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Solo author or co-author of over eleven plays, one of which (Thus With A Kiss) was runner-up for Best Play at the 1993 Seattle New Playwright’s festival, and another of which won Best Play at the 1996 San Francisco Fringe Festival (Is This Seat Taken?). Other play titles produced in Seattle, Tacoma, Berkeley and San Francisco include Him, Jumping the Broom (co-scr.), Alec in Wonderland, The Vampers, The P.A. Cooley Show (co-scr.), You, You & You (co-scr.), Sexy Shorts (co-scr.), The Duboce Triangle: A Gay Soap Opera (But Isn’t That Redundant?) (co-scr.), and Pure. His work in San Francisco has been staged at the Alcazar, the Exit, the Shelton, Theater Rhinoceros, the New Conservatory, and Josie’s Cabaret. Other plays include Boomerang and The Isosceles Heart. He has completed three screenplays currently in various stages of development in Hollywood: Darts and Flowers, Unaccompanied, and Big Pimpin’. He is the author of numerous award-winning short stories, the most recent of which appeared in Alyson’s 1998 anthology Wilma Loves Betty. He has also worked as an award-winning essayist (Frontiers magazine), poet ("Just Like Matthew," a tribute to Matthew Shepard), lyricist, and filmmaker.
Favorite Gay/Bi TV or Movie Characters
Jack and Ennis (duh), Jamie and Ste ("Beautiful Thing"), Gabriel and Marc ("trick"), the Fab 5, Bostonia, La Miranda and Matty ("Stonewall"), Maurice and Scudder, Henry and Pike ("Big Eden"), Joey and Mark ("World and Time Enough"), Andy & Miguel ("Philadelphia"), the gang from "Another Gay Movie, " Eric Hunter ("Edge of Seventeen"), Steven and John ("Get Real"), Adrian and Jack ("Apartment Zero"), Omar and Johnny ("My Beautiful Laundrette"), Polly Vandersma ("I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"), Corky and Violet ("Bound"), Alyssa Jones and Banky ("Chasing Amy"), David ("Love and Human Remains"), Michael, John, and Mona ("Tales of the City"), Jeff Lynd ("Consenting Adult"), Michael and Peter ("An Early Frost"), anyone from "Queer as Folk, " David and Keith ("Six Feet Under"), Fiona Ulrich ("Ready to Wear"), Dolly Pelliker ("Silkwood"), Sterling and Steve ("Jeffrey"), a few hundred others.

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