So, I’ve been gone for awhile. Not for lack of wanting to be, but just a lack of time. I’ve been devoting myself to my writing and to my life outside of writing and have put my website and blogging on the back burner.
So what has been happening? Well besides me listening to Hamilton obsessively?
Well first, we have a new, updated domain name. We are now a [dot]Com
3 Million.
Last October, I premiered a new play via Sherri’s Playhouse, a feature of the podcast Chatting With Sherri, called #JohnDoe. The last count of downloads I received was around 3 million downloads. #JohnDoe is a long one-act comedy about life, love and reality TV. A wealthy family, known more for their antics on television and reality TV, find themselves in a will dispute when their entrepreneur patriarch suddenly dies of cancer. What follows is a hunt for a mysterious friend of the deceased who is also a beneficiary of the estate so that they can all receive their share of the inheritance. #JohnDoe starred Tonia Lee, Summer Patrick, Cathy Kutz, James McCollough, Everett Robert, Raymond Brent, David Koshiol, Jen Gray, Savy Gray, and Debbie Herriman.
Hays, KS
#JohnDoe was then staged on the stage with Hays Community Theater at the end of April. This production also starred me and some of the original cast members (Jen Grey, Savy Gray, Raymond Brent) but also Wendy Richtmaier, Tammy Watford, Tammy Freeman, Jerret Leiker, Brian Kingsolver.
Lawrence, KS
My short monologue, Warning Shots, was performed by EMU Theater in Lawrence, KS in November of 2015. My little play shared the stage with Will Averill, Robert Baker, Dan Born, Evan Guilford-Blake, Nick Stock, and (another Hays, KS resident) Catherine Trieschmann. Warning Shots recounts the two different attacks on Lawrence, KS during the Civil War from the perspective of a young girl who witnessed it.
Kalamazoo, MI
My new play, Thoughts and Prayers, went up this past August in Kalamazoo, MI from Fancy Pants Theater as part of their political play series. Thoughts and Prayers details several shootings across the United States over the past couple of years and how the phrase “you’re in my thoughts and prayers” isn’t wholly the answer.
What’s Coming up?
I’ve written two more short plays for Sherri’s Playhouse, one an original western and the other and adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Suicide Club. So be looking for more information on those as they come up.
Thanks again for sticking with me and embarking on this new adventure, once again
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