IN THE WORKS

---

Broadway 

2022 - 2023

Helen Hayes Theater

Associate Director. City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed — and the Church won’t leave him alone. For ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum in this Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis. For Pops and Junior, it seems the old days are dead and gone — after a lifetime living Between Riverside and Crazy. 

“It’s a dizzying and exciting place to be!” hails The New York Time

March - April 2023

59E59 Theaters | LAByrinth Theater Company

Producer. Sex, drugs, queerness, and punk-rock. Welcome to border city life in El Paso, Texas, 1984. 

DÍA Y NOCHE is an unfiltered coming-of-age story about class struggles and the search for acceptance between two unlikely friends. Danny is a lower middle-class Chicano punk-rock kid who thinks he might be an artist. Martin is a Black upper-middle class band nerd who is gay and in the closet. Danny and Martin double-date, watch X-rated movies, go to concerts and try to overcome great odds as they navigate the racism and corruption greeting them at the doors to adulthood.

59e59.org | labtheater.org

January - February 2023

LAByrith Theater Co | 59E59 Theaters

Director. Diary Play by Madeline Barr (2/1/23)  A one woman show constructed almost entirely of old diary entries from the playwright's teenhood interwoven with current day reflections. Through looking back, the playwright is able to answer questions about why she is the woman she is today and create a newfound sense of hope for the woman she might eventually become in the future.

Producer. LAByrinth's free reading festival of new plays.  A critical and exciting step in the development of new work.  Many of LAB's world premieres have come from the Barn Series, giving audiences a sneak peak into the artistic process, and a chance to see plays before they are  the next hot ticket. 

labtheater.org 

December  2022

Hudson Theatre Works

Producer. Remember the good old days of radio—when people had to use their imaginations—when the mind was a stage? Those days are back—only better! Andrew J. Fenady has written two of his award-winning productions as RADIO PLAYS where you can SEE as well as HEAR radio programs. The movie of the week starred Richard Thomas, Katharine Isobel, Charles Bronson and Ed Asner. A young girl writes a letter to the editor of the New York Sun. "Dear Editor, I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says if you see it in the Sun, it's so. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?" Ed Mitchell, the editor, assigns Frank Church—a reporter on the verge of self destruction—the task of answering Virginia's question. Church's quest and reply have become one of the world's most quoted and beloved editorials.

hudsontheatreworks.org

December 2022

Hudson Theatre Works

Director / Producer. Hudson Theatre Works is back with its yearly fundraiser of new ten minute plays. Featuring new work by John Patrick Shanley, Sarah T Schwab, Joanne Hoersch, and more...

hudsontheatreworks.org

2021 - 2022

Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

Hudson Theatre Works

Streamed on demand at Laguna Playhouse & Sonoma Arts

Producer. Elliot & Me is a musical comedy based on the lives of songwriter Elliot Willensky and his younger brother Steven. Elliot and Steven both reflect on the volatile ups and downs of their shared experiences: from their raucous “wonder years” growing up in Bayonne, NJ; to the painful conflict when Elliot defies the expectations of his traditional middle-class Jewish family and drops out of medical school to write pop songs; to Elliot’s rise to stardom writing hits for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and Steven’s starry-eyed admiration for his Hollywood lifestyle; and eventually to their role reversals when Elliot’s career hits a few bumps in the road and he needs to rely on Steven for help.  Elliot & Me is filled with humor, colorful personalities, unexpected situations, and uplifting musical moments. hudsontheatreworks.org

cvlt.org

May  - June 2022

Theatre Row

Producer. A Young psychiatrist discovers that her supervisor is experimenting on a mental patient. She tries to save the patient with the help of her lawyer boyfriend. 

theatrerow.org

May 2022

Hudson Theatre Works

Director. Tales from Sam Shepard's Cruising Paradise.  A reading of rarely heard pieces by one of America's most important writers. ​ 

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry.  Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the landscape of America. Some of these pieces are beautifully constructed, fully realized short stories, while others are short bursts of dialogue, meditations, diary entries, letters, monologues, phone calls and plaints. Still others seem like myth and lore gleaned from old texts or barrooms. All are strong voice pieces--no surprise from a major playwright.

eventbrite.com

May 2022

Joe's Pub / The Public Theater

Producer. Helped raise $40,000 in donations for LAByrinth Theater Company. 

May 2022

Hudson Theatre Works

Producer. Curse of the Starving Class honors Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, who passed away in 2017. Living a stagnant, unhappy existence in rural California, the struggling Tate family is desperate for change, but every family member has a different way of trying to improve their station in life. hudsontheatreworks.org

January - February 2022

59E59 Theaters | LAByrith Theater Co 

Streamed on demand March 2022 

Producer. Inspired by a near-death experience during the peak of the pandemic, Through The Fire follows Victor from his childhood in the DR through moving to NYC, gang life, drug life, identity struggles, love & joining the marines. A story of survival and self-forgiveness directed by Liz Canavan & driven by Victor's original Hip-Hop music. 

 labtheater.org

February 2022

 Hudson Theatre Works

Role of the Night Clerk. In one of Eugene O'Neill's last works, high-rolling gambler Erie and Hughie, the credulous night clerk at a single-occupancy hotel, were confidants. Hughie admired Erie for his bold lifestyle and Erie considered Hughie his good luck charm. When Hughie dies unexpectedly, Erie's luck changes for the worse and he finds himself in dire straits. 

Streaming soon!

hudsontheatreworks.org 

Hudson Theatre Works mounts an ambitious and fulfilling Eugene O’Neill Festival. Both shows succeed beyond expectations. The two men in “Hughie,” command and embody their roles to near perfection.  -Jim Testa, NJ Arts

Weehawken's Hudson Theatre Works captures the essence of O’Neill’s late little gem with impressive precision... In some ways, the night clerk in “Hughie” must be the most boring role for an actor in all of American theater. Stand there and listen. Interject a few observations ever now and then. But there is more here, a substance that Wattenmaker locates and allows to emerge. It is no mean feat to find the room necessary to allow this character to evolve, but Wattenmaker’s night clerk does so skillfully.   - Patrick Maley, Star Ledger