Full-Length: On the morning of Paul’s fortieth birthday, the doorbell rings and in walks Fox, age 15, just off the plane from Santa Fe.  He is Paul's son — a fact Paul did not know until that moment — and he wants to move in with Paul and his partner Adam. This life-changing moment touches the whole family, including Paul’s parents, and in ways no one expected until that morning.

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Full-Length: Paul and Adam welcome the family back to their home in Miami. It's a big occasion: Paul's fiftieth birthday and Fox's engagement party. But there are other things going on that threaten the celebrations, and it's going to be a long weekend in more ways than one.

Finalist, American Association of Community Theatres New Play Fest 2025.

Full-Length: The Henderson-Connolly family gathers again at Paul and Adam’s home, this time to remember and celebrate the life of Jim. For Fox's son P.J. and his boyfriend Will, it's a time of reckoning with a secret and troubled past, and all of the family is facing decisions about the future.

Full-Length: P.J. and Will are planning their wedding when Will finds out via FedEx about his family history, including his birth name and ancestry. He braces himself to meet his past and his future in the form of his biological father and half-brother who, like P.J.’s dad all those years ago, show up unannounced.

Full-Length: Mitch and Ben have landed summer jobs working poolside at the Silver Spray, an exclusive resort in the Florida Keys. When they meet Alex and Miriam, it soon becomes apparent that there are things that go beyond their job description of waiting on the guests, including the complex tapestry of sexual intricacies, subtleties, strategies, and vulnerabilities.

Full-Length: Donny is a writer of romance novels living in the Florida Keys with his girlfriend, Anna, a realtor, both living their dreams. Then Bobby Cramer shows up.  He is the main character in Donny’s abandoned novel and asks “Why have you left me in the bottom of your desk drawer?  What happened to me?”  Now Donny must choose between Anna and their comfortable life or Bobby and the unknown.

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Full-Length: Sam and Frank Weaver are at their summer home on Lake Michigan for a memorial service for Ruth, Frank's wife and Sam's mother. They are joined by friends and former loves to reminisce about summers past. As the day progresses — and under the influence of good Scotch — some well-kept memories that some would rather forget are revealed.

Finalist, American Association of Community Theatres New Play Fest 2024.

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Full-Length: The Simmons family has gathered at their summer home on Lake Michigan to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday. The house is a hundred years old and up for sale. Long-held secrets, sibling rivalries, and generational divides come to light while the family grapples with letting go of the past and embracing change. They have some tough choices to make, including what to do with the faithful old station wagon in the garage.

Full-Length: Richard and Jeff, once classmates and now teachers at their old all-boys boarding school, meet with Jim, their former teacher who hired them both. Tensions intensify as the three begin a fierce dance culminating in a relentless series of revelations, each more startling than the last.

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Full-Length: Marc Griffin has landed his dream job of teaching English at a prestigious New England private day school. But he soon learns that the expectations of the parents and the students put him to the test, and the toughest lessons he learns are about himself as a teacher and a person.

Full-Length: On the run from Immigration, Pete and Gordy take refuge in an old house by a quarry pond in northwest Ohio. When Benjie, a deputy sheriff-in-training, tracks them down, the standoff leads to some interesting events that may have something to do with the magic of the house, the land, and the quarry.

Full-Length: Five years after his abrupt departure from his writing partnership, Scott is reluctantly reunited with his partner, Deke, and their agent, Marvin. Now comfortably settled in his Florida home, Scott has to reconcile with them and his own issues about going back and going on.

Full-Length: Dave and Pete Granger, age 17, are twin brothers in rural Ohio in 1970. Dave enlists in the Army as a combat medic and is sent to Vietnam.  Pete goes to Canada to pursue his education in music and avoid the draft.  Over the next five years, their lives are changed forever by the war and the choices each of them has made.

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Full-Length: College-age friends gather at their summer place on Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan on July 20, 1969. But there’s more going on besides the first moon landing. For some, it’s the beginning of a new life, and for others, it’s a time to examine how this group of entitled young adults process the death of one of their own in the war in Vietnam and the everyday hypocrisies that are a foundation of their way of life. One small step, indeed.

Full-Length: At a retrospective exhibit of the works of the late artist Eric Michael Foster, his surviving partner Nick is dealing with his struggle to move on with his new partner while preserving Eric’s legacy. It’s complicated by echoes of the past and the uncertain future.

Finalist, Utah Shakespeare Festival Words Cubed 2025.

One-Act: The usual crowd gathers for coffee at their favorite diner in a small western town until a mysterious stranger enters and engages them in conversation. But who's telling the truth and who's not? And what's the lunch special?

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One-Act: As they wait to be selected for jury duty, Chuck and Barry discuss the state of the justice system and how the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth can be an illusion.

Finalist, Nomad Theatre Order in the Court, 2025.

Seven ten-minute plays - A House by the Side of the Road; Blind No. 7; And the Wisdom to Know the Difference; A Moment of Clarity; Favorite Son; I'll Be Here; Good Grief - follow a father and his two sons through life and can be produced individually or as one full production in chronological order.

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Ten-Minute: Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan sit on the back porch on a summer evening listening to the Detroit Tigers play baseball on the radio and learn that you don't have to play the game to be in it.

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Ten-Minute: Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan spend a morning in Blind No. 7 at Erie Marsh duck-hunting, telling dad-jokes, and being together.

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Ten-Minute: Clyde stops by to see Dan on visiting day at the treatment center.

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Ten-Minute: Clyde, in the early stages of dementia, sits with Dan as they share memories and truths.

Finalist, City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting 2017.

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Ten-Minute: Dan and Steve are waiting to visit their father who is in hospice care. As they sort through the arrangements, they sort through their relationship, bracing themselves for what's coming next.

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Ten-Minute: Dan spends some time with the spirit of Clyde in the woods where they used to go bird-watching.

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Ten-Minute: Dan stops by the forest to visit Clyde and meets his new lifelong companion. He's an attractive young man named Grief, and he and Dan are going to get to know each other very well.

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One-Act: A year after Allen’s death, Philip visits the park in Longmont, Colorado, where a tree has been planted in his memory. There he meets with Allen’s spirit, and they remember their life together.

The collection also includes three other plays: Last Exit, Going for a Walk with Sam, Another Park, Another Sunday and a monologue, Allen’s Big Adventure.

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Ten-Minute: Moving day for Malcolm was supposed to bring closure to his fifteen years with Arnold. But as they pack up the house, the memories come back and they finally come to terms with what led up to this day. Or do they?

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Ten-Minute: Allen, Sam, and Philip meet up at a park in the spirit of remembering good times and the last time they were together.

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Ten-Minute: Allen and Jill, two spirits, meet up every Sunday at the park to talk about life, the universe, the meaning of life, and peaches.

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Monologue: Memories come flooding back as a spouse says goodbye to his soulmate.

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