Writing
Satire, humor, non-fiction, plays, sketch, and some other weird stuff.
Feature Screenplays
My Friend Dmitri
When a never before published Anton Chekhov play is discovered by a young director, assassins and interested parties come out of the woodwork to steal the precious work of art (comedy thriller).
(Sundance Screenwriting Lab 2nd round 2015 // Austin Film Festival 2nd round 2018)
The complex plot and various intersecting storylines in this screenplay are the material’s biggest strength and the writer should be commended for engineering a complicated story and executing it with simplicity and clarity. The reader is never confused by the interwoven love triangles and multiple agendas. This is no mean feat considering the number of characters in this cast. While the screenplay boasts a relatively low concept, the reader can’t help but get caught up in the humor and fun of this light romp. It should also be said that this piece ends with a lot of satisfaction and the twist is brought off with a lot of subtlety and surprise, thereby ending the movie on a promising note.”
-- A Black List review
Several other feature screenplays in development.
Prose & other weird stuff
Weird Hemingway. Short weird stories by Ernest Hemingway.
The Historical Wire. Famous people from history quote The Wire.
Plays
A Big Whore in a Small Town. A blue comedy about an itinerant preacher who tries to kidnap a prostitute in 1870s Texas. Performed January 2015 at The Annoyance Theatre.
Date Night. A one-act comedy about an uptight philosophy professor that gets entangled in his neighbor’s domestic dispute. Performed at The Artistic Home in January 2014.
Sketch Comedy
The Radio Television Theater Hour, a monthly comedic talk show that ran in 2014 for six shows at The Public House Theatre. Every month we wrote a new show that took place in a fictionalized version of small-town Chicago.
Cleanest Best Pleasure, a sketch group based in Chicago.
The Clean Show. An occasionally-occurring comedy variety show at the Upstairs Gallery.
Soothing Sounds for Baby, 2011, Donny’s Skybox.
Pandermonium, July 2010, Donny’s Skybox.