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Inspired by three years of teaching high school in the Bronx, I wrote my first play Why You Beasting, a gritty, hard-hitting satire.
It’s about an idealistic first-year teacher who cannot tame, let alone teach his wildly undisciplined students, so he deliberately tries to get tossed in “the rubber room,” a detention center for teachers accused of impropriety.
Its sold-out run at the NYC Fringe Festival earned rave reviews (see PRESS page), including a four-star “Critics Pick” in TimeOut New York.
Why You Beasting was then selected for the Fringe Encore Series, and transferred for another celebrated run at the Players Theatre in the West Village.
Selections from Why You Beasting were published in the Smith and Kraus anthology 222 More Comedy Monologues, 2 Minutes and Under, available for purchase in PUBLICATIONS.
Following the success of Why You Beasting?, I joined the creative team of Goodbye New York, a new musical that is part romantic comedy, part social drama.
It’s about a spirited young woman indulging her final day in New York City, when of all people, she runs into “the one that got away” after ten years apart. Although their romance is rekindled, the joy is short-lived, as she’s hiding a dark secret—one that will tear them apart forever.
In 2022 it was honored with a sold-out concert at Feinstein's 54Below, as well as an industry presentation, both starring Arielle Jacobs (Here Lies Love and Aladdin on Broadway), Brad Standley (Waitress National Tour), and Ben Jeffrey (The Lion King on Broadway). Goodbye New York was then optioned by Tony-winning producer Van Dean (Jagged Little Pill), and is currently in development for production in London or a regional theatre.
Next I created Bacon Clickbait, a ten-minute, darkly comic satire about a man so engrossed in Facebook arguments that he cannot be bothered to attend his own father’s funeral.
It was first selected for a staged reading at Phoenix Theatre Company’s Festival of New American Theatre, and deftly directed by Chanel Bragg (Artistic Director, Arizona Theater Company). It was then blessed with a full production at the New York New Works Festival, and chosen as a finalist by a panel of producers. Next it was selected for production at Theatreworks in New Milford, CT, where it was also honored as a finalist.
Excerpts from Bacon Clickbait were selected for publication in an anthology titled The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2021, available for purchase in PUBLICATIONS.
More recently, and with the help of my two sons, I wrote It Wasn't Me, a full-length comedy about a father and son who shoplift and fence items on Ebay to avoid eviction after mom runs away in a last ditch to chase her Hollywood dreams.
It Wasn’t Me won the Scribe Playwriting Competition’s Marsha A. Croyle Award for outstanding achievement in playwriting, and I am currently submitting it nationwide for production consideration.
