Scott C. Sickles

RECENT EVENTS (and then some...)

April 1, 2024
The Pulp Stage presented my new one-act horror play Out in the Noonday Sun as part of Pulp Fractor!, along with plays by Walter Thinnes and Alicia Whavers. All the plays were developed specifically for this presentation.
Portland, OR

March 15, 2024
Two monologues from my plays have been selected for publication in the Smith and Kraus annual anthologies! A caustic comic rant from my ten-minute play Boardwalk Concessions will be included in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2024. A recounting of a horrific hallucination in the throes of schizophrenia from my one-act The Silence of My Lonely Room will be included in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2024. Massive thanks to editor Debbie Lamedman for curating these anthologies ALL BY HERSELF. For so many many reasons, her dedication is a marvel to us all!!!
Hanover, NH

March 13, 2024
Fat Theatre Project presented a staged reading of my one-act Poseidon and the Sea Nymph in its Fat Tuesdays series. The reading was directed by Eileen Tull and featured Nick Druzbanski and Rachel Kim.
Chicago, IL

February 2=4, 2024
The West Side Show Room presented my ten-minute vampire play A More Beautiful Reflection as part of its Rockford New Words festival. This year’s theme: What I Learned from My Ex.
Rockford, IL

January 22, 2024
The Pharmacy Theatre in my home state of Pennsylvania announced they will be presenting my comedy Boardwalk Concessions in its upcoming ten-minute play festival Clinical Trials in August.
Central PA

November 18, 2023
The Playground Experiment presented my monologue Afterwards in The PGE Faces of America Monologue Festival #5 at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, Afterwards was performed by Jacqueline Sydney and directed by Marina Barry. It included in the upcoming anthology, Faces of America #5.
New York, NY

November 16, 2023
Emerging Artists Theatre’s Spark Theater Festival presented Alyssa Simon in INSIDES OUT, three short solo plays by yours truly, directed by Paula D'Alessandris. The plays included: End of a Long, Long Day; The Time You Were Away; and The Interior.
New York, NY

November 6, 2023
Leviathan Lab in association with Theater Resources Unlimited’s TRU Diversity initiative presented a reading of my full-length play Marianas Trench. This was a benefit reading in aid of Leviathan Lab’s upcoming production of the play in late spring 2024. Directed by Janet Bentley, the cast featured Nik Duggan, Jinn S. Kim, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Perri Yaniv, Nicholas Yenson, and Morgan Zipf-Meister.
New York, NY

October 12, 2023
The Playground Experiment announced that my short monologue Afterwards has been selected for inclusion in thier upcoming anthology, Faces of America #5. My other monologue Chestburster was also a finalist. All of the selected monologues will be performed at The PGE Faces of America Monologue Festival #5 on Saturday, November 18, 2023, at 7:00 PM at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 West 64th Street in New York City.
New York, NY

October 11, 2023
Smith and Kraus has included two of my monologues in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023: one from my full length experimental gay AAPI neurodivergent breakup play Seaside Tragedies and one from my short one-act Shakespeare inspired comedy of bastards and birthrights The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World.

October 6, 2023
Leviathan Lab announced that on Monday, November 6 @7PM ET, in association with Theater Resources Unlimited’s TRU Diversity initiative, they will present a reading of my full-length play Marianas Trench. This is a benefit reading in aid of Leviathan Lab’s upcoming production of the play in late spring 2024. Directed by Janet Bentley, the cast features Nik Duggan, Jinn S. Kim, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Perri Yaniv, Nicholas Yenson, and Morgan Zipf-Meister. The reading will take place at Houghton Hall, located at 22 East 30th Street in New York City. RESERVATION/DONATION DETAILS TBA.
New York, NY

October 6. 2023
I discovered that Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment published my five-ish minute play 600 km NE Lima in its Spring/Summer 2023 issue.
Iowa State University and Online

September 26, 2023
Talking Horse Productions posted the video of actor Trent Rash performing my monologue Night in Tunisia as part of its Original Monologue Contest Season 4.
Columbia, MO

September 26 & 29, 2023
Gi60: The International One-Minute Play Festival presented my play The Nihilists Victorious as part of the Gi60 UK LIVE Edition stage@leeds.
Leeds, England, UK

September 22, 2023
Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble’s publication of The COVID Monologues was named Best Play at the International Latino Book Awards. The anthology includes my piece Eighty-Seven Keys, a eulogy for my dear friend Rick Unterberg who died from Covid early in the pandemic. The video of my recitation of the monologue is here.
Los Angeles, CA

September 21, 2023
Next Stage Press announced it will be publishing the updated acting edition of my comedy Intellectuals. The release date is February 1, 2024.
Colorado

September 7-9, 2023
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble presented the world premiere of my ten-minute play Morning After the Melee as part of its Neurodiversity Play Festival.
Providence, RI

August 23, 2023
The Present Process Podcast released its interview with me discussing Marianas Trench with host Daniel Colette. The episode can be found here and wherever you listen to podcasts.
Online

August 10-27, 2023
Whim Productions presented the world premiere of Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids. Directed by Bradley Mayer and featuring Sergio Guerra, Heather J. Ives, Pete Kuhn, and Diana Watts. It was GLORIOUS!
Kansas City, MO

July 12, 2023
Gather by the Ghost Light podcast presented the audio adaptation of my ten-minute play Wheel of Fortune Reversed, featuring Dana Hall and Bob LeBlanc and produced by podcast host Jonathan Cook.
Online

June 30 & July 2, 2023
Traffic Jam Theatre Co. presented my ten-minute plays – Boardwalk Concessions and Wheel of Fortune Reversed – along with three other short pieces in their inaugural production, Love Is…, directed by Ryan Krewer, and featuring Ethan Baker, Macy Mateer, Emma Starbird, and Ava Thompson.
Savannah, GA

June 17, 2023
Actors Kelly Wilson and Evan Edwards each performed my monologue Sacrifice at the Altar in The Valdez Theatre Conference’s Monologue Workshop Presentation.
Valdez, AK

June 16, 2023
The Valdez Theatre Conference will be presenting a reading of my one-act play The Presidential Chili Cook Off.
Valdez, AK

June 11, 2023
My one-minute play Head received a reading at the The Valdez Theatre Conference’s Fringe, with Cynthia Steele.
Valdez, AK

June 2-4, 2023
Rock River Players presented my ten-minute play Beautiful Noises as part of Another Evening of One-Acts. The play featured Cris Parker-Jennings, Nicole Winot, Peter Broussard, and Paul Davis, and was directed by my old friend Randy Lichtenwalner.
Williamsville, VT

June 1, 2023
Gi60: The International One-Minute Play Festival announced its lineup for the Gi60 UK LIVE Edition, and it will feature my play The Nihilists Victorious! The Festival takes place on Wednesday, September 27 at stage@leeds.
Leeds, England, UK

June 1, 2023
Hellish Delights – an evening of one-act plays including Bulletproof Love; The Fallow Garden; O, For a Muse of Fire; and Somewhere South of Bethlehem – is now available for purchase at Next Stage Press.

April 4, 2023
Literature Today-An International Literary Journal published by one-minute play The Old Railroad in its April 2023 edition. Theme: Relationships.

April 2, 2023
Left Edge Theatre has published my play “Guten Tag, Baby!” in an anthology of play from their Hindsight 2022 festival.
Santa Rosa, CA

April 1, 2023
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble presented a reading of my ten-minute play Morning After the Melee as part of its 401 Gives Celebration.
Providence, RI

March 1, 2023
My one-act The Presidential Chili Cook Off has been selected for the 2023 Valdez Theatre Conference this June in Alaska!
Valdez, AK

March 1, 2023
Glen Dickson’s Writers Block Radio Hour featured my monologue I Left My Heart in the Mojave Desert, performed by Lissa Brennan, in the episode Love and Other Disasters.
Glasgow, Scotland

February 17-19, 2023
Temple Theaters Side Stage, the student theater company at Temple University, presented my comedy Perfecting the Kiss: a mockumentary for the stage.
Philadelphia, PA

February 1, 2022
I'm pleased to announce that two monologues of mine will be included in Smith and Kraus's Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023! One is from my short play The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World, the other is from by new, unproduced full length play Seaside Tragedies.

January 27, 2023
Fresh Words: an International Literary Magazine has published my one-minute play Signs of Life in its issue Contemporary One-Minute Plays, vol. 4.

January 26, 2023
The Good Life Review, an online literary journal, has published my one-act drama “Guten Tag, Baby!”
Omaha, NE

January 20, 2023
Louisiana Thespian Festival presented my one act play The Silence of My Lonely Room.
Natchitoches, LA

January 18, 2023
Qweerdog Theatre presented a revival of my ten-minute play Glint as part of their Qweer Shorts Turn On Fest 2023! Directed by Stewart Campbell, the cast included Andrew Dawson, Noor Hadid, and Sami Sumaria.
Manchester, England

December 19, 2022
The Playground Experiment presented my monologue Sweet, Sweet Christmas (written especially for the occasion) at its Annual Holiday Potluck and Grab Bag 2022.
New York, NY

December 7, 2022
I made my radio acting debut on the Scottish airwaves when I performed my monologue Hoist on Glen Dickson’s Writers Block Radio Hour. The episode’s theme: MACHISMO!
Glasgow, Scotland

December 4, 2022
My ten-minute comedy Boardwalk Concessions was performed in Grinnell College Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’s One-Act Festival, directed by McAfee Chandler.
Grinnell, IA

November 22, 2022
NOW AVAILABLE! My two monologues Unnecessary Beauty and In Case You Open Your Eyes Again can be purchased in Smith & Kraus's WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology, edited by Debbie Lamedman.
New York, NY/Amazon.com

November 10-12, 2022
Southern Tier Actors Read and The Phelps Mansion presented a staged reading of Intellectuals.
Binghamton, NY

November 6, 2022
My one-minute play If There’s Anything has been published in Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine’s Contemporary One Minute Plays (Volume 3). The e-edition can be perused for free HERE. The beautiful paperback magazine can be purchased HERE!

October 17, 2022
TheOther Side of Silence (TOSOS) presented my one-act play Corporeal Punishment as part of Queer Spooky Shorts ‘22 at The Pete Theater at The Flea. Directed by Christopher Michaels, the cast included Corey Candelet, Sam Pinson, and Nate Rocke.
New York, NY

September 18, 2022
The Mixed Asian Media Festival presented Roly Poly Productions’ reading of Marianas Trench. Directed by Janet Bentley, the cast included Nik Duggan, Kent Meister, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Lawrence Wong, Nicholas Yenson, and Morgan Zipf-Meister.
New York, NY

September 8 - October 2, 2022
Theatre22 presented Nonsense and Beauty at the Seattle Public Theater. Directed by Corey McDaniel, the cast includes Eric Mulholland, Russell Matthews, Hisam Goueli, Jennifer Ewing, and Marty Mukhalian.
Seattle, WA

August 19-21, 2022
Town and Country Players presented The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World as part of its One Act Festival, directed by Julie Massa, with Kevin Palardy, Jim Moore, and (as a bartender not in the script) Emily Reese.
Buckingham, PA

August 18, 2022
The Mixed Asian Media Festival announced it will present Roly Poly Productions’ reading of Marianas Trench. Directed by Janet Bentley, the cast includes Nik Duggan, Kenneth Lee, Kent Meister, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Nicholas Yenson, and Morgan Zipf-Meister.
New York, NY

August 14, 2022
Ski Patrol Productions presented my short play Tropes I Hate: The Title of the Play We’re In in Live! Art! Festival!.
East Haven, CT

August 7, 2022
Ski Patrol Productions announced that my short play Tropes I Hate: The Title of the Play We’re In will be presented in Live! Art! Festival! on August 14.
East Haven, CT

August 1, 2022
The Mixed Asian Media Festival announced it will present Roly Poly Productions’ reading of Marianas Trench on Sunday, August 18. Directed by Janet Bentley, the cast includes Nik Duggan, Kenneth Lee, Kent Meister, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Nicholas Yenson, and Morgan Zipf-Meister.
New York, NY

July 31, 2022
My play DECEPTION • WAR • RETRIBUTION is included in Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine’s Contemporary One Minute Plays-(Volume 1), available in an E-Edition or in paperback!

July 30-August 7, 2022
The Greenhouse Ensemble presented the first live and in person production of my play Virgins as part of its summer Ten-Minute Play Soiree, directed by Paula D’Alessandris featuring Emma C. Skwared and Shay Wisniewski.
New York, NY

July 30, 2022
Talking Horse Productions announced it will be including my monologue This is Not a Touch Exhibit in its Original Monologue Contest in September!

July 22-31, 2022
Playwrights’ Round Table presented my ten-minute play Glint as part of their Summer Shorts festival. Directed by Charis Watler and featuring Anthony Carrasquillo, Benjamin Mainville, and Regina Thurston.
Orlando, FL

July 16, 2022
Two new monologues – Unnecessary Beauty and In Case You Open Your Eyes Again – will be included in Smith & Kraus's WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology, edited by Debbie Lamedman.

July 9 & 10, 2022
The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco presented my ten-minute play Floats as part of BIPOC EXPRESSIONS, A Showcase of New Plays! Directed by Kimberly Ridgeway, the cast featured Justine Yeajin An and Michael Benzinger.
San Francisco, CA, and Online

July 6-9, 2022
Gi60: The One-Minute International Theater Festival presented DECEPTION • WAR • RETRIBUTION in Gi60 International US Live at The Tank NYC.
New York, NY

July 1, 2022
Moonlight & Love Songs is now available for purchase at Next Stage Press.

June 18, 2022
My short play Perfect Porcelain Doll was the featured play in American Blues Theater‘s Ripped Festival. Originally created for Code Red Playwrights, a movement of dramatists devoted to raising awareness about the victims of gun violence, Perfect Porcelain Doll was a response to the death of Suncha Kim in the Atlanta Spa Shootings.
Chicago, IL

June 6, 2022
The Pulp Stage presented my new one-act horror play Corporeal Punishment as part of a Pulp Stages, along with plays by Nikki Lu and Margo Rofé. All the plays were developed specifically for this presentation.
Portland, OR

June 2, 2022
Gi60: The International One Minute Theatre Festival announced that my one-minute play DECEPTION • WAR • RETRIBUTION is one the 50 plays selected for Gi60 International US Live - performing at The Tank NYC, July 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
New York, NY

June 1, 2022
From the Top is now available for purchase at Next Stage Press!

May 19, 2022
The Garry Marshall Theatre announced its semifinalists for their upcoming New Works Festival 2022 and Seaside Tragedies is among them!
Los Angeles, CA

May 14, 2022
My monologue Eighty-Seven Keys, a eulogy for my dear friend Rick Unterberg, has been published in Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble’s collection The COVID Monologues: 54 writers respond to the pandemic, avaialbe for purchase at Amazon. I strongly urge folks to check this out and celebrate the lives we lost and the memories of those we hold dear.
Los Angeles, CA

May 15, 2022
The Straz Center for the Performing Arts presented readings of Floats and the monologues from Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids as part of their BIPOC Play-Reading Series.
Tampa, FL

May 12, 2022
The Reading Theater Project presented a reading of Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids as part of their LGBT + PLAYWRIGHTING SERIES.
Reading, PA

April 30, 2022
Next Stage Press will be publishing my full-length plays From the Top and Moonlight & Love Songs! The respective release dates are June 1 and July 1, 2022.

April 28, 2022
Scawwy Howwow Theatre presented a virtual table read my plays Floats and Seaside Tragedies. New York, NY.

April 16, 2022
Actor Zille Rehman performed Between the Surf and the Stars as part of Orb Events’s Mono Bites.
Dubai, UAE

April 15-16, 2022
Florida State University School of Theatre presented When in the Course of Human Events, directed by Jacob ben Widmar. When in the Course of Human Events is the seventh and final piece of Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids.
Tallahassee, FL

April 2, 2022
The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World won First Place in the March Surfside Players 10-Minute Play Contest.
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March 31, 2022
Writer's Block Radio Hour will be presenting my new monologue Hoist on Wednesday, April 27! It’s being performed by the author. 9pm in the UK, 4pm ET.
Scotland and on Online

March 31, 2022
The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco will include my ten-minute play Floats as part of BIPOC EXPRESSIONS, A Showcase of New Plays! This is a play for two Korean American actors (1F/1M) in their 30s. BIPOC and AAPI ACTORS: check the casting notice! These are Zoom performances, so you can be anywhere! The programs will be broadcast on Zoom on Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 19.
San Francisco, CA, and Online

March 28, 2022
The Reading Theater Project will be presenting a reading of PLAYING ON THE PERIPHERY: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids as part of their LGBT + PLAYWRIGHTING SERIES on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 7 PM ET. The reading will take place at Boscov’s Film Theater at Goggleworks (201 Washington Street, Reading, PA 19601). For info and tickets, go here: https://readingtheaterproject.org/lgbt-playwrighting-series/ I plan on being present.
Reading, PA

March 18, 2022
Theatre Unmasked presented my new monologue Knife on a Glass as part of its Renaissance evening of new theatrical work. The piece was performed by Nicholas Hipple.
New York, NY, and Online

March 11, 2022
Florida State University School of Theatre will present When in the Course of Human Events, directed by Jacob ben Widmar. When in the Course of Human Events is the seventh and final piece of Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids.
Talahassee, FL

February 19, 2022
Left Edge Theatre presented my one-act play “Guten Tag, Baby!” in their HINDSIGHT 2022 International Festival of Short Plays. HINDSIGHT 2022’s theme is “What is True Connection?” The play was directed by Jazmine Pierce
and featured Mollie Boice, Angela Squire, Kat Motle), and Andrew Patton.
Santa Rosa, CA

January 23, 2022
Axial Theater (artistic director, Cady McClain) presented a reading of my short play Rhadamanthus, the fourth play in my horror cycle TARTARUS, as part of its short play series Cactus Flowers. The reading featured Linda Giuliano, Ryan Mallon, and Dan Walworth.
Online from Pleasantville, NY

January 2, 2022
Smith and Kraus, Inc. will be publishing my play Drain in Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2022 and a monologue from my play The Known Universe in Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2022. Drain was presented by The West Side Show Room and The Known Universe was presented by The Roly Polys in the Mixed Asian Media Fest. These analogies are curated and edited by Debbie Lamedman.

December 17, 2021
The Playground Experiment presented my new holiday monologue Lumps at their Annual Holiday Pot Luck and Monologue Grab Bag 2021 performed Marina Barry.
New York City, NY

December 3, 2021
Virtual Community Theatre presented two versions of my short play Possibly the First of Many, directed by Eric Luvisotto ands featuring Tyler Bignell and Nicholas Hipple, switching roles between the two versions, which can be found here (version 1) and here (version 2)!

November 20, 2021
The Playground Experiment presented my new monologue Your Gaze it the Faces of America Monologue Festival #3, directed by Marina Barry featuring Jai Rohan. Another of my monologues, These Eyes, was also a finalist.
New York City, NY

November 3, 2021
My monologue Your Gaze, about neurodivergence (specifically ADHD) and accepting love, has been selected to be part of The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival #3!!! The Festival will be online Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 7:00 PM.
New York, NY and online

November 1-2, 2021
Qweerdog Theatre presented my ten-minute play Glint as part of their Halloween edition of Qweer Shorts, directed by Stewart Campbell, featuring Andrew Dawson and Matthew Forey.
Manchester, England (England)

November 1, 2021
I just found out my one-act play “Guten Tag, Baby!” will be included in the HINDSIGHT 2022 International Festival of Short Plays at Left Edge Theatre. HINDSIGHT 2022’s theme is “What is True Connection?” The festival runs from February 19-27, 2022.
Santa Rosa, CA

October 26, 2021
My monologue Time, Magic, and Antoinette was performed by Pamela Kathleen Hill in The Forge Theater Lab's PRIDE PIECES: Readings to Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month.
Fitchburg, MA

October 21-23, 2021
My play Arboreal Conquests was produced in the Gi60: The International One Minute Theatre Festival.
New York, NY

October 18, 2021
My monologue Time, Magic, and Antoinette will be included in The Forge Theater Lab's PRIDE PIECES: Readings to Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month on October 26 at 7:30 pm!
Fitchburg, MA

October 31, 2021
An excerpt from my short play Orchids and Heat is included in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2021, edited by Debbie Lamedman, published by Smith & Kraus.

September 24-26, 2021
Garry Marshall Theatre presented a virtual reading of Pangea (Part Two of The Second World Trilogy) as part of their 2021 New Works Festival. Pangea is one of five festival finalists along with Affinity Lunch Minutes by Nick Malakhow, Best Little Youth Theatre in Lexington by Jordan Beswick, Sapience by Diana Burbano, and Memories of Overdevelopment by Caridad Svich. Directed by Rob Nagel, the cast featured Leith Burke, Alex Feldman, Liza Fernandez, Elinor Gunn, Alberto Isaac, and Peter James Smith.
Los Angeles, CA and online

September 22-23, 2021
Facebook sensation Tiny_Theatre present three of my short plays as part of its Sci-Fi Summer Shorts series: Outpost, Of Garden Gnomes and Other Tragedies, and I’d Follow You Anywhere: a Solaris Story. Tiny_Theatre is the brilliant matrimonial team of Rachel Burttram and Brendan Powers! Check out the rest of the series, all of which is online on Facebook!
Facebook

September 17, 2021
The Mixed Asian Media Festival/MAMFest presented Roly Poly Productions’ virtual reading of The Known Universe (Part Three of The Second World Trilogy). Directed by Janet Bentley, the reading featured Scott Ahearn, Keith Allen, Lissa Brennan, Joe Burby, Patrick Harman, Jon Okabayashi, Kari Swenson Riely, and Nicholas Yenson. This was a Theater Authority approved fundraiser for Leviathan Lab and we ask that you make a donation there.
New York, NY

August 22, 2021
Gi60: The International One Minute Theatre Festival annoucned my play Arboreal Conquests will be included in their 17th annual Gi60 US!!!
The 17th annual Gi60 US will happen at The Tank, NYC, October 21, 22 and 23.

August 2, 2021
Playwrights' Round Table has announced my ten-minute play, Glint, will be presented next summer as part of their Summer Shorts festival.
Orlando, FL

July 5, 2021
Garry Marshall Theatre informed me that Pangea (Part Two of The Second World Trilogy) is a semifinalist for their 2021New Works Festival! The first play in this trilogy, Marianas Trench, was a semifinalist last year.
The five finalists will be announced on August 15.
Los Angeles, CA

July 1, 2021
Composure has been published by Next Stage Press and is now available for purchase!
Colorado

June 20, 2021
Tiny_Theatre announced they will be presenting three of my short plays on Wednesday, September 22 at 8:55pm as part of their Summer Sci-Fi Shorts series, curated by Greg Lam. Brendan Powers and Rachel Burttram will perform Outpost, Of Garden Gnomes and Other Tragedies, and I’ll Follow You Anywhere: a Solaris story.
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June 11, 2021
I performed two excerpts from Marianas Trench at the National New Play Network’s Playwrights Slam, part of their #NNPNAnnualConference Growing Forward: Transcending the Transactional! I was (beautifully) introduced by Dave Osmundsen. The other playwrights were Taji Senior, Travis Tate, Megan Tabaque, Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Kristen Spencer, Nelson Díaz-Marcado, and Gamal Chasten.
Online

May 12, 2021
Next Stage Press announced that they will be publishing my play, Composure. The release date is July 1, 2021.
Colorado

May 7, 2021
WineBox Players presented a virtual reading, in full costume, of my fantasy-comedy Of Garden Gnomes and Other Tragedies featuring Erin Soler and Patrick Marran.
New York, NY

April 25, 2021
Almost Adults presented my monologue, Boy’s State, in their ongoing LGBTQ+ Online Short Play Reading Series. Aaron Leventman directed Jonathan D'Rozario in the piece.
Santa Fe, NM

April 8, 2021
Talking Horse Productions has selected my monologue “WE RIDE AT DAWN!” to be part of their Original Monologue Contest: Season 2!

April 7, 2021
Almost Adults will present my memoir monologue, Boy’s State, in their ongoing LGBTQ+ Online Short Play Reading Series on Sunday, April 25th at 3:30 PM Mountain Time. Aaron Leventman will direct Jonathan D'Rozario. The memoir monologue that involves Stephen King, social anxiety, and the 1985 American Legion Keystone Boys State.
Santa Fe, NM

March 20, 2021
Anthony J. Piccione presented my one-act play The Silence of My Lonely Room as part of Talking It Out, an ongoing virtual theatre festival dedicated to promoting mental health awareness. Directed my Mr. Piccione, the play feature Sebastian Hagelstein and Roberto Ramos.
New York, NY and Online

March 10, 2021
Pangea (Part Two of the Second World Trilogy) is a semifinalist for American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award! The first installment, Marianas Trench, was also a semifinalist in 2019.
Chicago, IL

March 6, 2021
Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble will be presenting – and publishing! – my new monologue Eighty-Seven Keys, a eulogy I wrote in memory of my beloved friend Rick Unterberg who passed from COVID last spring, in the next installment of The Covid Monologues.
Thanks to Diana Burbano and Breath of Fire! It means more than I can express.
Online

March 1, 2021
Hairdresser on Fire has been published by Next Stage Press and is now available for purchase!
Colorado

February 27, 2021
Stage Left Theater presented my one-minute play If There’s Anything… as part of its Fast and Furious One-Page Play Festival!
Spokane, WA

February 22, 2021
Pangea was named a semifinalist in The Landing Theater’s New American Voices Playwriting Festival.
Houston, TX

February 15, 2021
B3 Theater informed me that my short monologue play The Steps will be one of ten pieces included in their 4th Festival of Shorts, due out at the end of June 2021.
Phoenix, AZ

February 12-17, 2021
Playwrights' Round Table presented my ten-minute play Outpost as part of Science Fiction Shorts. Directed by Jac LeDoux and featuring Durrell Brown, Robert Laurita, and Ryleigh Lawton!
Orlando, Florida

February 11, 18 & 25, 2021
Mind the Gap Theatre presented three of my monologues as part of its Housebound series on YouTube. February 11: Sarah Freia performed Escalator to the Gallows; February 18: Alyssa Simon performed an excerpt from my short play Orchids and Heat; February 25: Lissa Brennan performed Ramona’s monologue from Bulletproof Love.
New York, NY

February 5, 2021
Urban Stages included my new monologue The Time You Were Away in its online festival The Heroes & Villains Monologues, written for Danielle Bourgeois and directed by Christine Cirker.
New York, NY

January 28 and February 4, 2021
The Greenhouse Ensemble presented TWO VERSIONS of my one-act play The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World as part of Greenhouse’s Ten-Minute Play Soirée: Quarantine Soirée edition. Directed by Hazen Cuyler and featuring Hazen and Keegan McDonald as newfound half-brothers, “Take One” on January 28 featured Hazen as the imperious Gideon and Keegan as good-natured Augie. Then on February 4, the actors switched roles for “Take Two!”
New York, NY and Facebook Live

January 21, 2021
The West Side Showroom presented my ten-minute play Drain as part of Rockford New Words. Their theme this year was “WE. CAN’T. BREATHE.” Rockford New Words also featured Respiratory Failure, a poem by Marcos Lara; Vanessa, a monologue by Diana Burbano; The Cessation of the Blackstrophysicist (Black-Astrophysicist) in Space, a spoken word piece by Ascension; The Grand Jury, storytelling by Devin Mainville; and The Arithmetic of Memory, a play by Gretchen Suárez-Peña.
Rockford, IL and Zoom

January 9, 2021
I’ve been informed that a monologue from my short play Orchids and Heat has been chosen for publication in the Smith & Kraus’s Best Women's Monologues 2021!
Hanover, NH

January 6, 2021
I participated in a panel for O.G. Productions in association with MadLab called I Want to Get Better: Playwriting. Hosted by Bethany Dickens Assaf, my fellow panelists were Mark Harvey Levine, Ellen K. Graham, Isaiah Reaves, and Katie Thayer.
Columbus, OH and Zoom

January 6, 2021
Urban Stages is including my new monologue The Time You Were Away in its online festival The Heroes & Villains Monologues. It’s a twisted little piece written for Danielle Bourgeois and directed by Christine Cirker. The festival launches on the Urban Stages website on February 5.
New York, NY and Zoom

January 3, 2021
I had the pleasure of speaking on Indiana Writers Center’s panel Playwrights Preparing for 2021 with fellow scribes Rachael Carnes and Mark Harvey Levine, curated and hosted by Steven G. Martin.
Indianapolis, IN and Zoom

January 1, 2021
Roly Poly Productions launched a virtual reading of Pangea: Part Two of The Second World Trilogy. Directed by Janet Bentley, the play features Keith Allen, Nat Cassidy, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Kari Swenson Riely, and Alyssa Simon. Pangea will be available through January 15, 2021.
New York, NY and Zoom

December 23, 2020
The West Side Showroom announced they will be present my ten-minute play Drain as part of Rockford New Words. Their theme this year is “WE. CAN’T. BREATHE.” Rockford New Words will also feature Respiratory Failure, a poem by Marcos Lara; Vanessa, a monologue by Diana Burbano; The Cessation of the Blackstrophysicist (Black-Astrophysicist) in Space, a spoken word piece by Ascension; The Grand Jury, storytelling by Devin Mainville; and The Arithmetic of Memory, a play by Gretchen Suárez-Peña. The staged reading will take place on Facebook Live on January 21, 2021, at 7pm CST.
Rockford, IL

December 10, 2020
Mind the Gap Theatre presented Alyssa Simon performing my monologue End of a Long, Long Day as part of its Housebound series on YouTube.
New York, NY

December 8, 2020
Playwrights' Round Table announced they will present my ten-minute play Outpost as part of Science Fiction Shorts. Directed by Jac LeDoux, the production will be rehearsed online at first, then staged and recorded outdoors observing COVID safety protocols! The festival will be webcast in February 2021!
Orlando, FL

December 3, 2020
Mind the Gap Theatre presented Emily Gilson performing my monologue Consolation as part of its Housebound series on YouTube.
New York, NY

November 23, 2020
Southwest Théâtre Productions announced that Composure was among the finalists in their playwriting competition in the category “Plays with a Male Lead Who Goes Through an Emotional Transformation.”
Austin, TX

November 8, 2020
Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes For and About Queer Kids is now available in paperback on Amazon. The collection includes the monologues All of the Napkins Are Wet; How to Tie a Cravat; The Capture, Nature, and Purpose of the (Unfortunately Non-Terrestrial) Pollywog; and Not Exactly a Lullaby, and the short plays The Benefits of Fringe Popularity and Social Invisibility, The Object is to Prevent Moisture, and When in the Course of Human Events. Each is a stand-alone piece but together they tell the story of Daphne, Bertram, Zoey, and Robert – four gay third-graders. They may not know it quite yet, but the feelings are there. Before, during and after their third grade year, they navigate social and family pressures just to stay in each other's orbits.

October 23 to 25, 2020
The Ringwald Theatre presented my one-minute play Vanilla as part of its Gay4Detroit One Act Festival. Directed by directed by Matthew Smith, featuring Alice Duffy and Dani Poppe.
Detroit, MI

October 11, 2020
Almost Adults presented an online reading of my ten-minute play The Last Great Act of Mankind. Directed by Jonathan Libman, featuring Rob Maitner and Ken McGraw with Alyssa Simon on stage directions.
Santa Fe, NM

September 8, 2020
Bay City Players prestented a one-night-only online reading of From the Top as part of its #MakeArtVirtual series! Directed my Mike Wisniewski, the cast featured Nathan Hanley, Jack Horrigan, Glenn LaMont, Jeffrey Merrimanm and Natalie Slawnyk with Anne Kukla on stage directions.
This was the play’s first public presentation since 2003.
Bay City, MI

September 2, 2020
The Silence of My Lonely Room, my one-act tale of horror, insanity, and what happens when we hallucinate about killing demons, will receive an online reading in the TALKING IT OUT Virtual Play Festival! Produced by Anthony J. Piccione, TALKING IT OUT is dedicated to promoting mental health awareness. The Silence of My Lonely Room will make its bow on March 20, 2021, alongside four other plays including JOINT ADVENTURE by the marvelous Steven Hayet!
New York, NY

August 9, 2020
The Road Theatre Company presented an online reading of Marianas Trench, directed by Gregg T. Daniel, as part of its Summer Playwrights Festival 11, featuring Avery Clyde, Ethan Harris-Riggs, Ruman Kazi, Dana Lee, Joseph Lee, Kevin Matsumoto, Lauren Murphy Yeoman, and Stewart J. Zully with Miatta Lebile on stage directions!
Los Angeles, CA

July 16, 2020
The National Arts Club presented an online reading of two of my one acts: The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World and Persephone. Directed by Fritz Brekeller, the cast featured a cast of daytime drama luminaries: Melissa Claire Egan, Christian J. LeBlanc, Beth Maitland, Karla Mosley, Tonya Pinkins, and Darnell Williams.
New York, NY

July 16, 2020
Mind the Gap Theatre presented CK Allen performing my monologue This is Not a Touch Exhibit as part of its Housebound series on YouTube.
New York, NY

July 3, 2020
Urban Stages has selected my ten-minute play Bridge of No Return as one of the winners of its online competition, The Acronym Plays. The script will be posted on their website at some point in the future.
New York, NY

June 7, 2020
Oberon Theatre Ensemble presented my new five-minute short film The Flowers of Ninkarrak – Extended Trailer (that’s actually the title) as part of its SpS Festival 3.0. SpS stands for Smartphone Series. The cast included Dianna in New York City, and Chris Boal and Nancy Georgini in Beverly Hills. The entire movie was shot on Zoom. Chris Boal edited, mixed the sound, and designed the special effects.
New York, NY / Beverly Hills, CA

June 5, 2020
The Portland Stage Company presented an online reading of Marianas Trench as part of its Little Festival of the Unexpected. Directed by Kevin R. Free, the cast included Amir Arison, Michael Gnat, Marcus Ho, Zach Hobby, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jon Okabayashi, Sara Thigpen, and Nick Yenson. Dramaturgy was by Lizz Mangan. The event was produced, hosted, and moderated by Todd Brian Backus.
Portland, ME

June 4, 2020
Mind the Gap Theatre presented Richard T. Lester performing my monologue Surrounded as part of its Housebound series on YouTube.
New York, NY

May 22, 2020
The Unicorn Theatre Company announced that Marianas Trench is a finalist for its In-Process New Play Reading Series. More details as they happen…
Kansas City, MO

May 17, 2020
Middletown Arts Center presented its Zoom reading of Winter Harbor as part of its festival, The MAC One Acts. The reading featured Ellen Dolan, Eric Flenner, Leslie Ann Kent, Eric Percival, Dave Tillistrand, and Brittney Venable.
Middletown, NJ

May 16, 2020
Oberon Theatre Ensemble presented my new three-minute short film Across Time and Distance as part of its SpS Festival Redux. SpS stands for Smartphone Series. The cast included Mark Karafin in New York City, and Randy Howk, Elle Sherman, and their daughters. Ariah and Alexandra in Las Vegas. The entire movie was shot on Zoom.
New York, NY / Las Vegas, NV

May 7, 2020
Mind the Gap Theatre presented Kate Holland performing my monologue Between the Surf and the Stars as part of its Housebound series on YouTube.
New York, NY

May 3, 2020
Cold Readings of Hastily Written Plays performed Canopies and Canapés, which was written for this event based on he following prompt: two characters leave a social event, the each talk about a separate topic the entire time from a specific list of topics (I chose “the perfect place to be alone” and “a comfort food”), and then one or them returns to the event. I also had to listen to a fast-paced rap song on loop while writing it. You can tell.
Pittsburgh, PA

May 1, 2020
Winter Harbor was selected by the Middletown Arts Center to be presented in a livestream reading in their upcoming festival, The MAC One Acts. Date TBA.
Middletown, NJ

April 17, 2020
Oberon Theatre Ensemble presented my new three-minute short film Palimpsest as part of its SpS Festival. SpS stands for Smartphone Series. The cast included Brad Fryman, Laura Siner, and Kathy Simonis. The entire movie was shot on Zoom.
New York, NY / Las Vegas, NV

April 16, 2020
Mind the Gap Theatre presented Christine Rendell performing my monologue Time, Magic, and Antoinette as part of its Housebound series on YouTube.
New York, NY

April 7, 2020
Nonsense and Beauty was named Best New Play at the St. Louis Theater Circle Awards for last year’s production at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
St. Louis, MO

April 5, 2020
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association 2020 New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2019... and NONSENSE AND BEAUTY is one of them!!!
Thank you again to The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Edgerton Foundation for making this even remotely possible!

April 3, 2020
Reign or Shine Productions presented Sarah Hayward performng a reading of the short version of my monologue Time, Magic, and Antoinette as part of its Love Drunk: Quarantine Edition series.
New York, NY

March 12, 2020
Due to concerns over the spread of novel coronavirus COVID-19, the remaining performances of Hellish Delights were canceled. We shall return!
New York, NY

March 11, 2020
An encore presentation of Marianas Trench: Part One of the Second World Trilogy. Directed by Janet Bentley, the cast included Mike Bezinger, Joe Burby, Andreas Casso, Riley Jones-Cohen, Mike Mihm, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Lawrence Wong, and Morgan Zipf-Meister. The reading was presented at the Bridge Theater at Shetler Studios.
New York, NY

March 6 - 9, 2020
Reign or Shine Productions presented Hellish Delights, an evening of four of my short plays directed by Jesse Edward Rosbrow and featuring Amanda LaPergola, Brian Silliman, and Alyssa Simon. The plays included Bulletproof Love, The Fallow Garden, O, For a Muse of Fire, and Somewhere South of Bethlehem, and were performed at The Bridge Theater at Shetler Studios.
New York NY

January 30 - February 1, 2020
Mystic Vision Players presented All the Things, Fade to White, The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World, Notes Over and Undercast Sky, and Orchids and Heat in its 2020 Kicking and Swearing One-Act Festival!
Rahway, NJ

January 16-19, 2020
The Gallery Players presented the world premiere of my one-act play Vacancies as part of its 2020 Winter Black Box Festival. Whitney Stone directed Joshua Radford, Christian Stevenson, and Monique Warren.
Brooklyn, NY

December 6-8, 2019
Marymount Manhattan Theatre Department presented my ten-minute play Beautiful Noises as part of its Fall 2019 Directing Projects, directed by Davis Gilmartin.
New York, NY

November 10, 2019
Otherworld Theatre Company presented I’d Follow You Anywhere: a Solaris story at Paragon 2019. The cast featured Meghan Cameron and Allie Verry. The production was directed by Leah Geis.
Chicago, IL

September 16, 2019
The Gallery Players have selected my one-act play Vacancies as part of its 2020 Winter Black Box Festival in January 2020.
Brooklyn, NY

September 8, 2019
Reign or Shine Productions presented readings of two new short plays as part of Love Drunk 14:
Lost Starlet and The Trike, or “Use Your Words.” Lost Starlet was directed by Paula D’Alessandris and featured Susan Izatt, Lizzie Kehoe, Helen McMillan, Gerrianne Raphael, Dan Remmes, Alyssa Simon, and Jenny Sterlin.
The Trike, or “Use Your Words” was directed by Janet Bentley, and featured Nik Duggen and Randall Rodriguez.
New York, NY

July 18, 2019
I presented a concert reading of Marianas Trench: Part One of The Second World Trilogy at TheaterLab. The cast included Janet Bentley, Mike Benzinger, Andreas Casso, Kenneth Lee, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Eric Percival, Christine Verleny, and Morgan Zipf-Meister.
New York, NY

July 16, 2019
Otherworld Theatre Company selected my one-act play I’d Follow You Anywhere: a Solaris story for Paragon 2019 on November 9 & 10. Paragon is the world's largest Science Fiction and Fantasy play festival, featuring 40 plays in 2 days!
Chicago, IL

June 7 & 8, 2019
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company presented the world premiere of my ten-minute play, Miracle and Her Minion, directed by Janet Bentley, featuring Lizzie Kehoe and Sam Mercer, as part of their festival This Round’s on Us: What’s the Big Idea? Myth/Reality.
New York, NY

May 11, 16, 24 & 24, 2019
MadLab presented my ten-minute play Outpost as part of its BORGS night of Theatre Roulette 2019, featuring Chadwick Anderson, Keith Jackson, and Jason Sudy, directed by Stephen Woosley.
Columbus, OH

May 5, 2019
Emmy Loss #7!!! (12 more to go until the Full Lucci!)
Once again, the General Hospital Writing Team did not take home an Emmy.
Los Angeles, CA

April 7, 2019
Marianas Trench, the first play in my science fiction trilogy, was a Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2019 National Playwrights Conference. While the play ultimately will not be presented in the Conference itself, being one of 67 Finalists out of over 1,400 submissions ain't bad.

April 3-5, 2019
Articulate Theatre Company presented the world premiere of my ten-minute play, #Bastille, as part of its festival, The Art of Protest, featuring Arianna Ennis and Eric Percival, directed by Janet Bentley.
New York, NY

March 22 & 23, 2019
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company presented the world premiere of my ten-minute play, Hand on Heart, as part of This Round’s on Us: Can You Touch/Feel Me? festival, featuring Oliver Palmer and Gabriela Urquia, directed by Shira-Lee Shalit.
New York, NY

March 6-24, 2019
***PROFESSIONAL LORT THEATER DEBUT***
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presented the world premiere production of Nonsense and Beauty, my biographical romantic drama about E.M. Forster, featuring John Feltch, Jeffrey Hayenga, Robbie Simpson, Lori Vega, and Donna Weinsting; directed by Seth Gordon.
St. Louis, MO

February 17, 2019
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL WRITING TEAM WINS A RECORD-BREAKING FIFTH CONSECUTIVE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DAYTIME DRAMA WRITING TEAM!!!

November 20-December 8, 2018
The #metoo Plays presented the world premiere my ten-minute play, The Bedroom Summit, a 2017 Finalist for the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting. The cast featured Blaine Mizer and Anthony Notarile. Steven Petrillo directed.
New York, NY

November 18, 2018
Otherworld Theatre Company presented the world premiere of my ten-minute play Outpost in its 4th Annual Paragon Festival of Sci-Fi + Fantasy Plays. Directed by Daniel Sappington, the cast featured Mathias Blake, Hillary Horvath and Conor McGarry.
Chicago, IL

October 24, 2018
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis received a grant from 2018 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards for its upcoming production of Nonsense and Beauty! From American Theatre, “The awards, totaling $1,114,000, allow 27 productions extra time for the development and rehearsal of new plays and musicals with the entire creative team, with the hope of extending the life of the world premiere play after its first run.”

October 20, 2018
My one-act play Badger and Frame was presented as part of Emerging Artists’ Theatre’s New Works Series. Directed by Susan Izatt, the cast featured Andreas Casso, Jeremy Cohen, Jason Howard and Sara Thigpen.
New York, NY

September 16, 2018
My ten-minute play The Bedroom Summit will be included in the Off-Off-Broadway showcase production of The #MeToo Plays this fall.
New York, NY

August 21, 2018
Otherworld Theatre Company has announced that my ten-minute play Outpost will be included in its 4th Annual Paragon Festival of Sci-Fi + Fantasy Plays this November!
Chicago, IL

August 14, 2018
Emerging Artists’ Theatre has announced that they will include my new one-act play Badger and Frame in its 2018 New Works Series this October.
New York, NY

July 30, 2018
The #MeToo Plays presented my ten-minute play The Bedroom Summit in its third and final installment of its reading series. Plays from this series will be selected for a showcase production later this year. Directed by Steve Petrillo, the cast included Anthony Notarile and Mike Rose.
New York, NY

July 24, 25 & 28
Perfecting the Kiss: a mockumentary for the stage was presented at the Capital Fringe. Directed by Paula D’Alessandris, the cast featured Daniel Damiano, Patrick Harman, Helen McMillan, Mia Moreland, and George Redner.
Washington, DC

July 16, 2018
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis officially announced that Nonsense and Beauty will be part of its 2018-2019 Studio Season. The play will be directed once again by Seth Gordon, who helmed the reading earlier this year in The Rep's Ignite! series. This will be the play's World Premier production. The first draft was completed in 1995.
St. Louis, MO

June 25-July 15, 2018
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company presented a revival of I Knew It!, my scathing ten-minute comedy about the wives rock'n'roll legends, in The Best of This Round's On Us! This new production featured Kate Garfield and Thea McCartan is directed by Janet Bentley.
New York, NY

May 31-June 3, 2018
The Gallery Players presented my one-act play Uncomplicated Bereavement in its 2018 Black Box New Play Festival. Directed by Alexandra Scordato, the cast included Christopher Boucher, Diànna Martin, and Danny McWilliams.
Brooklyn, NY

May 1, 2018
EMMY LOSS #6!!! [12 more to catch up with Lucci!]
Los Angeles, CA

April 7, 2018
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presented a staged reading of Nonsense and Beauty, my biographical play about E.M. Forster, as part of its 2018 Ignite! Festival of New Plays. Directed by Seth Gordon, the cast featured Jonathan Feltch, Jeffrey Hayenga, Shannon Marie Sullivan, Donna Weinsting, and David Wells.
St. Louis, MO

March 25, 2018
Reign or Shine Productions presented readings of my two new plays in their series Love Drunk 14: Bulletproof Love and Three Months! Tops! Bulletproof Love was directed by Jesse Edward Rosbrow and featured Amanda LaPergola and Brian Silliman. Three Months! Tops! was directed by Kelly Monroe Johnston and featured Jeremy Cohen, Catherine Daddario, J.D. Fowler, Kate Kenney, Gabe Portuondo, and Christine Seisler.
New York, NY

March 21, 2017
Daytime Emmy nomination #6!
General Hospital was nominated for Outstanding Drama Writing Team!
The nominees are Shelly Altman, Jean Passanante, Chris Van Etten, Anna Theresa Cascio, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Suzanne Flynn, Lucky Gold, Charlotte Gibson, Kate Hall, Dave Rupel, Katherine Schock, Christopher Whitesell and yours truly.
The Daytime Emmys will be held on Sunday, April 29!

February 28, 2018
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company announced it will be reviving I Knew It!, my scathing comedy  play about the wives rock'n'roll legends in its Best of This Round's On Us festival this summer from June 25-July 15! This new production will be directed by Janet Bentley. Cast TBD.
New York, NY

February 13-14, 2018
Hudson Warehouse Theater Company presented Escalator to the Gallows as part of it's annual Valentine's Day monologue festival, The Many Faces of Love. Directed by Susane Lee, the piece featured a hilariously vocal Lisa LaGrande and a brilliantly silent George K. Wells.
New York, NY

February 11, 2018
General Hospital's writing team was named Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing Team at the Writers Guild of America Awards for the fourth consecutive year, tying a record set by Ryan's Hope (and repeated by Ryan's Hope three more times). We're in good company!
New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA

January 28, 2018
Somewhere South of Bethelehem, a new one-act I wrote for the WorkShop Theater Company's Out of the Hat 3 series was read with actors Robert Meksin, Virginia Roncetti and frequent collaborator/muse Kari Swenson Riely, and narrated by Allison Linker. For this series, playwrights were assigned to compose a 10-to-20-minute play inspired by the theme of "Faith." The actors, whose names were literally drawn out of a hat, portrayed the Devil, Lucrezia Borgia, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson rehearsing a nativity play in Hell.
New York, NY

January 24-27, 2018
Acadia University presented by one-act ghost story Tactile Creatures in its MiniFest 2018. A ghost story meant to be performed by three actors of any age, race or gender, the play was originally written as part of the 2017 31 Plays in 31 Days. The play was directed by Chelsea St. Rose, a technical theater student making her directing debut. Her production was EXQUISITE!!!
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

January 21, 2018
My ten-minute play Hand on Heart received a staged reading as part of Urban Stages's The Heroes & Villains Plays.
New York, NY

December 8, 2017
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis announced it will be presenting Nonsense and Beauty, my biographical play about E.M. Forster, as part of its 2018 Ignite! Festival of New Plays on April 7. Also in the lineup is fellow Pittsburgh playwright Tammy Ryan's Hurricane Colleen and Wind-Up Girl, book and lyrics by Sarah Hammond, music by Will Aronson.
St. Louis, MO

December 7, 2017
Acadia University announced that is will include my new short play Tactile Creatures in its MiniFest 2018 in late January. A ghost story meant to be performed by three actors of any age, race or gender, the play was originally written as part of the 2017 31 Plays in 31 Days.
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

December 7, 2017
General Hospital's writing team was nominated yet again for the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing Team. General Hospital has won the award the past three consecutive years. This year, the other nominee in this category is Days of Our Lives, headed by my former and much-beloved boss Ron Carlivati.
New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA

November 11-12, 2017
Otherworld Theatre presented Appetizers, or "On an Island Somwhere" as part of PARAGON: The Largest Science Fiction and Fantasy Play Festival in the World!
Chicago, IL

November 9, 2017
The Other Half, the weirdest and most depressing play I’ve ever written, has been translated into Hungarian and published! This publication happened as part of The Translation Project's Seven Plays in Seven Days event at Pazmany Peter Catholic University.
Budapest, Hungary

October 20-22, 2017
The Greenhouse Ensemble presented The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World: a play about bastards and birthright as part of its Fourth Ten-Minute Play Soiree. Directed by Allison Plamondon, the cast featured Patrick Harman and Braeson Herold.
New York, NY

September 19, 2017
It was just announced that The Greenhouse Ensemble will be including my new ten-minute play The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World: a play about bastards and birthright in its 4th Ten-Minute Play Soirée, October 20-22! It will be directed by Allison Plamondon.

August 1, 2017
My ten-minute play Turtles and Bulldogs has been published in Best American Short Plays 2015-2016!

August 1, 2017
Just found out that Otherworld Theatre has selected Appetizers, or "On an Island Somewhere" to be one of 40 plays performed in PARAGON: The Largest Science Fiction and Fantasy Play Festival in the World alongside work by some other playwrights I know! The festival takes place November 11th and 12th, 2017, in Chicago!

June 23-25, 2017
The Greenhouse Ensemble presented my ten-minute play Appetizers, or "On an Island Somewhere" as part of its Ten Minute Play Soiree. Directed by Sara Rademacher, the cast included Eliza Greene-Smith, James Meneses,
Jay William Thomas, and Folami Williams.
New York, NY

June 1-24, 2017
The Workshop Theater presented my New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning drama Composure. Directed by Emmy and fellow NYIT Award-winner Fritz Brekeller, the cast featured CK Allen, Susan Izatt, Robert Bruce McIntosh, Cliff Miller, Rob Ventre, Christine Verleny, and J Warren Weber.
New York, NY

April 30, 2017
General Hospital wins FIVE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS including Best Daytime Drama Directing Team (second year in a row), Best Younger Actor Brian Craig (Morgan Corinthos; another repeat win!), Best Younger Actress Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina Corinthos-Davis), and also for the second year in a row Best Drama Series!
The writing team was again honored to be nominated.
Los Angeles, CA.

April 26, 2017
Stephen F. Austin State University presented a performance of my ten-minute play Turtles and Bulldogs. Directed by Haley Gibbs, the cast included Jason Trevino and Logan Ward.
Nacogdoces, TX

April 18-22, 2017
Mind-the-Gap Theatre and YouBlinked Productions presented PERFECTING THE KISS: a mockumentary for the stage at the John DeSotelle Studios, who were great hosts! Directed by Paula D'Alessandris, the wonderful cast included Patrick Harman, Janette Johnston, Helen McMillan, George Redner, and co-producer Hugo Trebels.
New York, NY

April 15, 2017
My tiny play Up on a Roof was published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, a Hal Leonard Imprint. I'm in very good company, too! The anthology can be purchased on Amazon HERE.

March 22, 2017
Daytime Emmy nomination #5!
General Hospital was nominated for Outstanding Drama Writing Team!
The nominees are Shelly Altman, Jean Passanante, Chris Van Etten, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Janet Iacobuzzio, Katherine Schock, , Christopher Whitesell and yours truly.
The Daytime Emmys will be held on Sunday, April 30!

March 12, 2017
Reign or Shine Productions presented readings of my two new plays in their series Love Drunk 9: Fade to White and The Most Important Meal of the Day. Fade to White was directed by Jesse Edward Rosbrow and featured Walter Brandes and Alyssa Simon. The Most Important Meal of the Day was directed by DeLisa M. White and featured Mick Bleyer and Greg Oliver Bodine.
New York, NY

February 19, 2017
General Hospital won the 2017 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama Writing Team!
We are Shelly Altman, Jean Passanante, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Janet Iacobuzzio, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Katherine Schock, Chris Van Etten, Christopher Whitesell and yours truly.
This was our third consecutive win!

February 12-14, 2017
Hudson Warehouse Theater Company presented Consolation as part of it's annual Valentine's Day monologue festival, The Many Faces of Love. Directed by Susane Lee, the piece featured Patrina Caruana.
New York, NY

November 11, 2016
I was lucky enough to receive publishing offers for two of my ten-minute plays: Turtles and Bulldogs and The Other Half. Turtles and Bulldogs will be included in The Best American Short Plays, 2015-2016 from Applause Books. The Hungarian translation of The Other Half will be one of 28 short works published by the Drama Translation Project in Budapest.

October 21, 2016
The Fallow Garden, a new one-act I wrote for the WorkShop Theater Company's Out of the Hat 2 series was read with actors Heather Massie and Jackie Jenkins, narrated by frequent collaborator C.K. Allen. For this series, playwrights were assigned to compose a 10-to-20-minute play inspired by a song for actors whose names were literally drawn out of a hat. I got very lucky!

October 5, 2016
Beautiful Noises, was produced at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, directed by Pedro Adan Dominguez! His production made important faculty members cry. Victory was ours!

September 29, 2016
I became Adam Szymkowicz's 877th interviewed playwright!

September 26, 2016
GREAT NEWS FROM THE 2016 NEW YORK INNOVATIVE THEATRE AWARDS!!!
Composure was named Outstanding
      Original Full-Length Script!
Fritz Brekeller received the award
      for Outstanding Director!
You can watch my speech HERE and Fritz's speech HERE!
New York, NY

September 25, 2016
WorkShop Theater Company artistic director Thomas Coté announced that Composure would be the third play of the company's 2016-2017 season. It is slated to run from April 27 to May 20, 2017. This will not be a remounting but rather a new production of a new draft. Fritz Brekeller will return to direct.
New York, NY

August 8, 2016
GREAT NEWS!!! The June 2015 WorkShop Theater Company production of my play Composure was nominated for three New York Innovative Theater Awards!
• Outstanding Premier Production of a Full-Length Play (WorkShop Theater Company)
• Outstanding Direction (Fritz Brekeller)
• Outstanding Original Full-Length Script (yours truly!)
The winners of the NYIT Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Monday, September 26.
New York, NY

August 7, 2016
I made my Los Angeles production debut with my ten-minute play I Knew It! in its third production this year! The play was presented at North Hollywood's The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theater as part of its festival, Nine Winning One-Acts. Directed by Bruce Nehlsen, the play featured Stephanie Colet and Alana Kerr Collins.
North Hollywood, CA
 

July 24, 2016
Shepherd's Bush won the 2016 Dayton Playhouse Future Fest!
It received a reading on Saturday, July 23, directed by Michael Boyd, featuring the talents of David Shough as E.M. Forster, Scott Knisley as Bob Buckingham, Ella Wylie as May Hockey-Buckingham, Brian Sharp as J.R. Ackerley, and Bonnie Froelich as Lily Forster.
Dayton, OH
 

July 10, 2016
I was beyond honored that my tragic experimental drama The Other Half was translated into Hungarian and presented in Drama-translation Workshop part of “Seven Plays in Seven Days” led by Ágnes Somló at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary.

 

June 9-16, 2016
Strange Cargo Theatre Project and The Three Leaches presented Turtles and Bulldogs as part of Night of the Offstage Dead, seven short plays by William C. Kovacsik, Scott C. Sickles and Tori Keenan-Zelt. Directed by Mr. Kovacsik, the play featured (fellow General Hospital alum) Danny Mann and Michael Kennedy.
Denver, CO

May 28-29, 2016
Shot the pilot webisode of the new comedy web series Off-Off-Kilter I co-wrote with creator Anne Fizzard.
Directed by Emmy Award-winner Fritz Brekeller, the cast features Emilie Bonsant, Greg Oliver Bodine, Richard Kent Green, Luke Hofmaier, Cecily Benjamin Hughes, Mary Lane, Robert Bruce McIntosh, the aforementioned Anne Fizzard and... yours truly! I'm playing the much-beleaguered artistic director of an Off-Off-Broadway Theater Company... a real stretch!
New York, NY

May 1, 2016
General Hospital wins NINE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS including Best Daytime Drama Directing Team, Best Younger Actor Brian Craig (Morgan Corinthos), Best Supporting Actor Sean Blakemore (Shawn Butler), Best Lead Actor Tyler Christopher (Nikolas Cassadine) and Best Drama Series!
The writing team was honored to be nominated.
Los Angeles, CA

April 8-10, 2016
I Knew It! received great reviews as part of That Uppity Theatre Company's 5th Annual BRIEFS: A Festival of Short LGBTQ Plays, directed by Matthew R. Kerns, featuring Lavonne Byers and Shannon Nara.

February 26-27, 2016
My ten-minute play I Knew It! had its first production as part of Nylon Fusion Theatre Company's This Round's On Us: Time Travel 70s, 80s, 90s directed by Andrew Block with Elizabeth Inghram and Maiken Lozano-Weise.
New York, NY

February 13, 2016
General Hospital won the 2016 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama Writing Team. We are Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Elizabeth Page, Jean Passanante, Katherine Schock, Chris Van Etten, and yours truly.

February 11-28, 2016
I made my Berkshire theater debut with Turtles and Bulldogs at Barrington Stage Company's
2016 10X10 New Play Festival directed by John Miller-Stephany with Andrew May and Matt Neely.
Pittsfield, MA

February 11-21, 2016
My ten-minute play Turtles and Bulldogs was presented in Parish Players'
10th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival.
Thetford, VT

February 11, 2016
My ten-minute play Beautiful Noises made its high school debut directed by student Hana Lively at Kent-Meridian High School in Kent, Washington.

Trivia: Another ten-minute play, Turtles and Bulldogs, began performances on this day at Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts and at Parish Players in Vermont, marking the the first (and possibly only) day in my life that plays of mine are literally being done Coast-to-Coast!
Kent, WA

January 27, 2016
My new one-act play Uncomplicated Bereavement received its debut public reading the WorkShop Theater Company's Out of the Hat mini-festival, featuring Joe Burby, Michael Gnat, and Diànna Martin.
New York, NY

December 3, 2015
The General Hospital Writing Team (Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Elizabeth Page, Jean Passanante, Katherine Schock, Chris Van Etten and I) was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.
We won last year!
The awards ceremony will be held on February 13.

Thursday, November 5, 2015
Mind the Gap Theatre presented
HEART OF A WOMAN IN A PRESSURE COOKER: a journey in eight notions by Ephrym Justyce
as part of Bad Theater Fest 2016
directed by Sojourner St. John (a/k/a Paula D'Alessandris)
featuring Clemmie Evans, Anne Fizzard, David J. Goldberg, Janette Johnston
                 and Walter Brandes as the Mise en Scène

July 26, 2015
Aaron Grant Theatrical presented a concert reading of
Moonlight & Love Songs
directed by Colin Hanlon
with Felicia Finley, John Jellison, Sean Allan Krill, Guy Lemmonnier,
          Taso Mikroulis, Dee Roscoli, and Stewart Schneck.
New York, NY

June 11-20, 2015
WorkShop Theater Company presented a developmental (Plays-in-Process) production of
Composure
directed by Fritz Brekeller
with Scott Ahearn, CK Allen, Anne Fizzard, Michael Gnat, Susan Izatt, and Ben Rezendez
New York, NY

May 1, 2015
The Pittsburgh New Works Festival presented a staged reading of
The Harmonic Convergence
(for which I received the Outstanding Playwright award at the 1996 Festival)
as part of Harmonic Blasphemy: Celebrating 25 Years of New Plays in Pittsburgh
directed (again!) by Lora Oxenreiter
featuring TJ Firneno and Mark Yochum
The evening also featured a reading of Christopher Dimond's glorious play The Blasphemy of Bees.
Carnegie, PA

April 26, 2015
General Hospital LOSES Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team!
Trivia: I am now 0-for-3 with the Emmys!

April 9-May 2, 2015
WorkShop Theater Company presented my short play
Popcorn
as part of A La Carte: a Feast of New Plays
directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby
featuring Joseph Boover, Susan Izatt, and Cody Keown
with the vocal talents of Robert Bruch McIntosh and Virginia Roncetti
New York, NY

February 14, 2015
The General Hospital writing team (Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Elizabeth Page, Katherine Schock, Chris Van Etten and I) WINS the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama Writing Team!
Trivia: My first win in five nominations (3 for One Life to Live and 2 for GH)