All plays are finished, full-length and ready to be produced!
1.) The Gospel According
To Jerry -- (written with Rabbi Irwin Kula) Jerry Silver is a
divorced rabbi in a
Yankees baseball cap searching to fill a personal void. Nia Thompson is a
reserved
African American woman desperate to lose weight. Their lives intersect
when Nia
signs up for an Overeaters' Anonymous group that Jerry is leading to get
more
hours for his master's degree in social work. With just Nia in the
group, Jerry
must work hard to keep things flowing. A heartwarming relationship
unfolds in
this funny new play that takes a contemporary look at family, Jewish -
African
American connections, stereotypes, and spirituality. This play features
only two actors, powerful gospel music and wonderful new version of classic Jewish songs.
2.)Adult
Ed-JEW-cation: A Comedy
that Takes You Behind the Matzoh Curtain & Gives You Nachas -- An interactive comedy in the vein of Late Night Catechism,
but Jewish. In this 90 minute comedy, Evelyn Schwartz, a Hebrew School Teacher and Eddie
Shulman, a
Reform
Synagogue Cantor team-teach an Adult Education Class on the principles
of
Judaism. The play is structured so that the audience is treated as if
there are
members of the class and so, when they give a right answer, they are
given GELT
(Chocolate money)
and when they give a wrong answer, they are banished
to the
“Cocakamamie Corner." And during the class, of course,
Evelyn and
Cantor Eddie argue constantly, sing Jewish melodies and fall in love. The play needs only two actors, a digital projector, a screen, and a laptop computer – and since the play itself takes place in a "classroom," it can be done anywhere quite easily...
3.) The Wings of Love -- The magic and romance of Like Water for Chocolate with the intrigue of a political assassination. This is a beautiful love story filled with heartache and betrayal set in the time of Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico.The plot -- Leon Trotsky's adopted daughter, Sylvia falls in love with a man who might have been sent by Stalin to kill Trotsky. Can she stop him in time?
4.) Lawrence of Suburbia – A poignant love story about fathers and sons, ping-pong, politics and pickled herring. It was a hit one person Off-Broadway play and at that time, it was called -- Boychik.
5.) King Levine -- A modern day Comedic King Lear. A frozen food millionaire has to divide up his kingdom among his three daughters: one a cold MBA, the other a ditzy artist and the third, a radical, lesbian feminist… It is written for one actor to play the king and one actor to play all three daughters... And was a huge hit in LA.
6.) 12 Daze of Xmas-- A raunchy series of 12 comedic monologues by the twelve characters portrayed in the classic Xmas song. So, for example, we meet one of the 7 swans a swimming, but she turns out to be a post-operative transsexual who was once an ugly duckling…
7.) How to Succeed in Art without Really Dying –A satirical look at how most of the great art movements of the Twentieth Century originated in Fouke, Arkansas.
8.) Lamentation (A Play about Our Town)-- A comedy about what happens in a small town in New Hampshire when a sexually confused seventeen year old boy falls in love with his drama teacher while they are rehearsing a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
9.) Albino Black Jewish Lesbians on Zoloft -- A former TV star who now fashions herself as a drugged-out punk rocker is forced to take care of her wheelchair-bound grandmother.
One Person Shows: BOYCHIK: A Play about Fathers, Sons, Ping-Pong and Pickled Herring – A touching tale of a secular son’s reconciliation with his orthodox Jewish father.
Seltzer Man – The comedic and poetic tale of the last angry man left on the lower east side.
The Lemony Fresh Scent of Diva Monsoon – A big-time NY fashion designer, Diva Monsoon, visits her mother’s Miami Beach apartment to clean up after her mother’s funeral.
The Little Man & The Law: The Meyer Lansky Story – (written with Joseph Bologna). The true story of the gangster Meyer Lansky’s life and his attempts to emigrate to Israel. This play is a powerful drama with comedy. It was a Streisand Award Winner and ran off-Broadway for 12 weeks starring Mike Burstyn who was nominated for an outer critics award for his portrayal of the infamous gangster. (Based on Prof. Robert Rockaway's book, But He Was Good to his Mother.)
Love Mountain– A man gives up on society and dedicates his life to painting a mountain.
