SELECTED PRODUCTIONS

Plays

• Cynical Weathers
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 2007
  
• Somebody Foreign
  City Lit Theater, Chicago, 2006
  Stage Left Theater's Festival of New Work, Chicago, 2004
  Midwest New Plays Festival, Chicago, 1999
  
• Blissfield
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 2000
  
• Forty-Two Stories
  L.A. Theater Works, 1997
  
• Drowning Sorrows
  Third Stage, Los Angeles, 2001
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1996
  Shelykova Playwrights Conference, Russia, 1995
  O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Connecticut, 1994
  
• Personal Effects
  Circle Theater, Chicago, 2003
  Toledo Repertoire Theater, Ohio, 1996
  Carnegie Mellon Drama Showcase of New Plays, Pittsburgh, 1991
  
• Earth and Sky
  Second Thought Theatre, Dallas, 2005
  Circle Theater, Chicago, 1999
  Nuffield Theater, England, and British Tour, 1999
  Copperview Theater Company, Los Angeles, 1997
  Actors Forum Theater, Los Angeles, 1995
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1992
  Second Stage Theater, New York, 1991
  O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Connecticut, 1989
  
• Suffering Fools
  Commons Theater, Chicago, 1989
  O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Connecticut, 1988
  
• Murder in Green Meadows
  Studio Arena Theater, New York, 2004
  Vienna's English Theater, Austria, 2003
  Totem Pole Playhouse, Pennsylvania, 2002
  Horse Cave Theater, Kentucky, 2001
  Contemporary American Theater Company, Ohio, 2001
  The English Theater of Hamburg, Germany, 1999
  Circle Theater, Chicago, 1998
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1995
  Stamford Theatre Works, Connecticut, 1993
  Nuffield Theater, England, 1992
  
• Detective Sketches
  Lincoln Center Theater Lab, New York, 2002
  Theater-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, 1995
  Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, 1987
  
• Belongings and Longings
  Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater, New York, 1987
  Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, 1986

Musicals

• The Kingdom of Grimm
  Chicago Playworks, Chicago, 2006
  
• God and Country
  Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 2002
  
• Gethsemane
  Holy Covent Church, Chicago, 1999
  
• The Real Life Story of Johnny De Facto
  Goodspeed-At-Chester, Connecticut, 1989
  National Alliance for Musical Theater Festival of New Work, New York, 1989
  O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Connecticut, 1989
  Getz Theater, Chicago, 1986
  
• Postsongs
  Orphans, Chicago, 1986
  
• The Wind in the Willows
  Lakeshore Excellence Foundation, Michigan, 1999
  Arvada Center For The Arts & Humanities, Colorada, 1997
  Theater Off Park, New York, 1993
  Lambs Players Theater, California, 1990
  Theater Building, Chicago, 1989
  Coterie Theater, Kansas City, 1988
  Cleveland Play House, Ohio, 1987
  Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago, 1986
  Organic Lab Theater, Chicago, 1985
  
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle (with Sheldon Patinkin)
  Getz Theater, Chicago, 1985
  
• Everyman
  Cafe Voltaire, Chicago, 1997
  Free Shakespeare Company, Chicago, 1984
  Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago, 1984
  
• Drums
  Theater Building, Chicago, 1982
  
• The Other Wise Man
  Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago,1982
  Leo A. Lerner Theater, Chicago, 1981
  
• Prospero's Saxophone
  Leo A. Lerner Theater, Chicago, 1981

Screenplays

• Drowning Sorrows
  Commissioned by Old Country Productions, 2002
  
• Cinque and the Amistad Revolt
  Commissioned by Mase Brite Productions, 1996
  
• Earth and Sky
  Commissioned by Warner Bros., 1991
  
• Undesirables
  Commissioned by NBC, 1991
  

Teleplays

• Crime of Innocence (Co-author)
  WMAQ-TV, Chicago, 1988
  
• Murder in Green Meadows
  One-act version for WMAQ-TV with Steppenwolf Theater Company, Chicago, 1986

Radio Plays

• Forty-Two Stories
  Chicago Theaters On The Air, 1998
  
• Drowning Sorrows
  Chicago Theaters On The Air, 1996
  
• Earth and Sky
  XM Satellite Radio, 2005
  National Public Radio, 2005, 2003, 1994
  L.A. Theater Works, 1993
  Chicago Theaters On The air, 1993

PUBLISHED WORKS

• The Kingdom of Grimm, Dramatic Publishing, 2007
• Drowning Sorrows, Dramatists Play Service, 1998
• Belongings and Longings, Dramatic Publishing, 1997
• Detective Sketches and Other Short Plays, Dramatic Publishing, 1997
• Earth and Sky, Dramatists Play Service, 1991
• Murder in Green Meadows, Dramatists Play Service, 1990
• The Wind in the Willows, Dramatic Publishing, 1986

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship Award, 2006
• Cunningham Commission For Youth Theatre Award, 2003
• Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship Award, 1997
• Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award for Personal Effects, 1995
• L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award for Earth and Sky, 1991
• Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship Award, 1990
• Emmy Award Nomination for Individual Achievement in Writing for Murder in Green Meadows, 1986
• Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Original Incidental Music for The Tempest, 1984

ADDITIONAL

• Bachelor of Arts from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, Speech and Drama Major, English Major, University Scholar
• Teacher of Playwriting at DePaul University, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists and O'Neill National Theater Institute
• Commissioned to write Plays, Musicals and Multimedia Shows for Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Playworks, British actor Simon Slater, Newberry Library and Field Museum.
• Composer of Songs and Incidental Music for over Twenty-five productions in Chicago
• Sketches performed at Primary Stages, American Blues Theater and O'Neill Pub
• Articles published in the Victory Gardens Newsletter, Stagebill and The Dramatist Magazine
• Collected Works donated to DePaul University Library Special Collection and Archives
• Member of the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble, Dramatists Guild of America and Writers Guild of America, East