News: Past, Present, and Future
December 2024: Two monologues — There’s Something About a Ginger from Cabana Boy and You Finally Did It from A Tree Grows in Longmont — have been selected for inclusion in the Smith & Kraus collections of The Best Women’s and Men’s Stage Monologues 2024.
June 21-23, 2024: Which Way to the Beach will be presented as part of the CapitalQ Theatre Festival 2024 at the Bartell Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin.
June 8-15, 2024: Cabana Boy will be presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska.
May 1, 2024: A Tree Grows in Longmont and Other Plays About Allen will be published by Next Stage Press.
April 12-14, 2024: Chewie, Get Us Out of Here was included in Festival 10 by the Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, Brentwood, California.
April 11-13, 2024: A Life Enriching Community was included in More. Real. Life. Stories presented at the Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, Massachusetts.
April 8-14, 2024: Participated in the Desert Playwrights’ Retreat in Palm Springs, California.
April 5-6, 2024: Can’t Live Without You was produced by COM STUDIOLAB Productions at the College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas.
February 9, 2024: Watercolors was presented in a Zoom reading hosted by Playwrights Thriving Reading Series.
December 1, 2023: Do You Get It from The Sugar Ridge Rag is included in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023. Quite the Connoisseur from Tucumcari Tonite! and Zero Sum Game from The Sugar Ridge Rag are included in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023, both published by Smith & Kraus.
December 1-2, 2023: The Christmas Commercial Conspiracy was presented as part of the Miami 1-Acts Winter Session at Main Street Players, Hialeah, Florida.
November 30 - December 3, 2023: Any Second Now was presented by The University Players at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey.
November 8, 2023: Finalist for the 2023-2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellows Program.
October 4-7, 2023: Forgive Us Our Debts was presented at the Midwest Dramatists Conference in Olathe, Kansas.
September 1, 2023: Cooler Near the Lake was published by Next Stage Press.
August 1, 2023: Cabana Boy was presented in a workshop production by Fenton Productions.
June 17, 2023: There’s Something About a Ginger, a monologue from Cabana Boy, was performed in the Valdez Theatre Conference Monologue Workshop, Valdez, Alaska.
June 11, 2023: A Tree Grows in Longmont was presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska. It is available on YouTube for a limited time.
May 5-20, 2023: A Moment of Clarity was presented in the Curtain Call Playhouse Short Play Festival at various venues in Broward County, Florida.
May 1, 2023: A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family was published by Next Stage Press.
March 15, 2023: Cooler Near the Lake was chosen as a finalist in the American Association of Community Theatres NewPlayFest 2024.
December 15, 2022: Home-Style Cooking at the Gateway Cafe was published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2022 by Smith & Kraus.
October 1, 2022: A House by the Side of the Road was included in Extra Innings: 10 Short Plays About Baseball published by Next Stage Press.
September 20, 2022: Allen's Big Adventure was selected for the Talking Horse Original Monologue Contest.
September 18, 2022: Tucumcari Tonite! was awarded Best Short Comedy at the Legacy Play Reading Festival in Stony Creek, Connecticut.
September 1, 2022: Kent State University published an article on the story behind The Sugar Ridge Rag. Written by April McClellan-Copeland, it tells how the events of May 4, 1970 changed my view of the war in Vietnam and changed the direction of my life.
September 1, 2022: The Sugar Ridge Rag was published by Next Stage Press.
July 28 - August 7, 2022: A Life Enriching Community was produced by Open Eye Theater's Summer Shortcuts XI in Margaretville, New York.
July 1, 2022: All Together Now was published by Next Stage Press.
June 14, 2022: Tucumcari Tonite! was presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska.
June 11, 2022: Stop Laughing Without Me was presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference Fringe Festival, Valdez, Alaska.
May 27, 2022: Hey, Dad was included in the anthology The COVID Monologues: 54 Writers Respond to the Pandemic published by Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. A video reading of it was performed by Tom Shelton.
April 28 - May 15, 2022: The Sugar Ridge Rag premiered at LAB Theater Project in Tampa, Florida, for a three-week run.
February 12, 2022: Begging the Question, Unforgivable, Welcome to Fourbucks, and Planning Ahead were produced at the One Moment in Time: A One-Minute Play Festival by Jakespeare Virtual Theatre Company.
January 1, 2022: Can't Live Without You was published by Next Stage Press.
October 1, 2021: Dark Twist was published by Next Stage Press and is available through the Drama Book Shop in New York.
June 23, 2021: Home-Style Cooking at the Gateway Cafe was presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska.
November 20, 2020: A Life Enriching Community was a finalist in the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting.
March 20, 2020: A Moment of Clarity was presented at Bendigo Theatre Company TenX 10 2020 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
November 14, 2019: Three monologues from Can’t Live Without You were included in The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays 2019 published by Applause Acting Series.
July 27 & August 4, 2019: All Together Now was presented by the Vermont Pride Festival in Randolph, Vermont.
June 8, 2019: A Moment of Clarity was presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska
March 30 - April 7, 2019: Can’t Live Without You opened at the Willow Theatre, Boca Raton, Florida, produced by The Playgroup LLC.
March 2-11, 2018: All Together Now opened at the Willow Theatre, Boca Raton, Florida, produced by The Playgroup LLC.
June 22, 2017: A Moment of Clarity was chosen as a finalist in the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting.
December 7, 2016: A Moment of Clarity premiered at Still Got It Players South as a part of the Short Attention Span Play Festival, Orlando, Florida.
December 16, 2015: All Together Now was presented in a reading as part of the PLAYte Series by New Theatre of Miami.
September 12, 2015: Which Way to the Beach was presented at the Miami 1-Acts Festival as a part of the Miami New Stages Festival, Main Street Theatre, Miami Lakes, Florida.
December 20, 2014: A Life Enriching Community was performed at the New Theatre Miami 1-Acts Festival Winter Session, Main Street Theatre, Miami Lakes, Florida.
July 4-6, 2014: Last Exit was presented at the Miami 1-Acts Festival at New Theatre, Miami, Florida.
July 5-7, 2013: Ask Me Anything was presented as a part of the Miami Summer 1-Acts Festival at New Theatre, Miami, Florida.
May 4, 2013: Ask Me Anything premiered as part of The Playgroup LLC Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Lake Worth Playhouse, Lake Worth, Florida.
January 23 - February 2, 2008: Can’t Live Without You opened at the Manhattan Rep in New York.
November 20, 2005: Can’t Live Without You was presented in a reading at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
December 4, 1994: Here’s Hoping premiered at Petoskey High School, Petoskey, Michigan.
January 1, 1993: “A Comfortable House” - Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason, and the Circle Repertory Theatre was published by McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina.
March 2, 1986: Dark Twist was presented in a reading by Actors Ensemble Theatre at the Nomads Playhouse, Boulder, Colorado.
February 16-19, 1984: The Hunter was produced at the University of Colorado Theatre 300, Boulder, Colorado.
April 12-14, 1977: The Hunter premiered at the University of Minnesota Rarig Center Experimental Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota.