Although I was not one of two winners of The Voaden Prize in Playwriting, my play ANIMAL came close to the top.   Read the press release below: This was a big victory for me.  After ANIMAL was performed at the Alumnae Theatre’s Fireworks Festival  back in 2018, I received lots of feedback.  Watching the play […]

My one-act play That’s How It Goes Sometimes will be performed (virtually) at the Guelph Little Theatre (GLT) on July 22-25 for The Ward One Acts Festival.  Over a year ago, pre-Covid, I submitted That’s How It Goes… to GLT but their festival was cancelled due to Covid. This year, there is still no live […]

A tribute to a fine man today.  I met Randy Blimkie at The Stone Church.  He came out for an audition when I was in charge of writing, directing and staging seasonal annual productions.   All the work was done by volunteers and Randy became one of my actors.  Randy passed away of cancer last week.   […]

I’ve been struggling to write…and if I’m being honest it began pre-Covid, but Covid hasn’t helped.   It’s not like I haven’t written anything this past year.  I’ve re-written three of my scripts (two screenplays and one play).  But I haven’t written anything new for some time.  This last month I’ve begun to write a new […]

I woke up to this bit of good news this morning.   4388 screenplays were submitted into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition.   341 advanced to the Quarterfinals.   My screenplay BREAK AWAY was one of them.  You can find the complete list HERE.  BlueCat has been a launching pad for many writers.  It began in 1998 by Gordy […]

This is me today.  Call me Mufasa from  The Lion King  (not really).   I haven’t cut my hair for some time and now it’s literally grown on me.  We’ve all been “masked up” for the better part of a year.  We know each other only by our eyes peeking out from above our masked […]

Don’t give up if you’re tired of fighting Covid. Don’t give up wearing a mask, washing you hands and socially distancing. Don’t give up if you lost a loved one. Don’t give up if you’re depressed, anxious or scared. Don’t give up if you’re battling chronic pain. Don’t give up if you work in hospitals […]

Adam (we call him Dan), Robert (we call call him Bob), Elisabeth (we call her Lizza) and John (John is just John).  Brothers and sister – this is how we “celebrated” Christmas this year.  Oh, and then there’s me – Romeo (they call me Rome).  We five are quite different in personality and I would […]

David Wappel is a screenwriter who grew up in North Carolina, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.  He used to read screenplays for production companies/producers, has a produced film and offers screenwriting services for writers.  I was looking for a new set of eyes to read my latest draft of BREAK AWAY.  I […]

It doesn’t feel like time is flying in this year of Covid…but in fact it is…and it keeps marching on through the few happy moments and the many sad ones.  The sad ones unfortunately linger longer and the happy ones are all too fleeting.   It’s hard to believe that it was 2 years ago […]