Directing

Professional projects listed below; click here for university directing projects.

Talking Heads

The Divine Sister

What the Butler Saw

Almost, Maine

Blackbird

Arsenic and Old Lace

Dirty Blonde

A Christmas Memory

Complete History of America (Abridged)

The Exonerated

You’re My Boy

Greater Tuna

A Portable Theatre (2013-2016):

A Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) by Michael Carleton, Jim FitzGerald & John K. Alvarez

Tales from the Grave by Geoffrey Nelson

Talking Heads by Alan Bennett

Pierce to the Soul by Chiquita Mullins Lee

The Duck Variations by David Mamet

The Short North Stage (2014):

The Divine Sister by Charles Busch

CATCO (1987-2011):

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam (co-director)

Pierce to the Soul by Chiquita Mullins Lee [World Premiere]

Blackbird by David Harrower

Almost, Maine by John Cariani

A Christmas Memory & The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote and adapted by Geoffrey Nelson

Doubt by John Patrick Shanley

The Santaland Diaries (revival 2007-2008-2009-2010)

Complete History of America (Abridged) by Adam Long, Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

Seascape by Edward Albee

The Santaland Diaries & Season’s Greetings by David Sedaris

Greater Tuna by Sears, etc.

You’re My Boy by Herb Brown [World premiere]

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

by the reduced Shakespeare Co.

The Exonerated by Jessica Blank & Eric Jensen

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov adapted by John Murrell

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Dirty Blonde by Claudia Shear

Rickey by Jerry Holt

A Tuna Christmas by Sears, etc.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Murder in Green Meadows by Douglas Post

The Grapes of Wrath adapted by Frank Galati from the Steinbeck novel

The Shorts Festival 2000 [World Premiere of eight plays by Ohio playwrights]

The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine by Morgan, Ross, Cherniak

Tales from the Grave adapted by Geoffrey Nelson [World Premiere]

Ten Minute Alibi by Anthony Armstrong

Below the Belt by Richard Dresser

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

The Turn of the Screw adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Henry James

Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood

The Woman in Black adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the Susan Hill novel

Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher

The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov, translated/adapted by Michael Frayn

“The Gift of the Magi” adapted by Geoff Nelson from the O. Henry story [World Premiere]

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Possible Worlds by John Mighton [American Premiere]

“In the Master’s House There Are Many Mansions” by Cherry Jackson

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

1892 by Geoffrey Nelson [World Premiere]

Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn

Wings by Arthur Kopit

A Christmas Memory & The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote [also adapted]

The Revenge of the Space Pandas by David Mamet

“Penguin Blues” by Ethan Phillips/”The Zoo Story” by Edward Albee

A Shorts Festival (nine original works by Ohio playwrights)

T Bone n Weasel by Jon Klein

Audience by Vaclav Havel / Fire in the Basement by Pavel Kohout

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood

El Salvador by Rafael Lima

Life and Limb by Keith Reddin

The Shawl by David Mamet/

A Ghost Story & Witch’s Brew by John Pielmeier

The Widow Claire by Horton Foote

Fool for Love by Sam Shepard

Handy Dandy by William Gibson

Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn

I Love You, I Love You Not by Wendy Kesselman

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

Orphans by Lyle Kessler

1959 Pink Thunderbird by James McLure

Jupus Redeye by Robert Flanagan [World Premiere]

Talking With… by Jane Martin

True West by Sam Shepard

Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis

Independent Tour (1996 – 2003):

Rickey by Jerry Holt [World Premiere]

Shawnee State University (Portsmouth, OH), Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, OH), CATCO, the Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, NY), the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, Capital University (Bexley, OH) and Georgia Perimeter College (Atlanta, GA).

True Grist Dinner Theatre (Homer, MI/ 1982-1983):

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson

I Ought to be in Pictures by Neil Simon

Players Theatre Columbus (1982):

Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson

Weathervane Playhouse (Newark, OH/1980):