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Research - 10 Minute Play
An overzealous librarian becomes emotionally involved with a man
​who has a sinister request for a book a the help desk
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Venice Love - Comedy
Ben and Zeke are two of the legion of homeless inhabiting
the Venice Beach Boardwalk where they scratch out a living
hawking used magazines and books. Ben, a middle-aged writer
who deserted his family years before, wants to peddle "literature."
Zeke, a sharp-eyed, African American youth prefers Playboy. 
Zeke recognizes Loretta, Ben's lost daughter from a battered
snapshot and engineers a reunion.  The three lives are then
​intertwined with dramatic and comedic repercussions.
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Bonnie's Wanted Man - Dark Comedy

Frank, an escaped cross-dressing convict, breaks into the home of 
​Bonnie, a middle-aged divorcee and New Age disciple who believes 
​Frank has come to her for a reason. As a mid-winter storm rocks the 
Northeast,  and Bonnie aids Frank in his escape from local police 
and FBI, a unique relationship unfolds.



​Poire au Cognac - 10 Minute Play

After a temptress seduces an innocent chocolatier into theft,
causing his arrest, she attempts to make ammends. ​

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Blind Kisses - Dark Comedy

BOBBY, 20 , blind, yearns to move out of his mother, ROSE's  apartment and live with    JANE, 20,  his blind girlfriend, but Rose will have none of it.  Bobby's life becomes more complicated when Tacos Suprema,   a fast food restaurant remiss in hiring people who are physically challenged and two weeks away from being inspected by New York's  Labor and Industry, hires him.
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Losin' It 
On the morning Richard Teal is to sell the family business, his wife, Barbara, 
refuses to look for his misplaced briefcase, and their daughter, Sally's glasses
​and leaves the family. While Richard and Sally frantically search for their 
misplaced, cherished belongings, they bond like never before.

 Hell and Back - Dark Comedy


​​Under the ticking clock of her abusive boyfriend's imminent arrival, Laura, a young teacher, meets Sammy, an ex-con with a heart of gold, in the laundry room of her apartment building where Sammy dares to turn her life around.
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Ben and Augie - Comedy
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Ben Franklins' transcending of time - his final experiment - allows him to  come alive and redirect the path of Augie, a young man always a step away from trouble.
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 Sutton - Full length
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The  story of the legendary bank robber Willie Sutton,  whose career spanned three decades, is told by his daughter, two cons who form a chorus and the policeman  who  pursued him doggedly for years.




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