Native of Kansas, spent ten years in Los Angeles, more than thirty years in New York, now live on three acres in Dutchess County, NY. 

Each year grow over a thousand flowers and do my best to give them all away.  Excellent cook, rated chess player, Jeopardy contestant.  After a thirty year layoff began playing the piano again.  Built the staircase in my home.

In the pandemic years transformed my barn into a theater.  In the warm weather months there are readings of plays in my Little Barn Theater.

As of October 2024 my newest play is Our Town, Too – an adaptation for a new century. 

Productions, Readings, Staged Readings

 

The MacQuillin Plays

THE CLAN OF THE MacQUILLINS –  45th Street Theater, New York, (2012); 42nd Street Workshop (2001, 2002); O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (1994); Little Barn Theater, Hyde Park, NY (2022)

MIZ MacQUILLIN –  45th Street Theater, New York (2012); Glimmer Globe Theater, Cooperstown, NY (2017); Lamplight Theater, New Jersey; (2004); Ilyria Theater, New York (2002); Musical Theater Workshop, New York (1999, 2002); Little Barn Theater, Hyde Park, NY (2022)

ATLANTA IS BURNING –  Glimmer Globe Theater, Cooperstown, NY (2021); Plays in Progress, Hudson Opera House, NY (2021, 2022); Little Barn Theater, Hyde Park, NY (2021, 2023)

A WOMAN ON FIRE – Plays in Progress, Hudson Opera House, NY (2022, 2023); Little Barn Theater, Hyde Park, NY (2023)

OTHANIEL, or, I Am An American, a tragedy – Cap 21 Studios, New York (2018, 2009), 42nd Street Writers Group, New York (2007)

Other Full Length Plays

MEN AND WOMEN TALKING LOVE AND SEX – Davenport Theatre, New York (2014-2015);  Under its original title, Men Talking Women Talking Men –  Sanford Meisner Playhouse, New York (2000), Illyria Theater, New York, 2000, Quintero Theater, New York (2000); Allen’s Lane Theater, Philadelphia (1997; ) Manhattan Class Company, New York (1994, 1995); Mojo Theater Ensemble, Los Angeles (1994-95); The Joint Theater Company, Los Angeles (1995); West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles, (1992) [published by Palmetto Plays, 1996]; Little Barn Theater, Hyde Park, NY (2022)

THREE DAYS IN LATE SUMMER – Glimmer Globe Theater, Cooperstown, NY (2019); Musical Theater Workshop (2003, 2005), 42nd Street Writers Group (2001)

TWO LADIES AT EVENING – Hudson Opera House, NY (2021); Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Manhattan Theatre Club, New York (2007)

A DAY AT THE OFFICE – Barrow Group, New York (1997), 42nd Street Writers Group, New York (1996), West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles (1991), Manhattan Punch Line, New York (1987)

MANHATTAN STORY – Tiffany Theater, Los Angeles (1991); Playwrights Preview, New York (1988)

MADMAN KING – West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles (1990); Playwrights Preview, New York (1988); Lambs Club, New York (1983); Tyson Theater, New York (1982)

One Acts Plays

WHAT TO SAY IF ASKED YOU’RE WOKE – (2024) – new

EVERY PAIR OF BLUE JEANS WAS LIKE A BULLET – Metropolitan Playhouse, New York (2013)

HOW COOL IS THAT – Metropolitan Playhouse, New York (2012)

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND – Samuel French Festival, New York (2016), Gallery Players, Brooklyn (2016), Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, New York (2016), Riant Theatre, Strawberry Festival, New York (2017)

THE POISON PARTY – Gallery Players, Brooklyn (2005)

A NIGHT ON THE MOON – Gallery Players, Brooklyn (2017); Samuel French Festival, New York (2017)

TRILOGY  BLUE – Mississippi Jade, Augie Abrams, Saint George – Los Angeles Actors Theater (1978), Drama Logue Award for playwriting; Saint George published, West Coast Plays, Vol. III.  Other productions West Bank Cafe, New York (1987); Atlanta (1986), Pittsburgh (1981), etc.

NEW AMERICANS – Thirty Years in Sixty Seconds, Urban Stages, New York; (1985), West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles; (1986), seven Drama Logue Awards; Everyday Relations, Attic Theater, Los Angeles (1988).  All God’s Children Got Equipment, West Coast Ensemble (1991), Nat Horne Theater, New York (1994), Herbert Mark Newman Theater, New York (1998)

Novels

KIDNAPPING KENNY BOY

Screenplays

THE WEST TEXAS WALTZ, THE BROTHERS KAMINSKY, THE CURIOUS CASE OF DR. BRINKLEY, CAFÉ MARVALETTE, DRIVE BY L.A. and LAST MAN ON THE HILL

Different screenplays optioned by MGM, Village Roadshow, Ark Pictures, Todd-AO, Blue Hill, Spring Creek, Movi-Corp, Texas Films, and others, approximately thirteen different options of four different screenplays. No movie was ever made.  Damn.

Each screenplay is good.  THE WEST TEXAS WALTZ is first rate.