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Altered States of America
Synopsis:
A faux-documentary look at America's love/hate relationship with psychoactive substances
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Finalist for the 2004 Oregon Book Award
1st Produced:
Theatre! Theater!, Portland, Oregon
2003
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Male: - Female: - Other: Twenty-nine mixed roles which can be played by a small ensemble
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Anniversary
Synopsis:
A wife has prepared an unusual anniversary meal for her bound and gagged husband
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1st Produced:
Third Tuesday Theater, Portland, Oregon
May 1992
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Avalon
Synopsis:
It is ten years since her husband went MIA and she still cannot be reconciled to the fact
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1st Produced:
Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon
Jul 2005
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Between The Lines
Synopsis:
The lifelong friendship of two women is tested when their vehicle breaks down in the desert
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Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
May 1998
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Bluer Than Midnight
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Body, The
Synopsis:
A pathologist gets really upset because he thinks the body he is doing an autopsy on looks like his late wife
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1st Produced:
Jobsite Theatre, Tampa, Florida
Aug 2001
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Bombardment
Synopsis:
A surrealistic battle between haves and have-nots
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Finalist for Oregon Book Award. Rewritten 1998 As Bombardment Revisited
1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
1991
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Calliope, Erato and Melpelomene, The
Synopsis:
A nearly bankrupt art dealer sees her chance when she meets a naïve young artist
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1st Produced:
Portland Area Theatre Alliance Festival In The Park
1999
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Camisole
Synopsis:
In the passage connecting their two houses in the French Quarter, a businesswoman and a painter have created a secret world
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1st Produced:
Sunday At Seven, Portland, Oregon
Mar 1991
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Centering, The
Synopsis:
An aspiring circus clown is caught up in a national security dragnet
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written by Steve Patterson And Chris Harder
1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
2005
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Play/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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Continuing Adventures of Mr Grandamnus, The
Synopsis:
A spiderlike manipulator plays on the insecurities and paranoia of others to maintain his influence
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1st Produced:
Toad City Productions, Portland, Oregon
1998
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Genre:
Satire
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Controlled Burn
Synopsis:
Through a series of interlinked monologues, an array of characters draw a picture of life in the American Southwest. Sections are arranged around earth, air, water, and fire
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1st Produced:
Fuse Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1990
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Drama/Performance Piece One Act
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: -
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Curl Of Smoke
Synopsis:
The patients of a psychiatrist all have the same dream
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1st Produced:
Women's Theatre, Portland, Oregon
May 1997
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Cybeleties
Synopsis:
A wannabe celebrity starts receiving telephone calls from the fabulous people
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1st Produced:
Third Tuesday Theater, Portland, Oregon
Jan 1993
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Dead Of Winter
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Delusion of Darkness
Synopsis:
In an homage to William S. Burroughs, a mysterious writer spends a dark and surreal evening in the waterfront bar of a fogged-in seaport
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1st Produced:
Bac K Door Theater, Portland, Oregon
2001
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Genre:
Dark Comedy, full length Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: doubling possible
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Deuces
Synopsis:
During Mardi Gras, a vacationing married couple are drawn into a bizarre poker game that threatens their marriage
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Available royalty-free for hurricane relief benefits
1st Produced:
Artquake Festival/Theatre On The Park, Portland, Oregon
1993
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Comedy/Drama, 60 min Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Expatriates
Synopsis:
Paris after World War One with Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Djana Barnes and Ezra Pound
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1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
Feb 1994
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Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Farmhouse
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Harold's Been Sick
Synopsis:
Things turn ugly after a chance encounter in a bar
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Part of "Murder Ballads" an evening of plays inspired by the rock album of the same name by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1st Produced:
Shimberg Playhouse, Tampa, FL
01 Aug 2003
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Immaterial Matters
Synopsis:
Apprentice Crane Wordsworth is sent to photograph Carrie a dying painter. He arrives too late but is persuaded to take a photograph of her anyway and the family will pretend she is asleep. Carrie's ghost takes a shine to Crane and leaves with him. Crane's boss is appalled by the photograph but the family love it. The photograph is prominently displayed at the funeral. Soon everyone in town wants a photograph of their dead loved one and Crane is inundated with work
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a 2013 Oregon Book Award Finalist for the Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama
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Liberation
Synopsis:
A newspaper office in an occupied city is held hostage by a deserter who has witnessed systemic atrocities by occupation forces
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1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
1999
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Male: 6 Female: 6 Other: -
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Lost Wavelengths
Synopsis:
A radio presenter is desperate to get Enola Guy on to his programme. However Enola Guy never gives interviews and never plays his instrument in public
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2008 Oregon Book Award Finalist
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Comedy
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Lounge Car Night
Synopsis:
People travelling across the American South-West succumb to the charms of two con artists
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1st Produced:
University of Kansas, Lawrence
2005
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Malaria
Synopsis:
A dreamlike voyage into the psyche of a dying man
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Nominated for Oregon Book Award
1st Produced:
Pavement Productions Mobile Theater, Portland, Oregon
1995
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Next Of Kin
Synopsis:
Depressed by the war in Iraq, Vietnam vet Jonathan Carmichael shoots himself. He survives and is looked after by his daughter Angie. Angie worries that he may die and that will mean the end of his army pension and she will not be able to pay the mortgage. Her two brothers arrive to help. Michael a Marine Causality Assistance Officer. He is the one that goes to meet families to inform them when their is a causality in Iraq. The job is bringing him down but he feels he should carry on for his comrade Marines. Rich has had two tours of duty in Iraq and is now a recruitment officer. With his doubts about the war and the increasing unpopularity of the war - he too is feeling the strains of his job. He turns to drink and considers applying to go back to Iraq
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Northbound Train
Synopsis:
A grieving son is comforted on a north bound train
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1st Produced:
Vertigo Theatre, Portland, Oregon
2005
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Contained in: "Oregon Literary Review Summer 2006"
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Object of Destruction
Synopsis:
A journalist in Wartime Vienna finds out about the cost to civilians
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1st Produced:
LitEruption Bookfair, Portland, Oregon
Apr 1992
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O'Malley's Bar
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Shimberg Playhouse, Tampa, FL
01 Aug 2003
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Pathology
Synopsis:
A police hostage negotiator discovers a plot to release a virus that makes people violent
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1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
Sep 1999
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Drama
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Shelter
Synopsis:
A fading rock star and his ex-lover are snowbound in a Pacific Northwest cabin. Their identities begin to blur
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1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland, Oregon
June 1993
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Shooting Mexico
Synopsis:
A hard luck character is held up at the Mexican border
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1st Produced:
Third Tuesday Theater, Portland, Oregon
May 1993
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Spider Wind
Synopsis:
An estranged daughter returns to Los Angeles to her mother and disturbed brother. Los Angeles is besetwith Santa Anna winds
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Paula Productions, Portland, Oregon
Dec 1992
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Drama
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Submerged Country, The
Synopsis:
The wife of artist Yves Tangay recounts his decline into mental illness
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1st Produced:
Winnigstad Theatre, Portland, Oregon
Sep 1991
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Temptation
Synopsis:
A writer and his sister-in-law try to supress their attraction to each other
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Toad City Productions, Portland, Oregon
July 1996
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One act
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Turquoise and Obisidian
Synopsis:
Zachary a professor of literature is an expert on Malcolm Lowry. He is convinced that on the Day of the Dead he will die - the same as one of Lowry's characters. He is in Cuernavaca in Mexico where the incident takes place in the book. Zachary's wife travels there and comes across an Aztec drug that gives the taker telepathic skills. Will she use it to help her husband - or will the commercial possibilities of it outweigh everything
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1st Produced:
LitEruption Bookfair, Portland, Oregon
1997
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Waiting on Sean Flynn
Synopsis:
On the eve of Saigon's fall in 1975, a U.S. reporter must decide whether to flee with the Americans or take her chances as a witness to history
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1st Produced:
Chicago's Dramatists Workshop, Chicago, Illinois
1996
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Wet Paint
Synopsis:
A woman's friends try to prove to her that her house is not haunted
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1st Produced:
Performance Works Northwest, Portland, Oregon
Feb 2008
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Whitechapel
Synopsis:
An American woman living in London believes her flat is haunted by Jack the Ripper
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1st Produced:
Sam Bass Theatre Festival, Austin, Texas
May 2003
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