Produced in October 07 at the North Park Vaudeville Playwrights Festival. Produced in June 08 at Perspectivefest, San Diego. Published by Smith&Kraus in "Best Ten Minute Plays of 08:Three Characters".

 

A young artist, Jessica, and her boyfriend/benefactor, Dan, argue due to her hopelessness about ever painting anything beautiful or meaningful. He believes in her work and owns an art gallery that is displaying it, but she doubts her talent. Suddenly, Adam, Dan's old protegee, comes into their lives after an absence of ten years. He is a painter, a strange genious filled with obsessions and visions. Dan worries about Adam, wonders about the dangerous nature of his disappearance and the meaning of his return. But Jessica is enthralled, inspired, and enchanted. Adam's strange and compelling magic works a spell on them both, even though there is a darker aspect to his personality. Will they choose to let him stay?

 

 

Due for production in October of 08 at the North Park Vaudeville Playwrights Festival.

 

A writer and his wife confront his desire for artistic freedom and creative inspiration even if it leads him to infidelity.

 

 

 

Superstar professor and playwright, Robert Angelo, is driven by the desire to bring Shakespearean ideals of romance back to the American stage with his plays. He takes over a theatre department, wresting control from feminist scholar Julia McCord. He numbs his extreme ambition, romanticism, and sense of professional failure with affairs. His wife, Katia, is supportive but not deluded to his behavior. Maya, a mysterious theatre student captures his imagination, but trouble ensues when word spreads of their attachment. In a magical exchange he obtains the play that brings him his much longed for success, but he loses Maya, his true friend. What does she really symbolize and what does she mean to him? In the end, he must choose what truly makes him happy.

 

 

Scripteasers Playwriting Award 07, San Diego.

 

A naive military couple is seduced into buying a big home by a ruthless real estate agent.

 

 

Mona, an African-American graduate student at Stanford University worships her idol, Uena Jaffari, a civil rights activist and scholar from the sixties, who spouted the theory of cultural osmosis by mainstream America of the African diaspora to explain racism. Her dissertation is not impressing the head of the department, Dr. Strauss-Echo, a bitter, thrice divorced, misoginistic conservative. Her solution is to kidnap him and take him to meet Uena Jaffari who is now a recluse living in the woods of Montana. The meeting brings about painful confrontations, truthful revelations, and previously unknown connections between the three of them.