For the 13th time, I took part as a writer in Overnight Sensations, the 24-hour play festival sponsored by Hollins University in conjunction with Mill Mountaini Theatre. This year’s effort (over July 3-4) resulted in “THE BUS TO THE VYATLAG CORRECTIVE LABOR CAMP,” a love story on a public bus. To make it interesting, that bus was a bus to a woman’s prison in the 1953 Soviet Union. Gotta have a twist, man.

My one-act ‘The Angel Tree’ was produced bythe student group Teatro Lasalyano at the at the Natividad Fajardo Auditorium, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines on May 2026.

“A Most Horrid Conspiracy” is short (hour-long) play based on a true story about how a barrelmaker from Virginia named John Wyatt became a spy during the American Revolution and infilitrated a nest of Tory sympathizers who were planning an uprising. The title comes from a letter that a local militia leader sent to then-Gov. Thomas Jefferson to describe what had been uncovered. It’s a two-person script with Wyatt and his granddaughter years later.

The show was produced by Attic Productions in Fincastle, Virginia in May 2026.

My full-script script ‘Hatpins’ was produced in eary May 2026 by the Williamson and Maury Theatre in Spring Hill, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. It’s about how in the early 1900s some cities tried to ban hatpins because women were using them as weapons in self-defense.

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Perry County Middle School in Perryville, Missouri produced THE FRUITCAKE in December. Director Robbie Riehn said he had so many students he had two different casts. Here’s a story about the production in the local newspaper.

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Bayfield High School in Bayfield, Colorado produced ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS in December 2024.

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Attic Productions in Fincastle, Virginia produced ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS in December 2025.

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My 10-minute play WHY DO FROGS LOOK SO SAD? was produced in the festival at The Secret Theatre in New York in late July / early August 2024.

Me with the cast of WHY DO FROGS LOOK SO SAD?

And here’s the director and cast: