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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, Tricked!
Updated July 2026.
| July 9-19th, 2026 | Sales of a Dead Man | Gulfport Community Players, Gulfport, FL |  |
| September 11-20th, 2026 | Strong Spirits | Nomad Theatre Co Smashhouse Tavern, Bloomington, IL |  |
| November 6-15th, 2026 | Blood and Coal Dust | Atlantic Acting School, Theatre Row, 410 W 42nd St, New York, NY |  |
| November 2026 | Long Joan Silver | Noth Platte HS, North Platte, Nebraska |  |
| November 6-15th, 2026 | The Christmas Princess | Empire House Players, Wichita, KS |  |
| February 10th-13th, 2027 | Long Joan Silver | Corn Stock Theatre, Peoria, IL. |  |
| Upcoming! | Scheduled but not yet announced by the theatres | Long Joan Silver later in 2027. I guess 'tis the season for pirates! And my latest The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie in July 2027! |
A short screenplay, loosely based on Fallen to the Communists, has been published in the latest Coachella Review!
Huge congratulations to the cast and crew of A Gulag Mouse for an amazing performance at the District level in the Texas UIL competition, and congratulations on your many deserved awards along the way!
I was back in Valdez, Alaska for a fourteenth (fifteenth?) time at the amazing theatre conference there, teaching a workshop on Structured Rewriting and if you attended and didn't get the handout from the QR code in the room, shoot me an email! I also performed How and Why I got a Back Alley Nosejob at the Fringe Festival, read a scene from Mrs. Dilber's Christmas Carol, paneled a lot of feedback sessions, crafted a new monologue in Bryan Willis's playwriting workshop, and had a wonderful, rejuvenating time yet again. I come back fired up about my own writing, about championing some of the writers I met, and ready to tackle a one-person show I've been musing on for a while!
I was on Let's Make a Deal and Wayne Brady read some of Lord Abernathy's monologue from The Lady Demands Satisfaction! Oh, and I won a fabulous prize, but honestly - WAYNE BRADY READ MY PLAY! That's the best prize. During the break between the two episodes we filmed that day, he came up to me and said he was reading it and it was "very funny!" And that guy knows funny when he sees it!
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that TRICKED is now available from YouthPLAYS. It's my sixteenth play with them, and it's a genuinely scary horror play for two teens!
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!
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!
