"Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along."
~ Edward Albee
AN AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT
American Theatre of Actors Award for Best One-Act Play
The Changing Room ~ November 2016
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Thespis Theater Festival 2016, Best Play
It’s All About Lorrie ~ October 2016
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Gil Ancowitz Award, Best Play Trilogy
Divinity ~ November 2015
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IATI Theater Play Contest, Cimientos 2016 Selected for stage reading
Release 35.6 ~ November 2015
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IATI Theater Play Contest, Cimientos 2015 Finalist
Guns, God and Gomorrah ~ December 2014
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Rover Dramawerks Playwrighting Contest Finalist
It’s All About Lorrie ~ June 2014
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International New Works of Merit Playwrighting Contest Finalist
Guns, God and Gomorrah ~ January 2014
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IATI Theater Play Contest Finalist
Fog ~ January 2013
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Short Play Lab, Winner
The Understudy ~ March 2013
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Ohio State University New Play Contest 3rd Place Winner
Year’s End ~ July 2012
Jean Dalrymple, Best Comedy/Drama
Inconceivable ~ March 1987
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Jean Dalrymple, Best Playwright
Family Bound ~ April 1984
PUBLICATIONS
The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays of 2019
December 2019 from Guns, God and Gomorrah
The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2018
December 2018 from The Changing Room
The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2017,
December 2017 from Year’s End
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2016,
December 2016, from It’s All About Lorrie
Year’s End, Writers Amuse Me Publishing Co., April 2014
MEMBER/ASSOCIATIONS
Dramatists Guild of America, Full Member
American Theatre of Actors, Board of Directors
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
National Playwrights Symposium/Workshop
Cape May Stage, NJ (with Lee Blessing, Stephen Adly Guirgis, John Pielmeier, and William Mastrosimone)
Horse Trade Theater Group, Playwriting Workshop
(with Heidi Grumelot)
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Playwrights Horizons Theater School (with John Wulp)
Ensemble Studio Theater School (with John Ford Noonan)
American Theatre of Actors, Playwrights Unit (with Jim Jennings)
The Public Theatre, Playwrights (with Ed Bullins)
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MA in Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
BA in English and Psychology, Manhattan College