Last night was the dress rehearsal for Hero which was attended by a handful of people.  After weeks of rehearsal it was time to invite an audience into our world.     For me, I am always curious to see what resonates with people…what will make them laugh, cry, be surprised.  I know the play so intimately […]

Last night I worked on lighting with the cast of Hero.  We are 10 days from opening and things are moving rather quickly.   The set was also being built so there were a lot of creative juices in the air.  Working on lighting can be rather tedious.  The cast has to wait around while lights […]

Hero opens in just over 3 weeks.   I am at the point in the process where all the scenes are coming together.   We will soon be running the entire play.   Acting is the main focus right now and by month’s end we will move onto the technical elements of the show.     I’m working with […]

When it comes to deadlines, oftentimes you have to make choices as to what gets your focus. My hope was to get a copy of into the Fringe Festival Play Contest this year. The deadline was October 24 and I was in the midst of re-writing A Walk in the Park (now called ) and […]

My brother Adam recently won two awards for his feature animated film The Lady of Names. The film won best feature at the 2011 Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival. He also has won best animated feature at the Toronto Independent Film Festival.   Many people have been asking what does this mean for the film.  The […]

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 , which was just sent out to the Kairos Prizes in Screenwriting this past week.  I now turn […]

Hero is complete.  I put the finishing touches on this latest play that will run Dec 10 & 11.  This past week I was tweaking the script, refining dialogue and character motivations and cutting anything that felt superfluous.   The first reading with the cast is September 11 and it will be a great relief to […]

I’ve just spent the last couple weeks writing my upcoming Christmas production that is slated to begin rehearsals in September with a cast of 11.    After spending much time contemplating what I should write about, the ideas started flowing and the characters took shape.  And because I know already who will be in this production, […]

Last week I attended a play at the Toronto Fringe Festival called Kim’s Convenience.  The writer, actor, director of this show is Ins Choi.   Recently I had the pleasure of joining a writer’s group in which Ins was the leader.  Kim’s Convenience received rave reviews from critics and as a result was picked as one […]

So there I was today typing my new screenplay called Struck.  I had finished writing a rough draft of Struck a week ago and I am now imputing my hand written copy to the computer.  I write everything long-hand first and never do a first draft straight to the computer.  I think better when I’m […]