"My work has been produced at professional theaters in NY and regionally, including a commission by F. Murray Abraham. I have written screenplays for production companies in the U.S. and Europe. I am a full member of the DGA. My nonfiction has been published in newspapers and journals. I am a recently retired professor who taught playwriting and screenwriting on the graduate level for over twenty years and fiction and creative nonfiction on the undergraduate level.

My approach to teaching is the workshop model. If we are working online, you will send a scene through email and we will meet through skype, and I will also send written comments. If we are meeting face to face (you must be fully vaccinated if you come to my house), we’ll talk about the work and I will have written comments. My approach stresses finding a voice through character, dialog as a heightened reality that reveals character and furthers the story, something different than everyday conversation. Feedback in fiction will stress a voice that keeps readers engaged and plot construction. Nonfiction will look at the interplay between the personal and factual. You can work on a play, screenplay, TV pilot, short story and creative nonfiction. If we’re going to work together, I would like to see a brief sample first, ten pages.

My students have been accepted into MFA programs, a few have been produced in NY and nationally, a couple have managed indie film deals, and a few have won awards. My aim is always for students to grasp the fundamentals of craft." less...