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I am the author of more than a twenty produced plays, including contest winners staged in Chicago, New York, Virginia, Oregon, and the UK. (Plays produced as part of GI 60 International are accessible on YouTube.) I have also had essays and/or short stories published in Liguorian, Women’s Sports & Fitness, Central Pennsylvania Magazine, and Quality Living.I retired from higher education in 1995 to be a stay-at-home dad for an infant daughter (and two years later a son). My “checkered past” includes stints as a radio copywriter, a college grants writer, and a tutor in a community college writing lab. I currently work at as a writing tutor in the Russell E. Horn Learning Center at Penn State -- Harrisburg. RECENT PRODUCTIONS AND PUBLICATIONSTuring Test -Co-winner New Works Festival; produced at Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA., February 21-23, 2020Safe at Home -Produced at Hart Community Theatre, Hartwell, GA, February 8-17, 2019.Safe at Home -Produced at Rural Root Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 23-25, 2018Mrs. Pavlov’s Secret -Produced at the New Workshop Theater, Brooklyn College as part of Gi60 US Live Edition, June 8-10, 2017Honest Feedback -Produced at the New Workshop Theater, Brooklyn College as part of Gi60 US Live Edition, June 8-10, 2017 …That Is the Question -Produced as part of Gi60 UK Live Edition at University of Leeds, May 13, 2017Senseless Carnage - Produced as part of Gi60 Live US Edition at the New Workshop Theater, Brooklyn, June 9-11, 2016You Don’t Say - Produced at the Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK as part of Gi60, June 2015Importance of Market Research - Produced at the Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK as part of Gi60, June 2015Cherish Is the Word - Produced at Brooklyn College as part of Gi60 #NextGen, June 12-13, 2015Momma’s Legacy - Produced by Stage Door Productions, Fredericksburg, VA, March 2015 Real Friends - Produced at the Viaduct Theatre, UK as part of GI60 UK Live Edition, June 8, 2013What You Wish For - Produced at the Viaduct Theatre, UK as part of Gi 60, June 17, 2012The Echo of His Face - Produced at Astor Street Opry Company, Astoria OR, Feb 1 – 18, 2012Perfectly Human - Produced at Lebanon Community Theatre, Lebanon, PA, August 11-14, 2011Freshman Experience - Produced at Brooklyn College as part of Gi60, June 10-11, 2011Uncivil War - Produced in NYC by the Spare Change Theater, April 2011, as part of the In a New York Minute FestivalThe New Fourth Estate - Produced at Brooklyn College as part of Gi60, June 11-12, 2010Safe at Home - Winner, 24th Annual Henrico Theatre Company One-Act Playwriting Competition; produced February 2010, Henrico County, VAThe Other Place - Produced at Brooklyn College as part of Gi60, June 12-13, 2009Perfectly Human - Produced at the Chemically Imbalanced Theatre, Chicago, IL, August 29-30, 2008The Rehearsal - Produced by Beginners Readers’ Theatre of Reid Elementary School, Middletown, PA, May 2008Hanging Out with the Girls - Central PA Magazine, May 2008

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