The Drawing Board‘s monthly script reading series featured “Sagittarius” and “The Symposium Bar and Grill,” two of my short plays from what I’m calling my Peregrine Plays series. The reading took place at 7:00pm on Monday, August 26, 2024, at Houghton Hall (22 E. 30th Street, 2nd Fl., New York City). For more about the story, cast and characters, click on the reading’s webpage here.

My short play, Son of Anarchy was featured in the 2023 Queens Short Play Festival at The Secret Theatre (38-02 61st Street, Queens, NY). . For more about the story, cast and characters, click on the Son of Anarchy webpage here.

My play “Throgs Neck” kicked off the 2021 reading series @ The Drawing Board. Based in NYC, this collective of professional theatre and film artists helps develop new works for the stage and screen by offering table reads, workshops and staged readings.  For more about the story, cast and characters, click on the reading’s webpage here.

My poems have appeared in Contemporary Ghazals, Poeming Pigeon, Poetry in Form (Medium), Blue Lake Review, Burningword Literary Journal and Grape Press. My essays have appeared on Medium in Better Humans and other Medium publications.

I attended the Writers Studio, an independent creative writing school founded by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz. In my final two years, I was a member of Phil’s master class. I earned my graduate and undergraduate degrees at New York University, where I majored in English education and also studied journalism, filmmaking and art history. I was born in the Bronx and have lived in New York City all my life. Both places figure prominently in my work.

For many years, I worked as a corporate writer for companies such as IBM, AIG and Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. These days, I devote my writing efforts to essays, plays and poetry.