When Mara Bethel decides to sell her Kansas farmhouse, a tragic incident involving her husband Simon some 30 years ago comes back to both haunt and inspire her.   

This is the scenario for my new screenplay Struck, which was just sent out to the Kairos Prizes in Screenwriting this past week.  I now turn my attention to the re-write of A Walk in the Park, which I am half way through.  This script will also be sent to Kairos along with an adaptation of my play Listen to Grace.  I will be busy with these scripts until November.  And then hope to get “struck” in January when results are announced.

This week, I began rehearsals for Hero, the new Christmas production to be performed Dec 10 & 11.   It’s great to work with actors, “live people”, rather than just me, a pen and a blank piece of paper.   Directing gets me out of my head space.  I enjoy and need the back and forth that happens with actors when creating characters.  This past month three musicians have been creating original music for Hero.    I have heard samples of all the pieces and look forward to hearing the final product.   

Tea Time (originally called Walls), my new one act play, was sent off to the New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre.  This script was originally written for the 24-Hour Fringe Festival back in July.  I kept the same concept, but re-worked and tightened the characters and plot.  I’ll find out some time at the end of November whether my play gets accepted.   I’m hoping to send my play Blue to the Toronto Fringe’s playwriting contest at the end of October and although I recently made significant cuts in the play (cutting 13 pages), some tweaking still remains.