FUTURE

Late Summer
New Acquisition got another Puffin Foundation grant!! We'll be working on our new pamphlet this summer and bringing it to you, the vast public, in late summer or early fall.

PRESENT

20 June 2009
I'm really excited to be joining with a group of other artists to help conduct a day-long workshop at University Settlement with youth leaders from a number of different programs in the city to create a collaborative piece exploring arts leadership in the community.

PAST

3-6 June 2009
As part of a group of site specific pieces produced by the Women's Project at the World Financial Center and also as part of the 2009 River-to-River Festival, my piece Place ReImagined was presented. This was a dance piece that I wrote and co-directed with choreographer Elizabeth Montgomery. We worked with seven dancers on the pieces. Read more here.

15 April 2009
A preliminary reading of my new play, The Typewriter Girls, directed by Rachel Chavkin, was held at the Women's Project in New York.

31 March 2009
A brand new piece about Benjamin Franklin, Spitting Against the Wind, starring me as old Ben, was presented at Dixon Place in New York. This one is still a work-in-progress.

28 March 2009
Assistance Without Resistance, was read in Washington, DC, by Doorway Arts Ensemble in Washington, DC, as part of a celebration of SWAN Day in Georgetown. I also participated in a panel discussion with a variety of artists later that day. For more information click here.

23 March 2009
Exchanging Glances, a collaborative theatrical presentation incorporating text by a group of contemporary writers and composers, along with one very dead writer, which was the culmination of my time as part of the America in Play Workshop, was presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York.

7 January 2009
Reading at Bluestockings of "The Relative Importance of Ideas," featured in the latest edition of We'll Never Have Paris

28 June 2008 &
17 May 2008
The next literary pamphlet and performance from New Acquisition, Dance Away Your Debt, launched during the 2008 Dance Parade here in New York in May, following that we participated in FIGMENT 2008 on Governor's Island. For more information about the project click here. For more information about the Dance Parade, click here and for info about FIGMENT, click here.

18 April 2008
A workshop production of my play, Conversation, directed by Dyana Kimball, was presented by
The Performance Project @ University Settlement, New York, NY 10002
Click here for more information

2 April 2008
A brief excerpt of my play Conversation was presented as part of the April 7 People - 7 Minutes show at Dixon Place.

11 December 2007
KNOCK magazine held their latest release party for Issue #8 (Hurt on Purpose) which features my play Pieces. You can purchase copies of the issue by visiting their website.

24 September 2007
An excerpt from Conversation was read at the Dramatists Guild's 2007 Fellows Showcase.

6-16 September 2007
Two performance/installation pieces were produced in association with the launch of my latest literary project, New Acquisition. The first took place from 6-8 September at the 217 East 42nd Street Chashama space in New York and the second was part of the One Million Forgotten Moments project which ran in downtown Manhattan from 12-16 September. Read more about the pieces here.

4 April 2007
With the help of director Dyana Kimball, my latest piece for the theatre (still in development), Conversation, received a preliminary reading/performance at the Emerging Artists Theatre in New York City, as part of their One Woman Standing Festival, taking place from April 2-28. The reading will take place at 9:00pm. Will post more details when available.

15 March 2007
The Abingdon Theatre in New York City did a reading of Causality as part of their First Reading Series.

22 February 2007
My short piece, Three Choices, a winner of the The Pomegranate Theatre's (Chesterfield, UK) New Playwriting Festival, was performed as a warm-up for their production of Art by Yasmina Reza.

19-27 January 2007
Causality received its first production at the Oglebay Institute's Towngate Theater in Wheeling, West Virginia, having won their 2006 National Playwriting Contest.

Read more here.