Flash Fiction Trilogy LITTLE THEFTS a finalist

For the online literary journal Defenestration.net, my three short fiction pieces collectively titled LITTLE THEFTS will be published in Dec. 2019-Jan.2020.  Voting for "best entries" will happen later.

CHESS & THE MIDDLE EAST being produced in Maryland

CHESS & THE MIDDLE EAST, a serio-comedy about two men playing chess in a public park who are interrupted by a feminist while they argue about war between Jews and Arabs, will be produced in November 2019 by the Wheaton/Heralds of Hope Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.

New transgender monologue - FINDING ONESELF

Written for a U.K. competition and produced at The Hub in Somerset, England, January 2020.

SYNOPSIS:  At a Women's Lunch Center, a transgender woman explains her life until now, her love of shopping, and asks for a job.

New short play on legal ethics - A GOOD DEFENSE

A GOOD DEFENSE
Synopsis: Nearing graduation, four Seven Sisters college students discuss justice and legal ethics over dinner.  (One of them will attend Harvard Law.)

New production in St. Louis - monologue LIKE SUMMER ON THE BEACH

My monologue LIKE SUMMER ON THE BEACH will be produced this fall by Q Collective's "The Coming Out Play Festival" in St. Louis, Missouri.

SYNOPSIS:  To her women's group, a young woman recalls being attracted to another woman while hanging out with her disagreeable boyfriend in a bar.

A STEADY DRIP, A Work of Flash Fiction, to be published by Australian publisher

My work of short fiction titled A STEADY DRIP will be published this year by Australian publisher In Case of Emergency Press, in an anthology titled One Last Story.

Revision of full-length A TIME FOR EVERYTHING

SYNOPSIS: Set in Boston, Massachusetts, this 5-character, full-length serio-comedy is about surrogate motherhood, environmentalism, and the 2016 Presidential election.  On her way to having a baby with best friend and surrogate mother Samantha, Liberal-supporting Olive opens an antique shop and auditions as an actress.  But politics intervene - how will the election's outcome affect everyone? 

7-Minute Play for Middle School - SOD OFF

Short play for youth.

SYNOPSIS: Serio-comic.  A story about friendship.  Wendy saves young Alex from a school bully.  Suitable for 12-15 year olds. 

Revision of CHARLOTTE & AMANDA, A Play in Ten Scenes

Just finished a revision of this full-length.

SYNOPSIS:  Serio-comedy.  A full-length play referencing Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, in which female friendship, and betrayal, are examined.  Fights erupt as two young women find their way through family disturbances, romance, and death in the 1920s.  Charlotte is accused of infidelity by her own mother, no less, but Amanda eventually finds true love. 

Revision of ON PREJUDICE & FAITH, A Play in Two Acts

SYNOPSIS:  Drama.  This full-length play concerns events surrounding the murder of 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913.  Jewish factory supervisor Leo Frank was convicted of the crime, but the identity of the real murderer remains unsolved.  The case stirred up much bigotry and hatred against Jewish people in the region.  With overtones of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (which is quoted in the play), this is a story about prejudice.

World Premiere of SHARING THE DRESS in Chicago, August 2019

Violet Surprise Theatre just accepted my short Femslash play SHARING THE DRESS for an August 2019 world premiere in Chicago.

Femslash is a new genre featuring romantic or sexual relationships between well-loved female characters from TV or fiction. 

SYNOPSIS:  Drawing on the characters of Mary and Rhoda from the sitcom THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW of the 1970s, Mary and Rhoda are now roommates and have an argument about a dress, on the way to discovering their mutual attraction.

Veterans staged reading at Salem State U. - A FIELD OF POPPIES

For a special Veterans festival in the fall of 2019, Salem State University in Massachusetts will present a staged reading of my one-act, A FIELD OF POPPIES.

SYNOPSIS: Drama.  In a series of monologues spoken by an American vet, a Vietnamese woman, and the ghost of the young Vietnamese soldier the American vet killed, the sad story of a terrible war that still provokes controversy is brought to life.

Atlanta, Georgia production of HAMLET'S REVENGE

Brief parody HAMLET'S REVENGE will be produced as part of 'Tapas: The Great Divide', the Academy Theatre's short play festival that runs June 7 through the 23rd in Atlanta, Georgia.


SYNOPSIS: Comedy.  Hamlet's father's Ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his murder, but Hamlet, who is eating a sandwich, isn't interested and says his father never paid him much attention, anyway.

THAT WEEKEND IN BELFAST - comic monologue published by Smith & Kraus

New comic monologue THAT WEEKEND IN BELFAST has just been published in Best Women's Monologues of 2019 by Smith & Kraus.

SYNOPSIS: Joni remembers a cross-dressing musician who let her down.

GUINNESS OR BUD, New Short Play

SYNOPSIS:  Serio-comedy.  Two men, strangers, argue in a bar about beer and impending fatherhood.