Plays/History
PAINT MADE FLESH
2016 Semi-Finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Production: The Cell Theatre, June 2018, directed by Cady McClain
Development: Steppenwolf Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Last Frontier Theatre Conference.
SENESCENCE
2017 Semi-Finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Staged Reading, September 2016 at Half Moon Theatre
Scheduled for a production at Axial Theatre, November 2018
Maybe Never Fell
Production: Axial Theatre, November 2016, directed by Jenn Haltman
Development: Lark Play Development Center, June 2013 Roundtable Reading, Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
RADIANCE
2011 and 2012 Semi-Finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2012 Finalist for the Hormel New Works Festival at the Phoenix Theatre.
Production: Axial Theatre, May 2013, directed by Chris Grobowski
Reading: Hudson Valley Writers Center, October 2010
Development: Naked Angels Tuesdays at 9, Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
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Production: Axial Theatre, November 2010, directed by Josh Hecht
Readings: The Barrow Group, November 2009; Hudson Valley Writers Center, September 2009, Pacific Resident Theatre, January 2012
Development: Naked Angels Tuesdays at 9, NYC Play Development Collective, Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
Cherrie & Jerry
Production: Axial Theatre, March 2009
Critically acclaimed: Robert Heisler, Gannett
Jerry: HERE Arts Center, November 2003
Cherrie: Samuel French One-Act Festival, August 2002
Development: Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
AngelBeast
Production: Axial Theatre, May 2008
Critically acclaimed: Robert Heisler, Gannett
Readings: The Barrow Group, November 2009
Development: Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
Twenty
Production: Axial Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival, February 2007
Development: Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
Lost In Paradise
Optioned for motion picture, December 2006
Production: Axial Theatre, May 2006
Development: Axial Theatre Play Reading Series
The Contract
Production: Axial Theatre, November 2005 (Created in collaboration with
The Axial Theatre Company)
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All That’s Fair
Production: The Colleen Dewhurst Theatre, March 2002
The Kiss
Production: The Colleen Dewhurst Theatre, March 2001; workshop production,
The Schoolhouse Theatre, August 2000
SWIM
Production: Commissioned and presented by Barnspace Productions, June and
November 1998 (Created in collaboration with teen and young adult actors)
Related Experience
Founding Artistic Director of THE AXIAL THEATRE, a Westchester, NY based ensemble, developing and presenting original plays (1999 to present); www.axialtheatre.org
Program Director and senior teacher of HOWARD MEYER’S ACTING PROGRAM, a full scale Acting Program offering classes for teenagers and adults in Westchester, NY (1994 to present); www.hmacting.org
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTOR (1992 to present): Assignments include: Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye (NYC premiere of original text, New York Theatre Workshop, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Craig Wright’s The Pavilion (Playwrights’ Center), Eric Bogosian’s SubUrbia (The Schoolhouse Theatre), Adam Rapp’s Train Story, The Last Delivery, The Seagull, Doll’s House, (all at Axial Theatre), and his plays The Contract, Lost In Paradise, and Cherrie & Jerry (all at Axial Theatre)
Assistant Director to Athol Fugard, Playland (Manhattan Theatre Club, featuring Kevin Spacey)
Directing Member of the USUAL SUSPECTS at NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP (1994-1998). Member of the LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE DIRECTOR’S LAB (1995-1996)
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