May 29, 2015
Some advance praise for Steering to Freedom
Yesterday, I posted about Steering to Freedom being published. In case you need a little extra encouragement to get the book, here is some advance praise from some fabulous writers: "Steering to Freedom sweeps back the curtain on an extraordinary…
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May 28, 2015
Steering to Freedom is now published!
My newest novel, Steering to Freedom, has just been published by Penmore Press! In May 1862, Robert Smalls, a slave and ship’s pilot in Charleston, South Carolina, crafts a daring plan to steal the steamship Planter and deliver it along with the…
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May 8, 2015
Constant State of Panic wrapping up at Clockwise this weekend
This will be the final weekend for Constant State of Panic at Clockwise Theatre in Waukegan, Illinois. I was fortunate to be able to fly out for the opening weekend a couple weeks ago, and they're doing a great job with it. The cast is absolutely…
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May 8, 2015
Quack is in the Boston Theater Marathon this Sunday
My short play, Quack, will be part of the Boston Theater Marathon on Sunday, May 10th. Sleeping Weazel is producing, and Kelly Smith is directing a lovely cast of Elle Borders and William J. Moore. The Marathon is my favorite theatrical event of the…
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March 25, 2015
Quack at Theatre Three on Long Island
My short play Quack is continuing is initial foray into the world, after having gotten its tart in Boston in December. It's now running through April 4th at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY (on Long…
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March 16, 2015
Constant State of Panic reading at Charlestown Working Theatre, March 19
On Thursday, March 19, at 7pm, Theatre on Fire will present a reading of my play Constant State of Panic at the Charlestown Working Theatre, 442 Bunker Hill Street, Charlestown. (Here are directions to the space.) This darkly comic love story…
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March 16, 2015
How Does It Feel to be a Problem? to be read in Colorado, April 12
My short play, How Does It Feel to be a Problem?, will be read by One Night Stand Theater in Aurora, Colorado, on Sunday, April 12, 7pm, at the Vintage Theatre (1468 Dayton Street). One Night Stand does a monthly reading of short plays,…
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March 3, 2015
snippets of Blood on the Snow this weekend
The folks at the Bostonian Society have put together this cool graphic for our Blood on the Snow play. This is one that they commissioned from me and that we're hoping to produce this fall. This Saturday, as part of the annual commemoration of the…
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February 27, 2015
Poster for Constant State of Panic from Clockwise
The Clockwise Theatre is making fast progress on the production of my play, Constant State of Panic, which will open on April 17th, in Waukegan, Illinois. Rehearsals start this weekend, the set is already being built. Here's the poster! …
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February 26, 2015
Good News from the MCC!
I got some good news from the Massachusetts Cultural Council earlier this month. I'm one of five finalists for the MCC Dramatic Writing Fellowships. We each get $1,000! (The winners got $10,000 each.) This is my 8th time applying for the…
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