Two 73-year-old gay men – one out of the closet in West Hollywood, California, the other closeted in a small town in North Carolina, are reunited at their 55th high school reunion. It has been more than 50 years since they last saw each other. They recall their teen years when they were forcibly separated. Their love story is revealed as they read the 18 letters they exchanged after they were parted.

Premiered June 7, 2012, at the Senior Theatre USA Festival & Conference in New Orleans.

Presented June 17, 2012, in a staged reading at the Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, Richmond, VA.

Published August 2012 by ArtAge Publications, Portland, Oregon.

Opened Jan. 27, 2013, as the first production of the Readers Theatre of Wales at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales.

       One act: 40 min. – minimal set and tech requirements

       2M: 60-80s

Christopher Hiney, an earnest young water-aerobics instructor, does his best as he leads a pool full of elders through their paces, on his first day on the job in the gym at a gay retirement community. The question in this seriocomic monologue: Is Christopher’s well-meaning but inept leadership good enough?

Premiered May 18, 2012, at the first annual DC Queer Theatre Festival at the DC Center in Washington.

Presented June 17, 2012, in a staged reading at the Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, Richmond, Va.

       One-Act: 10 min. monologue – minimal set and technical requirements

       2M: 20s (one is offstage and can be pre-recorded)

Nothing seems to go right when a new gay community center seeks to bestow its first lifetime achievement award on what it believes to be the tri-county area’s oldest gay man. A dark comedy.

Presented June 17, 2012, in a staged reading at the Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, Richmond, Va.

       One-Act: 10 min. – bare stage with lectern; minimal tech requirements

       3M: one 70-80s, two 40s

       1F: 40s

Nick, a young baker, and Dom, a young butcher, have no idea what they’re letting themselves in for when Nick invites Larry, a young, recently arrived in town, candlestick maker, to luxuriate in their new hot tub.

Presented June 17, 2012, in a staged reading at the Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, Richmond, Va.

       One-Act: 15 min. – patio setting with table, four chairs; minimal tech requirements

       3M: 20s

       1F: 30s

This drama, created solely out of historical documents, details the relationship between poet Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, the Irish immigrant who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and later became the love of Whitman’s life.

       One-Act: 50 min. – bare stage, minimal furniture, tech requirements

       5M: 20-50s

       2N: adults

When a young newspaper reporter interviews the 27-year-old Oscar Wilde in his hotel suite during Wilde’s first American lecture tour in 1880, it turns into an encounter that will inform the rest of the young man’s life. A seriocomedy.

       One-Act: 15 min. – sofa, chair, table

       3M: two 20s; one 30s-40s

Three men discuss the weather as they stand at urinals in the men’s room in a department store. Or are they really discussing the weather? A comedy. The actors have their backs to the audience.

       One-Act: 1 min. – bare stage, no tech requirements

       3M: 30s-50s

Two same-sex American married couples — one male, one female — bounce against each other as they struggle to be friends while sharing a table on the people-watching Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain.

       One-Act: 15 min. – table and four chairs; minimal tech requirements

       7M: 20s-30s

       3F: 20s-30s