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Playwright of Play-Dead.com

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About Me

Playwright, actor, Film maker and all around creative type person. Acted in a hundreds of plays and played a "crazy' in Escape From New York. Co-founded a couple of Sketch Comedy/Improv groups and a few basement bands.
Currently, I create unique, Comedy based Murder Mysteries for theatre groups and dare I say.. dinner theatre.
My site is Play-dead.com
I had acted in some very bad Murder Mysteries that consisted of grade school humor and paper thin plot twists when I decided to write my own. Drawing from a heavy influence of Woody Allen, Monty Python and Kurt Vonnegut, I've managed to crank out over 10 scripts through the years. My plays are now being performed throughout the US and the UK.
Perhaps I've inspired another actor somewhere out there to think my plays are crap. Now they are writing their own. Currently I'm in "Film School" working on a dozen projects. You can see them on my Film Page 100th Monkey Films
I also have started a Video Production Company that specializes in Internet Based Commericals called Exalted Film Productions
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
-Mitch Hedberg
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. -Thomas Berger
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-Joseph Chilton Pearce
Here's some Photo's From my Plays
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My Interests

Reality Aside's Production of Murder Me Always

I'd like to meet:

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. -Jack Kerouac

Below is my film for the 2007 National Film Challenge.

Music:

Sigur Ros
Joy Division

New Order
Guided by Voices
Wilco
Sun Volt
Rilo Kiley
Interpol
Radiohead
Flamming Lips
Debussey
Dave Brubeck
Dave Matthews Band
Elvis Costello
The Smiths
The White Stripes
The Black Keys
The Feelies
Velvet Underground
Television
Talking Heads
Mars Volta
The Shins
Bloc Party
The Clash
John Coletrane

Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
Mogwai
Can
Neu
Modest Mouse
The Pogues
Gang of Four
Squeeze
Kings of Leon
8mm
Happy Mondays
The Sundays
The Replacements
Bauhaus

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Movies:

Dr Strangelove
Clockwork Orange
Lolita (original)
The Seventh Seal
Seven Samuari
Wild Strawberries
Amarcord
Roma
Ran
8 1/2
400 Blows
Breathless
Grand Illusion
Annie Hall
Manhatten
Midnight Cowboy
To Kill A Mockingbird
Magnolia
American Beauty
Saving Private Ryan
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amlie Poulain
Down By Law
Trainspotting
The Virgin Suicides
Lost in Translation
The Godfather I & II

Television:

The Discovery channel, History Channel, PBS, The Young Ones, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, IFC, Little Britain, Ghost Hunters, No Reservations

Books:

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Secret History /The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, The Time Travelers Wife Audrey Niffenegger, Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, The Idiot/ Brothers Karamazov / Notes From The Underground by by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Heroes:

My mother, the Dali Lama, Mr. Bean, Peter Sellers, Buddah, Jack Kerouac, Ian Curtis...

My Blog

National Film Challenge 2007

Entered a film called "An Inconvenient Dame" in the St. Louis 'branch' of the National Film Challenge. For those who don't know, it's similiar to the 48 Hour Film Project where you are assigned a "gen...
Posted by Playwright of Play-Dead.com on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:26:00 PST

My 2007 48 Hour Film -

Here is my 48 Hour Film Project ... uh.. Film Project. Made it to the Best Of St.Louis Showcase and DVD. The Elusive Plexxipus Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Playwright of Play-Dead.com on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:48:00 PST

My Play is just Off Broadway at the Laugh Factory NY

 About a month ago, Reality Aside Theatre did my play "Murder Me Always" at the Laugh Factory on 42nd Street in New York. I am assuming it went very well because now they are Doing it again ...
Posted by Playwright of Play-Dead.com on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:14:00 PST