriage in three quick scenes: the meeting, falling in and out of love.

City Theatre Company, Wilmington DE

2007

City Theatre Company

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Synopsis: Two ridiculously self-absorbed people erotically and riotously turn the rules of blind dating upside down.

Black Box Theatre Valencia Community College, Orlando FL

2008

Playwright's Round Table

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Ten Min

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Synopsis: Brian's memory, language and sense of sense of self have been damaged by a war injury. He and his mother Eva struggle over the strategies he must take to make himself whole again.

Theatre Inspirato, Toronto CAN

2007

Theatre Inspirato

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Synopsis: At a relative's funeral, pretty, favored Tracy, 21, and her much plainer sister, Valerie, 20, confront the origins of their tangled relationship, natures and fates.

East Coast Tour

1997

Children's Theatre Association of Maryland

Pioneer Drama Service

2001

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Children's plays

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Synopsis: This easy-to-stage, highly theatrical and entertaining cycle of three 20 minute plays from world folklores focuses on the themes of generosity and greed. The plays show how greed throws people out of balance with their land and traditions, with each other and with themselves, and how generosity can re-establish balance and connection between people and their world. In the Swedish tale, "The Old Woman and the Tramp", a happy-go-lucky rhyming wanderer ingeniously brews up an outrageous soup to teach an old woman how to enjoy life again. The Japanese "Tongue-Cut Sparrow" shows how a wife's cruelty to her husband's pet ignites magical forces of good and evil to prove that people get what they deserve. In the third play, "The Invisible Hunters" from Nicaragua, two hunters gain the power of invisibility, but instead of using it to feed their village, they upset their tribe's traditional balance with nature.

Barebones Fifteen Minute Play Festival

2001

Barebones Theatre Company

Poems&Plays 10

2003

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15 min play

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Synopsis: An obese insurance salesman angers, bewilders and finally seduces a stranger on a train with his odd behavior and the hypnotic way he tells the amazing story of how he lost everything.

The Play's The Thing

2005

Baltimore Theatre Project

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Synopsis: Helen and Charlotte, relative strangers in very different circumstances, are watching their sons play in the backyard. After some wine, they connect in startling, truthful, imaginative and even reckless ways that transform them and might open the door to a different future.

Samuel French One Act Festival

2002

Love Creek Productions

Eclectica Magazine

2007

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Ten Min

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Synopsis: A woman, isolated by her divorce, picks up a vapid businessman in a bar. After their alienating sexual encounter, she confronts her personal myths more clearly than ever before.

New Jersey Repertory

2005

New Jersey Repertory

Alaska Quarterly Review

2005

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Synopsis: A mother and her grown son, dressed in a party dress, celebrate his birthday, in a ritual of whacky mutual assured destruction.