I develop characters who will stand tall, fall short, tell the truth, lie, and struggle between good and evil. I create obstacles for the men and women of my plays to climb over, bust through, and wish away, for them to achieve their heart’s goals, dreams, and fantasies.

What I can’t do in my own life, a character can achieve on the stage.

Tear down a dictatorship in a foreign country as in “The Paper.” Ridicule the absurd nature of bureaucracy to a boss, as in “Uncivil Servants.” Tell a daughter how much she will be missed as she goes off to college as in “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” The unbearable pain of a parent losing a child in “The Gatekeeper.” And now, searching for lost family as in “Hidden.”

I do not shout out what must be said walking down the streets in my neighbourhood. I allow what we must demand of each other to flow through the dialogue of characters who live on the stage as they confront the vagaries of life with love, courage, anger, and laughter. My testimony to the outside world.