Leaving Ibsen
Stage play, comedy, 2M/2F
Two acts/intermission
Finalist, 2010 Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award (top 9 out of 400)
Semi-finalist, 2011 Ashland New Plays Festival
Public staged reading, Armory Square Playhouse, Syracuse, New York (September 18, 2011)
SYNOPSIS: Leaving Ibsen merges past and present, history and fiction, to explore themes raised by the complex relationship between playwright Henrik Ibsen and his protégé, Laura Kieler, a writer whose devastating marital breakdown inspired A Doll's House.
Two acts/intermission
Finalist, 2010 Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award (top 9 out of 400)
Semi-finalist, 2011 Ashland New Plays Festival
Public staged reading, Armory Square Playhouse, Syracuse, New York (September 18, 2011)
SYNOPSIS: Leaving Ibsen merges past and present, history and fiction, to explore themes raised by the complex relationship between playwright Henrik Ibsen and his protégé, Laura Kieler, a writer whose devastating marital breakdown inspired A Doll's House.
Late Transitional Man
Stage play, comedy (3M/3W)
Two acts/intermission
Semi-finalist, L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition (1994)
Two acts/intermission
Semi-finalist, L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition (1994)
Short plays
Cakewalk (drama, 1M/1F)
Behind the scenes on the set of The Birth of a Nation.
A Firefly in August (comedy, 1M/1F)
A fortunate case of mistaken identity.
Distance Learning (comedy, 1M/1F)
The tale of a professor, his doctoral student, and the elderly, reclusive author on whom she's an expert -- or is it the other way around?
Tuesday Morning (drama, 1M/1F)
An ordinary day, until everything two parents thought they knew about each other--and their son--comes to a violent end.
Zero House (1 M)
J. Edgar Hoover on a bad day. Reading at The Room, New Georges, New York, NY in 1996
Pine (1 F)
One page play; finalist in the Lamia Ink competition
Behind the scenes on the set of The Birth of a Nation.
A Firefly in August (comedy, 1M/1F)
A fortunate case of mistaken identity.
Distance Learning (comedy, 1M/1F)
The tale of a professor, his doctoral student, and the elderly, reclusive author on whom she's an expert -- or is it the other way around?
Tuesday Morning (drama, 1M/1F)
An ordinary day, until everything two parents thought they knew about each other--and their son--comes to a violent end.
Zero House (1 M)
J. Edgar Hoover on a bad day. Reading at The Room, New Georges, New York, NY in 1996
Pine (1 F)
One page play; finalist in the Lamia Ink competition
Screenplays
Inside Story: The Science of HIV/AIDS
Treatment for theatrical feature, produced by the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership and Curious Pictures, 2011. See home page.
Skylark (also known as Ibsen & Laura)
Historical drama, feature length
Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, 1998
Public reading, New York Women in Film & Video, New York, New York, 1998
Optioned for feature development, 2001
Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, 1998
Public reading, New York Women in Film & Video, New York, New York, 1998
Optioned for feature development, 2001
Playing for China
Historical drama, feature length, based on the autobiography Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. Unproduced.
