This is the page that I update every 6 months to talk about my work. It was last updated in October 2020.
Drama
Currently, I have a few plays in pre-production stages. COVID messed up anything moving to production, but there are a few contenders (3000 Dollars and Franz Kafka’s “The Cubicle”) that are close. I’m planning for one of those in 2021.
Speculative Dramas
A series of plays that have a speculative “What/if” thing going on. They include:
- 3000 Dollars — or how one of the grittiest screenplays ever written became one of America’s best loved romantic comedies
- Auggie and Immortality — a play about the science of aging
Found Kafka
A series of “found” plays that were “interpreted.” Twenty-first century world through the lens of early twentieth century absurdism. But, as plays.
Current work in this series:
- Franz Kafka’s “The Cubicle” – Play, under revision. — This play is near complete and under consideration for production.
- Franz Kafka’s “The Meeting” – Play, under revision.
- Franz Kafka’s “Airport Lounge” – Play, in progress. — Likely never to see the light of day.
- Franz Kafka’s “The Deal” – Play, in concept.
Fiction
The Kapital Series
The Kapital series takes place in a near future of market fundamentalism, where where everyone’s opportunities are dictated by a Rating representing future networth.
The first book is about programming prodigy Gretchen Hopper who exploits a vulnerability in the rating generating algorithm.
Current work in this series:
An Exploit of Echoes – Novel, under revision.
“The Accounting” – Short story, under revision.
Nanodome Series
The Nanodome series takes place in a near future where nanobot constructed domes have isolated all the remaining cities from each other and where information brokers sell the secrets of their domes.
Current work in this series:
- Whispers in Chicagoland – Novella, under revision.
- Running in Chicagoland – Novella, in progress
Other Publications
“Every Poet Since Milton” – Short story. Published in The Minetta Review.
“A Demonstrated Condition of Loss” – Poem. Published in The Minetta Review.