Plays

Secrets

Secrets is the story of one of the great women of the 19th century. At age 43, Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx—author, the first translator of Flaubert and Ibsen into English, actress, social activist, Socialist leader, popular public orator, union organizer, and proto-feminist—discovers multiple devastating secrets that undermine beliefs and commitments that have formed her and given her life meaning.

Tomcat’s Progress

Tomcat’s Progress, while fictional, is inspired by the life of Alan Freed, the disc jockey that may not have discovered rock ‘n’ roll as he claimed, but who was certainly its early courageous, even foolhardy champion. 

Dewdrops

Dewdrops is set in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. The main character is Ray, a former alcoholic, cocaine addict, and ex-con drug smuggler, now a charismatic addiction counselor who is himself in existential crisis as he struggles every day with his patients’ suffering. He is desperately searching for “the answer” to life’s so often irrational pain and injustices and his failure to find it is threatening his sobriety. The steadier Peter, the head of the treatment center, knows Ray is in trouble and is trying to right his “best counselor’s” dangerously listing ship.