I write plays, novels, memoirs and humor columns.
I have had 18 productions of 11 full-length plays—two of them off-off-Broadway; and two others have received off-off-Broadway staged readings. I've been produced regionally in Massachusetts, upstate New York and Los Angeles.
My three new plays are:
• Constant Sorrow—a comedy about a man who claims he’s never had one complete day of happiness in his life.
• The Nickel Jar—a comedy about a family that has a bank they use to collect nickels—and how it plays a role in their lives over a forty-year span.
• Irish Baseball is a touching comedy about a young woman who is beset by trials—and who harkens to the memory of her father for guidance.
I've written two dramas based on classic works: A House that God Hates—a modern version of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; and Agnes in Camelot—a modern retelling of the Arthurian legend.
My wildly dark comedy Mates won the Wykeham Rise National Playwrighting Contest and was produced off-off-Broadway. Eventually, this led to the Mates Trilogy—with all three plays being presented at the Little Theater in Binghamton, NY. The second play of the trilogy, Mates in Paradise, was also produced at the Orpheum Repertory, in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
My play about my generation, The Last Baby Boomer, received a staged reading by the New England Repertory Company, as part of its Festival of New Plays; it was produced off-off-Broadway at the Impact Theater ; and it received a reading off-off-Broadway at New Perspectives.
I was playwright-in-residence for the Orpheum Repertory Company in Massachusetts. I was a founding board member of the New England Repertory Company and was its playwright-in-residence.
Over the last four years, I've independently published two novels: Dancing Naked with the Devil and Marvin Piersoll and three memoirs: Football, Bella in America and Nuns! All of my books are available on Amazon—in paperback and Kindle formats.
My novel Marvin Piersoll won the fiction category in the 2011 New York Book Festival
I also have a lot of journalism experience; I've written more than 600 works of short fiction and feature articles and humor columns for the Providence Journal, Canton Journal, and Warwick Beacon.
I grew up in Rhode Island; I studied writing at Brown University—where I earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Creative Writing/Playwrighting.
I live in Canton, Massachusetts.
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