Autobiographic Sketch
I am an author and playwright, a graduate in drama, and have acted and directed for nearly 50 years. I am currently working on a movie that will be released the summer of 2011, titled – "Life Fine Tuned".
Early Steps
Along the way, to pay the bills, I worked in network broadcasting production for NBC radio and television, and then in local radio as an account executive. I matriculated into advertising and marketing, forming my own agency in 1977. During those years, I founded and published the Washington Flyer magazine. Avocationally, in 1979 I became a theater reviewer on WEAM ‘Big Band Radio’, aka Keith Montgomery, for five years until a change of format. I continued covering theater for seven more years writing commentaries for three local magazines.
I began studying playwrighting in 1988, and became an active participant in theater as an actor, director, and writer in the early ‘90s. Most of my short plays have been produced in and around Washington, DC. A scene from my one act; A Touch of Spring, was published in the anthology - Best Stage Scenes of 1996. I am a member of the Playwrights Forum of Washington, served on the Alexandria Performing Arts Association (Virginia) Board of Directors from 1997 until June 30, 2010 and variously served as its Vice Chair for seven years and Chair for one.
When I fully retired from business at the end of 2002, I turned to fiction writing and trying to improve my golf game.
Milestone Publications
As of 2010, I have self-published three novels: Death of an Intern, a mystery, and The Hill People, a mystery/political thriller. Hill won two finalist awards in Politics and Multicultural Fiction at the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Both books star my fictitious Washington, DC newspaper reporter Laura Wolfe, who one reviewer called, “…a modern, complex heroine to cheer for.”
My third novel, Rude Awakenings, involves a different set of characters and is filled with intrigue and mystery. With American politicians failing America at every turn and putting the country on the brink of financial default and moral decay, the citizens struck back electing the National Centrist Party into the White House and enough Centrists into both the Senate and the House to give no party the majority.
The nuking of an American city on their first day in office might not ever give them the opportunity to establish reform. International intrigue, a fragile infrastructure, a political upheaval and a dash of romance will give readers plenty to think about and a ‘what if’ look into what the future could hold. Rude Awakenings recently won a finalist award in Mystery at the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Personal Insights
I am a life long proponent of the performing arts and am also involved in my community. In 1990, I was a cofounder of the northern Virginia Chapter of Habitat for Humanity and as Chairman of Building supervised the construction of its first house in 1992. I have volunteered with Meals on Wheels, emergency shelters community aid for the indigent, elderly, and youth in education, vocational training and personal care programs; helping up, not handing out. Post Katrina; I made two trips to New Orleans and one to Biloxi, contributing what I could to their rebuilding efforts. I enjoy golf, reading, travel, theater, and spending time with my five grandchildren.
The well balanced life
They approached me about playing the role of Doc, and after I read the script - well, I simply couldn't refuse. So check this out!
...I'm in it. [Life Fine Tuned]
