News and Updates

I'm very excited to be diving into a workshop with The Drawing Board (NYC) to explore my new play THE MORE BEYOND . We had a great reading earlier this year and I am grateful to have the chance to take this next step, and hear the script in detail. I've partnered with director Joshua Gelb to bring scenes to life, and I'm looking forward to a great time. A story of wreckage and recovery, this play follows an underwater treasure hunter from Key West, FL trying to find a sunken ship, and his own lost glory. Cast: 33 characters played by 17m, 4f (plus chorus and a guitarist) Locations: Multiple

I'm so pleased to have the chance to be a returning artist in residence at the lovely and gracious Studios of Key West this summer. TSKW provides access to the inside world of this fascinating island, and the cottage we're staying in offers artists and writers the perfect place to reflect and cool off, all under the shade of a graceful mango tree. I'm here developing a new play about the Treasure Hunting industry - a staple of Key West life for hundreds of years - and I've been conducting research, interviews and gathering experiences. All this will feed into the eventual formation of a work around salvage and recovery, which I hope to develop further this fall. Stay tuned.

I'm getting excited about the opportunity to workshop a new play this summer during a residency at The Studios of Key West in Florida. TSKW is a unique place offering residencies and facilities to artists for project development. I'll be down there from late July through mid August, working with some of my favorite collaborators of all time on a brand new piece. The play is a campfire tale about life after the Zombie apocalypse; it offers a meditation on survival, family, and cost of being human. After a few months on other projects, I'm finally turning my focus back to this one, and I think it's going to be fun.

This past weekend I was in beautiful, blooming South Carolina for a few fun events. I was able to see the stage version of BRICK , based on the original film written and directed by Rian Johnson, at J.L. Mann High School in Greenville. It was adapted by my buddy Chris White, a phenomenal actor / teacher / director / writer / collaborator, and I heard that Rian's response to the piece was equal in excitement to mine. Well done, Chris! I was also able to hear a reading of a new play of mine that's still in development. It's about Zombies, and I'm working with some of my favorite all-time partners at Trustus Theatre in Columbia. This project has been simmering for a while, and will come to full boil with a guest artist / residency planned for later this summer in at The Studios of Key West , in Key West, Florida. We're taking the script through a development process down there, and hope to put on some readings / staged performances of it, and see what we've got. I...