play
I’m always asked what my inspiration is for a given play.
At every talkback, reading or performance I’ve ever been to I get asked what my inspiration for a given play is. It’s always a challenge because who can describe what the genesis of a thought is… or dream for that matter. And in my case I often wonder if the two are interchangeable.
Unlike some dramatists, […]
Why I tell the stories I tell…
There a lot of people in my world who keep expecting my next piece to be an edgy – hip play that pushes the boundaries and has lots of cool swear words and images. That isn’t going to happen. I just ain’t edgy.
People figure since I’m a blue collar dude from Chicago, I should be […]
Something old, Something new
I thought, for my first post, I’d put for comment a scene from my newest, yet oldest play. It’s called NIGHT AND FOG and I first wrote it almost twenty years ago. Recently, mostly because of the encouragement of a dear friend, I’ve returned to it and reworked it considerably. It concerns a journalist named […]
Sneak peek of “Italian Lights; Not Stars”
Act One Scene Eight
TOMMY enters. HE looks around to see that there is no one in the yard and no […]
an excerpt from a play-in-development, FOR SOME REASON COMMA SHE LAUGHED
Four sisters come to the Jersey shore for a girls weekend; they mean to celebrate the 30th birthday of the youngest among them, Ruth. Ruth is recently divorced and feeling bad about herself and her sisters decide that suprising her with a beautfiul young man might be just the thing to lift her spirits. […]






