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New Kid Next Door is in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2024 from Smith & Kraus!
A second edition of Mrs Dilber's Christmas Carol is now available from Next Stage Press!
My newest play from Youthplays, Straw, Sticks, Bricks!
Updated May 2025
| April 24th-May 8th 2025 | A Gulag Mouse | COM Theatre Texas City, TX |
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| May 1st-3rd 2025 | Long Joan Silver | Carroll High School Fort Wayne, IN |
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| May 2nd-3rd 2025 | Rising | Ascencion Solorsano MS Gilroy, CA |
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| July 11th-19th 2025 | The Lady Demands Satisfaction | The Barn Theatre Port Huron, MI |
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| September 26th-27th 2025 | There Is No Play | Alaska Theatre of Youth Anchorage, AK |
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| Nov 28th-Dec 21st 2025 | Mrs Dilber's Christmas Carol | The Phoenix Theatre Seattle, WA |
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| Soon to be announced! | How Not to Do Your Homework Straw, Sticks, Bricks |
Licensed for upcoming productions! Details when the theatres make their announcements! |
I attended a taping of Let's Make a Deal! I'll announce when my episode will be airing, and you can watch to see if I was chosen, if I won anything, and whether the fantastic Wayne Brady had anything to say about my playwriting!
My gritty post-war prison drama A Gulag Mouse is currently playing at the COM Theatre in Texas City, Texas, April 24th to May 8th, directed by friend, amazing fight director, and playwright of "A Divine Kerfuffle," H. Russ Brown!
Photo by Nancy Myers-Scholz, Purpose Photography
A huge congratulations to Burnett Junior High School for your UIL production of
Livy Mann - All Star Cast
William Childers - Technical Theatre
Ben Jones - Honorable Mention All Star Cast
Evangeline Lilley - Honorable Mention All Star Cast
You are all amazing!
The Burnett Junior High production in rehearsal.
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that NEW KID NEXT DOOR is included in this year's collection from Smith & Kraus of The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024. It's my second play in the classic series, the last was THE FOUR SENSES OF LOVE in 2012!
The play is a delightfully creepy little daylight horror play for three teens.
My unexpected take on the Three Little Pigs, STRAW, STICKS, BRICKS has just been published by YouthPLAYS. It's my fifteenth play with them!
It's the tale of three building materials who long to become houses, and what happens when they meet three pigs on the run from a big, bad wolf. Given the state of the country right now, I am so proud of this brave little play, that tells us that everyone–even a pile of straw–deserves to have their story told.
My subversive take on the Dickens classic Mrs. Dilber's Christmas Carol has a new promo video, and a second edition of the play after some rewrites following the LA Production. I came up with some good ideas, some new lines - but I also have been working on a secret project that inspired me to do some major structural changes to the opening scene... and Gene Kato and everyone at Next Stage Press was excited to get them into print!
My latest monologue No Quarter Given was beautifully performed by Matthew Menendez at the Faces of America Monologue festival #6, on November 23, 2024 at the Marjorie S. Deane Theater in New York City, and is now published in their anthology.
So this site has had over 1.5 million visitors (see the counter above!), and I added a button for the "Buy me a coffee" website, thinking it might offset the cost of hosting the free monologues to download. Well.. it didn't. There was an initial burst of tips from some lovely friends, for which I am very grateful... and since then... very quiet. But you might be the visitor that suprises me! Chip in a buck or two today!
I'm still working on a play about The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie - developed with Houston's Alley Theatre. Here's some inside info, courtesy of Brendan Bourque-Sheil and the Landing Theatre New Works Podcast!
A drama teaching friend of mine asked me to muse on what makes a strong standalone monologue for her class... so here's my take on it!
