Full Length Plays

 

The Mayfair Affair

John Mayfair seeks to sell his family heirloom and hide the assets from his soon-to-be-ex wife, but on the weekend of the sale, almost all the potential buyers have a motive to steal the diamond.
Farce.  5f 5m. 126p

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Mayfair Ma Chere
A prequel to Mayfair Affair, John's parents elope to New Orleans to avoid his disapproving family, where they meet an abandoned Mail-Order bride, a Cajun witch doctor, a crusty sea captain, a clumsy porter, a desperate missionary, a would be smuggler, a stifled adventurer and a grieving widow.
Farce. 5f 5m.

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Anathema

A young woman enters the lives of a family, upsetting the tenuous balance.
2f 2m. 90p.

 

Miss

After failing to make it in Chicago, Honey returns to Mississippi, and finds the re-transition difficult.
2f 3m. 62p.

 

The Case of The Blue Darling

A noir-inspired mystery.  Jack, a private detective, seeks the elusive Blue Darling in the seedy underworld.
Flexible cast. 49p.

 

Several

A young woman struggles with the relationship with her boyfriend, as she finds connection with his ex-girlfriend.
2f 1m. 53p.

 

The Memory Trilogy

A trio of short plays, The Attic, Anya and rememberfall, centered around issues of memory and connection.
1f 2m or 3f 5m. 80p.

 

The Long Surrender

A cycle of 14 short plays, written to the songs from the album The Long Surrender by Over the Rhine.

Flexible cast. 95p.

 

Oz

As a rushed opening night approaches, a young playwright works on his new play to please his disapproving mentor, as his actress girlfriend rehearses the show with an actor (her ex-boyfriend).
1f 3m. 978p.

 

Winter Branch

After a workaholic dad is let go from his job, he seeks to reconnect with his family on a forced vacation to the family cabin.
2f 2m. 115p.

 

'Til Heaven

Unlikely dormmates survive the 4-year college experience.

4m.

 

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One Act Plays

 

Braids

Sisters and their mother.  A wedding day.  Loss, regret, and an attempt to forge a future different from the past.

3 f.  29p.

 

Granite

3f 1m. 11p.

 

The Great Play

Two characters find themselves on stage, and attempt to make the play they are in into a great play.
2 actors. 36 p.

 

East Wind Unfair and Peach Blossoms Fall

 

SoloS

Urns, The Silent, A Burden

1 actor.  

 

Return

1f 1m.

 

van Gogh

Vincent is visited on his deathbed by his brother and supporter, Theo.  

Text assembled from excerpts of letters between the brothers

First produced at Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, 2001.

2m.

 

 

31 Plays in 31 Days

 

Completed the 31/31 challenge in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.  A total of 124 short plays, over 1000 pages of script.

The 2016 edition is currently in process.

 

 

 

 

Screenplays

 

Feature Length

 

Before We Close

A musical film based on the original stage play, OZ. 

Directed by Joshua Tucker

Cinemoments Films

 

The Bridges over San Michele

A young man seeks to prove his worth to the father of his beloved by rebuilding the washed-out bridge that would reunite the two sides of the town of San Michele.

Unproduced.

 

Short Films

 

The Heart of Saturday Night

A young woman receives help from an unlikely source, but it means giving up her past.
Directed by Dave Selle
Regent Films.

 

Drying Out

A man who's hit the bottom learns to walk away.
Directed by 

Regent Films.
 

Someone's Gonna Pay

A scrupulous hit man takes out the wrong man, and seeks to right the wrong on his boss.Regent Films.

 

And One for the Organizer

A hospital patient with a mysterious past is pushed too far by an orderly.
Directed by Jason Dickerson
Yellow Line Pictures.
**NYC 48 Hour film