2022 [-]

• December. In Brave New World of Coca-Cola, I attempt to find the reason for the season. Spoiler: it's Coca-Cola.
• November. Baker University in Baldwin City, KS produced Application Pending. Their school paper calls it a "good opportunity to get away from your troubles... and laugh your head off for a while." It is therefore a good paper.
• May. Georgia is on my mind, specifically Milton High School which produced Application Pending.
• February. Randi Zuckerberg's "We're All Gonna Make It" went viral. Whoever ghost wrote the lyrics will probably put it on their website.

2021 [-]

• December. A Little New Music presented "I Am Not Like My Parents" from The Almost In-Laws.
• November. Application Pending is playing through December at the Lake Dillon Theatre Company in Colorado.
• October. Application Pending has its international debut at the Eskişehir Municipality Theater in Turkey.
• August. The Almost In-Laws has productions at the Batavia Players (in person!) and at Telo Presenta (streaming!). One of these is in a language I speak.
• July. Craving for Travel is playing at the Little Lake Theatre Company in Canonsburg, PA. What's more, it's in person!
• May. Over in Westport, CT, the Staples Players are presenting The Almost In-Laws. They're way better than the Office Depot Rep.
• March. "Make Him Mine" from Neurosis was featured on In Between the Lines radio. The theme: comedy gold.
• February. The Almost In-Laws is now licensed through Music Theatre International. I look forward to suing middle school drama departments for breach of contract.
• February. The Uptown Players of Dallas, TX are streaming Application Pending from January 29 through February 7. Check it out, and reminder yourself of that thing called "theatre."
• January. Musical Theatre Radio featured "Game On" from Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime. Take that, video star.

2020 [-]

• November. Theatre Now published an anthology of ten-minute musicals, including The Almost In-Laws. It's the perfect holiday gift for those you feel should read more.
• November. Music Theatre International is licensing The Almost In-Laws. This pleases MTme, MTmyself, and MTI.
• September. The male version of Application Pending is premiering at the Uptown Players in Dallas, TX. Better yet, it's streaming so you can watch and avoid death.
• August. Neurosis is part of The Rev's online celebration. We debuted at The Rev back when they had a different name and you could walk within six feet of strangers.
• February. The Almost In-Laws is now licensed by Theater Now New York. Need a delightful short musical and/or want to give me money? Contact TNNY today.
• January. Application Pending opened at CATCO in Columbus, Ohio. We play through mid-February, and tickets make a wonderful belated Christmas gift.

2019 [-]

• December. Get into the holiday spirit with a new travelogue: Christmas Under the Alps.
• December. Midwestward ho! "Game On" and "Won't You Be Mine" are part of Underscore Theatre Company's "Talk Nerdy To Me" concert in Chicago.
• November. The Almost In-Laws is part of Bennington Community Theatre's Love Travels Fast: An Evening of Short Plays in Bennington, VT. (I got interviewed.)
• November. Application Pending is playing at the Performing Arts Conservatory at Notre Dame High School in Clarksburg, WV. I'm glad students can learn this classical text.
• October. Application Pending was announced for Lake Dillion Theatre Company's 2020 season. It's in Silverthorne, CO. And presumably near a lake.
• September. It's a busy month for "Game On" from Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime. The song is featured at Write Out Loud (54 Below) and Andy Roninson's Larson Legacy Concert (Adelphi University).
• September. Ever erudite, "You Are My Neurosis" from Neurosis was part of the Harvard-Yale Cantata (54 Below).
• August. School's in session! Application Pending was announced for Catco's 2019-2020 season.
• July. The Write Out Loud concert at 54 Below will feature "Game On" from Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime.
• July. Book Pipeline interviewed Andy Sandberg and me about our television adaptation of Application Pending.
• June. Playbill published a breakdown (fitting) of Neurosis' cast album. Check it out!
• June. The cast album for Neurosis has been released, courtesy of JAY Records. Buy it on iTunes, Amazon, or wherever niche music is sold.
• April. The Union County Magnet High School presented Application Pending in Scotch Plains, NJ. The city is knows for its eponymous tape -- and its awesome taste in plays.
• March. Neurosis is now available for licensing through Stage Rights. Students, blackmail your drama teacher posthaste.
• March. Neurosis was featured on the People's Court. Yelp would have been simpler.
• March. CATCO in Columbus, Ohio announced Application Pending for their 2020 season. It will be, by far, the most important national event of 2020.
• January. The Dark Horse Theatre Company presented Craving for Travel in The Plains, VA. Andy and I did a talkback, and the sky did a snow storm.

2018 [-]

• November. Holy re-adaption, Batman! Merrimack Middle School premieres the school version of Application Pending.
• October. Now that's edutainment! Douglas College is presenting Craving for Travel as part of its "Marketing to Travel Agents" course.
• October. Neurosis completed its extended Off-Broadway run on October 7. Stay tuned for licensing and our cast recording!
• September. Neurosis adds performances and records a cast album? Now there are so many ways to see us.
• August. Neurosis opened Off-Broadway on August 17. Put on your sunglasses cause our reviews are glowing.
• July. Neurosis starts performances Off-Broadway on July 25! Quick, get your tickets before you succumb to indecision and self-doubt.
• June. Put on your Summer Shorts, there's lots of world out there! The Almost In-Laws has its professional premiere at the City Theatre in Miami.
• May. The Almost In-Laws won Best Musical at Theatre Now New York's Sound Bites Festival. We can hardly contain our(s)elves.
• May. Celebrate Memorial Day with human-elf awkwardness. The Almost In-Laws is playing Theatre Now New York's Sound Bites Festival.
• April. The male version of Application Pending is premiering at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's ARC Festival. Because men need opportunities, too?
• March. Neurosis had a developmental reading in New York. Expect big news soon :-)

2017 [-]

• December. Evelyn goes to college! Specifically, Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime goes to Rutgers Camden for their One Act Play Festival.
• November. I'm in Australia giving the Down Under a once-over. Expect a travelogue, or a Rescuers sequel.
• October. Application Pending is playing through November 18 at the Circle Theatre in Fort Worth. The theatre offers many laughs and a favorable area to perimeter ratio.
• September. "Make Him Mine" from Neurosis is featured in Mastering College Musical Theatre Auditions.  Get it wherever books are sold, by which I mean Amazon.
• August. "I was told there'd be smorgasbord." I document my travels through Sweden and Norway.
• July. Application Pending is a quarter-finalist for the PAGE Award. I'm fractionally content.
• June. Paul Libman and I are debuting a new song at MuseMatch 10.0. The event is base ten and, therefore, legit.
• May. I survived Sweden and Norway in January! This travelogue has the proof.
• May. Ben Green and I are profiled in the May/June issue of The Dramatist. For joy unending, listen to our featured song ("Ride").
• April. Application Pending won the Book Pipeline Competition! I think this is how James Cameron got his start. Or was that Terminator?
• March. "Make Him Mine" from Neurosis is featured in Contemporary Musical Theatre's Anthology, Volume 15. (Volumes 1-14, eat your heart out.)
• March. Application Pending is a semifinalist for the Book Pipeline Competition! We hope they judge us by our cover.
• February. Westward ho! Application Pending has a production in Studio City, California.
• February. "Make Him Mine" from Neurosis was featured in a musical theatre master class at Rider University.  To make the sheet music yours, shop here!
• January. "I Can Do This Too" from Split Decision was part of Sing Out Loud at Philadelphia's Mauckingbird Theatre Company.
• January. Ooh, Application Pending has announced a male version and a school version. Now we can corrupt youths regardless of gender.

2016 [-]

• December. Application Pending opened at the Unicorn Theatre, and the Kansas City critics are calling it a "master class." Catch the show during its three-week run!
• November. The Unicorn Theatre is gearing up for the regional premiere of Application Pending.  Read all about it in the Kansas City Star.
• October. Application Pending had its school premiere at the comprehensively titled North Carolina Theater Conference High School Play Festival.
• September. Ben Green and I conclude our musical theatre fellowship at the Dramatists Guild by presenting an excerpt from our latest show. Come check it out.
• August. Belters, be warned: "Game On" from Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime is featured in the Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre.
• July. Application Pending and Craving for Travel are now in print! Or if you want to perform them, heck, you can do that too.
• June. Miami ho! I spoke at City Theatre's CityWrights 2016 conference about Musicals: Production and Process and Exploring Other Platforms.
• June. "Plucky and flat-out adorable!," or so claims the Miami Herald. Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime is now running at the City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival.
• May. Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime won the 2016 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting, and Episcus and Edendus was a finalist.
• April. The Unicorn Theatre of Kansas City, MO is producing Application Pending this December. Incidentally, I know the perfect Christmas gift for your Missouri loved ones.
• April. Beaches be darned! This June, Miami's City Theatre is producing Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime as part of their Summer Shorts Festival.
• March. Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime is now published and licensed by Samuel French.
• March. A new subcontinent, a new travelogue! Check out Czech Your Pillage: Central Europe under Siege.
• February. Neurosis will be presented by Chicago's Fwd Theatre Project on Monday, February 29. We can't wait to bring our bicoastal neuroses to the Midwest.
• February. Neurosis is ready to launch! We're part of the LaunchingFWD concert in Chicago on Monday, February 8. It's at a winery, so expect serious class.
• February. Craving for Travel is being presented by the Town Theatre Of Short Tract on February 5-6. Should you shuffle near to Buffalo, NY, check it out!

2015 [-]

• December. For the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, I'm featured in this month's Meet the Fellows. So start getting to know me, getting to know all about me.
• December. Neurosis will be part of the Fwd Theatre Project's 2016 season. If you're into musical comedy (or extreme cold), check us out in February in Chicago!
• December. See The Almost In-Laws at Grace Church's Winter Music Festival, and by so doing, support the Long Island Alzheimer's Foundation. We're into do-gooding.
• November. Some songs from Neurosis and Evelyn Shaffer are featured in MuSE's Moments in Life cabaret on November 21.  Get your tickets!
• October. Avidly published my piece on pro wrestling! Come explore the world of very large men in very small swimwear.
• September. Application Pending and Craving for Travel are now licensed by Stage Rights. Accordingly, they can drive without a permit.
• September. For he's a jolly good Dramatists Guild Musical Theatre Fellow! Ben Green and I are Fellows in this year's program.
• August. Huzzah, Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime won the Samuel French OOB Festival! We're getting published and licensed by Samuel French.
• August. The Almost In-Laws, a ten-minute musical about parents who aren't quite human, is this month's episode of the Take a Ten Musicals podcast. Take a (lis)ten!
• August. Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime will perform at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Wednesday, August 5 at 6:30 pm. Get tickets here!
• July. A new ten-minute musical that Andy Roninson and I wrote will be part of the Manhattan Musical Theatre Lab on July 23. It's a tale of elves.
• June. Application Pending won the 2015 Broadway World Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and was nominated for the 2015 Drama Desk for Outstanding Solo Show.
• May. Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime was selected for the Samuel French OOB Festival.  This August, check us out in an East Village near you.
• April. Ben Green and I wrote the over-the-credits song for the latest episode of Redheads Anonymous.  Whatever your hair color, check it out!
• April. Huzzah, Application Pending completed its twelve-week run! Thanks to the whole team and our amazing audiences.
• March. Ooh, check out Application Pending in the New York Times! Their fancy media folks filmed us for an "In Performance" segment.
• February. Application Pending is open, and the reviews are out!  The New York Times writes "Remarkable! Must we trot out the phrase 'tour de force'? Yes, we must." And Time Out New York calls us "a deliciously twisted solo vehicle."  (We're also on the Today Show!)
• January. What's in the Daily News? I'll tell you what's in the Daily News. A feature story on Application Pending.
• January. No really, I'm Sirius! The Application Pending team appeared on Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg.
• January. Ooh, McSweeney's published my Honest Letter from Your I.T. Department. Learn the devastating secrets of I.T.!
• January. Application Pending, a grown-up comedy about kindergarten admissions, has started rehearsals! Buy before January 26, and you can get $30 tickets.

2014 [-]

• December. I went to Cambodia! I survived! Check out my travelogue.
• December. "Here," which I wrote with the illustrious Julia Meinwald, is featured in the Broadway's Future Songbook Series at Lincoln Center. And it's free!
• November. Application Pending is premiering Off-Broadway in January 2015 with the incomparable Christina Bianco! Now, put that in your personal essay.
• November. Craving for Travel is going up in Cancun! (Don't tell the Zetas.)
• November. I lyric'd the opening number for Bloglogues: A Land Before Timelines.  It celebrates all things 90s, and when our powers combine, so should you.
• November. "Game On" from Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime is featured in a concert held by MuSE.  It's 3/4 capitalized and 4/4 awesome.
• October. For MuseMatch 3 at 54 Below, Paul Libman and I wrote a gentle and socially conscious piece.  About Ebola.  (Watch it here.)
• September. I contributed some material to Bloglogues for a corporate presentation. Oh, how I hope the audience is travel agents!
• September. Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime, a ten-minute musical I wrote with Andy Roninson, is featured on the Take a Ten podcast. Have a listen!
• August. Avidly, the Los Angeles Review of Books' blog, published my essay on Disneyland Paris. Le cheque it out!
• July. Andy and I received a Puffin Grant for Application Pending. Just don't tell the Puffin Foundation I ate their namesake in Iceland.
• February. Craving for Travel completed its Off Broadway run. Thank to our cast, crew, and creative team for such an awesome journey!
• January. Neurosis is worth its SALT! We won the Syracuse Area Live Theater Award for Best Original New Production.
• January. Ack, so much Sweden! "Our Little Swedish Home" is one of twelve finalists in the Davenport Songwriting Contest. Pay a visit, and vote for us.
• January. "Our Little Swedish Home" is also featured at the VOW: Made-to-Measure Musical Theatre Workshop. See the musical stars of tomorrow sing about Swedes.
• January. "Our Little Swedish Home" is featured this month in the Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers. Have a listen!
• January. Craving for Travel has opened Off Broadway! We're playing through February 9, so buy your ticket fast before we start charging you for carry-ons.

2013 [-]

• December. Craving for Travel has started rehearsals! We're playing Off Broadway from January 9 through February 9, so buy some tickets!
• December. Party like it's 2007! "A Zookeeper's Lament" was featured in New York Theater Barn's cabaret of first-year BMI assignments.
• December. Iceland is cold. So read this travelogue before you die of hypothermia.
• December. Urban Stages is presenting Neurosis in concert on December 4 at 7 pm! Get your tickets here.
• November. Just in time for admissions season, Application Pending has industry readings November 11-12 with the marvelous Christina Bianco.
• November. T.S. Eliot, be darned! A "Cats" medley that I relyric'd is featured in the latest installment of Blogologues.
• October. Mysophobiacs rejoice! Neurosis has industry readings on October 24-25 with a fancy-pants cast.
• September. "Make Him Mine" is included in MuSE's Songs for Hope. Consistent with their theme, I hope you will attend.
• August. What happens in Vegas opens Off-Broadway this January. To promote Craving for Travel, Andy and I attended Virtuoso Travel Week at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
• August. "Evermore" and "Our Little Swedish Home" will be featured at this cabaret at the Dramatists Guild's National Playwright's Conference.
• August. Woot! Neurosis has extended until August 18. Get your tickets!
• July. Neurosis has received raves from the Ithaca Times, Syracuse New Times, and Auburn Citizen. And we're on TV. And we have a teaser. So get thee to the show!
• July. Neurosis is running at the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival from July 18 to August 10! Check out our commerical, and more importantly, come see us!
• June. Rehearsals are starting for Neurosis! Get thee to the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival.
• June. Taking the Plunge is in the Davenport Ten Minute Play Contest! Come and stuff the ballot box.
• June. A song I lyric'd is in Blogologues Greatest Hits, performed on June 1st and 8th at NYC's The PIT. Check it out!
• May. Sun, sand, and dramaturgy. Andy and I are being shipped to Turks and Caicos to work on Craving for Travel.
• May. A rewrite in time saves nine. We have a final reading of Neurosis before rehearsals start next month.
• April. Be a good Guinnessport. Ron and I tried out some songs from our new show, Record Breaker, at BMI.
• March. Feeling peripatetic? We had our first reading of Craving for Travel.
• March. This summer's production of Neurosis is (mostly) cast, and we couldn't be more excited/neurotic!
• February. What's new, Argentina?  These essays. Read them, or Patti LuPone will yell at you.
• January. Party on, Blogologues. I relyric'd "Bohemian Rhapsody" for Blogologues Health & Fitness: Kale Me Softly, playing January 17-26 at Under St. Marks.
• January. "Meant to Be," by me and the newly-Californian Ron Barnett, is featured in the Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers. Think yellow pages, but awesomer.

2012 [-]

• December.  It's kindergarten, my dear Watson. Andy Sandberg and I had a reading of our play Application Pending starring the incomparable Nicole Parker (Wicked, MadTV).
• December. There's no cure like travel. Andy Sandberg and I were commissioned to write Craving for Travel, a play about the travel industry and those who make it tick.
• November. Playbill announces No More Revivals, Vol. 1 (Sh-K-Boom Records). More pressingly, Ron Barnett and I have a song on it.
• November. Wilkommen, deja vu! Ron Barnett and I were finalists for the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting.
• November. Holy misnomers!  Neurosis: The Musical will be at Musical Mondays on Thursday, November 8. Come witness our awesomeness.
• October. Veep debate, schmeep debate. On Thursday, October 11, check out Neurosis: The Musical at BMI and Musical Monday's launch concert.
• September. Hollywood, here I semi-come! I was a semifinalist for the Nickelodeon Writing Program (top 12 scripts) and the Warner Brothers Writing Workshop (top 5%).
• August. Get neurotic! The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival has announced Neurosis: The Musical for their 2013 season!
• August. I posted an essay on Turkish bathing. Turns out it's a lot like waterboarding.
• August. A song I relyric'd opens Lively Productions' Blogologues Technoganza. Attend, drink, and be merry.
• July. You Can't Treat a Girl Like That" (from Office Space: The Musical) was featured at 54 Below. Check out the demo!
• June. I received one of the 13th Annual BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Awards for Creative Excellence. Triskaidekaphobia, be damned! Press release, be here!
• June. Neurosis: The Musical, with book by Allan Rice, music by Ben Green, and lyrics by me, is in the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. They say write what you know.
• May. "Won't You Be Mine," with music by the amazing Julia Meinwald, is in NEXT Presents the Music of Julia Meinwald on May 22nd at 9:30 pm at the Duplex. Go!
• April. Ooh, I'm a semi-finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farms. With luck, I can combine lyric writing and cow tipping.
• April. "When I Find a Jewish Boy," by Ben Green and me, is in the BMI Smoker on April 24 at 5:30 pm at the BMI offices. And look at the press (and yet more press).
• March. Zak and I have some more songs in Our Time II, only one of which describes my greatest nightmare. Check it out Monday, March 12 at 9:30 pm at the Duplex.

2011 [-]

• December. Zak and I have a song in Our Time, produced by Musically Human and not yet sued by Stephen Sondheim. Check it out on December 5 at 9:30 pm at the Duplex.
• November. Say your prayers; it's the first reading of The God Show.
• November. He can sing, too? Zak Sandler performs some of our songs at the D-Lounge.
• September. Zak Sandler and I let the horse out of the New York Theatre Barn. Check us out at the D-Lounge on Monday, September 26 at 7:30 pm.
• September. Another Blogologues, another song! This time Amanda and I write about religion. Fatwas may ensue.
• September. Amanda and I wrote a song for Lively Productions' Blogologues: I Need a Vocation. So blogoattend on Saturday, September 10 at 10:30 pm and midnight.
• August. A new essay, courtesy of Cirque du Soleil: Publicists? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Publicists.
• July. Exeunt Magazine calls Taking the Plunge "completely saturated with joy and delight." Read their rave-and-therefore-accurate review!
• July. 1930s hookers ahoy! The Temptation of Lady Amsterdam is tempting the Prospect Musical Theatre Lab from July 27 to 31. Get your tickets!
• July. Courtesy of Uptime Studios, Ron and I now have fancypants recordings of "Evermore" and "Another Day in Rome." Check them out!
• July. Leaping Londoners! Taking the Plunge is in the finals at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Saturday, July 24 at 2:30 pm. Get your tickets!
• July. Suicide tourists ahoy! Taking the Plunge is crash landing at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Saturday, July 23 at 4:30 pm. Get your tickets!
• June. Amanda and I are interviewed on the Samuel French website. Never have I been this excited about anything French.
• June. Jonathan and I are part of the Prospect Theater's musical theater lab. Stay tuned as we write a ten-minute show in three weeks or, more realistically, the weekend before the deadline.
• May. My Trip (at) Home is a part of Lively Productions' Blogologues: Sex, Drugs, and Interwebs. Check it out the weekend of May 13-14!
• May. Taking the Plunge was accepted into the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, proving that suicide is a viable solution to one's problems.
• April. April showers bring May flowers and a new essay: Physics Prom.
• April. More tracks from The Rivals are posted. Check out "Out of Your Sight" and "Love Me for Me".
• March. The Rivals was a finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre. To think, someday it may have a second act!
• January. Denmark, Part 2: A Capital Pursuit is posted. Read it quick, before the Swedish attack you.
• January. The recording of Taking the Plunge is now available. Never has suicide been so toe-tapping.

2010 [-]

• December. I've been commissioned to write a full length play, Old Lady Fun, for Lively Productions. Being commissioned is like being drafted, with a higher likelihood of death.
• December. A song I wrote with the lovely Julia Meinwald was part of Eric and Julia's Free Dessert Show at Park Lounge. The venue was far cooler than I.
• December. "A Survey of World History," by Zak Sandler and me, was featured in Sing Out Loud!, performed at Temple University by hyperkinetic theatre majors.
• November. Lively Productions produced a reading of the first act of The Rivals. The second act is still hiding somewhere in my amygdala.
• November. I ran the ING New York City Marathon. I didn't die, but I did write an essay.
• November. A Crowded House was produced by the State Theatre of Chicago. Virginia Woolf plus Chicago in winter: how could this not be cheery?
• October. Ron Barnett and I won second place in the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting for our songs from The Princess Bride. This is almost as touching as William Goldman's cease-and-desist letter.
• October. I'm a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. Upon learning this, I sobbed into a poster of Elaine Stritch.
• September. Taking the Plunge was produced by 8Minute Musicals for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. It's a tale of two people, one Big Ben, and mass suicide.
• September. Part one of the Denmark travelogue is complete! For the love of jumbosnegl, read it now.
• August. Diplomatic Relations is a semifinalist in the Riant Theatre's Strawberry One Act Festival.
• July. The Discontented Grasshopper was featured in the Center Theatre's First 3^rd Annual U.S.-ification of America Conference. Take that, pacifist cicadas!