My Details

Current Work Details

What I do: I write, produce, and direct both film and theatre.
Company: Serenitas Media
Where I work: I run my own company or organisation
Resources / Expertise: Finalist, Beverly Hills Film Festival (2011), with script New York Hoffman; Quarter-Finalist, with New York Hoffman, Creative World Awards (2011); Finalist, Bridge International Screenplay Competition (2009), with The Blood Spatter Expert; selected for Raw Word screenplay reading series (December 2007), which featured an excerpt from The Blood Spatter Expert; Finalist, Writers Guild of America East Fellowship Program (1984), with Big Bill Haywood: The Red Cowboy; Writer/Producer/Director of Esmee Dracula, a 10-minute short in HD, shot at historic Marion's Restaurant, on the Bowery, NYC (2005); plus Theatre Experience, including Writer/Co-Producer of Crother Spyglass, and Co-Producer of Marcy Wallabout's The Resistible Rise of Fatlinda Paloka, both staged at Theatre for the New City, NYC (June 2008); Director, Marcy Wallabout's The Scald and Smirch, staged at Manhattan Theatre Source (2010).
Availability: Paid Work or Collaboration

1970-1974: New York University School of the Arts,
B.F.A., Cinema Studies, with a minor in Film/T.V. Production

Films I wish I had made: The Wrestler, The Visitor, Diary of a Madman, Ordet, Day of Wrath, If...., The Knack and How to Get It, Help, The Verdict, Let Him Have It!
I cried watching: The Visitor
I left the cinema during: I should have left during Paul Haggis' Crash, which I found a pretentious, implausible piece that -- worst of all -- whines and gives up in despair at the state of race relations...
Directors I love: Ken Russell, Peter Medak, Tom McCarthy, David Cronenberg, Richard Lester, Carl Th. Dreyer, Michael Curtiz, John Cassavettes, directors working in the Punjabi schlock genre
Actors I admire: Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, John Hurt, Natasha Richardson, Isabella Rossellini, Terence Stamp, Tilda Swinton, Kate Winslet
Writers I respect: Philip Larkin; the Irish great and obscure; William Kennedy; early David Mamet; Gilbert Ralston, who wrote episodes of Ben Casey...
My desert island discs: Various -- Rammstein, John McLaughlin, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Tremolo Beer Gut
My death row meal: A big bowl of chirashi.
The best thing I own: A very expensive pinstriped suit that I never get to wear...

Joined: 6/1/2005
Recent Bulletin Posts: 12/8/2009 Making meaning (or: who do we write for?)
27/5/2009 The Blood Spatter Expert
11/6/2008 Play by NY Shooter: Crother Spyglass...
11/6/2008 NYC Shooter Tries Theatre!
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