House, Divided
 La Tempestad
 The Ballad of John Wesley Reed
 Girl Science
 The Allure of Oriental Wisdom
 Memorial Day (formerly Varia)
 Pride of the Lion
 The Dostoyevsky Man


 Monica for Chanukah
 Angie and Arnie Sanguine
 Edward and Ellie Supine
 The Lion Eats His Lunch
 The Lion in His Lair
 The Lion Leaves His Mark
 Prayers


 But Who's Counting?
 Emma Goldman Imagines the Millenium


 Just Before the War Between the Plates
 I Can Handle That


 Talking  with Lee Blessing

...with Tom Coash
...with Mary Fengar Gail
...with Richard Kalinowsky
...with Jamie Pachino
...with David Rambo
...with Jason Sherman
...with Naomi Wallace
...with Tom Gibbons
...with Dick Goldberg

EDUCATION

MFA, Temple University, 1985; MA, Colorado State University, 1975; BA, Temple University, 1974. Academic Diploma, Central High School, 1969.

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

House, Divided, a full length play, 2006. Developmental reading, InterAct Theater Company, November, 2006. Staged reading Feb., 2007 in Philadelphia New Play Festival.

La Tempestad, a full length play completed 2004; Production, 2005, Resonance Ensemble, The Ohio Theater, NYC, directed by Eric Parness, produced by The Resonance Ensemble; Reading, Resonance Ensemble, NY, 2004. Publication, Fall, 2006, in Playing With Canons: Explosive New Work from Literature by America's Indie Playwrights, New York Theater Experience.

The Ballad of John Wesley Reed, a full length play, completed 2002. Production, 2005, Theatre Catalyst, directed by Rebecca Wright, with Seth Reichgott, Kate Bailey, Rob Hargraves, David Raphaeli, and Martha Kemper. Staged reading, April 2005, Abingdon Theater, NYC; Staged reading, New Jersey Repertory Company, March, 2004; Staged reading, National Showcase of New Plays, InterAct Theatre Company, June 2002; Reading at Ensemble Studio Theatre as part of 2002 Octoberfest, at the invitation of the Literary Department. All readings directed by Roger Danforth.

Girl Science, a full length play, completed 2002. Staged reading, New Jersey Repertory Company, September, 2006; Recipient, 2005, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred Sloan Foundation rewrite commission; Staged reading, 2005, First Light Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre; Finalist, Eco-drama Playwrights Festival, Earth Matters on Stage, Humboldt State University; Staged reading, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, June, 2004, directed by Amy Saltz; Staged reading, Philadelphia Theatre Company, May, 2004, directed by Nancy Kirakofe; Reading, Ensemble Studio Theatre as part of the EST/Sloan First Light Festival, April, 2004; Reading, November 2002, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, directed by John Petrowski.

The Allure of Oriental Wisdom, a full length play, completed 1999.

Memorial Day ( formerly titled Varia), a full length play completed and revised 1998-2000; Winner, 2003, Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition, The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Columbus, OH. Performed script-in-hand by an Equity cast, Feb., 1998, Allens Lane Theater, Phila., PA.; Performed in a fully staged performance at FutureFest, Dayton, OH, July, 1998; Performed script-in-hand, Changing Scene Theatre, Denver, CO, Sept., 1998; Performed full staged script-in-hand by an Equity Cast, Jan., 1999, InterAct Theater Company Showcase of New Plays, Phila., PA.; Finalist, 1998 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, Alleyway Theater, Buffalo, NY; Finalist, 1998 Mill Mountain Theater New Play Competition; Finalist 1998, Charlotte Repertory Company New Play Competition; Winner, 1998 Pennsylvania Playwriting Contest sponsored by Theater Association of Pennsylvania; staged reading, Hedgerow Horizons, Rose Valley, PA., 2003.

Pride of the Lion, a full length play of three linked one acts, completed 1996-2000; premier production at Changing Scene Theater, Denver, CO, March, 1996;. Theatre Catalyst, Philadelphia, (Equity) production, July-August, 2000. Published, 2002, Playscripts.com.

The Dostoyevsky Man, a full length play, completed 1992; semi-finalist in the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Competition, 1993; semi-finalist in the Cleveland Public Theater Festival of New Plays, 1993; script-in-hand performances, the Brick Playhouse, 1994.

MONOLOGUES AND RADIO PLAYS

The Portrait Master, a hour-long radio play completed 2006.

But Who's Counting?, a monologue, completed 1999; honorable mention, 1999 Crossing Borders/Approaching Millenium New Play Contest, Wharf Rat Theater, Boston, MA.; Performance , 2002, Outside the Philadelphia Fringe; Published, 2002, Playscripts.com.

Emma Goldman Imagines the Millenium, completed 1999; performed and published in 2000 Voices: Monologues for the Millennium, InterAct Theater Co., Phila., PA.

SHORT PLAYS

Monica for Chanukah, a short play, completed 1999.

I Can Handle That, short play, commissioned by the Wilma Theatre in School program, performed March, 2001.

Livery, a short play, completed 1998.

Just Before the War Between the Plates, a ten-minute comedy completed 1998; Performed at the Nantucket Short Play Competition and Festival, summer, 1999; performed in Wilma Theater In School program, spring, 2000. Published 2002, Playscripts.com.

Edward and Ellie Supine, a short play, companion to Angie and Arnie Sanguine, completed 1997; finalist, 1999 Drury College Short Play Competition.

Angie and Arnie Sanguine, a short play completed 1995, 1998; premier production Attic Theater, Los Angeles, CA, February - March, 1996, six week run in festival; Putting on the Ritz Short Play Festival, June, 2000; Performance , 2002, Outside the Philadelphia Fringe; Published 2002, Playscripts.com.

The Lion Leaves his Mark, a one act play and also act three of Pride of the Lion; produced script-in-hand as part of the Philadelphia Dramatist Center Marathon Reading in June, 1994.

The Lion in his Lair, a one act play and also act two of Pride of the Lion; produced as part of the Love Creek Theater Showcase, New York, NY, February, 1994; Equity performances as part of festival. Also produced script-in-hand as part of the Brick Playhouse Staged Reading Series in June, 1994.

The Lion Eats His Lunch, a one act play and also act one of Pride of the Lion; produced as part of Philadelphia Playworks "10.5 Festival" in September, 1993; 21 performances; also selected for Playwrights Theater of Baltimore Festival of One Act American Plays; Philly Blunts, short plays from Fictitious Theatre Company, Spring 2000. Published, 2002, Playscripts.com.

Prayers, a one act play, completed 1992; premier (Equity) performance at Philadelphia's Theater Ariel's "Ten by Ten" festival, January, 1993; also performed in the Love Creek Fifth Annual Short Play Festival, New York, NY; Also selected by Love Creek Theater for submission to the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, 1993. Published, 2002, Playscripts.com.

FICTION SCREENPLAYS

Manayunk, a full length noir-style screenplay, completed 1988; semi-finalist in the 1993 "Set in Philadelphia" screenplay competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema.

Paper Work, a full length screenplay; completed 1984; semi-finalist, 1983 Nissan-Focus Screenwriting Competition

FREELANCE NEW DRAMATURGY

Malignance by Eric Peffinger, PlayPenn New Play Development Workshop, 2006

Planetary Enzyme Blues by Whit MacLaughlin and New Paradise Laboratories, World Premiere 2005 Live Arts Festival.

We Are Not These Hands by Shelia Callaghan, PlayPenn New Play Development Workshop, 2005

On Clarion by Lydia Stryk, PlayPenn New Play Development Workshop 2005.

Front of House by Michael Carson, World Premiere, Triangle Theatre, 2004. Barrymore Award winner.

Noon in Grays Ferry, Twilight on Falls Road by Tom Reing, 2004. Independence Fellowship winner,

The Photographer, by Joseph Sorrentino, Artist as Catalyst, 2000.

In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Abbott, Philadelphia Theater Company, 1988.

Stauf by Michael Sahl and Eric Salzman, a 1987, The American Music Theater Festival, 1987.

INSTITUTIONAL DRAMATURGY

Dramaturg and Literary Manager, InterAct Theater Company, 1998-2005. Dramaturg for 20 main stage productions including Going to St. Ives and Whores by Lee Blessing, It's All True by Jason Sherman, Blue/Orange by Joseph Penhall, Lebensraum, by Israel Horovitz, God's Man in Texas by David Rambo, Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees, In the Heart of America by Naomi Wallace, and Homeland Security by Stuart Flack.

New play dramaturgy for Bee-Luther-Hatchee and Permanent Collection by Tom Gibbons, The Return to Morality by Jamie Pachino, Man Measures Man by David Robson, Drink Me and Jambulu by Mary Fengar Gail, Missing Link by Seth Rozin, Cry Havoc by Tom Coash, The Beauty Inside by Catherine Filloux, God of Desire by Dick Goldberg, and Rosemary by Jim O'Connor.

OTHER WRITING

A Year in Paradise, a non-fiction memoir about the creation of New Paradise Laboratories Planetary Enzyme Blues, 2005. Honorable Mention, Eliot Hays prize in Dramaturgy, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Educators as Writers, contributor, three articles (essays) about writing, Peter Lang Publishing, C.Smallwood, Editor, 2005.

Leaving Advertising, short story, read in fiction performance series Writing Aloud! 2004.

My Grandfather's Denver, short story, published in Cottonwood Magazine, number 47, 1992.

Randy Seals, short story, read in fiction performance series Writing Aloud! 2001.

Poetry and fiction publications in various literary magazines, 1975-1985.

EDITING

Catalogue of Pennsylvania Playwrights, for Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2001. Editor.

2000 Voices: Monologues for the Millennium, InterAct Press. 2000. Contributor/Editor.

First Draft, Newsletter of Philadelphia Dramatist Center, 1998 Ð 2000. Editor.

A Hundred and One Nights: An Anthology by Working Writers Group,1994. Editor/contributor.

WRITING GRANTS and PRIZES

National Foundation for Jewish Culture Commissioning Grant, 2006.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, 2006.

Alfred E. Sloan/Ensemble Studio Theater Rewrite Commission for Girl Science, 2005

Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, 2004.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Grants, Spring Cycle, 2000 and 2001.

Artist as Catalyst Grant, Dramaturg for Joseph Sorrentino, Spring, 2000.

Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, 1998.

Winner, biannual Pennsylvania Playwriting Contest, sponsored by the Theater Association of Pennsylvania, 1998.

Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, 1995.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Filmmaking, 1992.

FULL TIME COLLEGE TEACHING

2000-2001, Screenwriting, Adaptation, Film History, Story Analysis, University of the Arts.

1989-1990, Screenwriting, Film Production, Documentary Film History, Film History, Temple University;

1978-1983, English Composition, Introduction to Literature, and Technical Writing, Spring Garden College.

ADJUNCT TEACHING

2003-present, Playwriting and Dramaturgy, Arcadia University.

2002, Playwriting, Temple University, Theater Department.

1998-2000 and 2001-present, History of Cinema and Screenwriting, University of the Arts, Writing for Film and Television Department.

1988-1999, Screenwriting, Film and Video Production, Film History, and Production Management, Drexel University.

1991-1994, Screenwriting, Young Writers at Penn conferences.

1977-1978, Composition and Technical Writing,.Philadelphia Community College.

GRADUATE ASSISTANT TEACHING

1983-1985, Temple University; Graduate Assistant; taught Screenwriting and Television Production.

1975-1976, Colorado University; Instructor, part time; taught Creative Writing /Poetry, Contemporary Literature.

1974-1975, Colorado State University; Graduate Assistant; taught Composition.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Association (LMDA), member since 1998.

Philadelphia Dramatist Center (PDC), member since 1994.

The Dramatist Guild, Inc. Member since 1994.

Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA), member since 1984.

FILM AND TELEVISION WRITING, DIRECTING, AND PRODUCING

1987 - present, Owner of LDL a freelance production company. Freelance Writer and Producer. Freelance Writer and Producer. Documentary productions as writer include Father's Talk, a documentary about first-time fathers; distributed by Barr Films, CA; Let the Doors be of Iron, a PBS broadcast documentary about Eastern State Penitentiary, narrated by Ed Asner; currently used as the visitor orientation film for tours of the penitentiary; available in commercial video from Educational Distributors catalogue, and for sale on site at Eastern State Penitentiary; Alcatraz, and other historic prison bookstores; The Intricate Cell, the American Cancer Society's standard cell biology film from 1985 until 1990; available from The American Cancer Society.

1994-1998, LDL produced Classroom Close-Up, an award-winning bi-weekly half hour public affairs show which aired on Channel 17 (WPHL) in Philadelphia and Channel 9 (WWOR) in New York and New Jersey, dealing with public education issues. I supervised all aspects of production and post production and employed a staff of five full time producers and technical people. Yearly budget grew from $300,000 to $550,000.

1985 - 1997, Freelance then staff writer, Producer, Director., Audio Visual Integrators, Inc.. Clients included Educational Testing Service, Cigna, Reliance Insurance, The Green Tree, Merck & Company, Acme Markets, etc.

In 1992 I was a co-writer of Incident in Aisle Seven, an episode of Rugrats, the award-winning animated children's television series, in continuous broadcast on the Nickelodeon Network. This episode introduced Reptar Cereal and I penned the Reptar Jingle "They're round, they're mean, they turn milk green. Reptar, the cereal with scales." I was awarded EMMY recognition in screenwriting, for "contributing to Rugrats 1991-1992"; available in commercial video from Nickelodeon.

Feature productions as director: Turn of the Tide, 1986, a 35mm independent feature film; Caribbean release by Cari-Films, Ltd.; not available commercially in the USA, available for screening from directors; Feature productions as producer: The Family Business, 1991, a feature film shot in Philadelphia starring Phyllis Lyons (Bridges of Madison County.)

Commercial and non-profit clients for whom I have written film and video scripts include The American Cancer Society, American Association of Retired People, New Jersey Education Association, Allens Lane Arts Center, Einstein Hospital, The Philadelphia Aids Task Force Education Committee, Rosenbluth Travel, Du Pont, Cigna, Reliance Insurance, The Green Tree, Merck & Company, Acme Markets, Amp Industries, Astra/Merck, Educational Testing Service, Unisys, and others.

Documentary programs I have written have been supported by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1992 I was awarded The American Scene Award, from the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists "for productions which, through non-stereotypical presentation of women, minorities, and seniors, progressively portray the diversity of the American Scene." I have won two Cine Golden Eagles, and awards from the United States Film Festival.

CORPORATE/EDUCATIONAL THEATRE

2006, Living News, writer. Script for live show at the National Constitution Center.

1999, Perfect Chemistry, writer. Script for two hour comedy/variety show honoring University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees President, P. Roy Vagelos, Zellerback Theatre, Annenberg Center.

1995-1996, Doctor Visits, writer. Scripts for training. Astra/Merck Pharmaceuticals.

1993, Family History, writer. Script set in 1890's told the family history of the Rosenbluth Travel family.

OTHER

2003, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, dramaturg.

2003, Playwriting Instructor, Ninth Annual Writers Conference at Penn.

2002, Outside reader, Theatre Communication Group playwright fellowship program.

2000-present, InterAct Theatre Company serves as Artistic partner for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.. I serve as the coordinator of that relationship for InterAct Theatre Company.

1993, Organizer of the "Archive Week in Philadelphia Film Festival".

1991- 1994, Instructor, Young Writers at Penn conferences.

1976 - 1980, Program Director, Lighthouse Art Camp, a summer program for gifted teenagers.