F I E L D I N G O N L I N E
h/s & res
reel and media
teaching exp
harbor co
Northside Hollow
Written with actor and playwright Brenda Withers, Northside Hollow enjoyed its World Premiere in the 2015 Harbor Stage season. Trapped underground after a deadly collapse, a miner finds his salvation in the arrival of a scrappy first responder. Northside is an intimate portrait of mortality, memory, and redemption.
Produced at Harbor Stage Company (MA) - Amphibian Stage Productions (TX) - Eastfield College (TX) - Urbanite Theatre (FL)
"...both mordantly funny and sorrowful..." - Boston Globe
"naked, unadorned...a work of art" - Provincetown Banner
"richly imagined...won't easily be forgotten" - TheaterJones
"...artistically profound...tremendously accessible" - Bradenton Times
THE GRACKLES
Small town, Texas, 1990's. A group of high-school kids gather at an abandoned house where they plan to party the night away. Armed with beer and music, free from parents and rules, nothing will stop them from having a good time tonight, except for themselves. The Grackles is currently in development.
The Ballad of Bobby Botswain
In mid-development and collaboration with theater deviser Jason Lambert, The Ballad of Bobby Botswain (temporary title) tells the story of two strangers who meet in their search for a corrupt and mystical pharmacist. A comedy of moral conversion and redemption, Ballad will help guide us as we search for the moral path forward. It is still in its incubation phase and in 2018 enjoyed a staged workshop reading at the Harbor Stage Company.
this lurking thing
This Lurking Thing
relates a triptych of frightening tales where the living are far more feared than the dead - the true and grisly history of a Dracula wannabe, the macabre bedtime story of an infirm woman, and the biography of a man who presides as a living ghost. Each story reveals the scarier side of presenting our true selves.
This Lurking Thing includes an adaptation of a short story by fantasy and science fiction writer Esther Friesner. It was presented October 27th, 2011 as a workshop production at Dixon Place in NYC, and produced by The Artful Conspirators.
This production was originally work-shopped in the winter of 2010 at
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater as part of their Playwriting Lab series.
After several years collaboration with the Misa Table, 1905 was created and presented in Amherst; a full length play with live music, video and still projection, song, and storytelling. It was directed by Gina Kaufmann.
1905 tells the story of six immigrants in a rural Nebraska community and their preparation for a travelling screening of the first of-length motion picture, The Great Train Robbery.
1905 was presented in 2010 with the help of a Visioning Grant from and at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.