Just for fun, here are some of my favorite words all in one place, like a patchwork quilt. Some have made it out into the world, some have stayed home. Like a big brood of wayward offspring, I love them all.
Personal Essays
Aphrodite in Jeans: Adventure Tales about Men, Midlife and Motherhood Published 2005, Haven Books
Waystation - Excerpt essay
Short stuff
Griswolds by Night - Snippet
Segundo - Short story
Jacaranda - Short story
Jesus at Two - Snippet
2049 - Snippet (written when I used to do legal word processing in Century City and worked way too many late hours)
Novels
A Face at the Funeral - Chapter 1 (typewritten!)
Will of the West - excerpt
Cleveland Sage - excerpt
Circle of Changing Lines
Holders of the Shadow - excerpt
Hurts Me Too (1989 version) - excerpt
Hurts Me Too (2004 version) - excerpt
Plays / Libretti
Sic Transit
A ten-minute play performed virtually at the
ALAP (Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights)
Fall Pandramatica event
October 10, 2021
Claire - Irene L. Pynn
Stephen - Pete Barry
Hail Poetry! The Magic and Madness of Gilbert & Sullivan
Libretto by Katherine Nolan
Arrangements and original music by Eli Villanueva
Soka University Performing Arts Center
The Ride - Musical (in progress)
Hampton Road - Full length play (in progress)
Sic Transit - Ten minute play
The Miramar - Excerpt
Oatmeal in My Bathtub, or How I Learned to Remodel My Kitchen and Survive the Pandemic (March, 2020) (15 minute play for 48 Hour Quarantine play writing non-competition)
In Line - 1 minute play for 1MPF (March, 2020)
Screenplays and TV Episodes
HZME2
Chasing the Dragon
Double Take
Old Glory
A Face at the Funeral
On Point (with Alan Cheuse)
Where Poppies Grow
Just Good Friends
The Avenue
Remington Steele - "Miya Sama Steele"
Graphic Novel
Law of the Desert Born, a Graphic Novel
(with Beau L'Amour)
Published by Random House, 2013
Audio Dramatizations
Horse Heaven (story editor)
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot (story editor)
Articles
Road Music: On the Road with a Touring Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Dramatics Magazine, April 1995
Rituals, Robes and Hungry Ghosts: Stories of Backstage Superstition and Lore, Dramatics Magazine, January 2001
Fundamentals of Lighting/The Roadie’s Best Friend - The PAR Can: Lightweight, Sturdy, Cheap, and Bright, Dramatics Magazine, January 2003
Fundamentals of Lighting/The Fresnel: Light for a Soft Wash and All the Ships at Sea, Dramatics Magazine, November 2002