Playwriting

Zac with the original cast from "An Army of One"

If there is one thing that I have learned in the process of writing plays it is that you can’t produce a show alone.  It takes a ton of people to make live theater possible.  It starts with having friends you can trust to provide you with honest feedback during the writing process.  It takes a theater organization that is willing to take chances on original scripts.  It takes a director who is willing to work with relatively unknown writers and collaborate on taking a new work from page to stage.  It takes courageous actors who are willing to invent a character in the flesh for the first time.  And it absolutely takes an entire staff of stage hands, prop designers, lighting directors and operators, stage managers, sound operators and designers, costume designers, and a slew of other people you don’t think about: administrators to promote and schedule the show, poster designers, ticket box operators, and the web guy to add your show to the website.  The list literally goes on and on…

Play writing is an insular process that, when things go right, results in a very collaborative effort to get a script onto the stage.  It is an amazing thing to behold, and as a playwright it changes your perspective on theater.  The first time you see your words spoken by a cast of talented actors, performing in a space created specifically to perform your work in front of an audience… it is a magical experience that changes your life.

In this section of the site I plan to host a list of the plays currently in my portfolio with short descriptions of each piece.  My hope is that by hosting this list of plays my website guests will come to appreciate what I have already accomplished in my portfolio and where I’m going with my writing.

I am the exclusive copyright owner for every piece listed on this site, and maintain that copyright through registration of those works.  If you are interested in finding out more about any of my plays, please feel free to get in touch with me via the web form on the contact page.

Please note that this section is still under development.  Thank you for your interest!