who am i? (bio)

I am a playwright, film, and television writer. I grew up in New Jersey, received an MFA in Playwriting from Rutgers University, moved to New York and worked off Broadway, principally at the Ensemble Studio Theater, where many of my plays were produced and I served as the company’s literary manager. Since then I moved to and then back from L.A. and have written for and sold original scripts to Disney, Fox, Universal, Warner Bros, Touchstone, Showtime, CBS, Orion, Hollywood Pictures, Sam Goldwyn, and others. Several, including Hocus Pocus and Mystery Men, were produced.

Now I'm writing short (and very short) stories and have nearly completed my first collection.

Playwriting taught me character. Screenwriting taught me story. Short stories have given me a narrative voice. My protagonists tend to be fallen heroes or ordinary people whose lives have come up short of their aspirations. I'm most drawn to projects that merge the mythic and the mundane.