I’ve had plays produced and have won some awards. Most recently my play POWER IN THE BLOOD is being produced at The WriteAct Repertory Theater in Hollywood, California in April 2011. To see a list of the plays that I’ve written and their synopses on my resume or the plays on the menu.
My screenwriting career moves slowly but surely. While I’ve had screenplays optioned, thus far nothing has made it to actual production. However, I have done well in competition, including be a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowship competition in 2001 with a comedy, GO HOME, DAVE!
I began rock wall climbing in the summer of 2009. For someone who’d been afraid of heights all her life, it seemed like a crazy thing to try. However, I fell completely in love with the sport and have continued to climb regularly. While I am not a graceful climber, I am fairly strong, and I get great satisfaction from it.
I’m a member of the Gainesville Rock Gym, a terrific facility where the members and the staff have been very welcoming.
I have lived with a fabulous artist named Pat Payne for over 33 years now. His work is in both digital media, photography, and sometimes three dimensional pieces.
In 2009, Pat and I adopted an eight year old dog named Rosie. She is a mixed breed
who had been living with novelist Carolyn Haines at the Good Fortune Farm Refuge.
For many years I taught writers’ workshops, and later I actually coordinated the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Writing the Region Writers’ Workshop. That workshop ended in 2009, with its 13th session.
In 2011, I was asked by Carolyn Haines, a dear friend, a fabulous writer, and someone who had taught for me at the writers’ workshop if I would be the administrator for an event she had in mind. I might even take a bullet for Carolyn under the right conditions, so I agreed. Thus was born the Daddy’s Girls’ Weekend, a writers’ and readers’ event that could only have been conceived by Carolyn Haines.
The first event took place in March 2011, and the planning has already begun for the 2012 event. For more information about it, check out the Daddy’s Girls’ Weekend website .