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Works written for television, dance, and live theater.

Headshots

Posted on March 13, 2016 | Plays

Aaron’s widow, Gayle, comes to ask his mother Vera to testify in her suit against the US government, on the grounds that Aaron had PTSD. But is that an “explanation” for his suicide that Vera …

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Morality Play

Posted on March 13, 2012 | Plays

Book and lyrics by Burroway, with music by Curtis Powell and Matthew K. Kiedrowski, a musical adaptation of the Barry Unsworth novel of that name is under development in Chicago. It had its first fully …

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Dew Point

Posted on April 9, 2011 | Plays

A ten-minute play, reading at Chicago Dramatists, June 2011; finalist for the Heideman Award of Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2012.

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Medea with Child

Posted on March 13, 2010 | Plays

It’s an old, old story: Daddy falls in love with a younger woman, and Mom says it’s okay, but then she murders the woman and her father and the kids… Winner of the Reva Shiner …

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Long Time No See

Posted on April 9, 2008 | Plays

A ten-minute play, produced at Bloomington Playwrights Project, Bloomington, Indiana, July – Aug. 2008, reprised Nov. 2009. Finalist for the Heideman Award of Actors Theatre of Lousiville, 2010. Published in Narrative Magazine Spring 2012.

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Parts of Speech

Posted on March 13, 2004 | Plays

Parts of Speech was given readings with Jane Alexander in the leading role, in a staging by Edwin Sherin, at the Florida State University Conradi Theatre, 2004; at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, 2007; winner of …

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Division of Property

Posted on March 13, 2001 | Plays

Winner of the 2001 Arts & Letters Prize (chosen by Lanford Wilson), produced at Milledgeville, GA, April 2002, published in the Spring 2002 issue of Arts & Letters. Produced for the Imago One-Act Festival at …

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Sweepstakes

Posted on February 11, 1999 | Plays

Reading at the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Oct. 1998 (finalist in the annual Dramarama competition); production by the Arts Repertory Theatre at Tallahassee Little Theatre, Feb. 11-21, l999; reading, the Royal National Theatre Studio, …

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Opening Nights

Posted on April 9, 1997 | Plays

Opening Nights, (radio adaptation with Charles Olsen) production by the Tallahassee Repertory Company; sponsored by WFSU TV and the FSU School for the Production of Film, Television and the Recording Arts; transmission WFSU (NPR) summer l997.

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Texts for Dance

Posted on March 13, 1997 | Plays, Texts for Dance

Dadadata: Homage to John Cage; The Empty Dress; Text/Tile.

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Written for Television

Posted on March 13, 1979 | Plays, Written for Television

A collection of plays written for television.

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