Career

He has written Camping With Henry And Tom (Outer Critics Circle

Outer Critics Circle Award

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 and Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel was an American actress and theater producer who is remembered as the namesake of an off-Broadway playhouse and theatrical award....

 Awards), Out of Gas On Lover’s Leap, Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”), Ears On A Beatle, The God Committee, The Collyer Brother At Home, The Gifts of The Magi (co-written by Randy Courts), The Book of the Dun Cow

The Book of the Dun Cow (novel)

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(co-written by Randy Courts), Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer

Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer

Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer was an Off-Broadway musical with music by Randy Courts, the book by Mark St. Germain, and lyrics by Randy Courts and Mark St. Germain based on the story of the same name by Stephen Vincent Benét...

(winner of an AT&T

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 “New Plays For The Nineties Award”), Jack’s Holiday, Stand By Your Man: The Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette

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 Story.

His television credits include The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show

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(Writer/Creative Consultant

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), Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

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and The Wright Verdicts. He co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard

Carroll Ballard

-Biography:Carroll Ballard started out making documentaries for the U.S. Information Agency, Beyond This Winter's Wheat and Harvest ; the latter was nominated for an Academy Award...

’s Duma

Duma (film)

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. He directed and co-produced the documentary MY DOG: An Unconditional Love Story featuring, among others, Richard Gere

Richard Gere

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, Glenn Close

Glenn Close

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 and Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

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. He was a script writer on the CBS Daytime

CBS Daytime

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 serial As The World Turns

As the World Turns

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He's most recently written the play FREUD'S LAST SESSION which premiered in the summer of 2009 at the Barrington Stage Company

Barrington Stage Company

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, MA, and is currently playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater in New York City. FREUD'S LAST SESSION began previews on July 9, 2010, and officially opened on July 22, 2010. In April, 2011, FREUD'S LAST SESSION won the Best Play Award from the Off Broadway Alliance.

He has written the award winning children's book, THREE CUPS.

Membership

He is an alumnus of New Dramatists, where he was given the Joe A. Callaway Award, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer's Guild East and a Board Member of the Barrington Stage Company. He was awarded the “New Voices In American Theatre” award at the William Inge Theatre Festival.