Theaters that have presented his work include The Barrow Group, Barter Theater, Dallas Children’s Theater, Fulton Opera House, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Rep, Intiman Theatre, Kitchen Dog, La Mama, Merrimack Repertory Theater, New York Music Theatre Festival, Open Eye, Orlando Repertory Theater, Providence Black Rep, Seattle Rep, Stage One: Louisville’s Children Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret.
He has been commissioned by theaters such as The 52nd Street Project, McCarter Theater, Metro Theater Company, Open Door, Passage Theatre, and, on three occasions, by both George Street Playhouse and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Recent projects include an album of the musical Mad Dreams, a re-imagining of A Midsummer Night's Dream set in Athens Georgia in 1961, with composer Vince Di Mura, the screenplay for The Judgment of Bett, which was originally part of the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices in conjunction with the American Repertory Theatre and Discovering Justice, Anne of Green Gables, A Live Radio Play with the Open Eye Theater, and Zabel in Exile with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
He has received many awards and honors, including the Bonderman National Playwriting Award for Can’t Believe It and the A.R.T. Discovering Justice Award for The Trials of the Massachusetts Servants. His work has been supported by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Theatre Communications Group as well as many state and local arts commissions.
His plays are published by Dramatic Publishing and Playscripts and include Anne of Green Gables, Convivencia, Done, Frankenstein, Good-bye Dolly, In Between, IRL (in real life), Jarpteetza/The Firebird, A Little Princess, Martina: Lost and Found, The Moonstone, The Odyssey, Roundelay, Sara Crewe, What Can't Be Seen, and Zabel in Exile. He is the series editor and co-editor of each volume in Bloomsbury's Global Theatre Anthologies.
He is a member of the Philadelphia Dramatist Center and the Dramatists Guild and, for many years, taught playwriting, acting and dramatic literature at Princeton University.
Banner image: Roundelay at Passage Theatre in Trenton, NJ, 2013 (photo: Mathias Goldstein).
