The story version of Prodigal God is a fusion of three different types of writing. It’s a series of theatrical monologues on one level. And on another level, it’s the book of a musical. This adds a layer of complexity to the writing because these monologues…

Now about playwriting. Last summer, I was finishing up a rewrite of a play I had written twelve years earlier about breast cancer diagnosis and faith. Fire Exit Theatre in Calgary planned to do a production of my one-act, This Waking Moment, and artistic director Val Lieske…

In the past year, I’ve done more writing than I have since the first time I was in grad school some 20 years ago. Blog writing. Playwriting (or to spell it like it is: playrewriting). Screenplay writing and rewriting. And, most recently, the…

There once was a man who had…. 5 daughters. (You might be thinking of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, and to be honest, so were we at times.)

From the beginning, Brian and I were mindful we faced a gender problem in choosing to dramatize the…

Who is this young woman and why has she entered our story uninvited?

Her journey is the inverse of the Younger Son who barges into her story uninvited. He begins with everything and loses all hope in a distant land. She begins with nothing but hope…