After forty years as an accountant, I retired in 2017 and became a passionate writing machine. As a senior LGBTQ+ man, I have a unique perspective on the many facets of being LGBTQ+ for the last fifty years. I am a multi-media creative artist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performer.
A Homeless Thanksgiving had a reading in 2025 as part of the Talking It Out Festival at the Spit & Vigor Blackbox Theatre in New York City. My short play, The Aftermath, was published in the June, 2025 issue of Mini Plays Review. Additionally, my play, Climate Change, was selected for the Climate Action New Play Collective at DePaul University in Chicago Illinois. My monologue, Transplant, was accepted and performed in the 11-hour performance art show, 321 Plays for Trans Futures, in Chicago, Illinois, and the monologue, The Important Things We Keep Hidden was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of The Soliloquist. In 2025, my monologue, Caged, won the Go Write a Play competition given by the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with Bamboo Ridge Books. The Spokane Falls Community College Spartan Theater included my play, Scared Ethel, in their Fall, 2025 New Works / Reader’s Theatre Festival. The monologues, Devon’s Confession and Melanie’s Confession, from my play, A Homeless Thanksgiving, will be published by Smith and Klaus in their anthology, The Best Men’s and Women’s Stage Monologues for 2026,. My short play, The Ruby Slippers, will be published by The Door Ajar Literary Magazine in their Spring Issue, 2026. The monologue, My Wedding Day, was featured at the Geffen Theater Senior Adult Story Telling Workshop in Los Angeles, California, in 2026.
Since 2021, I have published seven novels: Stretched Love; Murder Times Three: A Waverly Place Mystery; Transformation and Acceptance; The Hermaphrodites; Harmonic Dissonance; It’s No Laughing Matter and Converso Jews: A Hidden Family Story.
In 2025, a documentary was produced about my life titled Walk in the Park: A Life Rewritten. The movie is available for viewing on his You Tube channel.
