Before I share my artistic statement with you, I want to tell a brief story, which you may or may not find funny, as ultimately I can’t control what you find funny, all I can do is present a series of words in an order that gets my point across, and you, the reader, will engage with it how you see fit. It’s really a symbiosis because if I write an artistic statement in the woods, does it make a noise? Right. My artistic statement, but first my story. My story is I was an actor, well am an actor, and as a gay actor, any time I’ve had the good fortune of auditioning for a gay role, it’s usually been a punchline character, or it’s been in a show that’s mainly camp. So, when I began to write plays, I was determined to write complex queer characters for mainstream audiences, not that I don’t love a good queer-for-queer-audiences-show, but my hope was to make plays that centered queer people so hetero-audience types might learn to identify with queer characters to further the cause, you know? March the Gay Agenda forward, one dramedy at a time. So, that’s my story. I guess it wasn’t funny ha ha, more like quirky funny. But I promise if you see my plays, there’s quirk and ha ha funny And some earnestness. And good roles for women over forty.