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He was also the co-creator of Soft Gallery, an environmental performance theatre presented in Washington D.C. in 1974 and revived by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2007 and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2008. In 1975 he founded the Museum of Temporary Art, an experimental gallery in Washington. His work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Observer, The Los Angeles Times, Art Forum, the Village Voice, the Washington Post, and PBS. He has been a fellow of both the National Endowment and Meet the Composer, and he was granted a scholar's desk at the Library of Congress in the 1980's to develop the Albion Cycle of plays.
His essays, interviews, and reviews on history and theatre have been published in the Washington Post's Outlook, the Manchester Guardian Weekly, the Atlanta Constitution, Performance Magazine, Gnosis, Alternatives theatrales, Society and others.
His first play, Feathertop, was produced by Brecht West Theatre in 1970. His second play, The Judge, was presented at the Protetch-Rivkin Gallery in 1973, along with his first musical work, The Second Play. The four-play Albion Cycle, from which a concert reading of The Fall of Albion was presented at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington in 1995, is his most recent theatrical work.
As founding producer of the Delphi Film Foundation, he wrote and directed the feature film Crazy Like a Fox, starring Marry McDonnell and Roger Rees. It was invited or selected for a dozen film festivals worldwide during 2004-05, winning prizes for direction, cinematography, and production. It was released in New York and Washington by Sky Island Film in 2006, and is currently distributed worldwide by Media Luna, Cologne, and Cinequest, Los Angeles.
His credits in composition include music for the Albion Cycle, The Second Play, and Crazy Like a Fox.
His new film, The Big Dreamer, is currently in pre-production.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Interstate Sprawl System We are the only industrial nation to abandon its passenger rail system. We will never solve our problems with pollution, energy, sprawl, or urban decay until we address that fact. The right-of-ways and the stations of our once glorious rail system are still in place; only the rails themselves and the bullet trains to ride them are missing. Wouldn't that be a brilliant task for General Motors?
Thursday, January 15, 2009The Interstate Sprawl System We are the only industrial nation to abandon its passenger rail system. We will never solve our problems with pollution, energy, sprawl, or urban decay until we address that fact. The right-of-ways and the stations of our once glorious rail system are still in place; only the rails themselves and the bullet trains to ride them are missing. Wouldn't that be a brilliant task for General Motors?
