Plays

BEAST

Actors Guild of Lexington production of Beast

Tampa Players production of Beast

Winner, Stanley Drama Award
Winner, Shiras Institute/Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award
Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Finalist, Drama League of New York Playwriting Award
Produced: Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Produced: Forest Roberts Theatre, Northern Michigan University
Produced: Actors Guild of Lexington
Reading: New York City, Drama League of New York
Reading: San Diego, Gaslamp Theater

A boy retreats into a frightening, magical world. A powerful story of denial and love.

SEPARATION RAPID

Kate Hamill (Bessie Hyde) and David Wirth (Emery Kolb) in Separation Rapid

Kate Hamill (Bessie Hyde) and Dan Sanders-Joyce (Glen Hyde) in Separation Rapid.

Commissioned by Chenango River Theatre, Greene, New York

Produced: Chenango River Theatre, Bill Lelbach, directing

Based on true events. A couple on their honeymoon in 1928 vanishes off the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon while trying to set three records. Their empty boat is found above Separation Rapid but they’ve never been found. A love story; a mystery.

The play was constructed using multiple sources, many from the Huntington Library, Munger Research Center, including access to a copy of Bessie’s diary.