I’m a playwright and a writer of other scripts, TV, and film. Soon I’ll also be creating podcasts and making films.

I did a little playwriting in college, very little. I wrote a few ten minute scenes. Many years later, I picked up a book on screenwriting and read it. Then I picked up another book on screenwriting, and with that book in hand, I started writing a screenplay. Part way through that screenplay, I had  another story idea, actually two ideas that I put together, and I took those ideas and wrote and finished a film script. Success. My first complete script!

Since then I’ve written a number of film scripts and TV scripts, both original pilots and “spec” scripts of existing TV shows, a number of which have done well in script competitions.

So how did I get (back) into playwriting? And why do I lead with it above?

Because I took an acting class at Company One theatre in Boston. This was a wonderful acting class. The reason I know it was a wonderful acting class is because every time I was about to go into class, I would say to myself (in a fit of nerves): “What am I doing? I don’t need to take this class. This is crazy. I’m not an actor. What is wrong with me? Why did I sign up for this?” And then, without fail, I would come out of class and say: “That was awesome! That class is awesome!”

Besides the great experience of acting, and learning something about acting, part way through the class, one of the teachers, Rosalind Thomas-Clark, asked if any of us were interested in playwriting. I said I was. And that led to me being in the TC Squared Theatre Company‘s Playwrights Lab. During this lab, I wrote my first full-length play, Confidential Informant, and fell in love with playwriting.