Take some time to browse through excerpts of my work.
Excerpts are presented in Adobe pdf format.
"Bounty of Lace"
"Beyond the Sea"
"Swimming Upstream"
a screenplay 
Hair play-word
Star Train
 

PRODUCTION HISTORY:

ONE ACTS:

MOMMY AND ME
Readings: Ensemble Studio Theatre/ LA Project

MEETING BETTY SUE
Readings: Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles
Finalist: Dramarama, San Francisco Playwrights Center

STAR TRAIN
Produced: Emerging Artists Theatre, NYC
Produced: Ensemble Studio Theatre/ LA
Summer Shorts Festival
Reading: Theatre Geo

HOPE
Readings: Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles
Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles
Produced: AFTER BEIJING FESTIVAL, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York

SARA’S LAST DANCE
Readings: WORDSMYTHS, LATC, Los Angeles;Theatre Geo, Los Angeles; Ensemble Studio Theatre /LA (Finalist FIRST LOOK FESTIVAL); JET Theatre, W. Bloomfield, Michigan
Finalist: Nantucket New Play Festival

BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER
Readings: LA Writers Bloc; Interact Theatre, Los Angeles; JET Theatre, W. Bloomfield, Michigan ( STAGED)

DANSE RUSSE
Readings: Ensemble Studio Theatre Winterfest, Los Angeles; A.S.K. Theatre Projects( Stage One)

HAIR:A REMINISCENCE
Commissioned by Jewish Women’s Theatre Project
Produced: as part of HAIRPIECES: BY WOMEN ABOUT HAIR , produced by Hudson Guild, Fountain Theatre and Jewish Women’s Theatre Project


FULL LENGTHS:

THE MARRIAGE SUITE
Readings: Ensemble Studio Theatre/ NYC

Theatricum Botanicum

THE BUSINESS OF HEAVEN
Readings: Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles;
Ensemble Studio Theatre/ NYC

FIREWORKS OVER THE BACON
Readings: Los Angeles Theatre Center
Fountain Theatre. Los Angeles; Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC

BEYOND THE SEA
Readings: Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY Summer Conference, FIRST LOOK FULL LENGTHS EST/LA
OCTOBERFEST, NYC , 2003

WHAT REMAINS
Commissioned by Jewish Women’s Theatre Project
Produced as part of SALON Series, JWTP, Los Angeles, CA;
Staged Readings: Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont; First Look Full Lengths, EST/LA
JET Theatre. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

BOUNTY OF LACE
Produced: Halcyon Theatre, Alcyone Festival, Chicago
Commissioned by the Jewish Women’s Theatre Project.
Produced by JWTP April 2003
Staged Readings EST/LA project
Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga CA

FULL LENGTH SOLO PLAYS:

REFLECTIONS OF A CHINA DOLL
Produced by: Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York and Lake Forest, Illinois.
Toured internationally 5 years

THE LOVES OF SHIRLEY ABRAMOWITZ
Produced by: Jewish Repertory Theatre. NY
TelAviv International Theatre Festival
Co-writtten with Edward M. Cohen, based on the writings of Grace Paley

PICNIC IN EDEN Produced by Affiliate Artists to tour 2 years

CLARICE COHEN’S TRIBAL TALES OF LOVE
Commissioned by the Jewish Women’s Theatre Project as part of Plays for the New Millenium at the Skirball Cultural Center
Readings: HBO workspace
Produced : Eclectic Company Theatre/LA

SCREENPLAYS:

MEETING BETTY SUE Finalist, Chesterfield (Amblin) Writers Project

DREAM DATE Finalist, NYU Film Competition

SWIMMING UPSTREAM Optioned: Stuart Berton and Company-JIMOLA Productions


EPISODIC TELEVISION:

PASTOR’S WIFE (spec) with partner Mark Winkworth
CHICAGO HOPE (spec) with partner Mark Winkworth

NON FICTION:

ACTOR’S LIBRARY monthly book review column, BACKSTAGE WEST

WORKING ON A NEW PLAY
A New Play Development Handbook
For Actors, Directors, Designers
and Playwrights consultant to Edward M. Cohen
published by Prentice Hall Press/NY 1988

SHORT STORIES:

“Blood in the Sand” published by Dutton/Plume Press, New York
as part of NICE JEWISH GIRLS, Marlene Adler Marks, editor. 1991

“Chicken Noodle Nightflights” published selection from REFLECTIONS OF A CHINA DOLL in THE JEWS OF AMERICA, 1994, HUGH LAUTER LEVIN, INC. STAMFORD, CT.

published by LILITH MAGAZINE

 


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