Awards

Productions

“You Don’t Remember Me, Do You?” the play - First Place, One-act Division, McLaren Memorial Playwriting competition, Midland Community Theatre, Midland, Texas, 2010; Audience Favorite Award and Best Production Award, Playwriting Festival, Corn Stock Theatre, Peoria, Illinois, 2010

“Red, Blue, Whatever” the play - Best Script Award, Playwriting Festival, Corn Stock Theatre, Peoria, Illinois, 2010; Honorable Mention, One-act Division, McLaren Memorial Playwriting competition, 2012

“NIMBY” the play - Second Place, One-act Division, McLaren Memorial Playwriting competition, 2011; Finalist, New Plays From the Heartland competition, Heartland Community Theatre, Bloomington, Illinois, 2011

“The People with the Guns” screenplay - Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Screenwriting competition (Drama), 2018

“NIMBY” short story - Semifinalist, Screencraft Cinematic Short Story competition, 2020

My book “Humanity Stew” is an adaptation of my full-length play of the same name. It was staged by Corn Stock Theatre, Peoria, Illinois, February 13-14 and 19-22, 2015. The production was directed by Victoria Kapanjie-Rians.

My one-act plays have been staged or had public readings in several locations around central Illinois. “You Don’t Remember Me, Do You?” was also staged by Stage Monkey Mafia in September, 2016, at Studio/Stage in West Hollywood, California.

Courtesy of Corn Stock Theatre (Photo by Jenny Parkhurst)