Recently won The Arts and Letters Award In Drama for The Sealing of Ceil (read at The Workshop) and an Oppenhein Grant. He has won and been a finalist in over 27 national playwriting competitions including The 3 Genres (3 times), Actors Theater Louisville, Bloomington Playwriting, Pittsburgh New Works, Samuel French, Weissberger, others.
Goin’ Round On Rock Solid Ground, Unfamiliar Faces, and Words Unspoken were finalists at Actor’s Theater of Louisville.
Author of 16 best selling theater books, including 9 books of original monologues. All of his books are are sold internationally and have gone on to multiple printings.
The Pain In The Poetry, performed at The Workshop, was chosen 2 be in "The Best 10 Minute Plays of 2008" (Smith and Kraus).
Plays have been performed at Primary Stages, Circle in The Square Downtown, HERE, LaMama, at the Duplex, Playwrights Horizons, as well as at many other theaters.