Artists Colonies
MacDowell - resident, screenwriting, April 2003
MacDowell - resident, screenwriting, April 2003
Novels
Hear My Voice, published April, 2017
Flower Toward the Sun, published August, 2017
Bring Forth the Light
Non-Fiction Books
Co-author with Rabbis A. James Rudin and Hirshel Jaffe of Why (Not) Me? Searching for God When We Suffer published by IPub Global Connection in 2023, and Why Me? Why Anyone? published by St. Martin’s Press in 1986 and reissued by Jason Aronson, Inc. in 1994
Co-author with Rabbi James Rudin of Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults, published by Fortress Press in 1980
Editor and contributor to the anthology Cults on Campus: Continuing Challenge, an International Cult Education Program book published by the American Family Foundation in 1991 and revised in 1996
Co-author with Rabbis A. James Rudin and Hirshel Jaffe of Why (Not) Me? Searching for God When We Suffer published by IPub Global Connection in 2023, and Why Me? Why Anyone? published by St. Martin’s Press in 1986 and reissued by Jason Aronson, Inc. in 1994
Co-author with Rabbi James Rudin of Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults, published by Fortress Press in 1980
Editor and contributor to the anthology Cults on Campus: Continuing Challenge, an International Cult Education Program book published by the American Family Foundation in 1991 and revised in 1996
Articles and Book Reviews
The New York Times; The New York Daily News; The Congressional Quarterly Researcher; Encyclopedia Judaica; Present Tense; Fifty Plus; Worldview; The New Leader; Catholic Digest; Our Town; Religious Education; P.S.: The Intelligent Guide to Jewish Affairs; The New York University Review of Law and Social Change; PTA Today; National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Bulletin; Campus Law Enforcement Journal; Dialogue; The Antigonish Review; Keeping Posted; The Cult Observer; The Advisor; Cultic Studies Journal; Boston University Alumni Magazine, and ReformJudaism.org.
The New York Times; The New York Daily News; The Congressional Quarterly Researcher; Encyclopedia Judaica; Present Tense; Fifty Plus; Worldview; The New Leader; Catholic Digest; Our Town; Religious Education; P.S.: The Intelligent Guide to Jewish Affairs; The New York University Review of Law and Social Change; PTA Today; National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Bulletin; Campus Law Enforcement Journal; Dialogue; The Antigonish Review; Keeping Posted; The Cult Observer; The Advisor; Cultic Studies Journal; Boston University Alumni Magazine, and ReformJudaism.org.
Blogs
Over IPubForum: Who by Fire? Who by Water?; The Pope and I; Hear My Voice; Flower Toward the Sun
Over IPubForum: Who by Fire? Who by Water?; The Pope and I; Hear My Voice; Flower Toward the Sun
Media Appearances Include
“Dateline NBC”; “CBS Evening News”; “CBS Morning News”; “Donohue”; National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”; “Geraldo Rivera”; “Rivera Live”; “Larry King Live”; “Good Morning, New York”; CBS-TV’s “Nightwatch” and “For Our Times”; CNN’s “LateNight America” and “The Freeman Report”; WABC’s “Eyewitness News”; WNBC-TV’s “First Estate”; Fox Channel Five “News at Noon”; Newstalk TV; TBN (Brazilian network); “Robbie Vincent’s Nightline”; “Rambling with Gambling”; “Informe Semenal” (Spanish TV); “Conversations with Jean Feraca” (Wisconsin Public Radio); Icelanic Broadcasting Service: Australian Broadcasting Corporation talk show; “the Judy Jarvis Show” (Hartford); The Phil Fink Show” (Cleveland); “The Joan Hamburg Show”; “A.M. Buffalo”; “People are Talking” (Philadelphia); “Point of View”; “The Dave Patterson Show” (Cleveland); “Taylor Made” (Detroit); National Jewish Cable TV; “Barry Farber Show”; “Allen Combes Show”; “Sherrye Henry Show”; “Ruth Jacobs Show”; “Alex Bennett Show”; “Jewish Perspective”; and Radio Free Europe broadcasts
“Dateline NBC”; “CBS Evening News”; “CBS Morning News”; “Donohue”; National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”; “Geraldo Rivera”; “Rivera Live”; “Larry King Live”; “Good Morning, New York”; CBS-TV’s “Nightwatch” and “For Our Times”; CNN’s “LateNight America” and “The Freeman Report”; WABC’s “Eyewitness News”; WNBC-TV’s “First Estate”; Fox Channel Five “News at Noon”; Newstalk TV; TBN (Brazilian network); “Robbie Vincent’s Nightline”; “Rambling with Gambling”; “Informe Semenal” (Spanish TV); “Conversations with Jean Feraca” (Wisconsin Public Radio); Icelanic Broadcasting Service: Australian Broadcasting Corporation talk show; “the Judy Jarvis Show” (Hartford); The Phil Fink Show” (Cleveland); “The Joan Hamburg Show”; “A.M. Buffalo”; “People are Talking” (Philadelphia); “Point of View”; “The Dave Patterson Show” (Cleveland); “Taylor Made” (Detroit); National Jewish Cable TV; “Barry Farber Show”; “Allen Combes Show”; “Sherrye Henry Show”; “Ruth Jacobs Show”; “Alex Bennett Show”; “Jewish Perspective”; and Radio Free Europe broadcasts
Quoted as a Cult Expert in Publications Including
Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Austin-American Statesman, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland Oregonian, Woman’s Day, Modern Maturity
Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Austin-American Statesman, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland Oregonian, Woman’s Day, Modern Maturity
Writing Training
2003 Sewanee Writers’ Conference - (studied with playwrights Romulus Linney and Dan O’Brien)
Ensemble Studio Theatre Summer Institute - August 2001
Ensemble Studio Theatre winter one-on-one mentorship with playwright Chris Seraso - 2004
Class with Chris Seraso, Summer, 2005
Zoetrope: All-Story and Gotham Writers Screenwriting Workshop at Francis Ford Coppola’s Blancaneaux Lodge, Belize, July, 2001 (twenty students accepted from throughout the U.S.)
Private Study with screenwriter Brian Edgar
Robert McKee’s Story Seminar
Gotham Writers’ Workshop, New York City - screenwriting, playwriting, fiction writing
2003 Sewanee Writers’ Conference - (studied with playwrights Romulus Linney and Dan O’Brien)
Ensemble Studio Theatre Summer Institute - August 2001
Ensemble Studio Theatre winter one-on-one mentorship with playwright Chris Seraso - 2004
Class with Chris Seraso, Summer, 2005
Zoetrope: All-Story and Gotham Writers Screenwriting Workshop at Francis Ford Coppola’s Blancaneaux Lodge, Belize, July, 2001 (twenty students accepted from throughout the U.S.)
Private Study with screenwriter Brian Edgar
Robert McKee’s Story Seminar
Gotham Writers’ Workshop, New York City - screenwriting, playwriting, fiction writing
Plays
The Lady Godiva of Flamingo Landing (ten minutes): Production: Strawberry One-Act Festival, Manhattan, August, 2004; Honorable Mention, 2018 New Voice Play Festival of Old Opera House Theatre Company and Arts Centre, Charles Town, West Virginia; finalist 2003 Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Staged Readings: FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2005; BIGArts Community Players, Sanibel, FL, April 2012; readings: Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Paul Newman Hops the Amtrak Auto-Train (ten minutes): Production: Turnip Theatre Co./American Globe Theatre 19th Annual New York City Fifteen-Minute Play Festival, Manhattan , April 2013; Winner, Naples Players 2006 ETC New Play Contest; Semi-finalist, FirstStage (Los Angeles) One-Act Play contest - 2005; Semi-finalist, Theatre Oxford Ten-Minute Play Contest. 2006; 9th place, 2006 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition; readings: Naples Players at Sugden Community Theatre, December 2006, FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2006, BIG Arts (Sanibel, Florida) Community Players, April, 2013; read on WGCU-FM radio station (Fort Myers, Florida), December 7, 2006
Unaccompanied Minors (one-act, one half hour): Productions: Strawberry One-Act Festival, Manhattan August, 2005, WonderLand One-Act Festival, Manhattan, May, 2007, American Avant Garde Festival, Manhattan, July, 2011 (finalist); Published in The Best Plays From the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume III, 2006; Fourth Place in 2004 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition; Finalist in 2003 Florida Playwright’s Process competition; Readings - The Knitting Factory, Susan Shopmaker Casting
The Carina Limone Museum (both full-length and one-act [thirty minutes]): Production: Podcast produced by BetweenActs/Missing Link, Semifinalist, Playwrights First (The National Arts Club) 2006-2007 Competition; Semifinalist, 2005 Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition (sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University); Staged Reading: Sanibel (FL) Community Theatre, March 2016 (one-act), other readings - Ensemble Studio Theatre Summer Institute, 2001, Ensemble Studio Theatre, December 2004; used in playwriting class at Ohio State University, 2006 and 2007, Honorable Mention in the Inaugural Ohio State Newark New Play Contest, 2011, Honorable Mention in The Old Opera House Theatre Company (Charles Town, WV)15th Annual New Voice Play Festival
Ninety-Five, Eleven, Thirty (ten minutes) - Productions: North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe, March, 2022, Funny Shorts LIVE! Center for the Performing Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida, September, 2022; Podcast produced by BetweenActs/Missing Link, Honorable Mention, 2019 Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest
The Choice (one minute): Semi-finalist, Lamia Ink one-page play contest, 2006
. . . The Mice Play (ten minutes): readings - Island-wide Writer’s Read, Sanibel, Florida; FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2008
The Decision (ten minutes): Production: North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe (San Diego), May, 2014; Staged Reading FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2005; Honorable Mention, 78th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, October 2009
Closings (both full-length and one-act [thirty minutes]): Productions: 2017 New Voice Play Festival, Old Opera House Theatre Company and Arts Centre, Charles Town, West Virginia - Silver Medalist [second place] (one-act version); Semi-Finalist, FirstStage (LA) One-Act Play Contest, 2006; Finalist (full-length version), 2014 Charles M. Getchell Award, SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference)
BitchFest (both full-length and one-act): one-act version placed 42nd in 80th Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition (2011), Table Reading - Break a Leg Productions, NYC, - July 2013
Waiting for Wilma (ten minutes): Production: 17th North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA, October 2019; readings - FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, BIG Arts (Sanibel, Florida) Community Players, April, 2013; May 2006, Honorable Mention in Stage Play Script category of the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, Winner of Actors’ Theatre of Santa Cruz Ten-Minute Play Contest
The Pool Productions - 17th North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA, October 2019, (ten minutes): readings - FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2007, Honorable Mention in Stage Play Script category of the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition
Carmen Garmin (ten minutes): Productions: American Globe Theatre Fifteen-Minute Play Festival, May, 2009, TLC Productions Canton (MI) One-Act Festival, January, 2013, Bimah Players Community Theater, August 2013, June 2014; Semi-finalist, FirstStage (LA) One-Act Play contest, 2008; Honorable Mention, 2011 ShowOff International Playwriting Festival, Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano, CA); readings: FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2008;Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano), January 2011; BIG Arts Community Players, Sanibel, FL, April 2012
Why? (ten minutes): readings - FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2009
Embrace Your Joker-lessness (ten minutes and one-act)
The Lady Godiva of Flamingo Landing (ten minutes): Production: Strawberry One-Act Festival, Manhattan, August, 2004; Honorable Mention, 2018 New Voice Play Festival of Old Opera House Theatre Company and Arts Centre, Charles Town, West Virginia; finalist 2003 Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Staged Readings: FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2005; BIGArts Community Players, Sanibel, FL, April 2012; readings: Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Paul Newman Hops the Amtrak Auto-Train (ten minutes): Production: Turnip Theatre Co./American Globe Theatre 19th Annual New York City Fifteen-Minute Play Festival, Manhattan , April 2013; Winner, Naples Players 2006 ETC New Play Contest; Semi-finalist, FirstStage (Los Angeles) One-Act Play contest - 2005; Semi-finalist, Theatre Oxford Ten-Minute Play Contest. 2006; 9th place, 2006 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition; readings: Naples Players at Sugden Community Theatre, December 2006, FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2006, BIG Arts (Sanibel, Florida) Community Players, April, 2013; read on WGCU-FM radio station (Fort Myers, Florida), December 7, 2006
Unaccompanied Minors (one-act, one half hour): Productions: Strawberry One-Act Festival, Manhattan August, 2005, WonderLand One-Act Festival, Manhattan, May, 2007, American Avant Garde Festival, Manhattan, July, 2011 (finalist); Published in The Best Plays From the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume III, 2006; Fourth Place in 2004 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition; Finalist in 2003 Florida Playwright’s Process competition; Readings - The Knitting Factory, Susan Shopmaker Casting
The Carina Limone Museum (both full-length and one-act [thirty minutes]): Production: Podcast produced by BetweenActs/Missing Link, Semifinalist, Playwrights First (The National Arts Club) 2006-2007 Competition; Semifinalist, 2005 Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition (sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University); Staged Reading: Sanibel (FL) Community Theatre, March 2016 (one-act), other readings - Ensemble Studio Theatre Summer Institute, 2001, Ensemble Studio Theatre, December 2004; used in playwriting class at Ohio State University, 2006 and 2007, Honorable Mention in the Inaugural Ohio State Newark New Play Contest, 2011, Honorable Mention in The Old Opera House Theatre Company (Charles Town, WV)15th Annual New Voice Play Festival
Ninety-Five, Eleven, Thirty (ten minutes) - Productions: North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe, March, 2022, Funny Shorts LIVE! Center for the Performing Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida, September, 2022; Podcast produced by BetweenActs/Missing Link, Honorable Mention, 2019 Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest
The Choice (one minute): Semi-finalist, Lamia Ink one-page play contest, 2006
. . . The Mice Play (ten minutes): readings - Island-wide Writer’s Read, Sanibel, Florida; FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2008
The Decision (ten minutes): Production: North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe (San Diego), May, 2014; Staged Reading FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2005; Honorable Mention, 78th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, October 2009
Closings (both full-length and one-act [thirty minutes]): Productions: 2017 New Voice Play Festival, Old Opera House Theatre Company and Arts Centre, Charles Town, West Virginia - Silver Medalist [second place] (one-act version); Semi-Finalist, FirstStage (LA) One-Act Play Contest, 2006; Finalist (full-length version), 2014 Charles M. Getchell Award, SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference)
BitchFest (both full-length and one-act): one-act version placed 42nd in 80th Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition (2011), Table Reading - Break a Leg Productions, NYC, - July 2013
Waiting for Wilma (ten minutes): Production: 17th North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA, October 2019; readings - FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, BIG Arts (Sanibel, Florida) Community Players, April, 2013; May 2006, Honorable Mention in Stage Play Script category of the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, Winner of Actors’ Theatre of Santa Cruz Ten-Minute Play Contest
The Pool Productions - 17th North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA, October 2019, (ten minutes): readings - FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2007, Honorable Mention in Stage Play Script category of the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition
Carmen Garmin (ten minutes): Productions: American Globe Theatre Fifteen-Minute Play Festival, May, 2009, TLC Productions Canton (MI) One-Act Festival, January, 2013, Bimah Players Community Theater, August 2013, June 2014; Semi-finalist, FirstStage (LA) One-Act Play contest, 2008; Honorable Mention, 2011 ShowOff International Playwriting Festival, Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano, CA); readings: FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2008;Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano), January 2011; BIG Arts Community Players, Sanibel, FL, April 2012
Why? (ten minutes): readings - FirstStage (LA) Playwright’s Express Marathon, May 2009
Embrace Your Joker-lessness (ten minutes and one-act)
Screenplays
Bring Forth the Light: Quarter-finalist, 2001 Hollywood’s Next Success Screenwriting Contest; Second Round, 2009 Page International Screenwriting Awards
Flower Toward the Sun: Finalist, 2004 Hollywood Symposium Screenplay Contest; Quarter-Finalist, 2005 Miramax Open Door Contest- readings: The MacDowell Colony of the Arts
Closings
The Carina Limone Museum: Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest 89th Annual Writing Competition, Television-movie script category
Bring Forth the Light: Quarter-finalist, 2001 Hollywood’s Next Success Screenwriting Contest; Second Round, 2009 Page International Screenwriting Awards
Flower Toward the Sun: Finalist, 2004 Hollywood Symposium Screenplay Contest; Quarter-Finalist, 2005 Miramax Open Door Contest- readings: The MacDowell Colony of the Arts
Closings
The Carina Limone Museum: Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest 89th Annual Writing Competition, Television-movie script category
Videotapes
Executive Producer, After the Cult: Recovering Together, 1992
Executive Producer and writer, Cults: Saying No Under Pressure, 1990
Executive Producer, Blessed Child, 1999
Executive Producer, After the Cult: Recovering Together, 1992
Executive Producer and writer, Cults: Saying No Under Pressure, 1990
Executive Producer, Blessed Child, 1999
Playwriting Contest Judge
Spanish Repertory Theatre MetLife Nuestras Voces III, 2002
Spanish Repertory Theatre MetLife Nuestras Voces III, 2002
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