FRIENDS and FAMILY

Go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGim_8lAiiQ

 Liz and Michael have a comfortable life with friends nearby and children for whom they would do anything. One day a stranger knocks on the door asking for Michael; Liz follows up on an Ancestry search; and a neighbor’s carelessness form a confluence of events that changes everything. What’s the difference between the haves and have nots? What makes a friend or a family?

2/M-3F

Presented by OCPA Presents, March 2021

WORKS

Plays: (descriptions below--scroll through older posts for all listings)
Full Length                                                         One Acts-Ten minute

DO NOT DISTURB              THE RULES
DIRECTING HEDDA             THE CONDUCTRESS
THE OLD BIRD                WHERE DID THE TIME GO?
THE THEORY                  THE SUPREMES
GHOST TOWN                  THE BUS
ISLA de SAL                 TITLE TBA
CATALINA: The Musical       PLANTING THE SEED
FRIENDS & FAMILY            Just Another Day at Happy Hills
                            FOG

Novels                                                 
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SUCCESSION 
KISS THAT DREAM GOODBYE

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Others upon request

THE OLD BIRD

First produced by Dezart Performs in Palm Springs, Ca. December 2011, won seven Desert Theatre League Awards including "Outstanding Production."  Also produced at the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano and featured at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Ca. Winner,  2010 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival and 2009 L.A. Women's Theatre Project 20% Festival. 

Some say that it’s boring watching people grow old, but just wait until you have to do it! This old bird does it with wit and charm.Inspired by the life of Jeanne Calment, documented to be the world’s oldest living person. 

2F/2M

1Set

DO NOT DISTURB

Alan is a conniver, always looking for the big break, the lucky investment, and the easy way out. This time he comes up against the closed door of “no.” Alan’s sister Marnie works hard, cares for their ailing mother and can’t forgive him for the deaths and deceptions of the past and contrivances of the present. When caretaker Zandra loses her lottery ticket, Alan is the prime suspect. This is a play about family, forgiveness and reconciliation. 2 Acts;  3F/1M; 1 Set

DIRECTING HEDDA

The Swan’s Song Theatre is about to close its doors if it can’t produce a successful play. Each of the Artistic Directors has hired a separate Director, independent of each other, to direct HEDDA GABLER. The newly hired directors have conflicting styles, one is a classicist the other a revisionist, and each of these two women have issues of their own. Most of the pre-cast show have fled to other productions except for the two female leads. 4F/2/M; 1Set 
Staged reading Chance Theater, Anaheim, CA 6/24/17

CATALINA: THE MUSICAL

Book and Lyrics by Lynn Wells
Music by Richard Abraham
1996

In that old fashioned campy style, CATALINA The Musical, tells the story of love at any age and of saving the island from developers. Set against the history of the island itself, it is the story of any town at any time.
1 set.
Ten main characters and eight or more in chorus.
There are 21 songs, both high energy and melodic with reprise.
Staged reading in Mission Viejo, CA and production in Riverside, CA.
MUSIC SAMPLER at:  https://youtu.be/S1Oor7bmfYk

THE THEORY

A scientist develops a theory involving the displacement of molecules that in turn displaces many truths. What’s fact and what’s fiction?

3M/3F, 1 set