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 […]

My brother Adam has been working on a feature length animated film for over 10 years and he has finally completed it.  Adam did everything in this film (all the animation, built the sets & models, editing, etc.).  The script was written by Michael Stokes – a writer Adam met during his York University days.  […]

All first drafts of any scripts I write are handwritten and the first words I scribble at the top of the first page before I write anything else is “We Begin”.  I believe this phrase came from a math teacher back in my high school days.  This is how he began his math class by […]

Earlier this year I spent some time on my play and cut several pages from the most recent draft.  Once the new draft was complete, I submitted the play to the Woodward/Newman Drama Award at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, an organization that fosters new playwrights.  Results for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award were announced recently and […]