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Writer, playwright, director, poet, lecturer, entrepreneur, publisher. Veteran of Off-Off-Broadway's early "golden" years. Many plays produced at major Off-Off venues as well as colleges, regional theaters, Equity Library Theartre,and by Theatre for the Forgotten.Publisher of The Old Reliable Press.Lives in Hell's Kitchen, New York.Awards: The Scene Award for Playwrighting. Writers Forum (London) First Place for Poetry. USAF Short-Story Writing judged by Agatha Christie.Events:One-Act Play THE FOREIGNERSTwo people meet at a bus stop, neither able to speak the other’s language or the language of their new country, fall in love and live an entire life cycle. Or do they? Cited by Other Stages as “One of Off-Off’s Best”WE HATE TO SEE YOU GO An Irish-American wake. A reluctant corpse. Played a return engagement “by popular demand” at London’s Little Theatre.NO SALE A jewelry store hold-up leads to an odd friendship with a tragi-comic outcome.Toured correctional facilities under the auspices of Theatre For the ForgottenA full-length play HEATHEN PIPER was presented at The Lincoln Center Library For The Performing Arts by Equity LibraryTheatre.The author writes himself into the “troubles” in 1920s Ireland and is at odds with his own characters, willing to live and even to die, just not on his terms.Published and edited PROSCENIUM: The Theatre Newsletter, of which the Village Voice exclaimed "Off-Off talking to itself."Specialties: Writing. Directing. Publishing. Lecturing. Copy-editing.

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