The poster for Fravær (the version of Absence being performed by the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen) is now available! As are tickets, which you can order from this website. Words can not express (yes, I know what a thing for a writer to say) how jazzed up … Continue reading
In July, I worked with Megan Schy Gleeson (who directed the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre‘s production of Absence) on a workshop of my play The Centipede King. Now, you can see the results by coming to a staged reading of the play at … Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, a play of mine will be appearing in the Hovey Players’ Summer Shorts in Waltham, MA. I’m always happy to have my work done at Hovey, as my relationship with the company dates … Continue reading
The Boston Globe features a beautiful article by Don Aucoin on the recent flurry of plays about victims of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Among the plays he discusses are Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, Sharr White’s The Other Place, Barney Norris’s Visitors, and my own Absence. … Continue reading
Writers at Play: 2015 Showcase of New Work Monday, June 22. 7:30pm. FREE Boston Playwright’s Theatre I belong to a playwriting group called Writers at Play, all of who members are MFA playwriting alumni of Boston University. The group is launching … Continue reading
My play Absence, winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Award and nominee for the Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for best new play, will get its European debut this fall at the Oslo Nye Trikkestallen. The play will be performed in Norwegian, … Continue reading
As it’s been over two years since I last made a standard blog entry, I’ve decided to rethink the structure of my website. I originally intended to make this page a regular forum for essays and commentary, but the sad … Continue reading
[Note: The following post is an expansion of a piece originally written for a newsletter sent to subscribers at the New Repertory Theatre.] “Sometimes [while writing] I’m going along and I find myself writing ‘C. comes in’ when I didn’t … Continue reading
I spent the last week of July in sunny Washington, D.C. attending the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center. Sponsored by the National New Play Network, the Workshop was an opportunity for a half-dozen selected playwrights to work with … Continue reading
These days, you can’t spit without hitting a short play festival. On any given weekend, check out the play listings in the Globe or Phoenix, and you’re guaranteed to find some community or fringe theater putting on a set of … Continue reading