I’m happy to introduce my newest play, “Dies.” It’s a one-act comedy about 4 actresses trying out for the part of Juliet and one method director who focuses on the death in Shakespeare and not the life.

You can download the play from the Dies home page.

For those people looking for 10-minute play scripts, this one is a strong candidate.

I actually started writing this about 2 years ago, but it wasn’t going anywhere. But I was inspired to pick it up again after attending a lecture in Prague by famous avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson. It was three hours spent I won’t soon forget for many reasons that I won’t get into here.

I let my mind wander from it for a bit, but another major event kind of pushed me back on the horse. I was in Tokyo during the heart of the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear meltdown disaster. It was during this experience, and its many aftershocks, that I thought, “Yeah, maybe it’s time you finish this play. It’s only 10 minutes long for Christ’s sake.”