ELECTRA: REVISITED
A comic retelling of the Electra myth with music composed by Peter Golub, the composer of numerous concert works, film scores, music for the theater, and ballet and director of the Sundance Film Music Program. The play was given a hilarious and moving reading at the Antaeus Theatre in Los Angeles on October 20th, 2019, directed by Ron West.
TOP OF THE WORLD
THOMAS LURIE is a psychiatrist whose latest book championing women's issues is creating quite a gratifying reputation for him.
EMMA GATES is determined to expose his shocking past.
Adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel, co-written with Ron West. A satire for our times - a notorious industrialist comes to London with his pampered daughter, cons the rich and powerful into investing into his fraudulent schemes, then runs for Parliament and wins! If it sounds eerily familiar, credit Trollope with his keen eye for that which is eternal in the human condition.
Three Solitudes
Drama
The life and times of celebrated journalist Martha Gellhorn.
These plays are awaiting their first production.
A woman commits suicide, and the ripple effect is enormous. Her husband, a man accustomed to solving mysteries, tries to discover what led her to it.
Semi Finalist - O'Neill Center Playwright Conference. This play was slated for a run at the St. Louis Repertory with plans for a Broadway run to follow. Unfortunately, the pandemic got in the way. It is ready for its shot.
Life Expectancy: A Comedy in Three Trimesters
An older-than-usual couple navigates the treacherous waters of their "geriatric" pregancy.
BOUNTY - a short play about climate change, first produced in Santa Monica, CA in 2016 and in 2019 at Climate Change Theatre Action : Lighting the Way, at Iowa State University.
GELLHORN
She's been described as "the greatest war correspondent of the twentieth century." She covered every conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and beyond. She was the first woman on the beaches at Normandy, one of the first to view and write the concentration camps. She was married to Ernest Hemingway for five tumultuous years but don't dare to ask her about it. She had a play on Broadway, she wrote compelling novellas. One of most fascinating women America has produced and yet for most of her life an expatriot. She's Martha Gellhorn, and this play is about her life. Eleven actors: 6 women and 5 men play myriad characters in her life and in her stories.