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The reading referred to below of Another Day at the Copious Cafe was terrific. The evening of ten-minute pieces went so smoothly and all the work was well-received. The folk at Copious Love Productions are truly welcoming and a kick to be around. The evening flowed awfully well and was great fun. My script was the last of the night; the two roles were handled perfectly– yes, perfectly!– by Cheyenne Barton and Jesse Calixto. Such a great experience. Thank you Copious Love, you’re permanently in my heart!

Very pleased, tickled, truly, to say that Copious Love Productions is including my ten-minute play, Another Day at the Copious Cafe, in their November 4, 2025, celebration and fund-raising event taking place at Jules Mae’s Saloon in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. The theme for the event is comfort food and in my play an exhausted person, fresh from a distant relative’s funeral, is seated in the cafe and, when ordering a fairly bland meal that was the deceased’s go-to food, is gently but firmly pushed by the server to instead choose something from the incredibly large and culinarily varied menu, a menu in which the restaurant takes great pride. Too tired to leave but insistent the customer pushes back. What will end up on the table?

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I continue to attend plays and readings, engage with every available Rain City Projects happening, maintain memberships in Theatre Puget Sound and the Dramatists Guild, and work on scripts. The closest to complete, and it’s very close indeed, is Getting & Spending, a play focused on the desire to attain wealth and to purchase things, special things, in this case a vintage electric guitar. Spoiler Alert– blood is spilled, as is so often the case.

In 2019 there was this–

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Vicinity/Memoryall previewed at 18th & Union: An Arts Space on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 and ran July 10 – 27, with more than 300 people attending the performances. Please read the gracious recommendation by Rich Smith published in The Stranger.

Vicinity/Memoryall is a full-length play I co-wrote with Christine Deavel. The play features three main characters and three ancillary characters (who can be played by one actor) and concerns the grief and passion inherent with the act of memorializing. The central narrative follows two men, formerly romantic partners and now good friends, as they seek out the city-sponsored memorial to a Native American woodcarver killed by a city police officer. The play takes place in rapidly changing downtown Seattle and refers to the murder of John T Williams by SPD Officer Ian Birk in 2010. As well as be self-produced (what an education!) the play was published in 2018 by Entre Rios Books and is available directly from the publisher, here. It is also available from Open Books, here, and Small Press Distribution, here. There have been substantial changes made to the script post publication and performance.

Christine and I acknowledge that the John T Williams story is not ours to tell! Rather than centering Williams’s murder this play wrestles with the guilt resulting from that murder committed by a police officer the protagonists, as tax-payers and voters, employ. In the pursuit of his particular memorial in downtown Seattle the main characters find themselves approaching other memorials, state sanctioned war memorial and a street memorial to a victim of relationship abuse. We were pleased to have given copies of the script of V/M and copies of the subsequent book to Rick Williams, John T’s brother, and Jay Hollingsworth, a friend and associate of the Williams family. We were also exceedingly pleased to have had Rick and Jay and their partners attend a matinee performance. Rick talking in the lobby with the cast after the show was a highlight beyond highlights!

We hope someday Vicinity/Memoryall in its revised form will be produced… and, please god, not self-produced.