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An American high school classroom becomes the battleground for a debate on teaching Intelligent Design. Arguing for faith based teaching is Jerome King, author of a new science curriculum that can now be legally taught in the State because the school board has changed the definition of what science is, permitting the method to examine the supernatural as well as the natural. Arguing against the curriculum is Jerome’s estranged half-brother Robert Bell, an editor for a skeptic’s magazine. As the two men brilliantly present their arguments they also must contend with their own personal acrimony. In the end the winner of the debate could influence school systems across the nation. Inspired by a number of court cases and School Board “Science Hearings” taking place across the country now. Inherit The Wind for the 21st Century

WORKSHOPPED: Theatre West

Co-written with Jeff G. Rack and the writings of Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury delivers a lecture on writing, illustrating his technique by improvising several short stories. Suddenly we’re on Mars watching as Ray moves his characters about, improvising characters and plots. The stories are humorous and harrowing, romantic and hopeful, fantastical and imaginative, and we come to know the heart, mind and loving philosophy of the great writer.

PRODUCED: Whitefire Theatre

During a weekend in Sleepy Hollow, New York, in 1911, Harry Houdini visits his friend Kathleen D’Arcy, who is suffering from tuberculosis and must not be upset, and who has engaged a clairvoyant to contact her dead husband. Houdini must decide whether to challenge the veracity of the clairvoyant and expose him as a fraud, which would put Kathleen’s fragile emotional health, and therefore her life, at risk, or allow her to maintain the fantasy of her husband’s ghostly presence that is keeping her alive. And there is the question of whether or not Houdini possess strange and outré powers of his own, as Kathleen’s daughter Eliza believes, and the skeptical Dr. Jasper Perry does not. Houdini’s wily wife, Bess, proving to be a master magician herself, skillfully navigates matters towards a satisfying conclusion.

PRODUCED: Theatre 40

James Avery, a rising star in new media, is invited to join a secret society that claims to have been running the Untied States for over 200 years. A harrowing look back at the rationale for American Exceptionalism.

PRODUCED: Theatre West

PRODUCED: The Road Theatre (as The Junto)

Jeff Zelinski is a frantic, young comic struggling in the Greenwich Village comedy scene. Beautiful and brilliant Susan is an environmental activist and performance artist fascinated by the stand-up world. Together they break down the walls they’ve built around themselves, as they search for the truths about love and comedy.

PRODUCED: Theatre West (LA)

PRODUCED: Theatre Geo (LA), Theatre 1010 (NYC), Kobe Theatre (NJ) as The Indecent Act of Jeff Zelinski)

A mysterious woman hands a man a card that destroys his life. Co-written with Jeff G. Rack and based on the stories by Cleveland Moffett.

PODCAST: Available on iTunes and other platforms

A day in the life of a NYC Waiter and the crazy denizens that pass in and out of his downtown restaurant.

PRODUCED: Theatre West

Franz Mesmer, his clairvoyant wife and their two gypsy assistants welcome the spirit world as they cross over to our celestial plane, with comedic and disastrous results. A magical interactive theatre pastiche.

PRODUCED: Unbound Productions | Wicked Lit