1991: ARGUS
An odd one-act about a man with a dog inside of him. Winner of the Out North New Play Competition, received a reading at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, in Jan 1993.
1994: CAFÉ ANGST
Another odd one-act, this time about a group of young urban Seattleites trapped for an afternoon within a mysterious café, who are each given the chance to exchange angsts. Produced at Moe’s Mo Rockin’ Café, January 1995, winner of a reading at Miami's Acme Theater Company, and given a staged reading at Southwark Playhouse, London, later that year.
1996: SCOTCH AND DONUTS
A full length comedy about friendship, with three guys awaiting a trip to sunny Mexico in a dank Sea-Tac hotel room. Produced at the Brown Bag Theater, Seattle, Jan-Feb 1997, given workshop production at Southwark Playhouse, London, September 1997.
1998: THE SCRUB ROOM
A short play about surgeons and why they choose to cut up people. Produced as part of PEEP, an evening of short plays, at the Sit and Spin, Seattle, Oct-Nov 1998.
2000: PETTING SOUNDS, HAPPY VOLES
Two short plays written for the 14/48 Play Festival. Petting Sounds concerned strange noises coming from an apartment, while Happy Voles was a cheerful look at the near-future of genetic behavioral modification. Consolidated Works, Jan 2000. Petting Sounds went on to a radio production as part of Taboo: An Evening of Live Radio for New Waves Productions, August 2000, and was staged by Olympia’s Artesian Theater in February 2001.
2000: THE ETERNAL VAUDEVILLE
A full length play with music about a theater filled with the ghosts of past entertainers, and a modern-day street performer who’s offered a lengthy run. A commission from the Seattle Theater Group. Moore Theater, Feb 2000.
2001: THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
adapted from the novel by G.K. Chesterton. A poet-policeman infiltrates a cabal of anarchists bent on destroying society, only to discover that it’s possible the entire group are undercover policemen. Produced at Seattle's Taproot Theatre in spring of 2002, and at Wyoming Seminary, PA, in winter 2004.
2001: DISAPPEARING ACT/AKA
Two ten-minute plays written for the July 2001 edition of One World Theatre's 14/48. Disappearing Act: a woman who hates her boyfriend, her mother, her name, and her life discovers salvation in the anonymity of her gym. AKA: a blind date between a woman who believes in past lives and a man with multiple personality disorder proves difficult.
LITTLE WHITE PILL
A 40-something year old man decides to stop aging, only his life won't allow him to forget his own mortality. Given a fully staged reading to the FringeACT new works festival in March 2002, ACT Theatre, then at Union Garage Theatre on Capitol Hill that summer.
2002: THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD/AULD ACQUAINTANCE
Another 14/48, another pair of short plays. Center is about a working menage e trois, and the odd emotional problems that even the best of all unorthodox worlds creates. Auld Acquaintance was a play for the New Year, about dinosaurs, the Pope, and wars and rumors of wars that we all have to look forward to.
THE "IT" GIRL
An original monologue. What if you were the girl in five movies last year who was on the cover of Rolling Stone? What if you still didn't know how to act?
PERSPECTIVES
A short play about the different uses, and abuses, of TV, Film, and Theatre. And selling Tequila.
2003: IMPORTANT DATES IN HISTORY
A new short play for a new 14/48 about a man who invents a time machine so he can get a new girlfriend.
HOW TO BE COOL
A one-act play in which a self-described "Student of Cool" does his best to describe its quality to a high school class in 1962. Produced at the Seattle Fringe Festival, encored at the Union Garage in 2004, as well as Port Townsend's Peninsula College and the Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle.
2006: Two short plays for 14/48.
GOLDEN imagines an encounter between the Gods Who Walk the Earth, otherwise known as Celebrities, at the 2006 Oscars.
A IS FOR APPLE is a story about Adam and Eve in the Garden with the Snake, but it's not the one you think you know. Winner in the 2007 Short Attention Span Festival at New England's Atlantis Playmakers.
MARVOLO THE ANTI-SMOKING MAGICIAN
A down-at-his-heels magician pulls it together for one last magical mystical spectacle. A play with magic, produced at Odd Duck Studios, Seattle, April 2006.
BIBLE STORIES FOR AGNOSTICS
The story of the original First Family, following their fortunes from the Garden of Eden to the first city of Enoch. One of the plays, "E IS FOR EQUINOX," part of the St. Gensisus Society's "In Preparation" 10 Page Play Festival.
2007: ARCANA I
Six new short plays of a projected 6 play cycle based on images from the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. "STARDUST" one of the plays, won the Irene Bashmore First Place Award in LA's New Stages One-Act Play Festival. "THE PICNIC" was produced at NPA's December reading salon and will be produced this spring as part of their New Play Festival.
The links below are to a few articles I've written that give me a chortle.
