A Catalogue of my Full Length Plays
Below you will find a listing of my full length plays along with any history of Productions, Readings and Awards. All are available for future productions and some scripts are available to be read at the New Play Exchange. Follow instructions on the NPX section to access.
BLOODLETTING IN THESE HILLS (formerly Coal Creek)
3m 2f; five scenes, no intermission; interior unit set
More than 7,500 strikers walked out of more than 90 mines in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek coal fields of West Virginia during the bloody 1912-1914 labor war. Bloodletting in These Hills is the story of one family caught in the cross hairs of that struggle.
The Appalachian Playwriting Festival; Parkway Playhouse; Burnsville, NC
Winner of the 2024 Appalachian Playwriting Festival by the Parkway Playhouse, Burnsville NC. Scheduled for full performance August 1-10, 2025.
New Play Festival; Centre Stage-South Carolina; Greenville, SC
Reading: September 2009, Production: January, 2010
Promising Playwright Award; Colonial Players; Annapolis, MD
Staged Reading, July 2009
Judges Choice, Athenian Players Theatre, Appalachian New Play Festival; ARTS/West; Athens, OH
Staged Reading in the Humble Play Festival, October 2008.
New York Chapter, National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences; New York, NY
Selected Reading HBO Headquarters Stage, November 2007; Directed by Patricia Angelin, Featuring Francis Parkman, Tom Farrell, L. Michael Rowan, Ron Nummi, Sarah Justine Ahearn, Patricia Angelin
Additional Awards and Recognition
Honorable Mention; Towngate Theatre National Playwriting Contest, Oglebay Institute; Wheeling WV; June 2008.
Finalist, North American Actors Association (ex-pat performers based in England) Play Reading Festival; London UK; Spring 2012
Honorable Mention; Writers Digest 78th Annual Writing Competition; Stage Plays; National Magazine; Cincinnati OH; 2009
Read the script of BLOODLETTING IN THESE HILLS
THE NEW PLAY EXCHANGE
DADDY WILL BE BURIED TONIGHT (formerly The Willow Grove)
5m 2f; 4 scenes, no intermission; interior unit set
Her father has died the night before and Margaret calls together family members and friends for a burial that must happen this night and must take place on the family property. By the end of the day certain family secrets are revealed and others are more deeply buried than ever.
New York Chapter, National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences; New York, NY
Selected Reading; Directed by Patricia Angelin, Featuring Francis Parkman, Tom Farrell, L. Michael Rowan, Ron Nummi, Sarah Justine Ahearn, Patricia Angelin; HBO Headquarters Stage; April 2007
Piccolo Spoleto Festival, College of Charleston School for the Arts; Charleston, SC
Reading June 2010; Runner up in the Todd McNerney Play Competition 2009
New Plays Festival; Centre Stage-South Carolina; Greenville, SC
Staged reading, September 2007
Polaris North Theatre Co-operative, New York NY
Reading Third Tuesday Play Reading Series; Featuring Pamela Wilson, Lena Gilbert, Bruce Barton, Bill Rowley, David Walters, David Elyha, Michael Selkirk and Phillip Filiato; February 2011
Additional Awards and Recognition
Finalist, Stellar Networks Plays-In-Progress Competition 2006; New York, NY.
Semi-Finalist, 51st Stanley Drama Award; Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, 2008.
Included in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute Library at The Ohio State University, 2007.
THE RELUCTANT PROPHET
2m, 4f ; full length, two acts, one intermission
An itinerant West Texas preacher has settled into a comfortable new life preaching and raising money on the internet when a visit from a person from his past takes him on an unexpected journey. In turn she is introduced to a calling she never understood.
Talkback Tuesdays; Polaris North Theatre Co-operative; New York, NY
Staged Reading; May 2023; Featuring John L. Payne, Meliora Dockery, Jen Nolan, Francis Parkman, Sophie Larin, Leslie Lynn Meeker
New Works Festival; Garry Marshall Theatre; Burbank, CA
Semi-Finalist, July 2021
Read the script of THE RELUCTANT PROPHET
THE NEW PLAY EXCHANGE
RETROSPECTIVE
3m 1f; two acts; primary interior set with satellite playing area with side playing areas
An artist struggling with his place in the art world is visited by a journalist that stirs up his personal and professional life, leading to an artistic breakthrough.
Third Tuesday Play Reading Series, Polaris North, Inc., New York, NY
Staged Reading, Featuring John M. Farrell, Joan Lunoe, Ryan Lovett, Bill Rowley, Leslie Lynn Meeker; July 2013
Sixth Annual Festival of New American Plays; Firehouse Theatre Project, Richmond, VA
Semi Finalist, 2007
The Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest; Jennerstown, PA
Semi-Finalist, 2008
Additional Awards and Recognition
Honorable Mention, Inaugural Ohio State University Newark New Play Contest; Newark, OH; August 2011
Honorable Mention,Writers Digest 77th Annual Writing Competition, Stage Plays; National Magazine; Cincinnati, OH, 2008
WILL OF BOND STREET
3m 2f; two acts; interior unit set
After the bloody New York City Draft Riots of 1863 a well-to-do family takes in a black victim of the Riots to work with their Irish household staff.
HRC Showcase Theater Playwriting Contest; Hudson, NY
Staged Reading, March 2014
The Shell Theater, New York, NY
Staged Reading, October 2011
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference; Waterford, CT
Semi-Finalist, 2012
Jewel Box Theater Annual Play Competition; Oklahoma City, OK
Second Place, 2012