Artistic Statement

Artistic Statement

I don't have a "style." My plays range from naturalistic to highly theatrical; prose to poetic; realistic to abstract; I'm not afraid to mix approaches and genres. However, there is a link between all of my plays and that's in content and theme.

The vast majority of the work has one or both of these traits in common: an injustice that triggers my sense of morality, and / or a main character who is the odd-person-out, who feels isolated, one, not in the main group. That's particularly true for all three of the full length plays I've most recently worked on: "THE MASTER AND THE MAGICIAN," "A WIFE IN THE SHADOWS," and "THE FRISCO FLASH"... all the way back to the one-act play I wrote, "Tautology," at age 19.

I think my umbrage about injustice really comes from the fact I really took my Catholicism very seriously, and while I'm not literally religious today, that idea of what Jesus stands for, suffuses my very core being. As for the other trait in my plays, well I guess I always feel I'm the odd duck, the one out of place, so I empathize with anyone who feels that way too.