Resume

On Going Projects

Provide Coverage for Slamdance Screenplay/Teleplay Competitions since 2003 (and discovered the first place winners for the last four competitions in a row)

Provide Coverage for Here! Networks/Regent Entertainment since 2003

Originated and co-produce SLAMDANCE ON STAGE, a series of readings at different theaters in Los Angeles of all the winners of the Slamdance Screenplay/ Teleplay Competitions since 2004

I am also the author of six screenplays and one telepilot.

2013    Screenplay The Last Tree Standing Motel made finalists in the London Film Awards Screenplay Competition

2011    Screenplays Rough Trade and Welcome to LA made the top twelve of the Great

Gay Screenplay Competition; Welcome to LA made the top five

2009    Screenplay Rough Trade a quarter finalist in the Champion Screenplay

Competition

2008    Commissioned by Here! Networks to write the film Double Cross

2007    Screenplay Rough Trade a semi-finalist in the Extreme Screenplay Competition

Screenplay Revelation a finalist in the Screenplay Festival competition.

Screenplay Rough Trade a quarterfinalist in Screenwritingexpo Competition

2004    Provided Coverage for the African Film Commission Screenplay Competition

Taught the course The Dirty Dozen: The Twelve Most Common Mistakes Screenwriters Make  at The Gay and Lesbian Center

2002    GLAAD Nomination for Production of A COLD COMING WE HAD OF IT (one of the plays from Halsted Street…) for best Los Angeles Production of 2002

HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO: A FEW TALES FROM BOYSTOWN ranked second by Frontiers Magazine for Los Angeles production of 2002

Production of HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO… at Korbett Kompany Productions in San Diego

Production of ENDLESS NIGHT/SWEET DELIGHT at Wings Theatre, New York

Production of HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO… by Halsted Street Productions in Los Angeles

2001    Production of THE WAY OF THE WORLD at Shelterbelt Theatre’s Shelterskelter Theatre Festival, Omaha, Nebraska

2000    Production of ENDLESS NIGHT/SWEET DELIGHT at Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago

Production of A MISREADING OF CAMUS at West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles

Production of RANDOM ACTS: THREE TALES FROM BOYSTOWN by Potter Productions, Chicago

1999    Production of A LITTER LEAR AND LAUNDRY at Bailiwick Theatre Director’s Festival, Chicago

1997    Production of EHTYL MAE POTTER, WE NEVER FORGOT HER at the Mary Archie Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival, Chicago

1994    Production of QUEEN CHRISTINA GOES ROMAN by Theatre Praxis, Chicago

QUEEN CHRISTINA… selected as finalist in New Hope Performing Arts Festival

1993    Workshop Production of QUEEN CHRISTINA GOES ROMAN at Western Stage’s Salinas River New Works Project, Salinas, California

ENDLESS NIGHT/SWEET DELIGHT commissioned by Lionheart Theatre, Chicago

Chicago contributor to The Purple Circuit Newsletter (position held through 2001)

1992    A COLD COMING WE HAD OF IT released on video by Golden West Productions, California

1989    Production of THE VENERY OF LARKS at The Commons Theatre, Chicago

1987    Production of A COLD COMING WE HAD OF IT at Déjà vu Coffeehouse, Los Angeles

Production of A COLD COMING… by Golden West Productions for an AIDS benefit in California

1986    Production of A COLD COMING WE HAD OF IT at West Coast Ensemble’s Annual One Act Play Festival, Los Angeles

Production of THE SCREAM by Bailiwick Repertory and Greenlight Productions, Chicago