As a playwright, my creative interest lies primarily in the writing of new plays, although I enjoy work with new work in other ways through new play development, directing, acting, and serving as a production dramaturg. In terms of my dreamwork exploration of playwriting technique, I have been particularly influenced by Bert States' phenomenological approach to the study of dreaming and fiction. I am interested in learning how to analyze plays using this approach, as well as in discovering means to writing nonrealistic plays by making use of dreams, dream structure, and dream logic. My own plays which are based in a realistic form, frequently crack through this reality through the theatrical use of dreams and dream scenarios. In my plays, I am very interested in exploring the somewhat disjointed world which exists between dreams and reality—a Chagallesque technique that I call Fakokt Realism—to use the Yiddish!