MOMENTS OF TRUTH – Acting on Instinct is an instructional book on the art of acting through a fundamental human approach – currently in research and development.

ACTING: IDENTITY & THE HUMAN CONDITION is a colloquium presentation with companion article ready for publishing.

A MOURNING IN APRIL is a short play about a young man who challenges the relationship with his best friend on the morning of his father’s funeral. This play was selected as one of the eight best new short plays in THE ASHLAND NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL of 2007. Staged readings were done in late July of that year. www.ashlandnewplays.org for more details. Since then, it has been featured and produced in several short play festivals in the U.S.

THE FEINTING ROOM is a full-length play that examines morality and hysteria in a small town at the turn of the 20th century, as a stranger collapses in front of a middle-class family home. It is available for production through special permission. Write to me for details.

BAKING & BOWLING is a 20-minute solo play that was the performance aspect for my MFA in Acting thesis and is in further development for a longer version and possible novel. It examines identity and imagery within the struggles with society norms that one character faces. It is a dark, yet humorous story that asks the audience to be empathetic towards a conflicted character whose innocence is only maintained through delusion.

As a result of my father buying a piano for the family back in about 1976, I can, with some bit of confidence declare that I actually did benefit from being the chosen one to take lessons and show some return on his investment. Although I skipped many lessons and ended up just “winging it” and improvising through more than one high school choral accompaniment – I developed a musical ear enough to have written a full-length musical, a fair number of underscores for theatrical productions, and have carried my musicality into the realm of sound design. I give the utmost praise to musical directors and accompanists who play the music I write and perfect through today’s digital scoring and voicing software much better than I ever could in a live setting!

THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR – The Musical is my musical based on the book by R.A. Dick and the 20th Century Fox film (not the television series) that I wrote along with some collaboration of lyricist Larry Schrupp. With a great cast and a fantastic musical director (Naomi Sanchez).

We entered the recording studio in 2003 to record and mix a demo CD of the first act featuring Frances Epsen-Devlin (National Touring Production of HAIR) and Krista Wigle (Carlotta and swing in San Francisco’s 5-year run of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA). We submitted our recording and partial book as an entry into the Stephen Schwartz/Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop. We made it down to Los Angeles as invited (non-producing) guests of the workshop. It was amazing to watch the three selected musicals grow through the advice and criticism from some of the country’s most respected industry leaders and artists.

—> MP3 Listen: Cottage by the Sea (Lucy and cast)

—> MP3 Listen: Could Have Been (Lucy and The Ghost of Captain Gregg)

UNDERSCORING from Various Stage Productions

—> MP3 Listen: BAKING & BOWLING Underscore
Written for the opening sequence of BAKING & BOWLING.

—> MP3 Listen: THE HOUSE OF YES Main Theme Underscore
SF Examiner reviewed the SF StageWork production and wrote: Sharp and zany, the play has a kinky, necrophilic edge and a sweetly melancholic note, complimented by Michael Davison’s original score, that nicely fleshes out what would otherwise be a one-dimensional comedy.

—> MP3 Listen: BEAUTIFUL CHILD Underscore
Written for the Theatre Rhinoceros production.

—> WAV Listen: AN INSPECTOR CALLS ghost sequence
Written for the SF StageWorks production.

—> WAV Listen: BAKING & BOWLING character climax sequence
Written for the MFA Thesis solo production.