I write character-driven plays. I have a background in writing humor, and even when I write serious plays exploring sociopolitical issues, or painful dramatic scenes, there is often some humor in the mix, and the funny often comes out of the painful. The playwrights I admire most do that . . . I have some plays about contentious issues where everybody is right and everybody is wrong -- where I find the position of every character on the stage at least partially sound and plausible. I also have some plays with character-you-love-to-hate villains, each a role that a terrific actor can really sink his teeth into. I also have strong roles for women -- in unproduced full-length play GARDEN PARTY, about a bridal shower in a small town in Tennessee with a cast of seven women, my unproduced mystery play COZY MURDER in which a murder takes place at a mystery festival in Maine, with a cast of five women and three men, and in many of my one-act plays.