About Me
He was the 2010 Playwriting Teacher of the Year for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and winner of the Kennedy Center 2011 Milan Stitt award for outstanding teaching and professional work in playwriting.
He is the founder of the “WomenWorks” national playwriting competition for female graduate playwrights and moderator of the Fictional Characters writers collective. He has served as a resource artist for the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab, the Europe and World Interplay Playwrights Festivals and the Necessary Stage in Singapore.
His books include Down the Ocean Summer of '64 (2018), Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen (2015), Playwriting Master Class, 2nd ed. (2011), and Playwriting in Process, 2nd ed. (2010); Hackett Publishing Company.
Recent productions include Blood Relations (Nightingale Theatre, Tulsa, 2011), and five performance art pieces at the Tulsa Artists’ Coalition Gallery: Something Happened (2014), Kinetic Stillness (2015) and The Doors of Perception (2016). His radio plays have been produced by Shoestring Radio Theatre, Studio620 WMNF Radio Theatre and the National Audio Theatre Festival. His plays and monologues have been produced throughout the U.S., Germany and Australia.
His poems, plays, and fiction have appeared in Art Focus magazine, This Land, The Elvis Monologues, A Grand Entrance: Scenes and Monologues for Mature Actors, Monologues from the Road, Rio Grande Review, Voces Fronterizas. His short stories won top honors at the Moondance Film Festival and have been published in the online publications as 5th Story Review and Six Sentences.
