News

5/15/12

Currently teaching a Young Playwrights monologue workshop for two sections of seniors at William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, Queens.  

2/13/12

Congrats to MASKED ZINFANDEL composer Peter Yarin, pianist for Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks, for their work on the Grammy-winning soundtrack to HBO's Boardwalk Empire!

12/5/11

Smashing read of THE MASKED ZINFANDEL to a full house at Greenwich House Music School on November 21, featuring Broadway's Stanley Bahorek, Raymond Bokhour, Mike McGowan, Lauren Molina, and Sarah Sokolovic, along with the awesome Emily Borromeo, Dewey Caddell, David Garry, Charlotte Graham, Caryn Hartglass, Lawrence Rush, and Doug Shapiro, directed by Hilary Adams and music-directed by Jody Schum.  Now turning attention to some new recordings, and other shows in development. 

11/10/11

Attention drama and wrestling fans: My profile of Pulitzer finalist Kristoffer Diaz (THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY) appears in the latest NYU magazine. 

11/3/11

Opening night in Chicago for the Appetite Theatre's Bruschetta festival, including my short play GHOST LITE!  The show runs Nov 3-19 at Live Bait, 3914 N Clark St in Wrigleyville.  This is my second time in Bruschetta; the first was the premiere of PARENT INTERVIEW in 2007.  It's also the second production of GHOST LITE, following North Carolina's 10x10 in the Triangle fest this summer.

11/2/11

Wrote this report on innovative depression-prevention research for the British magazine New Scientist.

10/21/11

On Monday, Nov. 21, 8 pm, Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow Street, NYC) hosts a concert reading of THE MASKED ZINFANDEL, a musical comedy with book and lyrics by me, and music by Peter Yarin, directed by Hilary Adams.  For more, check out the MZ show page!

9/14/11

New piece on the Big Jewel: From The Complete Sonnets of Sir Mix-A-Lot. 

8/7/11

New article on remarkable civil rights veteran Norman Hill ('55) in the latest Haverford alumni magazine: (PDF)

8/3/11

You're looking at it: a brand-new website! Thanks to joshlevineDESIGNS for the site and programming, and Nice n' Easy Photo for the headshots. Have a look around. More to come in the next several months, including audio.

Recently on the writing front: The 10 by 10 in the Triangle Festival in North Carolina went swimmingly, with special nods to my play GHOST LITE from Triangle Arts and Entertainment ("The best short play of this year's 10 by 10 Festival... Wonderfully witty.") and the CVNC Arts Journal ("Most of the plays went for laughs, much to the delight of this packed house, with the winner of the evening being Ghost Lite.")

I also taught a playwriting workshop for LeadAmerica at Fordham University through Young Playwrights Inc.(got that?) The students, mainly high school juniors, came up with some great stuff in a short time.