Over 30 years in the theatre as a playwright, librettist, director, artistic administrator and educator. As bookwriter: The Enchanted Cottage; Tom Sawyer, Class Clown, and The Play’s the Thing (also co-lyricist with Robert Waldman). Many plays, adaptations and translations produced Off-Broadway and in regional theatre, including ChoSen, O. Henry’s Christmas, The Preacher, Leaps of Faith, and translations of Kean and The Inspector General. With the late Vincent Sardi, he wrote the coffee table book Off The Wall At Sardi's. As director: over fifty professional productions, Cheek By Jowl’s Vanity Fair, The Changeling and The Little Foxes Off-Broadway, Scapino, The School For Wives, A History of the American Film, and lots of Shakespeare (various regional theaters), and the Richard Rodgers Award presentation of Little Women at the York Theater. Graduate of Ashland University (BA) and Florida State University (MFA), he shares a collective Pulitzer Prize in Journalism with his colleagues at The Wall Street Journal. Member of The Dramatists Guild.