SELECTED PRODUCTIONS

Plays

• F.U. Air and Other Tales of Flight
  Go To Productions, Chicago, 2024
• Shaw vs. Tunney
  Grippo Stage Company, Chicago, 2023
• By My Will
  Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Atlanta, 2023
• Miranda’s Offering
  Advice to the Player’s Studio Series, New Hampshire, 2022
• A Spy in Spite of Himself
  Heartland Theatre Company’s The Play’s the Thing, Illinois, 2019
• Howards End
  Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Chicago, 2019
• Bloodshot
  Hudson Village Theatre, Canada, 2022
  Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, 2020
  Watermill Theatre in England, 2020, 2011
  Greenhouse Theater Center, Chicago, 2016
  Vertigo Theatre, Canada, 2015
  St. James Theatre, London, 2014, 2013
  Canterbury Festival, England, 2013
  Greenwich Theatre, London, 2011
  Vienna's English Theatre, Austria, 2011
  Theatre Royal Winchester, England, 2011
  Nuffield Theatre, England, 2011, 2010
• Cynical Weathers
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 2007
• Blissfield
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 2000
• Somebody Foreign
  City Lit Theater, Chicago, 2006
  Stage Left Theater's LeapFest, Chicago, 2004
  Prop Thtr's Midwest New Plays Festival, Chicago, 1999
• Forty-Two Stories
  City Lit Theater, Chicago, 2017
  Raven Theatre's Working Title Series, Chicago, 2014
• Drowning Sorrows
  Third Stage, Los Angeles, 2001
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1996
  Shelykova Playwrights Conference, Russia, 1995
  O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Connecticut, 1994
• Personal Effects
  Circle Theatre, Chicago, 2003
  Toledo Repertoire Theatre, Ohio, 1996
  Carnegie Mellon Drama Showcase of New Plays, Pittsburgh, 1991
• Earth and Sky
  Second Thought Theatre, Dallas, 2005
  Circle Theatre, Chicago, 1999
  Nuffield Theatre, England, and British Tour, 1999
  Copperview Theater Company, Los Angeles, 1997
  Actors Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, 1995
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1992
  Second Stage Theatre, New York, 1991
  O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Connecticut, 1989
• Suffering Fools
  Commons Theatre, Chicago, 1989
  O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Connecticut, 1988
• Murder in Green Meadows
  Shanghai Yihai Theatre, Shanghai, China, 2016
  Bickford Theatre, New Jersey, 2013
  Vertigo Theatre, Canada, 2007
  Studio Arena Theatre, New York, 2004
  Vienna's English Theatre, Austria, 2003
  Totem Pole Playhouse, Pennsylvania, 2002
  Horse Cave Theatre, Kentucky, 2001
  Contemporary American Theatre Company, Ohio, 2001
  The English Theatre of Hamburg, Germany, 1999
  Circle Theatre, Chicago, 1998
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1995
  Theatre on the Bay, South Africa, 1994
  Stamford Theater Works, Connecticut, 1993
  Nuffield Theatre, England, 1992
• Detective Sketches
  Lincoln Center Theater Lab, New York, 2002
  Theater-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, 1995
  Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, 1987
• Belongings and Longings
  Thirteenth Street Repertory Company, New York, 1987
  Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, 1986

Musicals

• Scrooge and the Ghostly Spirits
  Citadel Theatre, Illinois, 2018
• The Kingdom of Grimm
  International Christian School, China, 2015
  Chicago Playworks, Chicago, 2006
• God and Country
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 2002
• Gethsemane
  Holy Covent Church, Chicago, 1999
• The Real Life Story of Johnny De Facto
  Goodspeed-At-Chester, Connecticut, 1989
  National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Work, New York, 1989
  O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Connecticut, 1989
  Getz Theater, Chicago, 1986
• The Long River Passes
  Orphans, Chicago, 1989, 1986
• The Wind in the Willows
  International School Manila, Philippines, 2015
  Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pennsylvania, 2014
  Contemporary American Theatre Company, Ohio, 2012
  City Lit Theater, Chicago, 2010, 2009
  Lakeshore Excellence Foundation, Michigan, 1999
  Arvada Center For The Arts & Humanities, Colorada, 1997
  Theater Off Park, New York, 1993
  Lambs Players Theatre, California, 1990
  Theatre Building, Chicago, 1989
  Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, 1988
  Cleveland Play House, Ohio, 1987
  Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago, 1986
  Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, 1985
• Everyman
  Cafe Voltaire, Chicago, 1997
  Free Shakespeare Company, Chicago, 1984
  Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago, 1984
• Drums
  Theatre Building, Chicago, 1982
• The Other Wise Man
  Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, 1982
  Leo A. Lerner Theatre, Chicago, 1981
• Prospero's Saxophone
  Leo A. Lerner Theatre, Chicago, 1981

Screenplays

• F.U. Air
  Go To Productions, 2024
• Drowning Sorrows
  Commissioned by Old Country Productions, 2002
• Cinque and the Amistad Revolt
  Commissioned by Mase Brite Productions, 1996
• Earth and Sky
  Commissioned by Warner Bros., 1991
• Undesirables
  Commissioned by NBC, 1991

Teleplays

• Crime of Innocence (Co-author)
  WMAQ-TV, Chicago, 1988
• Murder in Green Meadows
  One-act version for WMAQ-TV with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, 1986

Radio Plays

• Forty-Two Stories
  Chicago Theatres On The Air, 1998
  L.A. Theatre Works, 1997
• Drowning Sorrows
  Chicago Theatres On The Air, 1996
• Earth and Sky
  XM Satellite Radio, 2005
  National Public Radio, 2005, 2003, 1994
  L.A. Theatre Works, 1993
  Chicago Theatres On The Air, 1993

PUBLISHED WORKS

• Howards Ends, TRW Plays, 2021
• Scrooge and the Ghostly Spirits, Dramatic Publishing, 2018
• Somebody Foreign, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, 2017
• Personal Effects, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, 2017
• Blissfield, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, 2016
• The Kingdom of Grimm, Dramatic Publishing, 2007
• Drowning Sorrows, Dramatists Play Service, 1998
• Belongings and Longings, Dramatic Publishing, 1997
• Detective Sketches and Other Short Plays, Dramatic Publishing, 1997
• Earth and Sky, Dramatists Play Service, 1991
• Murder in Green Meadows, Dramatists Play Service, 1990
• The Wind in the Willows, Dramatic Publishing, 1986

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding World Premiere Production for By My Will, 2023
• Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Best New Play for Howards End, 2020
• Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Best New Play for Forty-Two Stories, 2018
• Blue Ink Playwriting Award for Comden Mall Community Activists, 2014
• Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship Award, 2006
• Cunningham Commission For Youth Theatre Award, 2003
• Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship Award, 1997
• Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award for Personal Effects, 1995
• L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award for Earth and Sky, 1991
• Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship Award, 1990
• Emmy Award Nomination for Individual Achievement in Writing for Murder in Green Meadows, 1986
• Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Original Incidental Music for The Tempest, 1984

ADDITIONAL

• Bachelor of Arts from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, Speech and Drama Major, English Major, University Scholar
• Council Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (2017 to 2020)
• Chicago Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild of America (2007 to 2014)
• Founding Member of the Playwrights Ensemble at the Tony Award-Winning Victory Gardens Theater (1995 to 2012)
• Teacher of Playwriting at University of Chicago Graham School, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists, Newberry Library and O'Neill National Theater Institute
• Commissioned to write Plays, Musicals and Multimedia Shows for Victory Gardens Theater, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Citadel Theatre Company, Chicago Playworks, historic novelist Jay R. Tunney, British actor Simon Slater and the Newberry Library
• Composer of Songs and Incidental Music for over 25 productions in Chicago
• Sketches performed at Primary Stages, American Blues Theater and O'Neill Pub
• Articles published in the Victory Gardens Newsletter, Stagebill and The Dramatist Magazine
• Collected Works donated to DePaul University Library Special Collection and Archives
• Member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, East and ASCAP