I am a screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
I have written four screenplays – Targeted, Workaholic Romance, Christmas Past and Present and A Pitch for Love (adapted from my novel of the same name).
Targeted has been optioned by Nick Annunziata of Il Toro Productions and accepted as a finalist in the 2021 Oaxaca Film Fest Pitch Fest and accepted into the 2021 Hollywood Blvd Film Festival where it was named Best Comedy Screenplay for March 2021.
Workaholic Romance was selected to be included in the 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival, won the Silver Prize for Comedy in the 2019 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, was a finalist in the Pitch Now Screenplay Competition, was a semifinalist in the 2021 Miami Screenplay Awards, a quarterfinalist in the 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest, a quarterfinalist in the 2022 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, selected to be included in the 2023 Paris Awards Film Festival, a quarterfinalist in the 2023 New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition & Film Awards, and selected to be included in the 2023-2024 Venice Under The Stars International Film Festival.
Christmas Past and Present was a semifinalist in the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards. It had one scene performed at the Los Angeles Feedback Film & Screenplay Festival and another scene (judged best scene) performed at the Los Angeles Romance Film & Screenplay Festival.
I recently finished A Pitch for Love.
I have written 12 plays that have been presented by the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City: Stalked, Stuck, Workaholic Romance, The Pickup, He’s Your Daddy, Accidental Christmas Romance, Clerical Matters, Critical Mass, Sister Mary and the Pagan Babies, The Audible, The Confession and Dinner for Three.
My play A Racial Divide had a staged reading at the Kingdom Theatre in New York City and Stuck had a Zoom production by the Tiger’s Heart Players, a global theatre company housed in the Bronx, New York City.
My latest full-length play, The Mascot Murders, is scheduled for a five-performance run in June 2024 and will be presented by the Manhattan Repertory Theatre at the Chain Theatre.
I have written and published two novels, Jack Daniels on the Rocks and A Pitch for Love.