Of all the writing I've ever done, I love playwriting the best for a number of reasons. It's intimate, it's personal and if you work at home you don't have to wear pants. It's you, the paper, your head and no one else. You are writing for yourself, your vision, your passion and you are the only one you need to please. If in the process you want to veer to the right, you veer to the right. If you want to make a sudden U-turn, that's okay too. It's totally your call, your ballgame. Ah, freedom.
It's not always easy getting produced and although I have been very lucky in that regard, I do have some plays that haven't had that opportunity yet. But when your play does get produced, I promise you, you will never feel the highs that you will feel. Its hearing the lines you've sweated over brought to life by gifted actors. It's having a director who understands exactly what you want to say and has that same goal. It's the loud applause the audience gives you at the end of the evening to further assure you how right you were in your choices. Of course, on the other hand, you will never feel such lows when all that doesn't happen. Then it's very important for you to be kept away from sharp objects.
But most of all, for me, I love the camaraderie shared with the cast and crew, the feeling that we're all in this together and somehow we're going to make the play work. The words are what they bought and unlike any other medium, there is total respect for them, total dedication to them. Call it pride of ownership, but that makes all the difference.
Every now and then when I find a review of one of my plays, I have every intention of adding it to this website. But it's a pain in the ass to do, so don't count on it.
And as I mentioned earlier, if you are doing a production of one of my plays and have any questions about it, use the CONTACT tab and I will get back to you as promptly as I can.
The following is a list of the plays I've written. The asterisk indicates the ones I've written with another writer. To find out more about each play, just click on the title.
The following is a list of the plays I've written and co-written.
Co-written with:
* Ron Clark
** Julie Stein
*** Joey Bobrick