"A Public Street Marriage"
Middle-Age couple hiding, from thugs the husband wronged, are forced to face things they lost.
1 Male, 1 Female, Set in a garage
First Performed:
EST Marathon '81
"North of Providence"
Somewhere in Providence a father lies dying. In a darkened room his children come reluctantly together through the disarray of their lives to figure out what keeps them apart and discover finally what it is that keeps them together.
1985, 1 Male, 1 Female
Published by:
Dramatists Play Service, 1991
First Performed:
EST Marathon '85
"Dolores"What started out for Dolores as a frantic search for shelter ends as usual in her sister Sandra's house, and becomes a reckoning with the mistakes they've made and the limits of acceptance.
1986, 2 Females
Published by:
Dramatists Play Service, 1991
Best Short Plays 1989 / Applause Books
First Performed:
EST Marathon '86
"The Buffer"
Blue Collar Guy trades his floor-buffing biz for a New Age scheme that has his straight-laced Wife in a panic.
1986, 1 Male, 2 Females, Set in lobby of a movie theater
Produced by:
The Working Theater of New York 1986
"Lady of Fadima"
Woman who works at a Hospital is sexually harassed by her Supervisor, gets no help from co-worker.
1987, 2 Females, 1 Male
Published by:
Dramatists Play Service, 1991
First Performed:
EST Marathon '87
"Face Divided"
In the emergency room of a Providence, Rhode Island hospital, Debbie waits for her husband. their daughter, Jess, has fallen down the basement steps. That, at least, is what she tells the nurses, and this is the story she's sticking to.
1990, 2 Females, 1 Male
Published by:
Dramatists Play Service, 1996
First Performed:
EST Marathon '90
"Rosemary With Ginger"
Two sisters meet in a closed-down diner and slowly reveal the strife they're experiencing at home: Rosemary, an alcoholic, is about to lose custody of her children; Ginger finds herself in a loveless marriage. The sisters wrangle, accuse and attack, but mostly discover that, without each other, they have nothing.
1994, 2 Females
Published by:
Dramatists Play Service, 1996
EST Marathon / Smith and Kraus, 1994
First Performed:
EST Marathon '94
"A Dead Man's Apartment"
Lonnie, a married but lonely truck driver, and Nickie, his mistress, a married but lonely hardware store clerk, meet twice a week in an apartment to talk and kiss. They have chosen a day to tell their spouses they are leaving them, but when the day comes, there is a message on Lonnie's answering machine: "You're a dead man.".
Published by:
Dramatists Play Service, 1996
EST Marathon 1995 / Smith and Kraus, 1995
Act One '95 / Smith and Kraus, 1995
Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1995 (excerpt) / Smith and Kraus, 1995
Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1995 (exceprt) / Smith and Kraus, 1995
First Performed:
EST Marathon '95
"Mafia on Prozac"
Long Time 'Hit Men' have a mid-life crisis at the end of a dock-while next victim awaits his fate from inside a potato sack.
1997, 3 Males
Published by:
EST Marathon / Smith and Kraus, 1997
First Performed:
EST Marathon '97
"Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truth"
A beaten-down 18 years old girl needs to convince an Uncle to free she and her sister from crazy mother.
1999, 2 Females, 1 Male
Published by:
EST Marathon / Faber and Faber, 1999
First Performed:
EST Marathon '99
"The Seventeenth of June"
Young woman cannot get out from under the shadow of an abusive husband - despite him being dead.
2000, 3 Females, 1 Male
Published by:
EST Marathon / Faber and Faber, 2000
First Performed:
EST Marathon '00
"Larry's Charm"
A Mother and her German Daughter in-law are forced to live together due to the disappearance of the man that connects them.
2002, 3 Females
First Performed:
EST Marathon '01
"Jane's Exchange"
A Wife rents her bakery worker Husband to a lonely woman who won some lottery money.
2002, 3 Females, 1 Male
First Performed:
Alter Ego - Acts of Providence 2002
"Lila on the Wall"
A TV Reporter and her Cameraman doing a story on a 'Jesus Sighting on a wall mural - exposes Reporter's fear of nothingness.
2004, 1 Female, 1 Male
First Performed:
McCadden Place Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 2004
TEN MINUTE PLAYS
"Off Chalkstone"
Mother packing daughter off to the Army.
2003,2 Females
First Performed:
Broken Watch Theatre Company
"A Delicate Line"
Artist Father upset at sons surprise enlistment to the Army.
2003, 2 Males
First Performed:
Broken Watch Theatre Company
"Light People"
A Vaudeville Act, drum-boy and his unhappy parents.
2002, 2 Males, 1 Females
First Performed:
Sarah Lawrence College