Here you can find some information about some of my plays. These, at least, have been produced most recently, and two of them are availabe for purchase.
3m1w (or, Very Very Small Things)
People sometimes ask when I'm going to write a new play. While I’ll always consider myself a playwright first, the plain truth is that I’ve left the theater and have no plans to go back there anytime soon. I miss it terribly, but it’s just too damned difficult to get new work produced in the right way. When I have a good idea for a play I try to shoehorn it into another medium--fiction or screenplay--because I know it’s the only way I’ll ever get it into the public eye. I have so many unproduced plays sitting on my computer that it seems silly to add one more to the pile.
That said, learning to write plays immeasurably enriched my ability to write fiction. Not just in the crafting of dialogue, but in knowing when to get in and out of a scene; how to create dramatic tension across an entire work; how to think visually. I often employ the language and techniques of stage and screen: I ask myself where the camera should be, I envision a set, I literally act scenes out so I can see how they would occur in three dimensions.
My plays would probably come as a surprise to most of my readers. They’re not crime stories; they tend toward the absurd and surreal; to me they are more about language and character than any kind of driving plot. Things that are extremely boring on paper can be spellbinding to watch on a stage. Odd but true.
Anyhow, I'll be adding more to this section soon, so keep checking back.