This Hungry Churchyard just won the "Judge's Choice Award" for Short+Sweet Hollywood! The same play is going to be produced at Short+Sweet Dublin in a few weeks, and now it's been Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Manila, coming February 2020. Hooray for this little play, laying great track for anyone itching to produce These Violent Delights... This Hungry Churchyard Short+Sweet Hollywood 2019 Sep 28-30, 2019 (possible extension TBA) Short+Sweet Dublin 2019 October 24-26 Short+Sweet Manila 2020 February TBD
(Shortlisted)
My new short play Bear Cops is going to have a reading as a part of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights New Play Festival! The play centers on a big city police chief exploring any option, ANY option, to protect his community (and his job).
Saturday, October 5, 2019 Community Center at Plummer Park 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood
Saturday, October 19 7:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Join us for an immersive evening of eight excepts of iconic Wicked Lit plays staged throughout Mountain View Mausoleum. This intimate evening will bring you in tight and close with classic tales of the macabre.
Production A Scenes: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Lurking Fear Las Lloronas The Ebony Frame Production B Scenes: The Damned Thing The Monkey’s Paw The Cask of Amontillado The Body Snatcher Plus silent auctions, Wicked Lit book signings, and a whole lot of fun!
SOCAL SPOTLIGHT: Gem of the Ocean through November 16 By August WilsonDirected by Gregg T. Daniel A Noise Within I saw this during previews last week, magical and heartbreaking!
Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson unfolds the African American legacy in the first chronological episode of his celebrated American Century Cycle—a soaring, mystical tale of a man desperate for redemption in 1904 Pittsburgh. Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old “soul cleanser,” sends him on a spiritual journey that dissects the nature of freedom amidst oppression and spurs him to take up the mantle of justice.
