Listed on Ken Davenport's "Producer's Pick List" as one of the top ten plays of 2019.

One-Act comedy/drama. Development at ESPA/Primary Stages (with Rogelio Martinez), Davenport Playwrights Workshop (with Eric Webb), and in workshops with playwright Karen Hartman.

“I think it is absolutely brilliant. It was fascinating to me because of course I was a part of it, but it was the appeal that Gypsy has that [Doug] capitalized on and brought forth in a very delicious way.”
– Lane Bradbury, Dainty June in Gypsy, 1959

Who has the right to tell your story? Especially when it's the same story told from the differing memories of two legendary show business siblings? And one sister's version is about to become a big, Broadway musical that is also destined to become legendary? June Havoc was famously ambivalent about the show Gypsy, which her sister, the burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, referred to as her legacy. And in Fable, which is itself a fable about the creation of that musical fable, the sisters' loyalty to each other is tested in a mounting battle that takes place in rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, onstage, backstage, and all in the memory of the aging Ms. Havoc as she faces her imminent death, still battling with fiction and truth in order to keep her own legacy alive.

Semi-Finalist, B Street Theatre 2020 New Comedy Festival.

Full-length dark comedy. Development at the Kennedy Center (with Mark Bly and Caleen Jennings) and at ESPA/Primary Stages (with Michael Walkup and Rogelio Martinez.)

Just how well do you know all your "friends" on social media? In this fast-moving "light comedy about dark people leading private lives in public places," when the grieving Charlie Windsor meets the gregarious Diana Black-White in a New York Theater District bar they become instant BFFs. Much to the consternation of his closest friend since childhood, Broadway actor Ed McGrath, Charlie is almost immediately hurled into an overwhelming whirl of dark secrets, questionable loyalties, and highly dysfunctional family dynamics; a world for which Charlie is completely unprepared. GODDESS OF THE HUNT is a gleefully silly homage to those romantic comedy thrillers of the 1960s via Roman mythology, updated to the creepy, contemporary world of social media and – perhaps too much – information sharing.

Semi-Finalist, O'Neil Playwrights Conference

Full-length, comedy/drama.

"Just A Rumor" was co-written by Gary Lyons and Doug DeVita, based on an idea by Gary Lyons.

Rosalynne Buchanan and Graham Harris are two Hollywood legends whose dynamic on-screen chemistry sparked an off-screen affair lasting 25 years. In 1968, a few weeks after completing their latest film together, Graham dies in the early hours of the morning in the house they both share. Rosalynne (Ross) has no choice but to inform Graham’s wife Leslie of his death. What happens when Ross and Leslie meet for the first time is the premise of “Just A Rumor,” a play that explores the nature of love, celebrity, gossip, truth, and how to get a dead movie star out of the kitchen.

Full-length drama. Development at ESPA/Primary Stages (with Michael Walkup and Rogelio Martinez), Davenport Playwrights Workshop (with Eric Webb.) This is still a work-in-progress, and I am looking for further development opportunities.

A jealous wife... An indifferent husband... A charming governess... And a horrific murder that rocked the foundations of a glittering, gossip-ridden, scandal-plagued society to its core. And the reasons behind this crime – one of the motivating factors leading to the Revolution of 1848 which cost the last king of France his throne – are explored in Complicity; no one is completely guilty, yet no one is even remotely innocent.

In this 5-minute monologue, successful novelist Philip McDougal delivers the eulogy for his father Pete, a successful advertising executive who dreamed of being a novelist but never was, and comes to the realization that although their relationship was always strained there was love between them.

A 5-minute play.

Phillie McDougal's sister Celia has come back to Long Island to have her daughter christened. At the party after the christening, Celia, Phillie, and their mother, Veronica, have to contend with Harriet, a cousin they can't stand. As usual with Phillie and his mother, there are martinis involved.

5-minute play.

Doug has a headache. Max wants to play. They agree to nap first. Then Doug hears something on the radio that annoys the crap out of him.

5-minute play.

Doug and Max are on the elevator on their way to take a walk. Most residents of their building are very gracious about not crowding into occupied elevators. But not Nancy.

Max wants to walk down the north side of 100th Street. Doug has other ideas. Who's going to win this one?

It's a dreary Monday morning, and both Doug and Max are sad.

5-minute monologue.

In this monologue about mothers, martinis, and death, 50 year-old Nigel deals with his childhood the only way he knows how. Given his unorthodox upbringing, it's an unorthodox sort of not-quite-eulogy.

It's not what you think. Or what you want. And it's over in 1-minute.