MFA, president and dean of visual and performing arts colleges, professor, writer of plays, films, and art and film criticism
Winner screenplay, Vail and Woods Hole Film Festivals
Table reading, Vail Film Festival
2 produced shorts, 11 Festival screenings,
Plays performed in Santa Cruz; Cambridge, UK,;Toronto, Canada; and St. Petersburg, FL.
Published play, London.
Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship
Holding Cell Thriller When an arrogant Investment banker is pulled over on a DUI he is taken to a rundown holding facility where he spends a frustrating and increasingly dangerous night with a variety of characters that all share a connection. Limited location. (The Usual Suspects, Stalag 17)
Double Heist Sci-fi A bank manager, recovering from a serious car accident comes to believe his exact double from an alternate universe is planning to rob his bank. (Inside Man, The Bank Job)
Second Honeymoon Comedy ⋄ Drama When an unhappy WWII English war bride, married to a man with whom she has nothing in common, wins a bus trip with her husband to Niagara Falls she has a life-changing encounter with Marilyn Monroe filming on location (Notting Hill, Bus Stop)
Four In The Door Thriller A model, haunted by the secret of her parents’ shooting deaths, fights to succeed as a first responder in her late father’s police department against hostile superiors and co-workers while trying to stop a relentless cop killer. (The Brave One, GI Jane)
Bar Flies
Film (short)
by David Broyles
Writer A man seeks shelter from a storm in a remote bar with unexpected customers
Contract Removals
Film (short)
by Viking Theater Company/April James
Writer A woman meets a man in a bar to provide an urgent but unexpected domestic service
NSCAD University
(1975-1977)