author / playwright
A one-act satire set in the first few rows of a theater, in which the lights come up on a stage where nothing happens, and the audience is left to their own paranoid drama rather than walk out on the show.
Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, California), 1968
Set in a psychiatric ward, an architectural student on LSD redesigns the room without any doors or windows, confusing his doctor, medical team, and ultimately sending them on a psychedelic trip.
Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, California), 1968
Linn-Benton Community College (Albany, Oregon), 1971
Claremont College (Claremont, California), 1971
Sierra Horizons Theatre (Reno, Nevada), 1971
A sweeping epic of the young King David, confronting his future self through a vision of the rebellion and death of his son Absalom, which challenges his faith but leads to an ultimate affirmation of life. A Rockefeller Grant winner.
College of Marin (Kentfield, California), 1972
University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, Colorado), 1973
Loeb Drama Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1973
Branding Iron Theatre (Amarillo, Texas), 1973
The third one-act of Power Lines, in which the four characters find themselves trapped, with all their hopes and dreams threatened, in the restaurant’s walk-in refrigerator.
Out North Theatre Ensemble (Anchorage, Alaska), 1986
Three interrelated one-acts about two waitresses aspiring to greatness, their temperamental on-again-off-again chef, and a trick he meets through a bondage ad in the classifieds. A National Gay Playwriting Contest winner.
Theater Rhinoceros (San Francisco, California), 1980
Odyssey Theater Ensemble (West Los Angeles, California), 1982
A revival of the text of the opera by Giovanni Paisiello, a precursor to the better known opera by Rossini.
Sanders Theatre (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1983
A seven-minute comedy set in the recovery room of a hospital, where two patients are stunned to realize they’ve been surgically given the wrong transplants.
New City Theatre (San Francisco, California), 1985
Set in a youth shelter and various locales around a city, the play focuses on the love-and-hate affair of a punk and his mother, amid the life struggles of three homeless teenagers.
Cast Theater (Los Angeles, California), 1984
DeSISTO of Stockbridge (Stockbridge, Massachusetts), 1987
A two-character one-act about a young man coming out in the age of the AIDS crisis, haunted by memories of his nurturing Aunt Dora.
Powerhouse Theatre (Venice, California), 1990
A one-act play about the agonies and ecstasies of a relationship, where the partners trade off doing therapy with each other, to be performed by a man and a woman, two men or two women.
Powerhouse Theatre (Venice, California), 1990
A full-length comedy about what happens when a septuagenarian conductor, a reclusive harpsichordist and the wrong cellist are invited to a college in West Kennebunkport, Maine, where the town trying to stage an international music conference.
Mendocino Theater Company (staged reading, Mendocino, California), 2010